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Nicole B. Simpson is the W Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University.
As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Starting to Plunge

As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Starting to Plunge

Post by Logan Sundberg. Colgate Class of 2022. As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Starting to Plunge”, by Solan Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times, February 24, 2020. The article discusses the impacts that President Trump’s recent policy changes have had on legal immigration. In general, Trump is starting to see the results of his previous policy changes regarding immigration. The article cites that legal immigration has fallen more than 11%, with a projected 30% plunge in 2021. The…

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Leaving the EU: What Brexit Means for Immigration

Leaving the EU: What Brexit Means for Immigration

Post by Willa King. Colgate Class of 2022. Based on the Economist article “Britain’s Post-Brexit Immigration Rules Worry Business.” The Economist , The Economist Group Limited, 19 Feb. 2020. On January 31, 2020, the UK officially left the EU. Now they are in charge of revamping their immigration policy. Earlier in the month, the British government put out their proposed plan on how they will let new migrants into the country. A recap of the new plan is detailed in…

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Implement Income-Based Restrictions on Immigration

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Implement Income-Based Restrictions on Immigration

Post by Catherine Cargian.Colgate Class of 2022. “Supreme Court Allows Trump to Implement Income-Based Restrictions on Immigration”, The Wall Street Journal, by Brent Kendall and Michelle Hackman, January 27th, 2020. The Supreme Court recently passed a decision making it even more difficult for migrants to legally immigrate into the United States. A 5-to-4 ruling is permitting the Trump administration to deny immigrants legal residency for utilizing a federal welfare program. Immigrants can also be denied access even if they haven’t…

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The migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement

The migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement

Post by Faith Christenson. Colgate Class of 2022. “The migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement”, The Economist, November 30th, 2019.  This article expresses the issues in China’s retirement benefits system and how migrants contribute and are affected.  The article starts by explaining the background of China’s industrial history. Many places were not the industrial stops they are today. Places like Guangzhou used to be “a bit of an embarrassment,” full of factories and dismal workshops….

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Border Trip: Reflection

Border Trip: Reflection

Post by Colin Liscord, Skidmore College, Class of 2020. I was not in this economics class, nor am I a Colgate student, still I was lucky enough to be a part of this trip. A professor of mine at Skidmore College, Diana Barnes, helped plan this trip and after a week or so of relentless begging she allowed me to tag along. As an anthropology major, I found it most interesting to view the conflict on the U.S – Mexico…

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Border Trip: The End

Border Trip: The End

Post by Sahil Lalwani and Ayush Sinha. Colgate Class of 2022. As we look back at an incredible week of learning, exploration and travelling, it is difficult to consolidate our experiences in trying to understand immigration and its challenges into one blog post. Over the course of the week, we became acquainted with the complexities of immigration, both at the policy and grassroots levels, as we talked to speakers from diverse backgrounds including journalism, art, scholarship, law and the not-for-profit…

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Border Trip: Day 7

Border Trip: Day 7

Post by Isabel Blume and Faith Christenson. Colgate Class of 2022. The time had come; it was the last day of our trip through the borderlands. After a collective effort to clean and check out of our Airbnb, we headed further into downtown Tucson. We were to see a streamline case at one of the federal district courts, but we were running early. We walked around Tuscon for a few hours and enjoyed our last chance to bask in the…

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Border Trip: Day 6

Border Trip: Day 6

Post written by Alyssa Kryzelle Reyes and Vani Kanoria. Colgate Class of 2022. Nine students and Professor Simpson started the day by helping at Casa Maria, a Catholic soup kitchen that serves the neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona. In addition to feeding about 400 people daily in a small, but efficient space, they provide spiritual support through mass, and empower community members to educate themselves about issues of inequality and injustice. Volunteering at the soup kitchen that morning turned out to…

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Border Trip: Day 5

Border Trip: Day 5

Post by Hilary Almanza and Mark Moreira. Colgate Class of 2022. On Sunday January 15th, our study group met with Shura Wallin in Green Valley Arizona at her home where she greeted us all and told us about her work in the organization she founded to help immigrants called the Green Valley Samaritans. The organization she described is mostly based in Nogales but also does work in Tuscon to support asylum seekers in many ways. She described aiding across the…

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Border Trip: Day 4

Border Trip: Day 4

Post written by Vanessa Lam and Bonnie Chin. Colgate Class of 2022. The town of Tombstone differed greatly during the day. The barren dirt roads were replaced with townspeople donning traditional western clothing and horse-drawn carriages. Tourists mingled in between and filled the streets. As we wandered around the town in the morning sun, we couldn’t help but gape at the town’s preservation of the Wild West. In the early afternoon, we took a walking tour of Tombstone’s history given…

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