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May 13, 2013 10:31 AM IQ and the Nativist Movement

We welcome Diego von Vacano for a guest post on the purported low IQ of immigrants.**********************************************************The academic and policy worlds have been roiled by last week’s announcement that a Heritage Foundation study on the cost of immigration reform was co-authored...

By Erik Voeten

April 22, 2013 8:47 AM The Partisan Effects of Immigration Reform

Alex Engler writes: I just finished an article for the Georgetown Public Policy Review that you might be interested in. I took a thorough look at the influence of the Hispanic vote in congressional races in 2012, and how the...

By Andrew Gelman

January 30, 2013 1:36 PM To Fix the U.S. Economy, Fix Immigration

Washington tends to have a narrow view of what counts as “economic policy.” Anything we do to the tax code is in. So is any stimulus we pass, or any deficit reduction we try. Most of this mistakes the federal...

By Ezra Klein

January 24, 2013 12:01 PM A Pickle for States Refusing the Medicaid Expansion

Great pickup by the Associated Press: Governors who reject health insurance for the poor under the federal health care overhaul could wind up in a politically awkward position on immigration: A quirk in the law means some U.S. citizens would...

By Aaron Carroll

June 26, 2012 1:05 PM The Arizona Immigration Case: Three Key Questions

Under current doctrine, the SB 1070 case came out the right way. I hate Section 2(B) – the infamous “papers, please” provision – but it isn’t unconstitutional for state officials to enforce federal law (even federal civil law, which includes...

By Jonathan Zasloff