Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration research and director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, as well as the author of the book “Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions”. We discuss immigration, the US legal immigration system, the immigration bureaucracy, appeals to chaos and order, libertarianism, populism, whether politics is driven by ideas or personalities, political violence, and electoral systems.
Alex at Cato:
https://www.cato.org/people/alex-nowrasteh
Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions:
https://www.amazon.ca/Wretched-Refuse-Political-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1108702457
Alex on the Fifth Column podcast:
https://play.acast.com/s/5c3e264f78c059c75c5e8ccf/607995b1b1d7373173d667fb
My Conversation with Samo Burja:
Alex Nowrasteh: Immigration, Its Fans, and Its Haters