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My former students Sam Wilson and Alex Nowrasteh examine the political assimilation of immigrants and their descendants.  Here’s their introductory paragraph (footnote excluded):

Many skeptics of immigration reform claim that immigrants and their descendants will not politically assimilate and will consistently vote for bigger government for generations. Political survey data suggest that this fear is unwarranted, as the political differences between immigrants and native-born Americans are small and, in most cases, so small that they are statistically insignificant. In the cases where the differences are significant, the descendants of immigrants rapidly assimilate into America’s political culture by adopting mainstream ideologies, political party identifications, and policy positions held by longer-settled Americans. The policy and political views of immigrants and their descendants are mostly indistinguishable from Americans whose families have been here for at least four generations. As a result of these small differences in opinion and the subsequent rapid assimilation of immigrants, they and their descendants are unlikely to alter America’s aggregate political attitudes.

Speaking of immigrants, Shikha Dalmia explains that Pres. Obama is neither a friend of Latino immigrants nor a principled champion of civil liberties.

In my latest column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, I remember the late Henry Manne.  (By the way, this coming April will be the 50th anniversary of the publication of Henry’s brilliant and influential article “Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control.”)

Bob Higgs asks if China’s ruling elites are more pro-market than are America’s ruling elites.

Dick Carpenter and Larry Salzman, in this new publication from the Institute for Justice, explain how the I.R.S. helps to fuel in the U.S. the uncivilized banana-republic terror that is civil asset forfeiture.

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