​I recently spoke with author Daniel Okrent about his book, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. 

We recently spoke with Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University, about his new book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. His book is available on May 22, 2020 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom/dp/0190054581

Could DACA be a good policy, but also illegal at the same time? Should we care if a policy is unconstitutional when we like the policy?
Ilya Shapiro explains why he supports DACA and relief for young people who were brought into the United States illegally, but thinks that the Obama administration lacked constitutional authority to implement it. I disagree, but Mr. Shapiro's position is intellectually honest and deserves attention. 
Ilya Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

I recently spoke with constitutional scholar, Ilya Somin, about how courts often allow the government to infringe immigrants’ basic rights (such as free speech, freedom of religion, and equal protection) in a way they would never allow against US citizens. Professor Somin warns that these abuses often end up affecting US citizens. He also explains how the legal theory allowing these double standards, "the plenary power doctrine," was invented nearly a century after the ratification of the constitution by the same Supreme Court justices who invented the doctrine of "separate but equal" allowing segregation against blacks. 

Professor Somin’s forthcoming book: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom/dp/0190054581/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ilya+somin&qid=1582529358&sr=8-1
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Professor Somin's faculty profile: https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/somin_ilya

​I recently spoke with Robert Haglund, a marketing expert, former intelligence analyst for the Air Force, and producer for conservative podcasts and talk shows. Robbie is also editor of this podcast. 
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We talked about his experience training U.S. military personnel to negotiate with Iraqi tribal leaders, the challenges of cross-cultural dialogue, how cultural divisions in the United States affect the immigration debate, whether its worth while talking to immigration skeptics (yes), whether all opposition to immigration is racist (no), whether Obama's presidency proves that no common ground can be found, recognizing the right time and place to discuss and debate immigration, whether it's cowardly to refrain from accusing people of racism, and the importance of intellectual honesty in building trust with people with different political opinions. 

​I recently had an entertaining and thought-provoking conversation with economist David R. Henderson about whether immigrants have the right to do what they want with the money they earn at work, the large sums of money immigrants in the United States send to their families in their home countries in the form of remittances, Trump's proposals to stop or tax these remittances, the effectiveness of these private remittances compared to government-to-government foreign aid, and the idea of selling visas as a way to cut the deficit. 

More information about David R. Henderson​​
Professor Henderson's blog: https://www.econlib.org/author/dhenderson/

​In this episode, economist and New York Times best selling author Bryan Caplan argues that open borders would strengthen the American economy, reinforce the best aspects of our culture, and be consistent with our most common moral world views. 
His recent book, Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960

I recently spoke with Hidetaka Hirota, an historian of American immigration and deportation law, about the thousands of Irish immigrants deported and excluded from Massachusetts and New York in the first half of the 1800s, and how these two states' immigration bureaucracies served as models for future federal immigration agencies.  
Expelling the Poor
Hidetaka Hirota

​Labor economist Geovanni Peri explains how immigration affects American workers, whether it pushes American workers to acquire new skills and education, whether immigration creates winners and losers, how it affects federal and state budgets, how the influx of nearly 100,000 Cuban refugees in 1980 affected the Miami job market, and how the Arizona crackdown in the 2000s affected the job market and agricultural production there. ​

​What is "throwaway culture"? Are we too comfortable treating resources, and even people, as disposable? How do we overcome the throwaway habit?

I recently spoke with Charlie Camosy about how "throwaway culture" affects current American immigration policy and debate. He explains how throwaway culture has infected leaders and institutions on both the Left and Right. He is an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University and author of the recently published book, Resisting Throwaway Culture.

Charles C. Camosy, Resisting Throwaway Culture (New City Press 2019).