Zeke Hernandez

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I’ve seen the video recorded by the woman in the pink jacket. It made me cry. It was murder. Shame on ICE and anyone who tries to defend their actions in this incident.

This is horrific. Absolutely no plausible justification. Straight up murder.

NYC friends: Stop by the Lincoln Center tonight at 7 pm for a conversation about the American dream! This is part of a series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States. Timely and timeless!

ICE melts when exposed to evidence

BOOM

The US Administration has been claiming that mass deportation has opened up jobs for US workers.

But that’s an incompetent misreading of the data.

@stanveuger.bsky.social of AEI explains their freshman mistake.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Merry Christmas!

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.

He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.

The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.

We, the people.

www.kff.org/racial-equit...

International students *create* educational opportunities for US natives.

Each additional Chinese master's student causes enrollment of 0.26–0.44 additional native students, by funding/expanding master's programs.

New at @nber.org—> doi.org/10.3386/w34391

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My take on how the H-1B fee affects jobs and innovation: time.com/charter/7321....

Thanks to Charter and Time for the opportunity to weigh in.

And I’m honored to support such a sensible, no-brainer cause that’s only good for our country.

Excellent work, Michael!

No surprise there

Glad to see the US Chamber of Commerce speak up on the $100,000 H-1B tax.

I’ve been hoping the business community would speak up more forcefully on immigration issues. It’s a constituency that will be heard by the administration. This is a good start, but only a start.

Book cover of The Truth About Immigration by Zeke Hernandez. The top of a chain linked fence breaking off into birds against a blue sky.

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Thanks for the review!

The recent action by the administration to impose a massive, $100K per-head tax on skilled labor is a huge source of talent uncertainty. As this research shows, one thing you can expect is less investment by firms. This is bad for American workers, businesses, and economies.

If confirmed as true, this would be the height of hypocrisy. The man who so vehemently claims to be on the right side of the law would actually be a crook.

Really excited that the Immigration Policy Lab is doing this, and honored to be one of the presenters this season. We need all the evidence we can get our hands on when it comes to immigration, and this is a great way to disseminate it.

What does mass deportation mean for the US economy when the native workforce is in sharp demographic decline?

I spoke at the Invest in America Summit by @thehill.com

Video at 2:04:03 & thereafter—>
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Thanks, Michael!

Substituting Talent with Transactions: Acquisitions as Responses to Immigration Restrictions Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Put simply: tighter talent pipes → more acquisitions → knock-on effects for competition and industry structure.

We'd love to hear from any firms facing this issue, particularly how you've responded to skilled worker shortages. Any feedback on the study is also welcome.

www.nber.org/papers/w34248

But our study shows that's not the case because there aren't enough native workers available to begin with. So firms resort to the expensive and risky option of M&A to make up for the very real shortage.

The CBO projects sizable reductions in the foreign-born workforce under current plans. The lastest jobs report shows over 1 million missing immigrant workers from the US labor market since the start of 2025. Proponents of restrictionist policies argue that they force firms to hire native workers.

This is extremely important in the current immigration environment. Policy signals matter for firm strategy. This year alone there many proposals out there to make it harder for firms to hire skilled workers through the H-1B and other visa programs.