Posted by Daniel Griswold on September 3, 2010
By Daniel Griswold
OK, the headline may be a bit overstated, but recent comments on immigration by Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi are different enough from what most of his fellow Republicans are saying to be newsworthy. In a video interview released earlier this week (see link below), Barbour expressed appreciation for the Hispanic immigrant workers who helped [...]
Categories: Immigration, Politics |
Tags: haley barbour, Jeff Flake, peter robinson, Trade and Immigration | 
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Posted by Daniel Griswold on September 1, 2010
By Daniel Griswold
A Pew Hispanic Center report released today confirms what has been widely known, that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped sharply since 2007. The real argument is over what’s behind the decline. According to Pew’s Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn, the annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants dropped by two-thirds during [...]
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Tags: comprehensive immigration reform, economic recession, immigration laws, Trade and Immigration, vera cohn | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel Ikenson on September 1, 2010
By Daniel Ikenson
“US manufacturing grows for 13th straight month” is the headline of an AP newswire story posted around noon today. This statistic doesn’t surprise me, since I’ve been following developments in U.S. manufacturing for many years now, and have published analyses of public data that refute the myth of deindustrialization and manufacturing decline. With the exception [...]
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Tags: China, deindustrialization, exports and imports, Government and Politics, international trade, manufacturing sector, nancy pelosi, organized labor, protectionism, recession, Trade and Immigration | No Comments »
Posted by Jim Harper on August 31, 2010
By Jim Harper
In the sumer of 1992, I lived and studied in Prague. I was keen on seeing life in Eastern Europe after the end of Soviet domination. It was invigorating to think that my local law professor headed over the Vltava River in the afternoons to work on the new constitution in the Prague Castle. It [...]
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Tags: border guards, Czech Republic, iron curtain, Poland, Soviet Union, Trade and Immigration | No Comments »
Posted by Sallie James on August 31, 2010
By Sallie James
As many of you may know, Australia had a federal election on August 21 that yielded an at-time-of-blogging inconclusive result. As a consequence, the Liberal-National coalition (currently in opposition) and the Australian Labor Party are both wooing the Green and Independent members in the hope of securing their support. A Canberra-based friend sent me a [...]
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Tags: australia, free trade, International Economics and Development, protectionism, tariff barriers, Trade and Immigration, trade unions | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel Griswold on August 31, 2010
By Daniel Griswold
Three of the world’s largest companies involved in wireless telecommunications—Nokia, AT&T, and Verizon—this week asked the Obama administration to further loosen the U.S. embargo against Cuba. According to a Bloomberg News story this morning: Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile-phone maker, is urging the U.S. to ease its 47-year-old trade embargo so it can sell handsets [...]
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Tags: Cuba, embargo against cuba, International Economics and Development, latin america, Trade and Immigration, trade embargo | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel Griswold on August 31, 2010
By Daniel Griswold
Three of the world’s largest companies involved in wireless telecommunications—Nokia, AT&T, and Verizon—this week asked the Obama administration to further loosen the U.S. embargo against Cuba. According to a Bloomberg News story this morning: Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile-phone maker, is urging the U.S. to ease its 47-year-old trade embargo so it can sell handsets [...]
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Tags: International Economics and Development, Trade and Immigration | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel Griswold on August 30, 2010
By Daniel Griswold
Certain headlines seem to re-appear in one form or another on a regular basis, such as “North Korea Threatens Military Action” or “Myanmar Junta Tightens Grip.” A leading example from the world of trade is, “Congress Weighs Export Control Reform.” For the past 20 years, variations of that headline have appeared regularly, yet Congress never [...]
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Tags: export control reform, global export markets, robert gates, Trade and Immigration | No Comments »
