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  • Losing Control

  • How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash that Elected Trump
  • By: Jerry Kammer
  • Narrated by: Paul Stefano, Jerry Kammer
  • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Losing Control

By: Jerry Kammer
Narrated by: Paul Stefano, Jerry Kammer
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Follow Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jerry Kammer as he tells the story of the federal government’s failure to control illegal immigration as Congress promised in 1986, when it enacted a historic compromise reform that also provided amnesty to nearly three million unauthorized immigrants.

Kammer argues that this was one of the most consequential failures in American history because it led to the proliferation of illegal immigration, which produced a backlash that eventually led to the election of Donald Trump.

Losing Control is a vivid history of the past half century of immigration politics and policy. It is also a dramatic ground-level account of how the story took shape. Kammer describes the economic and cultural forces that both pushed millions of migrants from home communities in Latin America and pulled them northward to the US.

He shows how the backlash gradually emerged from the frustrations of American workers and communities who felt overwhelmed by the influx and betrayed by their government.

Kammer also explains the Democrats abandonment of their historic commitment to control illegal immigration. And he details how Republicans placated corporate interests by allowing workplace controls to fail. Meanwhile, both parties sought to appease the public by spending billions on border security. Finally, he suggests new reforms that would honor our dual legacy as a country of immigrants and a country of laws.

©2020 The Center for Immigration Studies (P)2020 The Center for Immigration Studies
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A timely commentary

Though I lean left on social issues, Kammer's account of immigration shows how partisanship on the left has made balanced debate on immigration almost impossible. The dogmatic defenders of open borders refuse to acknowledge the economic cost of such a policy for low-wage native workers, routinely framing the issue as one of racism. By discounting the real costs born by native workers, and by smearing those who would speak for native-workers' economic interests, the immigration left has exacerbated polarization and muddied the water.

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Important story, impressively told

Concise, well researched, and convincing presentation of an important issue that is often clouded by hysteria and misunderstanding about.

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