Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends On Getting It Right featuring Michele Wucker.
In Lockout author Michele Wucker argues that the growth of the American economy depends on immigrant labor. Ms. Wucker explains that while America usually reaps most of the benefits of globalization, many people, who she descibes as "the best and the brightest" throughout the world, no longer see the country as the only place to secure their financial futures. This event was hosted by the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop in Milwaukee.
Michele Wucker is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, where she is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project and director of the Program on Citizenship & Security. She specializes in immigration and assimilation, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis.
Bio
Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, where she is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project and director of the Program on Citizenship and Security. She specializes in immigration and assimilation, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis.
She is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, and of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola.
Yes, it is very clear why they are called "illegals." It is a code word for "spic." It represents, for the bigot, another chance to practice racism in the name of the law. The new segregation.
Whatever. This is just another wishy-washy liberal response to a subject that isn't nearly as complicated as they'd like to make it. Does everybody realize there's a reason they're called "illegals?" If you want to emmigrate, great. But do it the right (legal) way or face the consequences. Simple as that.
It's nice to hear a down-to-earth approach to this absurdly contentious issue. There's so much history to the immigration debate that all sides either cherry-pick or ignore altogether; I'm glad that's where Wucker starts her argument.