Gordon Hanson Interviewed on "These Days" on KPBS
The
07/09/2010
Maureen Cavanagh, host,
KPBS San Diego
This week the US Justice Department filed suit against Arizona's anti-immigration law known as SB 1070. The Federal government wants to stop the law from going into effect later this month.
Polls show that 60-to-70 percent of Americans support the Arizona law, which requires local police to check a suspect's legal status. And even among people who don't like the law, there is wide agreement that it grew out of frustration with the Federal Government's lack of a workable immigration policy.
But could it be that this frustration, this new law and even calls for immigration reform are aimed at a problem that is in the process of changing? There have been dramatic shifts within Mexico in the past 20 years that may themselves reduce the number of immigrants to the US and change the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
Read the interview transcript and listen to the segment at this link.
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