Mass rebalancing of population via migration, an altered wealth-and-people equilibrium, a world where technology is making the movement of peoples easier than ever, wars and demographic trends have driven world migration since WW 2. Government policy has been largely deficit. Japan, for instance, is trying to increase immigration in the face of cultural resistance. U.S. polic...

Documented reports that the Trump administration is thinking of banning the sending of remittances from the United States to Haiti. The article centers on Johane, a Haitian medical student whose life was transformed by money sent from r...

To start at the start: in January 2025, Executive Order No. 14160 (Birthright Citizenship Executive Order.) declared that many children born in the United States to undocumented (and certain temporary-status) parents would not receive automatic U.S. citizenship. Many suits were filed  including by CASA de Maryland (CASA), a membership-based immigrant advocacy organizatio...

Some are looking towards Denmark as a model for re-setting immigration policy. That country has been in the forefront of center/left parties to approach immigration restriction. Both countries experienced immigration shocks: for Denmark, a wave of refugees in the 2010s; for the U.S. under Biden, a doubling of the annual number of new foreign-born. Here are what is dif...

Some jobs, such as logging, have relatively high fatality rate, but few workers. Other jobs are have a lot of workers, many foreign-born workers and many injuries.  Here is a list of six jobs with a lot of workers, a lot of foreign-born workers, and much higher than average injury rates. Many of the workers are unauthorized and their deportation causes a labor shortage. ...