Charles Kamasaki is former executive vice president at UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza), the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. He also is a fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and has written a book about immigration policy called Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die. Mr. Kamasaki is currently a Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar at Cornell Law School.
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Event Overview
It’s been over 30 years since Congress enacted the most recent set of comprehensive immigration reforms: the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Immigration Act of 1990. These bipartisan yet hotly contested bills passed only after a debate spanning five presidential administrations, eight congressional sessions, and painful compromises by all parties. Even then, both bills died on the House floor before being resurrected at the 11th hour.
Can lessons learned during the last round of reform be applied to future debates? Charles Kamasaki, author of “Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” (Mandel Vilar Press, 2019), thinks so. The book provides a history of how the 1980s-era reforms were enacted along with a summary of developments since then. It concludes with seven lessons that advocates and lawmakers should consider in advancing future immigration reform.
Join us for this discussion with Mr. Kamasaki, Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr, and Wall Street Journal immigration reporter Michelle Hackman.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Migration: A Global Grand Challenge
Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die (book link)
Can lessons learned during the last round of reform be applied to future debates? Charles Kamasaki, author of “Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” (Mandel Vilar Press, 2019), thinks so. The book provides a history of how the 1980s-era reforms were enacted along with a summary of developments since then. It concludes with seven lessons that advocates and lawmakers should consider in advancing future immigration reform.
Join us for this discussion with Mr. Kamasaki, Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr, and Wall Street Journal immigration reporter Michelle Hackman.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Migration: A Global Grand Challenge
Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die (book link)
What You'll Learn
- How challenging the enactment of immigration reform has been over the past 75 years and why
- Recent inflection points where immigration reform hung in the balance and how both conservatives and progressives contributed to its failure
- Which “new” policy innovations have the potential to advance progressive reform
- How pro-immigrant advocates should approach the question of compromise and why they must
Speakers
Charles Kamasaki
Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar
Cornell Law School
Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar, Cornell Law School; Former Executive Vice President, UnidosUS; Fellow, Migration Policy Institute
Michelle Hackman
Immigration Reporter
The Wall Street Journal
Immigration reporter, Wall Street Journal
Michelle Hackman is a reporter in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, where she writes about immigration issues. Ms. Hackman has covered everything from border policy to visa backlogs, Afghan refugees, and the impact of immigration on business and the economy. She is the 2017
winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for outstanding reporting on Congress and spent a summer in Germany as a 2018 Arthur Burns Fellow. A daughter of Persian-Jewish immigrants, Ms. Hackman grew up in New York and graduated from Yale University in 2015.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
Charles Kamasaki
Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar
Cornell Law School
Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar, Cornell Law School; Former Executive Vice President, UnidosUS; Fellow, Migration Policy Institute
Charles Kamasaki is former executive vice president at UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza), the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. He also is a fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and has written a book about immigration policy called Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die. Mr. Kamasaki is currently a Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholar at Cornell Law School.
Michelle Hackman
Immigration Reporter
The Wall Street Journal
Immigration reporter, Wall Street Journal
Michelle Hackman is a reporter in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, where she writes about immigration issues. Ms. Hackman has covered everything from border policy to visa backlogs, Afghan refugees, and the impact of immigration on business and the economy. She is the 2017
winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for outstanding reporting on Congress and spent a summer in Germany as a 2018 Arthur Burns Fellow. A daughter of Persian-Jewish immigrants, Ms. Hackman grew up in New York and graduated from Yale University in 2015.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
Professor of Immigration Law Practice (Ret.)
Cornell Law School
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and co-author of “Immigration Law and Procedure,” the leading 21-volume treatise on U.S. immigration law. Before he retired, Professor Yale-Loehr also taught immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School and was of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York.
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2022-12-06 13:002022-12-06 14:00Immigration ReformAdd to CalendarIt’s been over 30 years since Congress enacted the most recent set of comprehensive immigration reforms: the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Immigration Act of 1990. These bipartisan yet hotly contested bills passed only after a debate spanning five presidential administrations, eight congressional sessions, and painful compromises by all parties. Even then, both bills died on the House floor before being resurrected at the 11th hour.
Can lessons learned during the last round of reform be applied to future debates? Charles Kamasaki, author of “Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” (Mandel Vilar Press, 2019), thinks so. The book provides a history of how the 1980s-era reforms were enacted along with a summary of developments since then. It concludes with seven lessons that advocates and lawmakers should consider in advancing future immigration reform.
Join us for this discussion with Mr. Kamasaki, Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr, and Wall Street Journal immigration reporter Michelle Hackman.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Migration: A Global Grand Challenge
Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die (book link)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K120622/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Can lessons learned during the last round of reform be applied to future debates? Charles Kamasaki, author of “Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” (Mandel Vilar Press, 2019), thinks so. The book provides a history of how the 1980s-era reforms were enacted along with a summary of developments since then. It concludes with seven lessons that advocates and lawmakers should consider in advancing future immigration reform.
Join us for this discussion with Mr. Kamasaki, Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr, and Wall Street Journal immigration reporter Michelle Hackman.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Migration: A Global Grand Challenge
Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die (book link)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K120622/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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