Michael Crow, Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2025 (digital version)
excerpt:
This spring, I felt the message that foreign students were shaking here, as they were ending visas for international students for minor legal violations, such as traffic violations and scrutiny of students’ social media accounts.
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Joaquin Duato, CEO of Johnson & Johnson and Ramon Laguarta, CEO of Pepsico, are alumni of ASU’s Tunderbird School of Global Management. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google), Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO), and Indra Noyoyi (former CEO of Pepsico) are one of thousands of US CEOs and founders who are immigrants.
These talent acquisition adds to the economic success and innovation of the United States. Over 50% of all US startups valued over $1 billion have at least one immigrant founder, many of whom have come as students. The US returns are trillions of dollars.
Veronic de Rougie, Reason, June 19, 2025.
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Emotion-based regulation is a disruptive way to regulate a complex and dynamic US economy, as long as it supports less freedom and dynamism than we see in the continent of Europe. In the case of this US rule, the government has now admitted that two crew members are not proven safer than one crew. Interada asked the court to postpone what is called a “common-sense product of rational decision making.”
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The government’s own data does not support the notion that mandating two crew members will improve safety. My former colleague, Patrick McLaughlin, showed that the onone crew in skirts is unreliable, crucial and decisive, to document that the safer records are worse than the two crew. Many small railroads have long been safely operated with single-person crews, just like Amtrak trains that carry Washington’s elite up and down the East Coast. There is also a wealth of data from Europe and other countries run by a single crew.
Joe Lancaster, Reason, June 19, 2025.
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This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will release new guidance on “Facility Visit and Engagement Protocols for Congress and Staff Members.”
“The ice detention location and field offices are safe facilities, so all visitors are [identity] Pre-enter Validation and Security Screening Requirements”, IT Spect.
Incidentally, it is completely legal for Congress members to visit ice detention facilities. And the necessary ice evasion attempts threaten the constitutional system of checks and balance.
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This is not a feature of the agency. Earlier this year, ICE agents denied Reason’s CJ Ciamella access at Miami’s federal detention facilitation, contrary to guidance listed on the agency’s own website. (The ICE was slow and the facility was admitted to be “open to the public every day.”
David Friedman, David Friedman’s Applyeck, June 21, 2025.
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McCarl’s speech was, this was a defense of strategy, and this was an example. In her view, the strategy of trading Rivera would support a small victory. You can expect to replace it. It’s a defensible strategy, but it happened to me that there were no two costs she mentioned.
The first is the reputation of the libertarian movement. The Libertarian Party has long been the “Party of Principles.” Part of the appeal of the libertarian movement is that it holds freedom support across a variety of issues, motivated by drug laws, professional licensing, immigration and a consistent philosophy of freedom. If the party is seen as supporting visible Trump, if it is Bione who has heard McCardle’s webbed speech, it is seen as sharing responsibility for all his actions, far from the libertarians. It makes it difficult for anyone who supports Trump’s politics to hire or retain as a member not only as a party but also as a movement. Because Trump is not a libertarian, it is likely that not only people on the left of the center, but also those who have been seriously linked to libertarianism.
The second cost is the impact of Trump or other alliances with non-live taran movements on libertarian doctrine. Trump’s ally, Libertarians will feel pressured to create a libertarian defense for the non-free police so that they do not feel an obligation to minimize conflict between his beliefs and theirs and attack their allies. The effect will be reinforced by changes in the movement’s staff as Trump supporters join in and libertarians who oppose Trump’s politics take part. As a result, the outcome is the “Rivera” party, perhaps the “Rivera” movement, and no longer a Riveranary.
