Thursday, October 17

1:30 PM Welcome
  John Raisian, Director, Hoover Institution
Introduction
  L.H. Gann - Current Crisis in Immigration and Refugees
1:45 PM Benefits and Costs of Immigrants in the United States
Moderator: Thomas Gale Moore
Panel: Frank D. Bean - Hispanic Experience
  Bill Ong Hing - Asian American Experience
  Philip Martin- Mexican Experience
  Julian Simon- Benefits of Immigrants
  Georges Vernez- The California Experience
3:45 PM Arguments for Limiting Immigration
Moderator: Annelise Anderson
Panel: Peter Brimelow - Case for Limiting Immigration
  Peter Skerry - "Immigrants, Bureaucracies, and Life
  Norman Matloff - Comments
 
4:45 PM Sessions Close



Friday, October 18

8:30 AM Overview of Federal Immigration Laws and Policies
Moderator: Edward Lazear
Panel: Stuart Anderson- Immigration in the High Tech Industry
  Michael Fix- Immigrant vs. Immigration Policy
  Steve Legomsky- Immigration and the Rise and Decline of American Cities
  Jeffrey Passel- Undocumented Immigrants
10:15 PM Costs of Immigration
Moderator: Kenneth Judd
Panel: Roy Beck- The High Cost of Cheap Foreign Labor
  George Borjas- Welfare Costs
  Thomas MaCurdy- Welfare
  Harry Pachon- Costs in California
10:15 PM Silicon Valley and the Immigration Debate
Moderator: Nicholas Imparato
Presenter: Joseph Costello- Technology, Immigration, and Global Leadership
Comments: Dado Banatao
  Norman Matloff
  Ronald Unz
  Phil White
 
3:05 PM Conference concludes

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Monday, October 27, 2025
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future"
The Hoover History Lab invites you to "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future", a book talk with the author, Dan Wang, on Monday, October 27… Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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What Is The Alliance For Civics In The Academy?
The Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosts What is the Alliance for Civics in the Academy? with Josiah Ober, Mary Clark, Jenna Storey, Peter Levine… Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, The Middle East, And America
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