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Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development.

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Michael A. Clemens
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"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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by Michael A. Clemens

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Military troops from Texas are poised to enter and forcibly occupy the state of Illinois, on orders from the US President.

We will not get the slightest bit accustomed to this wildly illegal extremism.

Conservative and Liberal Americans reject military rule. We are accelerating toward a cliff.
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Assemble in Chicago Area as Trump Officials Make Visits
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The Trump admin is not close to done restricting high-skilled immigration. New rules to make it harder for employers to use H-1B visas and sponsor employment-based immigrants are coming within months. @mclem.org @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @justinwolfers.bsky.social‬
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The Next Trump Immigration Rule Aiming To Restrict H-1B Visas
The Trump administration plans to publish a new H-1B rule expected to introduce new restrictions on how employers may use the visa.
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
I greatly appreciate the many American Conservatives who have the honor and integrity to speak basic truths at this crucial moment.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
Grassley: “Using the power of government to go after people that are political people, you don't like. We're pointing this all out because we can't have this repeated in the United States. We want an end to it right now.”
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Grassley: “Using the power of government to go after people that are political people, you don't like. We're pointing this all out because we can't have this repeated in the United States. We want an end to it right now.”
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
All of those antonyms mean "don't displace" as in "don't really affect". But "crowding in" means that more of one input causes there to be more of other inputs, not just the failure to cause less.

by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
Thank you. Yes it's not a great term. 'Crowd out' is often used as a synonym of 'displace'. So 'crowd in' is intended to convey the opposite of displace. None of the dictionary antonyms convey the right meaning (antonyms of 'displace': embed, secure, entrench, freeze, stabilize…).
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by Michael A. Clemens

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Excluding each international student from the United States is, in this sense, throwing away a scholarship for a native student.

The US Administration's across-the-board policy of international student exclusion is working. It will hobble the resources *American* students rely on.
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (Gift Article)
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
How could int'l students 'crowd in' natives?

Because int'l student demand & finance strengthens institutions & educational resources. Benefits shared by *all* students.

@kevinshih.bsky.social of @ucriverside.bsky.social shows this in an important @jpube.bsky.social paper —> doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
The positive relationship is largest, and most statistically precise, for STEM majors—a very common major for international students.

Research by @mzavodny.bsky.social @nfapresearch.bsky.social —> nfap.com/wp-content/u... @piie.com
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
International students at US universities *give* opportunity to native students. They don't take it away.

That's the average % change in international student enrollment, by university, on the horizontal axis. The vertical axis is the % change in native enrollment.

Not 'us' or 'them'. Us and them.
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Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens

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“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by: Valerie Mueller, Michael D. McDonald

mclem.org
"Forty-five percent" of US construction firms "report experiencing project delays due to shortages of their own, or subcontractors' workers."

A growing economic debacle. It does not have to be this way. Wise and visionary public policy can channel migration into lawful, orderly pathways.
Construction Workforce Shortages Are Leading Cause Of Project Delays As Immigration Enforcement Affects Nearly 1/3 Of Firms
92 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, As 45 Percent of Firms Say Labor Shortages are Causing Project Delays, New Nationwide Industry Survey Finds
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens, Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings , and 6 more

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Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens, Lisa W. Fazio, David Lazer , and 17 more

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My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
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by Justin Wolfers — Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens

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For folks looking for some of the studies on high-skill immigration that I referenced, you can't go past this review by @mclem.org: www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
The White House plans to further debase and pervert our military troops to occupy yet another US city.

It justifies that plan by claiming to know more and care more about crime, in that city, than the city’s literal Chief of Police.

Conservative and Liberal Americans reject military rule.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
COLLINS: The police chief of Portland says the president's claims don't match up with what's happening on the ground

LEAVITT: You're probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does
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Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens, Michael Kevane

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The number of international students arriving in the US in Augugst fell 19% this year compared with last year, the largest decline on record outside the pandemic

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Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
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by Georg Weizsäcker — Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens

georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
Especially large drops in the numbers of 🇺🇸 students arriving from Asia and Africa.

Plus many more pieces of info. 👇🏼

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (Gift Article)
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens

atrupar.com
COLLINS: The police chief of Portland says the president's claims don't match up with what's happening on the ground

LEAVITT: You're probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
Policymaking that suspends our Constitution, and the laws derived from it, is not in the interest of any American.

Conservative and Liberal Americans know the value of our laws and our Constitution. Lawless, mafia-style coercion will harm all of us in the end. Thus we reject it.
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
There are many legal paths for the people controlling the White House to pursue reform of universities.

We have legislation. We have agency rule-making. That is how a government that honors its duty to our Constitution makes policy legally.

Then there is sick coercion via illegal impoundment.
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
The US Administration delivers a new instrument of extralegal extortion against several universities.

Journalists continue to call it a "compact", parroting the White House's Orwellian marketing term.

Please, please read this explanation of these Statements of Extortion—by @jackbalkin.bsky.social
The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
This week, the Trump Administration attempted to make universities an offer we can’t refuse. With great fanfare, the administration announce...
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Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens, Patricia Aufderheide, Alan Richardson , and 7 more

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"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
Every day, every hour that this lawless rampage continues is a historic stain on those who had the power and duty to stop it, but cowered in silence.
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
The White House ordered military occupation of yet another opposition-party-controlled US city.

One of our federal judges blocked this flagrantly illegal perversion of our Constitution. The White House tried to evade the order, activating a different military force.

She has blocked them again.
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 1d
Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

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Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon
Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'
www.oregonlive.com
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
I spoke with @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social about the US Administration's stunning new policy of excluding high-skill immigrant STEM workers—>
Cambridge’s Biotech Industry Threatened by New H-1B Visa Fee | News | The Harvard Crimson
12,000 international workers uphold Massachusetts’s booming technology and biotech industries — including more than 1,000 workers in Cambridge. But new fees on H-1B visas could soon cripple everything...
www.thecrimson.com
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by: Johannes Haushofer, Valerie Mueller

mclem.org
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship "invests in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—poised to significantly contribute to U.S. society, culture, or their academic field. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in financial support over two years."
Why Become a Fellow – Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Apply for a Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship and become one of the thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate
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Reposted by: Michael A. Clemens, Anna O. Law, Elizabeth Saunders , and 3 more

lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon
Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'
www.oregonlive.com
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by Michael A. Clemens

mclem.org
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject military rule.

We demand an immediate end to this insanity.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
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