Part of the debate about immigration in the Senate right now is whether it offers amnesty to people currently here illegally. But would amnesty for simply coming here to work be a bad thing? We'll take your calls and comments on the question. Plus, Betty Rollin on the psychology of looking on the bright side, Cullen Murphy on the comparison between the United States and the Roman Empire, and listeners call in about merit-based immigration.
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Immigration: Workers and Business
Ana Avendaño, program director for AFL-CIO's Immigrant Worker, then Hector Figueroa, secretary/treasurer for Local 32BJ SEIU, then Steve Malanga, contributing editor at the City Journal and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, all discuss the immigration bill.
Open Phones: What's so bad about amnesty?
Debate is raging about whether the Word "amnesty" applies to the new immigration bill, but that assumes amnesty is a dirty word. Listeners call in to comment on the question "what's so bad about amnesty?"
Silver Linings
Betty Rollin, TV journalist and the author of the books First, You Cry, Last Wish, and her newest, Here's the Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps (Random House, 2007), discusses the upsides that can sometimes accompany adversity.
Here's the Bright Side is available ...
Here's the Bright Side is available ...
Empire: The U.S. vs. Ancient Rome
Cullen Murphy, editor at large at Vanity Fair, former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and author of Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), compares the Roman empire to the United States.
Are We Rome? is available for ...
Are We Rome? is available for ...
Open Phones: Are We Harvard?
Should the United States have merit based immigration? Listeners call in and tell us what they think.
Betty Rollin
Author Betty Rollin at the WNYC studios discussing her new book "Here's The Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum ...
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