# A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration

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> Published: 2026-08-15 06:44:46+00:00

# A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration

That is the title of [my latest Free Press piece](https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-conservative-case-liberal-immigration-policy?r=10wj&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true), here is one excerpt:

Or look at the AI revolution, another area where America is leading the world and also using its AI models to exert soft power. Dario Amodei of Anthropic has an Italian father, neural-network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is originally from the U.K., and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who helped initially fund and found OpenAI, are from South Africa and Germany, respectively. OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba is from Poland. Musk and Thiel, of course, have other achievements to their credit as well. A significant portion of the employees at the major labs are Chinese. In

[one survey]of published AI researchers, 38 percent received their undergraduate education in China, and 72 percent of those are working in the U.S.

Recommended, do read the whole thing.