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Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker
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A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a #Nebraska #Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate.
“It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”
#News #Immigration #Politics #Government #Business #TrumpMedia
French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel
> Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the #EnglishChannel. But, after months of investigation, Le Monde and its partners, Lighthouse Reports, the Observer and Der Spiegel, have documented many situations in which officers attempted to destabilize, or even sink, the small boats.
lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2… #France #migration #immigration
French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel
Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the English Channel.Julia Pascual (Le Monde)
In the Netherlands, natives 8% less likely to cooperate with a non-Western immigrant, in second stage of a trust game, if immigrant trusts the native
In other words, the returns to being trustworthy are lower for the immigrant
By Cettolin+Suetens in EJ—> doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12629 #immigration
Greater exposure to foreign-born classmates causes ↑ native math+reading test scores, greatest ↑ for black students
Uses *within household* variation, full universe K–12 data from Florida 2002–2012
Forthcoming in REStud by Figlio et al.—>
nber.org/papers/w28596 #immigration
Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.NBER
Immigration-driven increases in ethnic/occupational diversity—measured by surname diversity in full-universe census—caused ↑ innovation in US counties, 1850–1940
Not compositional: robust to surname FE
Simply meeting more people unlike oneself causes more new economic ideas measured as patents, including 'breakthrough' highly-cited patents
By my star GMU colleague Jonathan Schulz, +Posch & Henrich—>
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.453120… #LaborEcon #Immigration
Does immigration cause reduced support for social policy?
73 research teams—using identical data—reached vastly different estimates.
"Researchers must make analytical decisions so minute that they often do not even register as decisions."
Breznau et al.—> doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220315011… #immigration #laborecon
How Climate Change Will Redraw Maps and Borders.
As global warming intensifies, many parts of the world will become uninhabitable and millions will be forced to migrate, leaving map borders needing to be redrawn based on climate rather than geopolitics or sovereignty.
#climate #climatechange #immigration
impakter.com/how-climate-chang…
How Climate Change Will Redraw Maps and Borders
Climate change will render many parts of the world unliveable, millions will be forced to migrate and map borders will need to be redrawnLauren Richards (Impakter)