Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Tim Kane: Does COVID-19 Trump Immigration?

A sensible approach to immigration policy that would balance America’s economic, security and humanitarian concerns.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsAugust 5, 2020
Area 45: Tim Kane: Does COVID-19 Trump Immigration?

With the fall election less than 90 days away, what happens to immigration reform should the White House and Congress change hands? Tim Kane, an economist and the Hoover Institution’s J.P. Conte Fellow in Immigration Studies, discusses a sensible approach to immigration policy that would balance America’s economic, security and humanitarian concerns – and why the topic isn’t the same flash point it was in the last presidential election.   

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Timothy Kane

Timothy Kane

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