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THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION National Issues Forum Immigration: New Policy Challenges BROOKINGS THE WASHINGTOND.C. B INSTITUTION Program Book Monday, December 8, 1997 The Falk Auditorium 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Brookings Institution National Issues Forum IMMIGRATION: NEW POLICY CHALLENGES Monday, December 8, 1997 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM AGENDA 8:15 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:30 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks The Honorable Lawrence Korb, Director, Center for Public Policy Education, Brookings Institution The Honorable Michael Armacost, President, Brookings Institution 8:45 - 9:30AM Keynote Address: Immigration and Naturalization: The Key Upcoming Policy Issues The Honorable Doris Meissner, Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service 9:30 - 10:30 AM Panel Session I: Immigration and Naturalization Issues: The Views From Congress: Moderator: Thomas Mann, Director of Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution The Honorable Lamar Smith (R-TX); Chairman, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims The Honorable Melvin Watt (D-NC); Ranking Minority Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims "Reflections on the First Year as the Ranking Member" 10:30 - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 - 1:00 PM Panel Session II: Moderator: Lawrence Korb, Director, Center for Public Policy Education, Brookings Institution Highlights of the Commission on Immigration Reform and National Research Council Reports: Susan Martin, Executive Director of Staff, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform The Assimiliation and "Americanization" of Immigrants: Peter Skerry, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College; "Do We Really Want Immigrants to Assimilate?" Noah Pickus, Assistant Professor, Duke University; "Making Naturalization Matter" Frank Sharry, Executive Director, National Immigration Forum; "Forging Unity out of Diversity" Dan Stein, Executive Director, Federation for American Immigration Reform; "Oaths, Allegiance and the Loss of Our Common Understanding" 1:00 PM Adjournment The Brookings Institution National Issues Forum Immigration: New Policy Challenges Monday, December 8, 1997 BIOGRAPHIES MICHAEL H. ARMACOST Michael H. Armacost has held the position of president of the Brookings Institution since October 1995. From 1993-1995 he was distinguished senior fellow and visiting professor at Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center, and was the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1989-1993. During his twenty-four years in government, he also served as U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, under secretary of state for political affairs, and has held senior policy responsibilities in the National Security Council and the Department of Defense. He has taught and lectured at Pomona College, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and International Christian University. He is the author of three books. His third, an analysis of Japan and the United States in the post cold-war world, was published in January 1996. He is the recipient of the President's Distinguished Service Award, the Defense Department's Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Armacost is a trustee of Carlton College; a director of AFLAC, Applied Materials, Cargill, and TRW; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is a graduate of Carleton College. He also attended Friedrich Wilhelms University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. LAWRENCE J. KORB Lawrence J. Korb is director of the Center for Public Policy Education and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. During his career Mr. Korb has been dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, vice president for corporate operations of the Raytheon Company, and resident director of Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. From early 1981 through late 1985, Mr. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense for manpower, reserve affairs, installations and logistics. His most recent book is American National Security: Policy and Process, with Joseph Jordan and William Taylor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). His op-ed pieces have appeared in all the nation's major newspapers, and he is a frequent guest on network news shows. Mr. Korb received his M.A. from St. John's University and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. THOMAS E. MANN Thomas E. Mann is director of the Governmental Studies Program and the W. Averell Harriman Senior Fellow in American Governance at the Brookings Institution. He has served as executive director of the American Political Science Association and as visiting fellow and co-director of the Congress Project at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). He has taught at several local universities and colleges, including Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and the University of Virginia. At the request of several members of Congress in 1991, Mr. Mann and Norman Ornstein of AEI provided an independent assessment of Congress and offered recommendations for improving its effectiveness. The three-part report, Renewing Congress, was published over the period extending from the fall of 1992 to spring of 1994. He has written numerous scholarly articles and books, including How Congress Shapes Health Policy; Unsafe at Any Margin; and Congress, the Press, and the Public. Mr. Mann has a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. SUSAN MARTIN Susan Martin is executive director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (CIR), a congressionally-mandated, bipartisan commission established to assess and make recommendations about U.S. immigration policy. Ms. Martin also serves as the U.S. National Coordinator for the Binational Study on Migration between Mexico and the United States. Prior to her current position Ms. Martin was the director of Policy Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group, and staff Director of the North American-European Dialogue on Migration and Refugee Issues. She also served as research director of the U.S. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, and taught at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Martin's writings include Refugee Women and numerous articles and monographs on immigration and refugee policy. Ms. Martin received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. DORIS MEISSNER Doris Meissner has been the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) since October 18, 1993. She had served as acting commissioner of the INS in 1981, then as executive associate commissioner until 1986, when she moved to the private sector to become a senior associate and director of the Immigration Policy Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ms. Meissner's career interest began with her selection as a White House Fellow serving as a special assistant to the attorney general in 1973 and 1974. Following that appointment, she remained at the U.S. Department of Justice to become, in succession, assistant director of the Office of Policy and Planning; executive director of the Cabinet Committee on Illegal Aliens; and deputy associate attorney general. Ms. Meissner has written or contributed to numerous reports and articles, testified on policy matters before Congressional committee hearings, and addressed professional meetings and academic forums on a wide variety of immigration issues. Ms. Meissner received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin. NOAH M.J. PICKUS Noah Pickus is an assistant professor in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Previously Mr. Pickus worked at the a. Philip Randolph Education Fund and the Urban Institute. His most recent publications include "Does Immigration Threaten Democracy? Rights, Restriction and the Meaning of Membership", in Democracy: The Challenges Ahead, Yossi Shain, ed., and "Hearken Not to the Unnatural Voice': Publius and the Artifice of Attachment", in Diversity and Citizenship: Rediscovering American Nationhood, Gary Jacobsohn and Susan Dunn, eds. Mr. Pickus is currently completing a book on immigration and citizenship from the Progressive era to the present and editing a collection of essays on the same subject. He recently organized the Duke Workshop on Citizenship which assembled scholars, public officials and practitioners. Mr. Pickus received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. FRANK SHARRY Frank Sharry is the executive director of the National Immigration Forum. The Forum is an imigration advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. It's mission is to extend and defend America's tradition as a nation of immigrants by encouraging generous immigration policies and fair treatment of immigrants in the U.S. He has held this position since 1990. PETER SKERRY Peter Skerry is an associate professor of political science and public policy at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. At Brookings he is doing research on the politics of the U.S. census and U.S. immigration policy. He has also been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and served as director of Washington programs for UCLA's Center for American Politics and Public Policy. He has also been a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was the Hartley Research Fellow at Brookings. He has published articles in The New Republic, Commentary, The Wilson Quarterly, National Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. His book, Maxican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (Harvard University Press), was awarded the Los Angeles Times book prize in 1993. Mr. Skerry holds a B.A. from Tufts University, master's degree in educational policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in political science. DAN STEIN Dan Stein is the executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). He is an attorney who has worked for nearly 15 years in the field of immigration law and law reform. He has been in his present position since January 1988. Prior to leading FAIR, Mr. Stein was the executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest litigation group which represented a variety of organizations in immigration and administrative law matters. Mr. Stein has also been in private law practice in real estate, federal agency litigation, criminal law and tax-exempt corporate law. Mr. Stein's interest in immigration began as a professional staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, where he studied U.S.-Mexico border issues and international crop substitution efforts. Mr. Stein is the author of many articles on immigration. He has also appeared on national television programs such as 60 Minutes, The Brokaw Report, This Week and the MacNeil/Lehrer Hour. He hosts a weekly live talk show on NET Political NewsTalk Network called, "Borderline". Mr. Stein is a graduate of Indiana University and of Catholic University School of Law LAMAR SMITH Lamar Smith is the republican U.S. representative from the 21st congressional district of Texas. He was first elected in 1986. In the 105th Congress, he chairs the Immigration and Law Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Smith was the author of the 1996 landmark illegal immigration reform law. He also serves on the Budget Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, Mr. Smith was commissioner of Bexar County and served in the Texas House of Representatives. He also worked as an attorney in private practice, was a business writer for the Christian Science Monitor and for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Yale University and the Southern Methodist University Law School. In August 1997, National Journal named him as one of the top 100 most influential people in Washington, D.C. MELVIN WATT Melvin "Mel" Watt is the democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina's twelfth district, first elected in 1992. He is ranking minority member of the Immigration Claims Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Watt also serves on the Banking and Financial Services Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, he was an attorney in private practice. He managed Harvey Gantt's campaigns for city council and mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as the U.S. Senate. Mr. Watt also served in the North Carolina State Senate. Mr. Watt is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he received his J.D. from Yale University where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He has received honorary degrees from North Carolina AT&T State University and Johnson C. Smith University. 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(Please circle as many as apply) Europe Federal Budget Latin America Asia Trade Issues The Media Science Energy Education Defense Health Care Space International Policy The Middle East DC Statehood Finance Leadership Transportation Telecommunications Congress Technology Economy Inside Washington Environment Other THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME; PLEASE RETURN TO ANY BROOKINGS STAFF MEMBER OR DROP OFF AT THE REGISTRATION TABLE. PN 3130 9/15/97 Dec. 8, 1997 FY93 340K applications force timenship FY96 1.3millim " FY97 1.6 million 11 4-x increase the applications in 5 yrs Last year, FOOK people became citizens Naturalization E Standardization 2 Quality Acclimating New Americans Enforcement ! Borders (control of legal & illegal entry) 2 Interior eirforement (not a policy consensus on what we do) * Admin. committed to workplace enforcement (employer evf.) X Congress is ambivalent on This INS focuses on Serious abuses (smuggling) 3 Remarals several ago-: 45K removals Last yr. 110k removals (famalprocedures) This yr 140 K removals Forus-in-orminals or- those w/outstanding orders of deportation Hit up against nexus bth domestic 12 foreig Policy Legislation Welfare Law + IRAIRA Politics of These are still very fluid Substantial changes to both Examples gareas where wants change : I provisions for mandatory detenting forbrad clarsef cases Elim admin discreting forExee. brand Unwakable Cb/c of blauket nature) 2 Departure management § 110 (U.S. w/better sense of who leaves the country) Broad-based deal w/land barder of Canada { Mexico that can't work. 3 3 Employer verification Just beginning pilot projects to test- whether employes are verfyr Smith request for 1,000 Bader Patrol agents (1996 law requires 1000 new 9 per year) No answer to whether Admin will ask for Problem w/. discontinuation of designated eu tities program (people coming to site to do forgerprint) (in Feb ) INS is putting into place mobile vaus (to be ableto read greas beyond cam muty distance H nursing etc homes Smith Cometry should know who is coming in, why and for how long Illegal immigrati crime assoc w/illegal mm 20% of fed Trinsances are A Lots involved in drug crimes 70% of illegal drugs come across Southern bords 2illegals use use public benefits used by illegals + jobs taken f) wages depresed does bluefits. by immigrants Wants Admin to make sure its budget contains 2090 more border patiolagents Improvements in departa-L need more but) Go after fraudulent does (sscards; birthcat) Employer sauetimes easter for employer to check. Most newcomers are comy for right rea sans Legal imm. refarm? ? Not where from, but where going Certain kinds of legal mmm cost jobs and depress wages 40% of all legal imm have fewskills educat / httle (economy w/stapnaut# y unskilled jobs; high # of lupt tech jobs) Publi Pubhi-benjits?) benefits ? want to discourage Need to do better w/family recurricat Protect high tech companies. Education threshhold? The numbers (fours). 1 millim/year is too high Mel Watt, 4 problem areas (inconsistent; ambivalent; dishmest) 1) The more we devolve to the states, the more immigration becomes a state issue. (disparate burdens on state {} local govt.s) 2 Due process (crime control & social justice.) Welfare Refarm H Anti etc Act Society w/less less inclinate to provide due paren for citingers w / egal & illegal 1m migreets 3 Class & Race and impact on immigrat policies Immigration policy fams wealthy. (Investor visa category - 10,000) only use a few hundred agean "Meanstesting" forsponsors (forfamily H 1B (hiskly schools killed-emp 65K) 245(i) - ho extension family VISAS businesses get extense done. Farm workers. Mexicaus V. Candadrairs (4th on source constries) for illegals Visa overstays are 50% of illegals + are mostly Europeans and non-Hirpanics Targetting Visa waiver applies to Ewo or Australians Refugee ad missims (Smaller 7,000 allocation set aside for Africaus) Haitians Callfor a Lottery whin programs (categories w/out regard to ethnicity) g Possible to control illegal imm w/ont controll 'I demand ? ( questwakes.) Smith's-concen- is that 7 will stay, (not incertive) that employes are setting up an Negative impact of immigrants on Black Americans (cant bit Blacks against immigrants) Session II Susan Martin (CIR) Legal immigration is- in the national. interest Businemes-benefit the most fm immigration Cities benefit Losers? lower economic up (particularly the next to most reaut immigrant group States aties-w/- large concentrations of weskilled immigiants Cibamigrants use less senies, but ) contribute < taxes b/c g low wages (pubhischools for example) Renewed emphasis on "Americaningation" 1 * voluntary (to take andregations) help immigrants and nurselves Legal mutual & reciprocal Immigrants US hand have access to public benefits. Info packet for grants - honto activere - local info cleanighouses X 2 Education a. English acquisitis b. Shift models). away from educ. models (vansis four or From 3 Emphasize English & Ciricsfor aducts. 3 Citizenship Legal framework is O.K. May want to do abetter job implementing laws. Stein (FAIR) Dual nationality permitted since 1973 Mexico allows dual-nats mals to vote in local elections Leave belind eultural heritage ? in Mexico Frank Sharry Act of immigration is vem American (prozen of assimilation starts before They show up) Immigrants participate in labormanket @ higher rate trau native bans. Homeouneship - English lamp aequisite Optimism - Immigrants are disprop represent in receiving Corp Medal + Honor Assimilation is a 2-way street: Join civic & sorid K - - respect my culture Genius of America: diversity and write ans synthesized. Centerfor Immig. studies Noda V- Pickus shift to value of citizenship (comman to both sides of tredebate) Need to create a more meaningful test Naturalization as playing a role in Americanigat Test needs to be standardized (sametest; sameparsing Courses that prepare immigrants togo Through (when-conuses-were set-up. thispiren. of during a amnestyin the 1980s, in migrants flooded to Them ) Partnerships btam groups that Serve immigrants and those that support American values. (American Legion) Peterskerry We don't agree on what Americanijat means (Vagueness) - (we can't agree on what obligations to impose meach Ther-much las immigrants, Raciadimati of minigration Blacks w/adiff. a set of issues tran immigrants