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Alex Nowrasteh: Immigration, Its Fans, and Its Haters

Aug 8, 2022

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The Probability of a Bottom Up Disintegration

02:02

Is That a Libertarian?

03:20

Is There a Rule of Law in Immigration Law?

01:42

Introduction

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How Did You Become Interested in Immigration?

2min

I've Lived Through That Cycle, Right?

3min

What's the State of Legal Emigration Visasw Under Trump?

4min

Immigration Law in the United States

3min

Employment Base Green Cards

2min

Is There a Rule of Law in Immigration Law?

2min

Is There a Limit on High Skilled Workers?

3min

Is the Bureaucracy Interpreting Emigration?

3min

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Is That Exacty Tactic That Would Actually Work?

2min

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Can the US Legal Immigration System Be Like a Successful Model?

3min

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Immigration

2min

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Are You a Second Generation Immigrant, or a Moslem Race?

4min

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What Really Happened Under Trump?

2min

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Trump Supports Immigration Restrictions

3min

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The Importance of Vaccines and Emigration

3min

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Is There a Connection Between Emigration and Inflation?

2min

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Is There a Chaos in the Economy?

2min

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Emigration Reform

2min

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Can the President Let in Millions of People Legally?

3min

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I've Got It Like Ten X the Legal Emigration Rate

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Is There Any Way to Make the Pipe Line From Green Card to a Citizen?

5min

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Is There a Way to Stop Regulations?

4min

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Elon Musk Reatr Is a Good Example for Immigrants

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Immigration

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The Kindie Threat of Chaos Is Attuned

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The Rise and Fall of Libertarianism

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Are You a Libertarian?

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Liberals Red Conservatives Watch TV

2min

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Liberals Have Goals, Right?

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Is It the Republicans Who Are Changing, but How Much Are They Changing?

2min

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Is It Really Like a Problem to Be Too Self Consistent?

4min

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Is Libertarianism on the Decline?

4min

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Is That a Libertarian?

3min

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I Think Democrats Have a Huge, and Progressive, Institutional Advantage on the Administrative State

3min

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Is This Something That Can Be Changed in the Long Run?

2min

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Is Progressivism the Number One Exceuse Making Ideology?

2min

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Is There a Systemic Failure in Governments?

4min

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Are the Republicans Making Excuses for Failures?

3min

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Political System Select for Popularism

4min

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Populism Isn't a 100 % Wrong, Right?

2min

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What Do You Think of the Supreme Court?

3min

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I Think It's a Big Step in the Right Direction

2min

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Is There a Risk of Extremism?

4min

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What Are the Kind of Dangerous Scenarios?

3min

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Is It Directly Related to the American Presidency?

2min

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Are We Just Not Enforcing Federal Gun Laws?

3min

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The Am, the Threat to the Existence of the System

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The Probability of a Bottom Up Disintegration

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We're Going to Let It Run the Course?

2min

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Increasing the Number of Epicycles

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What Is Too Much Chaos and Needs More Chaos?

4min

Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration research and director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the book “Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions”. We discuss immigration, the US legal immigration system, the immigration bureaucracy, appeals to chaos and order, libertarianism, populism, whether politics is driven by ideas or personalities, political violence, and electoral systems. Alex at Cato:https://www.cato.org/people/alex-nowrasteh

Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions:

https://www.amazon.ca/Wretched-Refuse-Political-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1108702457

Alex on the Fifth Column podcast:https://play.acast.com/s/5c3e264f78c059c75c5e8ccf/607995b1b1d7373173d667fb

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