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The Eights | The Immigration Debate in 1988
Doris Meissner, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), discusses how the Reagan administration shaped immigration in the year 1988.
@MigrationPolicy's Doris Meissner says the '86 law established the principle for the first time - that employers played a role & needed to be responsible...and part of the solution on immigration.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 30, 2018"It would be very difficult to hear a Republican today talk about immigration the way President Reagan did," says Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. More about that and why that's the case, after the break.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 30, 2018