If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.
Alex Nowrasteh
Alex Nowrasteh is the vice president for economic and social policy studies at the CATO Institute.His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. Nowrasteh regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations.
His peer‐reviewed academic publications have appeared in the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, Kyklos, the Journal of Bioeconomics, and others. He has also contributed numerous book chapters to various edited volumes. Nowrasteh is the coauthor (with Benjamin Powell) of Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which is the first book on how economic institutions in receiving countries adjust to immigration. Wretched Refuse? received the SDAE Prize for the Best Book in Austrian Economics in 2022 from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.Nowrasteh, a native of Southern California, received a BA in economics from George Mason University and an MS in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees: Strange Process, Right Decision
The US government should allow those who are discriminated against under foreign affirmative action policies to apply for asylum or to be considered refugees for in-country refugee processing.
No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” – Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
There Are Not 13,099 Illegal Immigrant Murderers Roaming Free on American Streets
Commentators focused on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) letter claim that ICE did not detain 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide, tended to misunderstand the data.
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