{"id":2088,"date":"2009-02-04T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2009-02-04T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:54:31","slug":"immigration-policy-is-about-redistribution-of-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/immigration-policy-is-about-redistribution-of-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration policy is about redistribution of wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Greeley (Colorado) Tribune<\/em>    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Borjas: Immigration debate boils down to &#8216;who are you rooting for?&#8217;  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>At its core, immigration policy is about redistribution of wealth. &#8212; So the current U.S. policy of freely admitting immigrants isn\u2019t likely to change when the power players \u2014 employers \u2014 continue to gain the most under the system. &#8212; That was the central message George Borjas, a professor of economics at Harvard, delivered&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/article\/20090203\/NEWS\/902029928\/1007\/NONE%26parentprofile=1001%26title=Professor:%20Immigration%20debate%20boils%20down%20to%20'who%20are%20you%20rooting%20for?'\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greeley (Colorado) Tribune Borjas: Immigration debate boils down to &#8216;who are you rooting for?&#8217; At its core, immigration policy is about redistribution of wealth. &#8212; So the current U.S. policy of freely admitting immigrants isn\u2019t likely to change when the power players \u2014 employers \u2014 continue to gain the most under the system. &#8212; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}