Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th
Conversation. I think that in addition to the reports that my organization has done, several reports that npi has produced, reports that the Bipartisan Policy Center put out, here is what is true and undeniably true, that last year there were only 10,000 nonborder recent border crosser ee crossers, noncriminals deported. You can level 3 and a single misdemeanor is an illegitimate criteria for deportation. I agree. We should eliminate the lower end. To deny as i would argue that many members in the media and many of the immigration groups have done of the substantial and significant and undeniable changes that have gone on i am not telling you that 10,000 is an acceptable number. Its too many. Still too many. We got to do better than this. But what is clear its on my website. Its on their website. Its on five other organizations websites, is that the its the policy of the United States government today to not deport people from the interior of the country who do not have criminal record
Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna
I hope everyone is clear on that. Probljectsworking on on islam . No. Education reform. We have not ventured into any social stuff or into too much Foreign Policy type things, so nothing on islam currently. Any thoughts on why so many wealthy entrepreneurs are liberal . I do not know. In Silicon Valley, they kind of our commonlaw but i do not know if entrepreneurs are liberal. It seems like many businessmen to come cronies of government. You see many people make the thomas and is in turn where they enter as entrepreneurs and become political entrepreneurs. Uber. Ee that with h six months ago we were cheering them, but they have totally made the turn to go a political entrepreneur. After they go into these cities, they start to cut deals with local governments where they make regulations, and if they them,ford to adhere to you see a lot of these may starturs, they out one way, but they are in it for their business first and foremost. I do not fault them for, but i do not like using gove
Guest its great to be here. Host its not just the story of a life its the story of modern american history. Did you set out to tell the story in that context or did that develop as you found out more about the background insertion themes . Guest i covered it for quite a while when i was in chicago working for the Washington Post and recognized that Michelle Obama led a remarkable life and the trajectory is fascinating and i felt that it was worth telling a story where she is at the center of her own narrative. When i am barred from the project, i wanted to figure out where she was coming from. What were the origins and that meant getting into her Family History ended to chicago history and the history that she has lived. Host chicago into being a major player almost a character in her story. Host going back there and looking at her father what was it about her parents in particular that gave her the outlook . Guest many people would say that she would say im asking myself am i making a