Zeke Hernandez
Wharton professor. Immigration. Global business. Economic growth. Author of THE TRUTH ABOUT IMMIGRATION (coming June 2024).
- Immigration scholars! Come to the 2026 Migration & Organizations Conference at Wharton on May 26-27. Send us your best work by February 13 or apply for the doctoral consortium by February 14 here: impact.wharton.upenn.edu/homepage/mig... Friends: Please spread the word!
- 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.
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- 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
- A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>
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- Merry Christmas!
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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.
- I am honored to join with 13 academic colleagues in this amicus brief, filed today at the US Supreme Court. We advise the Court on the economic consequences of terminating the lawful protected status of roughly 600,000 Venezuelan nationals. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... cc @piie.com
- 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.
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- 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.
- 📣 Join us for a new monthly online (Zoom) seminar: Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS). We have a great initial lineup of speakers including @mclem.org, Leah Boustan, Giovanni Peri, and @profzeke.bsky.social. Things kick off Ocotber 9th! Register here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- *** NEW RESEARCH ALERT *** How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers? [THREAD]
- Department of Government Efficiency (in spending your taxpayer money)
- This article in the latest edition of the American Economic Review is purely theoretical, of course. No connection to reality… 🙄
- Cronyism at its finest. When every company has to cut an individual deal with the government, you don’t have institutions anymore. In an institutional system, the rules ensure everyone is treated the same according to fair principles. This is not the case anymore in America.
- If we knew the truth, we’d be excited and united about immigration. Learn why in this TED conversation between Sonia Shah, Whitney Pennington Rodgers, and me. We need immigration to remain innovative—biologically, economically, culturally, and in every possible way. www.ted.com/talks/sonia_...
- Important work! Thank you for doing this research.
- Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵 New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social! Piece: immresearch.org/publications... 1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls Majority arrested have no criminal conviction
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- Excellent visualization of how much we depend on immigrant workers for our food. Take a moment to internalize the numbers in this article. With aggressive deportations + sky-high tariffs, get ready to pay a lot more for what you eat!
- The secretary of agriculture has suggested people on Medicaid can replace deported farmworkers. This is simply not true. I appreciated the chance to be on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social discuss this with @velshi.com & @julierovner.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz8K...
- 🤦♂️ There’s a phrase in Spanish that perfectly captures the feeling of watching this: “vergüenza ajena.” It loosely translates as feeling embarrassed for someone else—in this case, for the United States of America.
- During his lunch with African leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump complimented the president of Liberia on his English-speaking skills. President Joseph Boakai politely laughed, but avoided mentioning that English is the official language of Liberia. wapo.st/4ePJZb6
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- I don't agree with the administration's current approach to immigration enforcement, but this is not the way.
- ⚽ With major soccer competitions lik the Club World Cup, Womens Euros, and Gold Cup lighting up our screens, it's a good time to reshare this paper What happens when soccer (football) clubs hire and field foreign players? A thread...
- A few weeks ago I met the man in the middle of this photo, one of the few remaining Japanese Americans interned during WWII. His family was forced from California and sent to a camp thousands of miles away when he was a child. A new paper shows the economic damage from tragedies like this one.
- Posting something beautiful because we all need it.
