wired.com

ICE Is Inspiring Latinos to Vote in Historic Numbers

"I did a Latino community event [and said] we have to actually fucking vote to tell these motherfuckers to fuck off," Nevada secretary of state Cisco Aguilar tells WIRED.

wired.com

Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

Despite Illinois' sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

noahpinion.blog

There is no “Indian Question”

Throughout most of the 2010s, there was a popular notion that society should basically ignore and shun people like that, and that if we all simply shunned them, and pressured our friends and colleagues to shun them, they and their views would vanish from American society — or at least remain marginalized. That approach failed. Anti-immigrant ideas didn't remain marginalized — in fact, they took over the country, despite their continued unpopularity among the general American public.

noahpinion.blog

What the AI boom is doing for Americans

And remember, this was at a time when Trump was deporting construction workers en masse — 13% of the construction workforce is undocumented, and deportations also have knock-on negative effects on the industry that result in the firing of native-born workers as well. This probably explains the pause in the increase of construction employment in 2025. But even that couldn't stop construction's rise.

noahpinion.blog

No, you are not on Indigenous land

Of course you can assign land ownership this way — it's called an 'ethnostate'. But if you do this, it means that the descendants of immigrants can never truly be full and equal citizens of the land they were born in. If Britain is defined as the land of the Britons, then a Han person whose great-great-great-grandparents moved there from China will exist as a contingent citizen — a perpetual foreigner whose continued life in the land of their birth exists only upon the sufferance of a different race.

noahpinion.blog

The anti-American Right

It doesn't matter whether you assimilate or not. Yes, if you speak a foreign language or build a Hindu temple or wear traditional Indian clothing, the New Right will scream their heads off about it. But if you put on a University of Texas sweater and go to football games, they'll still scream "Alien invaders!!" when they see you in a photo. It's who you are that bothers them, not what you do.

noahpinion.blog

Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration

Progressives in America and socialists in Europe still desperately claim that what angry working-class voters really want is more economic support. They keep offering more and more lavish promises of welfare supports and price controls, while staunchly opposing restrictions on immigration. The approach keeps failing, and the far right keeps rising.

noahpinion.blog

In defense of Asian American art

Asian American culture is probably destined to be a sort of transitory, ephemeral thing. The classic second generation experience — 'My parents really drove me hard and kids made fun of my weird lunch, until I went to college and met other people with the same background' — almost never lasts beyond the second generation. Assimilation happens.

noahpinion.blog

Roundup #86: Unintended consequences

High-skilled immigrants don't compete with locals for a fixed pool of jobs; they lure investment to an area, so that the pool of jobs expands. This second effect, more often than not, outweighs the competitive effect, so that native-born Americans actually benefit from the presence of foreign skilled workers.

noahpinion.blog

Are the Democrats going to save us this time?

If you think the GOP will return to being the party of Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Ronald Reagan after Trump is gone, think again. MAGA is already morphing from a personality cult into an ideology — a deeply xenophobic, economically retrograde ideology obsessed with expelling immigrants, and convinced that wealth has made the West immoral and weak.

wired.com

It Looks Like Nothing Can Dent MAGA’s Support for ICE

Despite weeks of renewed press coverage and controversy around ICE, Donald Trump's supporters appear to be standing by the agency no matter what.

honest-broker.com

12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now

Fabrizio grew up in poverty in Huánuco, Peru, and moved to the US at age fifteen, where he worked the lowest level jobs—busboy in a Mexican restaurant, door-to-door sales, etc. He eventually found himself in Nashville, and is now ready to make his mark on the country music scene.

readtheprofile.com

The Profile: The founder of Barstool Sports telling all & the mom using AI agents to run her house

"Freedom means you can talk to your friend, criticize the government, and then forget about it and go home. Where I'm from, if you criticize the government, you're not going to make it home."

noahpinion.blog

Roundup #82: Staring in wonder at the world

Immigration — even low-skilled immigration — creates a labor demand shock that balances out the labor supply shock (because the same immigrants who supply labor also demand products that are made with labor). Almost every study finds this.

longreads.com

Asian Mothers, Bad Feelings: Notes on An All-conquering Stereotype

These mothers face a double bind. They hope to raise children unburdened by the past, comfortable in their new homeland, enjoying opportunities they never had themselves. If they succeed – as with many immigrant parents around the world – their prize is a child who is unintelligible to them.

longreads.com

‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE

What if ICE was lurking at the parking lot or in the lobby? If he got deported, what would the family do? For two days, he didn't go to work. He lay in bed, hoping it would heal.