DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

New research: The new proclamation blocking the Immediate Relatives of US Citizens from 39 countries & the low refugee ceiling mean legal immigration is now projected to decline by at least 600K during Donald Trump’s 2nd term. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

"These Meduza readers emigrated from Russia. Here’s what strikes them when they visit home." Interesting reflections from 11 emigre Russians after visits back to Russia. mdza.io/k/YrXR38EkHA

Per Stephen Miller’s influence, the new National Security Strategy mistakenly assumes America can reap the benefits of immigration, particularly higher levels of innovation & economic growth, without admitting immigrants. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Per Stephen Miller’s influence, the new National Security Strategy mistakenly assumes America can reap the benefits of immigration, particularly higher levels of innovation & economic growth, without admitting immigrants. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

UPDATED: Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew to be freed from ICE detention. DHS, after characterizing Brazilian mom with ties to Karoline Leavitt as a "criminal," did not oppose her release at a hearing today. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE agent shoves a home security camera as she approaches a home. Masks aren't enough. They don't want you to have any record of their behavior. Even the tiniest threat of accountability is too much. Keep recording anyway.

This is an actual thing Putin said today: "We are taking a surgical approach with Ukraine, very carefully." 4 images of Russia's "surgical approach": kremlin.ru/events/presi...

No surprise. If Trump admin is really interested in stopping the killing as they claim, they need to work with Ukraine and Europe to put military and economic pressure on Russia for a ceasefire, which Trump previously pushed for but then walked away from after Alaska. (spoiler: they won't)

Unchecked authority...In its filing last night responding to the Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit against the $100,000 H-1B fee, the Trump admin argues, in effect, the president has “extraordinarily broad discretion to suspend the entry” of anyone he wants. @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

In a new post, Donald Trump hinted he might stop nearly all legal immigration to the U.S. The details indicate Stephen Miller may have drafted the post to carry out a “permanent pause” on immigration. The personal and economic impacts would be significant. @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

This is a lie. Immigrants from different cultures have strengthened America, have *become* America. But the lowest and most extremist Americans once made *identical*, hateful claims about Miller’s Jewish refugee ancestors, about Asian Americans, about Irish Catholic Americans, and countless others.

Reports that Trump favors recognizing 🇷🇺 control over Crimea and other occupied territories. This would reverse formal US policy of not recognizing efforts to change borders by force, reaffirmed by the 1st Trump administration in 2018 in the "Crimea Declaration." 2017-2021.state.gov/crimea-decla...

New Bloomberg bombshell: A Dmitriev-Ushakov conversation from October 29. Witkoff should be fired. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I've watched countless videos now of confrontations between DHS agents and ICE observers, and it's awesome how many are women recording, challenging male agents, refusing to give up their rights. I'd say the number of women involved in documenting ICE crimes outnumber men three to one or more.

DHS is unable to produce “quantitative” benefits in its Public Charge rule. DHS cites only a “qualitative” benefit: For U.S. government workers, who won’t be “unnecessarily” stopped from denying Americans sponsoring spouses & other family for immigration. @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Not surprisingly, 70% of ICE deportees had no criminal convictions and again, nearly 43% did not even have criminal charges. Again, the fact that the US doesn't let people answer for the charges against them shows utter contempt for due process and the rule of law.

"20 Days in Mariupol" was a harrowing and essential Oscar-winning documentary on the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The latest film from the same team premieres tomorrow night (Nov 25) in the US on @frontlinepbs.bsky.social. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Trump literally yesterday: Ukraine has till Thursday to accept this plan. Rubio: This is not our plan. Total f-ing 🤡 show

By the way, mass deportation causes rising prices in the United States. This is because it removes a crucial ingredient of production in key sectors like food and construction, without reducing demand much. Sane demand chasing reduced supply —> higher prices. @piie.com analysis here:

"When the government offers life-changing sums for death amid its demonstrated indifference to deep poverty and demographic collapse, it creates a macabre marketplace where human life is commodified and death becomes an investment strategy."

In email announcing new schedule for some data delayed by shutdown, BEA says some more statistics are being discontinued. These data relate to foreign investment in the US -- which Trump loves to claim he's boosting.

This doesn't seem to be the kind of trade rebalancing that the president is looking for.

I just received a document from DHS showing that it has a detained population of 65,000, a staggering total, nearing half the total prison population detained by the Bureau of Prisons. The project is to jam them in horrible conditions until they give up their rights to stay

NEW: Before Biden's team course-corrected on inflation, they made some missteps—and Trump and his team are repeating them. New from the estimable @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...

Levada Center Russia survey: "Would you be more likely to approve or disapprove if a member of your family or loved one signed a contract to participate in the special military operation?" May 23: 52% approve, 41% disapprove Apr 24: 47% app, 44% dis Oct 24: 40% app, 42% dis Oct 25: 30% app, 55% dis

Immigration policy that broadly seeks ways to entice foreign graduates of US universities to remain in the US, the overwhelming mass of evidence suggests, would serve the national interest. Terminating Optional Practical Training would do the opposite, @mclem.org says.

Massive violations of the Constitution and private property by these deportation agents. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

The US Administration is, as it announced several months ago, preparing to severely restrict Optional Practical Training—the most important path for international students to stay and contribute to the US economy after graduation.

Trump has directed DOL to publish a new prevailing wage rule. A rule (blocked) in his 1st term tried to price H-1B visa holders & employment-based immigrants out of the labor market by raising min. salary levels 39% to 45%. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬ www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

🥳🎂 Happy 1st birthday to Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction! Cover and table of contents below, with link to Oxford University Press website. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“Because the volume of detentions is so high and people are really stretched thin in the work that they’re doing, it’s not shocking or surprising that this type of mistake could happen,” Kerry Doyle, the top ICE lawyer during the Biden administration, said of Mr. Juarez’s case.

Unreal. So that's what they are doing when they pull out their phones to record people who are recording them. That's dystopian. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The US Administration is not engaged in a 'crackdown', which means strict punishment of people who break laws. It is engaged in a vast and universal program of immigrant exclusion, regardless of legal status, skill, and economic contribution.

A new rule ending the automatic extension of work authorization could lead employers to remove workers from payroll. Attorney Jon Wasden: “The next step is massive delays in adjudication times. This will force people out of work as they wait for an EAD.” @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Now combined with other material into a Cato post: bsky.app/profile/walt...

This is a US citizen and father who served in our armed forces. He was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, pinned to the ground, then imprisoned naked for three days with no explanation—during or since. No crime. No charges. No conviction. No phone calls. No appeal.

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated 139 years ago today.

"We do not want to be dependent on the British government for support. We want to work and contribute. But the government does not allow us to work." You hear about asylum seekers. Have you heard *from* them? Via @gmiau.bsky.social —> gmiau.org/assets/uploa... HT @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?