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Skilled Immigrants and Stimulus
democracyarsenal.org — ... Paul Krugman, while expressing doubts and uncertainty about the economic effects of low-skilled immigrants, says “The picture is much different for high-skill immigrants. By any criterion I can think of, the large numbers of South Asians — mostly engineers and other high-skill professions — buying houses in West Windsor, N.J., just down the road from me, are a net plus for America.” Increasing the long-term growth rate of an economy is hard, and the factors that drive long-run growth are not yet fully understood.  Economics is a soft science.  ...

Immigration Fantasies
JustOneMinute — ... a worker's status as well as stricter border controls.  Somehow, the Times editors missed all that: We are maxed out on border security?  There's your headline!  How about workplace enforcement? So improving border security is hopeless and increased workplace enforcement compounds our national nightmare.  Uhh, is the Times reading the same union accord I am reading? I am left wondering where their fantasy is taking them.  Even Paul Krugman, in a rare break with progressive orthodoxy, once admitted that a generous social safety net is not consistent with open borders.  My ...