The Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, a joint project of The Brookings Institution and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, was created to surface and address the implicit trade-offs and assumptions underlying the current immigration debate and generate policy recommendations that better reflect the wide range of views that Americans hold toward immigration.

The report, “Breaking the Immigration Stalemate: From Deep Disagreements to Constructive Proposals,” reflects the collaborative effort of this unique group–including think tank analysts, political and policy entrepreneurs, community leaders, former government officials, and academics from various disciplines–and is the product of their deliberations.


Read the full report (pdf)
Read the full report (Spanish) (pdf)
Read the Executive Summary (Word doc)
Read the op-ed by Roundtable conveners William Galston, Noah Pickus, and Peter Skerry


Multimedia:
Download the launch event audio.
Watch launch event video.


Media:
Washington Post
National Review Online
The New Republic
The Washington Times
El Universal
Roll Call (op-ed by Galston, Pickus, and Skerry)
The Herald Sun (1) and (2)
Progressive Policy Institute blog
Immigration Solutions blog
Washington Technology
Immigration: It’s Our Community blog
The Immigration Policy Center’s “Immigration Impact” blog
The American Enterprise Institute’s “Enterprise”blog
National Immigration Forum’s “ImmPolitic” blog
The Dan Stein Report
Boston College Chronicle
South Coast Today
Americans for Legal Immigration
E Pluribus Unum/One From Many blog
Boston College Office of News and Public Affairs
RealClearPolitics.com

Events:
October 6, 2009
Report Launch
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

October 23, 2009
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC

November 4, 2009
4:00 pm
Boston College
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List of Roundtable Participants:
Gary Burtless
Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution

Francis Fukuyama
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

William Galston*
Governance Studies Program, The Brookings Institution

James Gimpel
Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Jennifer Hunt
Department of Economics, McGill University

Howard Husock
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Christopher Jencks
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Robert Leiken
Immigration and National Security Program, The Nixon Center

Will Marshall
Progressive Policy Institute

Ruth Milkman
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Noah Pickus*
The Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Juan Rangel
United Neighborhood Organization (UNO)

Daryl Michael Scott
Department of History, Howard University

Christine Sierra
Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico

Audrey Singer
Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution

Peter Skerry*
Department of Political Science, Boston College

Michael Teitelbaum
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Stephan Thernstrom
Department of History, Harvard University

Johnny N. Williams
Immigration and Naturalization Service (Retired)

Michele Wucker
World Policy Institute

*Convener