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The H-1B Straitjacket: Why Congress should repeal the cap on foreign-born highly skilled workers
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Suzette Brooks Masters and Ted Ruthizer
Country: United States

H-1B visa quotas are stifling America's explosive industries. "Congress should return to U.S. employers the ability to fill gaps in their workforce with qualified foreign national professionals rapidly, subject to minimal regulation, and unhampered by artificially low numerical quotas." The report is available in Adobe PDF. (3/3/00)

Are there grounds for limiting immigration?
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Julian L. Simon
Country: United States

"[T]he negative consequences of any level of immigration which is politically imaginable at present are at most speculative... [A] policy which is both prudent and also consistent with the observations would be to increase immigration quotas in a series of increments." (Adobe Acrobat) (Spring 1999)

Immigration: The demographic and economic facts
Source: Cato Institute and the National Immigration Forum
Author: Julian L. Simon
Country: United States

Julian Simon dispels some myths about the impact of immigration on the United States and lays out the reality of the the role immigration plays in this country. (12/95)

A Libertarian Theory of Free Immigration
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Jesus Huerta de Soto
Country: United States

de Soto writes in favor of open immigration, saying that many of the ills for which immigration is blamed are in fact problems of forced integration. (Adobe Acrobat) (Spring 1999)

A libertarian case for free immigration
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Walter Block
Country: United States

Block defends the view that the totally free movement of goods, factors of production, money, and, most important of all, people, is part and parcel of traditional libertarian philosophy. (Adobe Acrobat) (Spring 1999)

Immigration policy for an age of mass movement
Source: IEA
Author: Irwin M. Stelzer
Country: United States

Stelzer writes in favor of free immigration, subject to a willingness by immigrants to assimilate to their new homes and to eschew state handouts. (Adobe Acrobat)(03/19/01)

'Special Interest' hearings in the wake of September 11th
Source: Federalist Society
Author: Jonathan Fredrick Cohn and Gordon Dwyer Todd
Country: United States

This report examines the question of whether immigrant detainees should receive open hearings or does national security allow for or even necessitate closed proceedings. (PDF file) (09/27/02)

Immigration policy for an age of mass movement
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Irwin M. Stelzer
Country: United States

"A rational immigration policy should aim to enrich a host nation whilst doing what it can to reduce opposition to the social consequences of immigration." (01/02)

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