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01-03-2010 | Symposium: Breaking the Immigration Stalemate

The Allure of Blue Ribbon Taskforces and The Hard Reality of Immigration Grand Bargains

Author: Stanley A. Renshon

Published in: Society | Issue 2/2010

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High status “blue-ribbon” taskforces combine prestige organizations and notable participants to help solve complex problems like immigration reform. Drawing on diverse views one of the ways they can reach common ground is through “grand bargains,” in which each side gives up contested ground to reach a solution through which they gain a major goal. In immigration reform proposals, this takes the form of trading legalization for enforcement. Yet, a closer look at this grand bargain suggestions that the give and take is asymmetric, because the benefits of legalization are immediate and the capacity for effective enforcement many years away. The Brookings-Duke Immigration Report suggests a possible way around this imbalance.

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Title: The Allure of Blue Ribbon Taskforces and The Hard Reality of Immigration Grand Bargains
Author: Stanley A. Renshon
Publication date: 01-03-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Society / Issue 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-009-9286-6

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