Category: Immigration

Reviving transportation?

21 August, 2009 (09:40) | Cities, Homeless, Immigration, Innovations, New York City, Policy | No comments

What to do with the homeless?  Can we just wish them away?
 

Just say yes, and an anonymous person vanishes
 
A moral-philosophy question rattling through cyberspace asks, If you were offered $1,000,000 to make someone disappear, would you?
 

Happy to make the stain of homelessness vanish?
 
Actually, as documented in this New York Times article, the cost is much [...]

Dead-drop housing: Part 2, the surcharge

16 June, 2009 (09:18) | Immigration, Phoenix, Remittances, Slums, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 

The amazing race starts here
 
In yesterday’s post, we followed the Phoenix police (via a horrifying Wall Street Journal article), as they intercepted a human smuggling ring funneling illegal immigrants on the northbound flyway into the jobs of America.
 

Finding a way in is only the beginning
 
Essential to this value chain is conveniently [...]

Dead-drop housing: Part 1, the value chain

15 June, 2009 (10:20) | Immigration, Phoenix, Remittances, Slums, US News, Value Chain | No comments

Essential to the tradecraft of espionage is the dead drop.  When Person A has something to convey to Person B without making direct contact, or even necessarily knowing who Person B is, the parties can use a dead drop.  A pre-specified location – a tree bole, a fake rock on the front porch, a sneaker [...]