The Guardian (September 8)
“Public opinion has swung away from Brexit, with more than half the country thinking it was wrong to leave the bloc. Crucially, a chunk of 2016 leave voters have changed their minds because Brexit hasn’t delivered either on promises that it would energise the economy or on reducing immigration. Rather, leaving the EU probably made the cost of living crisis worse.”
Tags: Brexit, Cost of living, Crisis, Economy, Energise, EU, Immigration, Leave voters, Promises, Public opinion, Wrong
National Review (July 27)
“Japan Is disappearing.” The nation’s “population declined by 800,000 in the last year,” marking “14 consecutive years during which deaths outnumbered births. The mathematics of population decline get really desperate from here on out…. This problem is far too large for immigration to solve.”
Tags: Births, Deaths, Declined, Desperate, Disappearing.” Population, Immigration, Japan, Mathematics, Outnumbered, Solve
Reuters (January 24)
Hong Kong’s “status as a global financial hub” is being threatened by its “zero COVID” policy and draconian immigration protocols. With no signs the government will ease restrictions, “more expats are thinking of leaving, and global banks, asset managers and corporate law firms are facing up to many of their staff exiting after annual bonuses are paid out in the first three months of the year.”
Tags: Asset managers, Banks, Draconian, Expats, Financial hub, Hong Kong, Immigration, Restrictions, Staff, Threatened, Zero COVID
Washington Post (June 18)
“The president’s lying is the only argument you need in a debate about Trump…. There is virtually no topic about which Trump hasn’t lied, often repeatedly. Immigration, trade, Iran, North Korea, health care — they all lead back to false and misleading claims.” For this reason, 500 days before the election, the Florida Sentinel became the first newspaper to make a 2020 presidential endorsement: “Not Donald Trump,” who the paper deemed a “unique and present danger” to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Tags: Constitution, Danger, Election, Endorsement, False, Florida Sentinel, Health care, Immigration, Iran, Lying, Misleading, Newspaper, North Korea, Trade, Trump
Bloomberg (May 23)
“Japan is beginning a major and unprecedented exercise.” Though “new immigration will help keep Japan’s economy and pension system afloat, it will inevitably introduce social strains.” Time alone will tell “whether the country’s culture and institutions will be able to learn from Europe’s experience and manage a smooth transition, or whether immigration will spark a nativist backlash that closes the country off once again.”
Tags: Backlash, Culture, Economy, Europe, Immigration, Japan, Nativist, Pension system, Social strains
The Economist (June 23)
“Donald Trump’s ill-fated policy of caging children” is a “blot against America.” Ultimately, it “will hurt his party more than him.” His immigration antics “may sustain his presidency,” but “the history of America’s moral corrections suggests that what they lack in spontaneity they make up for with momentum.” Ultimately, the Republican party will pay the price.
Tags: Blot, Caging children, Ill-fated policy, Immigration, Moral corrections, Republican Party, Trump
Bloomberg (May 27)
“The great deal maker has yet to make even a decent deal as president; he hasn’t negotiated anything on health care, immigration or infrastructure, and the trade negotiations with China may be a bust.” In Korea, Donald Trump’s “gut instincts” have resulted in a blunder that’s “worse than it looks: Kim Jong Un appears shrewd. China is stronger. And U.S. allies know not to trust Washington.”
Tags: Allies, Blunder, China, Deal maker, Health care, Immigration, Infrastructure, Kim Jong Un, Korea, Trade negotiations, Trump, Trust
Financial Times (September 10)
“A week in China is enough to persuade anyone that the world has spun back to front. The benefits of immigration, the quest for fresh discoveries, the desire for education, the recognition of the benefits of stability, purpose and enterprise are flourishing in China at the very time that they are being maligned, belittled or ignored in the US by Donald Trump.”
Tags: Benefits, China, Desire, Discoveries, Education, Enterprise, Immigration, Stability, Trump, U.S.
Wall Street Journal (February 28)
“The Trump-Bannon light show—the immigration limits and deportation ramp up, the broadsides against ‘globalism,’ the rhetorical assaults on the media as ‘the enemy’—have produced an approval rating of 44% five weeks into the job. That’s a modern low for a new President…. The central problem is that the Bannon agenda and style can’t produce the results they promise and may undermine the rest of Mr. Trump’s agenda.”
Tags: Approval, Bannon, Deportation, Globalism, Immigration, Media, Promise, Result, Trump
U.S. News & World Report (February 6)
“A report published last year stated that more than 37 percent of workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born.” Not surprisingly, given that, “a group of nearly 100 tech companies have filed an amicus brief to a federal appeals court voicing concerns over President Donald Trump’s stalled immigration-focused executive order.” Among them were “Google, Apple, GoPro, Facebook, Dropbox, eBay, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and Twitter.”
Tags: Amicus brief, Apple, Dropbox, EBay, Facebook, Foreigners, Google, GoPro, Immigration, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Silicon Valley, Tech companies, Trump, Twitter, U.S.
