Sunday, March 15, 2009

Panelist debate immigration policy at UNT

Panelists debated whether this country needs a steady influx of immigrants. - - Donna Poisl

By PATRICK McGEE

DENTON — It wasn’t an evenly weighted debate Thursday night. Three of the four members of the panel discussing U.S. immigration policy believed that immigrants mostly benefit the nation.

But the lone advocate for tighter immigration controls, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, held his own.

Krikorian said the America of 2009 is a highly advanced society that does not need immigrants as badly as did the America of 100 years ago.

"Immigration policy has to be based on what’s good for your grandchildren, not what was good for your grandparents," Krikorian said.
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