Below The Beltway

So says a new study from the Cato Institute:

This study uses the U.S. Applied General Equilibrium model that has been developed for the U.S. International Trade Commission and other U.S. government agencies to estimate the welfare impact of seven different scenarios, which include increased enforcement at the border and in the workplace, and several different [...]

In case you missed it last night, here’s John Stossel’s 20/20 special in it’s entireity.
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By proposing we make it easier to bring them in from foreign countries:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York congressman who has been romantically linked by tabloid newspapers to several high-profile, beautiful women, is one step closer to creating a special work permit for foreign fashion models.
Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, a 43-year-old bachelor, has proposed [...]

If the prospect of a high-school valedictorian who has been in this country since he was three years old facing deportation bothers you as much as it bothers me, then how about a 13 year-old Boy Scout who faces the prospect of being sent back to a country he doesn’t remember ?
Jose Andrade is a [...]

Senator Diane Feinstein has introduce a private relief bill to prevent the deportation of a high school valedictorian whose came to the United States with his parents when he was three years old:
FRESNO, California (CNN) — Plans to deport an Armenian high school valedictorian in Fresno, California, were put on hold Tuesday after Sen. Dianne [...]

One of the top young baseball players in Cuba has defected to the United States:
Cuban baseball’s brightest star, Dayán Viciedo, has escaped from Cuba and is now in Miami, following the footsteps of talented island colleagues who have found their way into the major leagues.
Viciedo, a 19-year-old third baseman, is considered as big a star [...]

Sometimes the law is truly an ass, and this is one of those times:

(CNN) — A high school valedictorian’s plans to study medicine at a California state university have run headlong into the federal government’s attempts to return him and his family to Armenia.
“I haven’t been in Armenia since I was 2, so I don’t [...]

As I’ve stated here on many occasions, I’ve got several problems with the illegal immigration policies that the Prince William County Board of Supervisors have passed over the past year or so, but there’s no way in the world that I, or any resident of Prince William County, should stand for this nonsense:
The United Nations [...]

Drew Carey takes a look at the bad, the worse, and the really, really ugly that is the so-called border fence:

At a time when pundits and politicians of all stripes endorse securing the border between the United States and Mexico, reason.tv travels south to see what’s really going on—and what the human and monetary costs [...]

Apparently, things are pretty much the same as they were 80 years ago:
Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations, according to a study released today.
Modern-day immigrants arrive with substantially lower levels of English ability and earning power than those who entered [...]