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Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CEPR, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively.

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Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development.

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Migration does not have to be what it is now

Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected

In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships

The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780

Thank you so much for helping the public and our justices understand what is actually happening at universities, a subject on which there is vastly more opinion than knowledge

The Supreme Court has already ruled the President can’t do that. The 1952 law *is not* a grant of dictatorial authority to bar any immigrant for any imagined reason.

The President’s authority under that law ends where Congress has spoken.

But that is exactly what the President’s $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants does.

It takes the parts of the INA that are designed to protect against competition for US workers, deems them ineffective, and makes up new taxes to address them in a way the President (not Congress) wants.

As the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Hawaii,

“We may assume that §1182(f) does not allow the President to expressly override particular provisions of the INA.”

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17p...
www.supremecourt.gov

Congress obviously did not intend to give the President authority to negate *the same law*, to protect against threats that Congress in the same law (INA) had foreseen and addressed.

But that is a bizarre reading of the 1952 Act. In that law Congress goes to great lengths to spell out detailed mechanisms for protecting US workers from undesired competition.

The purpose of that clause was to give the President authority to address threats Congress had not foreseen.
Understanding INA Section 212(f): The President’s Authority to Suspend the Entry of Migrants - American Immigration Council
Under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the president of the United States has the authority to “suspend the entry” of certain noncitizens into the United States under certa...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

She asserts that the President’s §1182(f) authority under the 1952 McCarran Walter Act gives him blanket authority to bar entry to any immigrant, for any reason, whether that reason is true or imaginary.

That surprising personal bias, on full and unnecessary display, might help illustrate why the finding is so deeply flawed.

Universities are places where the best and brightest researchers from the United States and around the world collaborate to *make each other more productive*

They create knowledge jointly, each bringing unique contributions to the collective enterprise. Nothing like assembling a widget.

I would love to educate her about what universities are.

Universities are not places where a fixed amount of research tasks must be done—like assembling widgets—and every immigrant doing those tasks forces out one native.

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.

She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.

Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

Transmitting from 180,000 miles away, #Apollo8 astronaut Jim Lovell speaks to the world on December 26, 1968: “What I keep imagining is, if I'm some lonely traveler from another planet, what I’d think about the Earth at this altitude, whether I’d think it'd be inhabited or not.”
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Yes, this is a real, official statement by the US government.

x.com/DHSgov/statu...
Homeland Security on X: "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior. https://t.co/SDYujiojXS" / X
Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior. https://t.co/SDYujiojXS
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Is there any part of the ‘America’ it addresses that does not accept the Dept.’s Savior?

Or are Americans required by definition to accept its Savior?

If they are not, what and who constitute the ‘America’ the Dept. is addressing?

What criteria does the Dept. use in order to determine that it is blessed to share a nation only with those who share its Savior?

Is there anything else about Jewish Americans that makes them—in the Dept.’s view—unworthy of sharing the Dept.’s nation? Or is it simply the fact that they are Jewish?

Is the Dept. certain that no Jewish Americans, who do not share its Savior, work at the Dept. of Homeland Security?

If any do, why does the Dept. use ‘we’ exclusively to describe those who accept its Savior?

Reposted by David R. Miller

I would like some clarification from the people in control of our Dept. of Homeland Security.

Do people who do not share the Dept.’s Savior also share its nation? If not, what nation do they belong to?

Is the Dept. blessed to share its nation with Jewish Americans who do not share its Savior?

By Zach Kanin

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

Outdated laws give presidents sweeping power to use the military at home to suppress protests and make mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval. Congress must repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close the loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
Outdated and Dangerous
Antiquated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home to quash protests and order mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval.
www.brennancenter.org

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"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼

Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.

Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
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The US Administration has chosen to obliterate huge swathes of our scientific research.

That decision will kill Americans.

Conservative Americans and Liberal Americans.
"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

We have a key election in the United States in 2026.

The richest man on earth is spending his time blasting garbage conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — which have been universally thrown out of court — to tens of millions of the gullible.

Ask yourself what he’s preparing them for.
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.