Ethan G. Lewis

Excited to talk to Steve Inskeep this morning on NPR's morning edition about the benefits of immigration, especially low skill, for the U.S. economy. tinyurl.com/yb4o2fx3

@mellosteve2 Nice thread, Steve.

Recently, my paper "more cops, less crime" has been cited by folks pushing back against the movement to defund the police. I wanted to weigh in on how I think my research fits into these conversations --

“Reopening the economy” without reopening schools is a fool’s errand: “The economy will not really ‘open up,’ and life will not return to normal, as long as parents don’t have any place to send our children during the day.” #click=https://t.co/qIl3l0wkS1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opi…

Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response migrationpolicy.org/research/immig…

Memo to President Trump buff.ly/2VpttHC Banning immigration will not save jobs - but it will make Americans poorer buff.ly/2Mynzjh

@englander_tyler Yep. There's little evidence that immigrants "take jobs" from natives. One thing this order may mean, though, is fewer doctors and scientists in the U.S.

Nice that my work with @shenhav_n and @econoshih is featured on the front page of the AEA webpage today! Thanks for the insightful article @AEAjournals

@m_clem By the way, in case it matters, the legalization program he was talking about reduced crime. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

It's true! More than 1 in 4 doctors in the United States are immigrants More than half of students enrolling in STEM grad programs are immigrants Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born Immigrants serve in the military Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs

Let's let in anybody from Hong Kong who wants to come. They are some of the most productive people in the world being oppressed by a brutal regime. Let them in.

We are about to amp up expedited removals. As Tara describes in her thread, this will exacerbate such unjust abuse. By the way, interior enforcement has not been found to improve labor market outcomes or to reduce crime.

Occasionally citizens or green card holders are mistakenly removed. Asylum seekers are also not supposed to be removed through this process, but that sometimes happens too.

@WilliamsEcon Thanks!

@WilliamsEcon There was a bank of Thailand scholar in my class (1995) that I believe went to Northwestern Econ. Had to look up his name: I think it is Ashvin Ahuja. Also as of tomorrow I am full Professor !

School desegregation is in the news. I have worked on these questions with @eucascio @NoraEGordon @ethanglewis! A thread on some of the things we learned about the Federal role in deseg in the 50s, 60s, 70s. (Many have written on this; I summarize some of my own work here.)

A good day to reread this paper from @EliraKuka @ekose86 @shenhav_n nber.org/papers/w24933

@DTaubinsky Hey, congrats Dmitry!

Tomorrow the U.S. Administration announces its latest scheme to bar immigrants —> thehill.com/homenews/admin… Remember: its last plan for "merit based" immigration concealed the fact that it would have *reduced* the number of university grads by 18% —> cgdev.org/blog/how-trump…

Coming up on @Morning_Joe with more on our exclusive reporting. Emails show Trump administration was scrambling and failing spectacularly to link 2000+ separated parents and kids *the same day* they claimed they had a "central database" to reunite them. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…

@AlexNowrasteh There seems to be very little in the article to support the dramatic headline anyway, other than same tired assertions you could also find in early-twentieth century pamphlets from the Immigration Restriction League. He's also outside his expertise here.

Can someone explain to me why Spanish-speaking Catholic immigrants from the Western Hemisphere are not already members of Western civilization? marketwatch.com/story/mass-imm…

@m_clem Well said Michael

The simple fact is that every worker with high education, in a modern economy, indirectly depends on specialized work by a small army of workers with much less education—most of whom they'll never meet. This specialization is the key to productivity for both. Now more than ever.