Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• I Demand to be Executed. An Open Letter to the DHS. by Mike Burrows, Posterboy for Immigration Persecution, January 4, 2011.
• Migration: a personal problem or a universal good? by Tom Donaldson, Prospect Magazine, August 23, 2013.
• Immigration, diversity, and economic prosperity by Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport, August 22, 2013. This is a summary of a NBER working paper by the same authors.
• Diversifying Growth by Jonathan M.F. Catalán, Economic Thought, August 23, 2013, discussing the paper above.
• The Smuggler’s Prey by Eric Ellis and Paula Bronstein, The Global Mail.
• From Unassimilable to Exceptional by Jennifer Lee, The Society Pages, August 27, 2013.
• Stop this traffic in immigrant bashing: An assault on immigrants is being dressed up in the language of anti-trafficking. by Luke Gittos, Spiked Online, August 28, 2013.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Unauthorized Immigrants: How Pew Research Counts Them and What We Know About Them, an interview with Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Research Center, April 17, 2013.
• Bosses in Phoenix car wash chain held in immigration case by Cindy Carcamos, Los Angeles Times, August 18, 2013.
• A Brighter Line on Immigration Policing by the New York Times editorial board, August 17, 2013.
• So much migration puts Europe’s dykes in danger of bursting by David Goodhart and Lodewuk Asschur, The Independent (UK), August 18, 2013.
• California Republicans turn to immigration to fight extinction by Jake Sherman, Politico, August 19, 2013.
• Why Immigration Makes America Better by A. Barton Hinkle, Reason Magazine, August 19, 2013.
• The Truth about Human Trafficking by Zachary Caceres, Startup Cities, August 20, 2013.
• Who’re you going to believe on immigration? Mark Krikorian or your lying eyes? by Douglas Massey in the Washington Post (published as a guest post on Ezra Klein’s blog), August 14, 2013.
• Return of the ‘E’ Word by Mark Krikorian, National Review, August 20, 2013, in response to Massey.
• Europe’s Next Crisis? Migrant Flows are Surging by Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, August 19, 2013.
• Fact Check: Do Mexicans Have a Blank Check for Asylum Claims? by Ted Hesson, ABC News, August 15, 2013.
• Still, God Helps You by Melissa Pritchard, Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2013.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Sympathy for the Citizenist by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, August 9, 2013.
• Why I’m ‘angry’ by Sonic Charmer aka the Crimson Reach, August 9, 2013, a response of sorts to Caplan.
• Caplan on Sailer by Steve Sailer, August 9, 2013, on his own blog, another response of sorts to Caplan.
• How heavy is the asylum-seeker burden?, an interactive chart on The Economist‘s website, August 12, 2013.
• Looking Out the Window: Costs and Benefits of Immigrants, Yard Sale Edition by Art Carden, EconLog, August 13, 2013.
• An Immigrant’s Journey, The Atlantic, August 13, 2013: a collection of 22 photos by John Moore describing various facets of unauthorized border-crossing through photographs.
• The Little Group Behind the Big Fight to Stop Immigration Reform:
  A powerful coalition supports reforming immigration. But on the other side is a scrappy, tech-savvy organization that’s won before by Molly Ball, The Atlantic, August 1, 2013, describing NumbersUSA’s efforts to oppose current immigration legislation in the United States Congress.
• Why We Can’t Trust Polls On Immigration, In One Horribly Xenophobic Chart by Gregory Ferenstein, TechCrunch, August 15, 2013.
• Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries by Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly, and Christophe Rault, July 18, 2013, on SSRN. Abstract:
  

  This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the endogenous interaction between the variables in the system. Our results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment rate).

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Quora question: If animals could talk, would they be asking humans for visas and green cards? If so, where would they deport us to, and how would you feel in that scenario?
• Bad immigration policy doesn’t spring from bad stats by Jonathan Portes in The Guardian, July 29, 2013.
• Fox News Contributor Fumes “How Dare” McCain Worry About Immigrants Who Die Crossing the U.S. Border by Salvatore Colleluori, Media Matters for America (published on Alternet.org), August 1, 2013, referring to Fox News contributor and radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.
• Immigration, Misanthropy, and the Holocaust by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, August 4, 2013.
• The Decline and Fall of the Nation State by Doug Casey, LewRockwell.com, August 4, 2012.
• The Open Borders Debate on Immigration by Shelley Wilcox, Philosophy Compass, 2009.
• The Power of Abstract Thinking by Shanu Athiparambath, August 4, 2013.
• My shattering experience with America’s immigration system by Sophie Cole, April 17, 2013, FoxNews.com.
• Mr. Suzuki’s Baseless, Irresponsible Immigration Claims by Steve Lafleur, July 12, 2013.
• Immigration by John H. Cochrane, originally published in the Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2013, but the link is to his blog where he includes more discussion.
• Reasons for Open Borders, by Bas van der Vossen, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, August 9, 2013.

Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Proposed Legislation Offers Citizenship To Immigrants Who Can Play Piano So Good It Makes Everyone Cry from The Onion (a satirical website).
• South African chef ‘too fat’ to live in New Zealand, BBC News, July 27, 2013.
• Immigration freedom is personal liberty. Borders are statism. at the Rad Geek People’s Daily, July 27, 2013.
• Barry Jones: asylum is the greatest moral challenge of our time , The Conversation, July 29, 2013.
• Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration by Todd Beamon and John Bachman, NewsMax, July 18, 2013.
• Refugees: a call for open borders and free movement for all, by Alana Lentin in The Guardian, July 22, 2013.
• Borderless World, a Huffington Post live segment about Garry Davis, the recently deceased creator of the World Passport.