Anatoly Karlin, who is making himself the go-to guy on analyzing the investment implications of international school test scores (a potentially lucrative niche), has a long, fascinating write-up of PISA scores adjusted by immigration status:This might not seem like much, but it is highly significant when bearing in mind the extremely close correlation between national... Read More

Jack Strocchi offers another theory of why corporate elites favor immigration besides keeping labor costs down and labor unions weak:Say you are the head of the American division of a big, fairly capital intensive toilet paper company with major operations in the U.S. You want sales to grow so you can run your already-built factories... Read More

From my new essay at VDARE on the hardening of class taboos:Read the whole thing there. My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

Probably.�Chuck at Occidentalist assembles a bunch of test reports, here and here.�It's not as well-studied of a subject as it is in the U.S., so it's hard to make sense of all the data, but most point toward the white-black gap in the U.K. being well under a standard deviation.I haven't seen a good meta-analyses... Read More

Steve Camarota has done a very useful piece of research for the Center for Immigration Studies:Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrive

Jennifer Gordon writes in an op-ed in the NYT about that amusing strike at the Hershey factory by foreign students who thought they were signing up for fun in the sun and got stuck lifting cases of candy on the late shift in Nowheresville, PA:The Pennsylvania workers are not alone. Recent exposés by journalists and... Read More

From the New York Times:Like many other students, Ms. Ozer said she invested about $3,500, which included the program costs, to obtain the J-1 visa

Here are a few extracts from Enoch Powell's infinitely demonized April 20, 1968 speech, delivered two weeks after the Martin Luther King riots in northern American cities.In fifteen or twenty years, on present trends, there will be in this country 3 1

I must confess that when I read articles from the mainstream media in Europe denouncing immigration restrictionists with angry rhetoric but little substance, I sometimes wonder if my leg is being pulled. For example, is this April 29, 2011 article from Spiegel on Denmark's decade-long success in implementing a more rational immigration policy a self-parody?... Read More

For some time, environmentalists have been aggressively nativist when it comes to plants and animals. Environmentalists don't like, say, foreign transplants, such as rats driving extinct all the native birds on remote islands. They don't like kudzu covering up much of the Southeast.But that increasingly raises feeling of psychological unease and impurity in the minds... Read More

My new VDARE column is about Maurice Glasman, one of the most interesting leftist thinkers in recent years to emerge (and then get rapidly submerged as he made clear the full logic of his worldview). Lord Glasman served for the last half year as the idea man for the new British Labour Party boss Ed... Read More

Canada's population has been steadily growing due to immigration. It's now up to 34 million from 27 million in 1988. Immigrants have, not surprisingly, stayed away from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, while crowding into Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.�Canadian Liberal Party senior statesman Robert Kaplan enthusiastically explains in the Toronto Globe & Mail�that tripling the population of... Read More

Here's part of the letter from the district attorney's office to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser's attorney explaining why they don't trust her anymore.In an application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal dated I)eccmber 30, 2004, the complainant provided the United States�Department�of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service with factual information about herself, her background and her... Read More

From today's NYT:Here's the beginning of my May 19th posting kicking around the DSK charges:Is there enough evidence to convict Dominique Strauss-Kahn in court? I can't tell.

The Washington Post reports:So, there are 280 applications for every visa?�“These results are not valid because they did not represent a fair, random selection of the en

From the New York Times:One group that Dr. Tanton nurtured, Numbers USA, doomed President George W. Bush’s legalization plan four years

I review the massive book on immigration discussed from the perspective of the human sciences in VDARE.com.My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

Ever since African-American voters in Washington D.C. kicked out school reformer Michelle Rhee, lowering property values in gentrifying sections of D.C., blogger and D.C. condo-owner Matthew Yglesias has been on the warpath to admit 165,000,000 immigrants to the U.S.. You might think that the subsequent increase in global carbon emissions alone would make that an... Read More

Australians have been deeply worried in this century about two problems: running out of water and potentially rising seas due to carbon emissions. As Jared Diamond pointed out in Collapse, one obvious step is to take the pedal off the metal when it comes to immigration to Australia. The more people in Australia, the less... Read More

Here's an important post by Tino at Super-Economy on a new study giving employment rates in three big European countries. For example:Much of the immigration to Europe can be characterized as welfare fraud.My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

From my new VDARE.com column:The continuing success of the German high wage economy relative to the Anglo-American low wage / high finance system is raising worries among the global great and good that a newly confident German public might start thinking for itself on immigration.Particularly agitating to transnational elites is that Social Democratic central banker... Read More

From my column in VDARE: The F.B.I.� announced charges last week against 73 Armenian gangsters, almost� half of them in the� Los Angeles area, for running the largest Medicare fraud in history.Or—to be strictly accurate—the largest the FBI yet knows about.The indictment alleged that most of the defendants were "were Armenian nationals or immigrants and... Read More

From Slate: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor. Really. We Mean It.Economists are making the case politicians are afraid to: Immigration is great for the U.S.By James LedbetterIf you pay attention only to politics, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the current debate about immigration in America is limited to how severely it should be... Read More

From my new VDARE.com column:Of the millions who claim to be deadly serious about Saving the World from global warming by limiting carbon emissions, how many are truly sincere?There’s one surefire test: Do they demand reductions in immigration to the U.S.?Answer: almost none of them do.A Google search for “carbon emissions� brings up 3,680,000 web... Read More

From an April 30, 2010 posting on Gallup.com: Young, Less Educated Yearn to Migrate to the U.S.Canada more attractive to older, more educated adults�by Neli Esipova, Julie Ray, and Rajesh SrinivasanWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fifteen countries attract about 500 million of the roughly 700 million adults worldwide who say they would like to relocate permanently to... Read More