World Affairs Conversations

Immigration: Complex, confusing, complicated, controversial!

World Affairs Conversations

Show Notes

Immigration professional Gil Jacobs discusses current immigration issues--Afghanistan and Haitian refugees--in the light of US policy, politics, and the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

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