The Immigration Solution - Heather MacDonald, Victor Davis Hanson, Steven Malanga - on C-SPAN

[SergeiRachmaninov]

C-SPAN2 (Book TV) airing a Manhattan Institute immigration panel featuring conservative heavy hitters Heather MacDonald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga, coauthors of The Immigration Solution. Panel was taped on 10/29/07 and reairs on Sunday at 2 a.m. and at noon, ET. Program is one hour.

[backtothestreets]

I'd be interested in what the brainiacs are suggesting.

For US Citizens ready to end illegal immigration and restore government by & for the People, United in Purpose - The Citizens Response to Illegal Immigration (click to view this FR thread)

[SergeiRachmaninov]

I'd be interested in what the brainiacs are suggesting.

I only caught the tail end earlier this evening and plan to record it later. Heather MacDonald is known, I believe, for documenting the net economic drain of illegal immigrants.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Love your music, especially the 3rd Concerto.....

[backtothestreets]

I watched. Of the three, Heather MacDonald came the closest to my point of view.

[backtothestreets]

Well, did you watch? What do you think?

[SergeiRachmaninov]

I'm afraid that I didn't watch. I had planned to watch at noon but a friend, with whom I generally cycle on the weekends, arrived an hour earlier than expected and hustled me out the door before I could even setup to record it. Bummer.

I'd be pleased to hear any further observations that you have.

[backtothestreets]

Heather MacDonald came closest to reflecting my personal feelings on the issue of illegal immigration with a strong stance on enforcing existing laws coupled with deportations.

Victor Davis Hanson struck me as the least supportive of these measures in the question and answer segment by asserting we should do something to accommodate illegal immigrants here now.

Steven Malanga was making valid points about immigration in general, and the effect it has on economies worldwide, but his public speaking abilities are absolutely terrible, and and may have kept his points from being understood by viewers. His presentation was historical, and emphasized how our “Civil Rights” based immigration policy ran contrary the economic based immigration policies many nations have adopted. Nations with economic based immigration policy have immigrant effectively integrating into their society, culturally, politically, and personal incomes within 4-6 years. Under our present policy, the “Civil Rights” immigrants and their decedents are not expected to reach parity for 60 years.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

Hmmmm...I am sure that many here would be stressed to hear that VDH is soft on illegals, although I am not surprised. I think he was raised around some hard-working, agricultural migrants and has a particular respect for them.

Heather MacDonald is one of our intellectual pit bulls, IMO. She is very solid on her facts -- scholarly -- and fearless.

[backtothestreets]

VDH resides about 20 miles south of me. He is a raisin farmer, and speaks much like our local Republican Congress critters that are also farmers, and likely benefiting from cheap labor illegal immigrants provide.

They can easily skirt the law by granting labor needs to contractors, and taking no responsibility themselves for the workers the contractors employ. That's how most local Republicans politicians keep the issue from affecting their "conservative" persona.