Panel Video: 1965 Immigration Act 50 Years Later

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Panel Announcement: 1965 Immigration Act 50 Years Later

The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965

Panel Transcript: 1965 Immigration Act 50 Years Later

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015, at 9:30am

Location: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 529 14th St, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.

On the 50th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club focusing on the causes and consequences of the legislation, which is the foundation of today's immigration law. Panelists examined the sponsors' original expectations, a helpful exercise at a time when Congress debates making major changes to immigration law.


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Mark Krikorian's Introduction

 
 
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Statement by Jerry Kammer 

Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies and author of a new paper for the Center on the passage of the 1965 act. During more than 30 years as a journalist he worked at the Arizona Republic and the Copley News Service, and has won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for humanitarian journalism and the Pulitzer Prize.
 
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Statement by Peggy Orchowski 

Author of the new book The Law That Changed the Face of America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. She is Washington Bureau Chief of Hispanic Outlook magazine and author previously of Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria.
 
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Statement by Philip Martin 

Professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Davis, chair of the University of California's Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and author of Importing Poverty?: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America.
 
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Question and Answer Session 

 
 
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