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As President Obama pursues executive action to reshape America's immigration system, Hudson Institute will host a symposium of competing views on immigration reform and its compatibility with America’s founding principles, a free market economy, and the evolving needs of modern America.
On Thursday, December 11th, Hudson Institute's John Fonte joined Michael Barone of the American Enterprise Institute, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, Andrew C. McCarthy of the National Review Institute, Alex Nowrasteh of Cato Institute, and George F. Will of the Washington Post to discuss the many facets of immigration reform.
This conference marks the publication of the latest Encounter Broadside," "Open Immigration: Yea & Nay by Alex Nowrasteh and Mark Krikorian, and is jointly sponsored by Encounter Books, the Center for Immigration Studies, and Hudson Institute.
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