Immigration Advocates Take Protest to Street and Voting Booth
Professor Jan Ting was quoted in this article about an immigration-related demonstration in Philadelphia. Read the Full Article
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U.S. Immigration Policy And President Obama’s Executive Order For Deferred Action
Both my parents were immigrants. I grew up in a working class suburb of Detroit where every family seemed to include at least one parent or grandparent who was an immigrant, from places all over the world including Mexico, Syria, and Iraq. So of course I admire and respect immigrants, as we all should, because every American is either an immigrant or the descendent of ancestors who came here from somewhere else. And we are told that even includes Native Americans. Whether we should admire and respect immigrants is not what the immigration controversy is really about. Given that we should admire and respect immigrants, the question at the heart of the controversy is, how many should we take? And specifically, should we accept everyone in the world who wants to come to the United States to live and work? Or alternatively, should we try to enforce a numerical limit on how many immigrants we accept every year? That is a binary choice, either no limits, or an enforced limit. And it is a hard choice, …
AUDIO: The Future of Immigration under a President Trump
Professor Jan Ting appeared on KCRW’s “To the Point” show to discuss Donald Trump’s proposed moratorium on Muslims entering the United States. The moratorium has been called both un-American and unconstitutional, but some legal precedents may surprise you. Listen to the Podcast
Border Patrol Expects Surge of Migrant Children Just in Time for GOP Convention
Professor Jan Ting is quoted in this article the Washington Examiner about an influx of unaccompanied children coming through the border this summer, a crisis that could diminish border security. Read the Full Story
Law Professors: Trump’s Muslim Moratorium Is Constitutional
Prof. Jan Ting was one of two law professors to talk with The Daily Caller about Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent Muslim immigration proposal. Ting explained that the Supreme Court’s decisions since ruling unanimously in favor of the legality of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1889 have upheld the authority of the political branches — executive and legislative — to make immigration law as they see fit and to exclude foreigners on grounds that would not be applicable to American citizens. Read the full story.
Court Rulings Support Trump’s Muslim Immigration Plan
The hysterical response to Donald Trump’s proposal to restrict Muslim immigration is unwarranted. Contrary to the claims of Trump’s critics, the power to suspend the admission of “any aliens or any class of aliens into the United States” is expressly reserved by statute to the president whenever the president finds that such admission “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.” Candidate Trump is telling us that President Obama should use this power, and that a President Trump would. Despite vigorous assertions by talking heads that suspending the admission of Muslim immigrants would be unconstitutional, prior Supreme Court opinions clearly suggest that courts would reject constitutional challenges to any president’s proposed suspension of Muslim admission into the United States in accordance with U.S. law. In the leading case of Fiallo v. Bell, the Supreme Court in 1977 noted, “Our cases ‘have long recognized the power to expel or exclude aliens as a fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the government’s political departments largely immune from judicial control.’” In upholding the authority of the government …
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Many American adults remember from our childhood the cartoon series “The Jetsons” which imagines a future where machines do all the work, and people just get to play and relax. But as Silicon Valley futurist Martin Ford points out in his new book “Rise of the Robots”, even in such a high-tech future, people will still have to eat and therefore buy food. How will they do that if there are no jobs left for people to do? This book is about how the technology revolution has eliminated, and continues to eliminate American jobs, and how that process is constantly accelerating. Automation, fast computers, robotics, and especially big data and artificial intelligence are all interacting to rapidly reduce or eliminate whole categories of American jobs. We can all think of blue collar jobs which have been automated and reduced in numbers if not totally eliminated. But the author tells us that the rapid advance of technology is not only threatening but eliminating all kinds of high-skill jobs, too. How many analysts does Wall Street need …
Does the U.S. Issue More Green Cards for Permanent Legal Immigration than All the Rest of the Nations of the World Combined?
It has long been my contention that the United States has the most generous legal immigration policy in the world, issuing more green cards for permanent legal immigration every year than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. This contention has been regularly questioned, so I’d like to re-state my case. What is a green card? The Migration Policy Institute says this: “Also known as green-card holders, immigrants are persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States who have the right to reside, work, study, and own property in the country. In contrast, foreign students, H-1B workers, and tourists are part of the large category of temporary nonimmigrant admissions.”[1] How many other countries even have green card immigration like the U.S., admitting immigrants as permanent, not temporary residents, with rights comparable to those of citizens, including a clear path to full citizenship? The answer is not very many. Most countries do not think of themselves as immigrant countries, and do not offer green card immigration in any formal program to …
A Burden That Does Not Affect All Americans Equally
Over 8 million Americans were officially unemployed in July, with more than 2 million classified as long-term unemployed, according to the latest jobs report. Another some 6 million Americans were involuntary part-time workers — unable to find full-time work — and about 2 million Americans were marginally attached to the work force, including discouraged individuals convinced there is no work for them. These distinctions do not affect all Americans equally. For example, while the official unemployment rate is still around 5 percent, for African-Americans the unemployment rate is over 9 percent. American teenagers looking for work have an unemployment rate of about 16 percent, but for African-American teenagers, the unemployment rate is over 28 percent. Can we all agree that’s an outrage? Americans are struggling with stagnant wages, rising inequality, increasing personal debt and reduced opportunities for their children, even as the economy expands and the stock market regularly hits new highs. Some say the solution is to further grow the economy by reducing taxes and regulation. Others say the government should just force private …
Trump and Bush, ‘Anchor Babies,’ and Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump has made himself the Republican frontrunner for president by advocating enforcement of U.S. immigration law and an end to birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens. The former frontrunner Jeb Bush, trying to resuscitate his floundering campaign, has denounced “anchor babies” while continuing to advocate amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. When both Republican candidates drew the predictable criticism for their remarks, Jeb Bush explained that he was mainly talking about Asians, not Mexicans, in his use of the term “anchor babies”, continuing to dig himself deeper into the hole he is in. Donald Trump, of course, doesn’t apologize for anything. The criticism of the term “anchor babies” is mainly against the implication that illegal alien parents have children in the U.S. with the intent to “anchor” themselves here as parents of U.S. citizens who should not be deported. There’s no doubt, however, that illegal alien parents have children for many of the same reasons that parents everywhere have children. But there’s also no doubt that having produced U.S. citizen children in …
