Washington, D.C. (July 1, 2021) – Few individuals can boast immigration research experience spanning more than six decades. David North, a Senior Fellow at the Center, is one of them.
North was introduced to immigration policy during the Eisenhower administration, when he first encountered the migrant farmworker issue as an employee of the state of New Jersey. He expanded that involvement as a political appointee in the Kennedy administration Labor Department and has continued working on the issue through to present day.
In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, North discusses with Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and the podcast’s host, the changes he has seen in U.S. immigration policy over the decades. Both as a government official and a researcher, he has focused on refugees, H-2B and H-1B temporary worker programs, agriculture worker issues, and other parts of the immigration system, and has examined these programs' impact on American worker opportunities and wages. North also reflects on the changes he has seen in the two political parties' positions on immigration issues.
In his Closing Commentary, Krikorian weighs on the past week's visits to the border by Vice President Harris and former President Trump.
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