Breaking the Immigration Stalemate
Galston, William; Pickus, Noah; Skerry, Peter et al.
Report from the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, October 2009, online edition, 36p (PDF)
"Immigration is a daunting issue even in normal times. And these are hardly normal times. The recent financial and economic crisis has exacerbated previously high levels of distrust between Americans and their leaders. Immigration policy has both contributed to that distrust and suffered from it. Confounding the task facing policy-makers is the way immigration pervades so many aspects of American society and implicates so many other policy areas, including labor markets, education, and health care. The hard policy questions here are consequently even harder to address. For the same reason, it is all the more critical that we do so. The members of the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable focused on a few critical parts of this hellishly complicated policy domain."
William Galston is Senior Fellow and Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution. Noah Pickus is Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University. Peter Skerry is Professor of Political Science, Boston College.
Go to the
report at:
http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/immigration/BreakingtheImmigrationStalemate.pdf
E9/05-09, Posted December 22, 2009
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