Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, the parents of Israeli-American Hamas hostage Hersch Goldberg Polin get a long standing ovation at the DNC and chants of "Bring them home." 🇺🇲💔🙏🏻

Come work with me at Michigan State! We're hiring someone who can contribute to our law curriculum - which could include courts, human rights, judicial elections, international law, civil rights and civil liberties, etc. Tenure track, any subfield. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5195…

Excited to share new work w/ Colin Case We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

There are days when it is fun to be a New York Mets fan. This is one of those #LGFM

Super excited to share this blog post that my migration class wrote is past Tuesday. We try to provide some context about the use of immigrant stereotypes in political campaigns millercenter.org/far-actual-bor…

Very grateful to the team at Miller Center for turning this around so quickly and for a remarkable group of UVA Arts & Sciences students for their willingness to "order off the menu" last class.

Do large-scale deportations lead to safe communities, better jobs & less irregular migration, as promised by policymakers? Research shows the answer is less clear than you may think @chrambrosio & Andrea Velasquez walk through some key findings in our Migration Information Source

Does the arrival of more immigrants cause wages to fall? The answer is, largely, no. More immigrants cause consumer demand to increase, which leads to more jobs across the economy, which causes more demand for labor, which raises wages. The whole thing largely cancels itself out.

Migrant border crossings fell almost every month since February due to US & MX policies. And as they fall, a higher share of migrants are placed in Expedited Removal. But there is so much more behind these trends. Read our MigrationPolicy Inst short read 👇 migrationpolicy.org/news/fy2024-us…

In this paper, Nones develops and tests novel theoretical claims regarding executive leaders’ prior career in business and their trade policy. The substantive effect of business experience is comparable to that of established factors in the literature: academic.oup.com/isq/article-ab…

My argument is simple: people who say they want to see a return of American manufacturing don't actually vote with their dollar. Let me show you. 🧵

Trump has pledged an immigration crackdown. At the same time he promises to support to the US shipbuilding industry, which is struggling to overcome an acute worker shortage. Immigrants have been critical to helping fill the gaps. Story from Nicole Foy propublica.org/article/us-nav…

"The proposal comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis says a younger workforce could be part of the solution to replacing 'dirt cheap' labor from migrants in the country illegally." miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

“A Deportation Boomerang?”: C Ambrosius & David Leblang show how the return of deportees increases violence in origin nations, which leads to ↑ emigration intentions & asylum requests, especially for minors & families. Freie Universität UVA Batten School Miller Center ow.ly/4Pgy50Vp8Gk

Today in the House, agency chiefs presented their Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment. Know what's weird? In 31 pages, there's no mention of the "predatory incursion" from Venezuela that—the White House says—forced use of the 1798 Wartime Renditions Act. odni.gov/index.php/news…

1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database: globalcurrenciesdatabase.com

Barilla pasta has a Spotify playlist. Each playlist is the exact length of cook time for the varieties of pasta. Press play, drop the noodles, music stops, al dente noodles.

Newsom: I represent a state the size of 21 state populations combined, the fifth largest economy in the world, and we have a break-the-glass moment. We have to update all our economic forecasts—our inflationary forecasts, our unemployment forecasts, our budget forecasts—because I

NEW -- The big little secret is now dripping out in public: Trump is getting ready to exempt farm workers from his deportation raids Adrian Carrasquillo on the story thebulwark.com/p/farmers-try-…

David Leblang Stephen Miller The CBO is widely regarded as nonpartisan, with 83% of economists in a 2017 survey affirming its credibility for both parties. It hires based on expertise, not politics, and its methods are transparent. Claims of bias, like the Health Division's alleged Democratic lean, lack