Hi, thank you so much for being out here today. Onthis beautiful saturday. My name is emily, im a manager at politics and prose and on behalf of the staff, welcome. Of view boring housekeeping notes, if you can silence your cell phones so we dont get her interrupted with feeding it would be great. Usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and we take questions. We are filming so i hope you all have questions that you use the microphones and get up and asked them as opposed to shouting them from the audience because that we dont want to ask the question in the recording so if you could think of questions and asked him there that would be great. Lastly we have a few more events today so sometimes the few of you who are familiar know we fold up the chairs. Dont fold up chairs today, thank you. And if you enjoy this event we do about 500 other author events a year so sign up my email, check out the events calendar. We have november and december out and we just opened a store at the worst
Now, more from the Cato Institute conference on immigration economics. Two sociological researchers discuss the findings of their decades long work tracking immigration and emgrags patterns, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Thank you so much, everyone. My name is phillip. Im the managing director for immigration at the center for american progress, im excited to be moderating this discussion with two top notch scholars of unauthorized migration. The question of Border Security, whether we do or do not have a secure border and how we measure what Border Security would mean, sits at the heart of every debate over immigration policy in this country. Its what well be talking about today with two different perspectives. Consider this the u. S. Now employ employs we spend more each year on Immigration Enforcement than on all other federal Law Enforcement combined. Apprehensions at the southern border, a statistic that scholars use for people trying to cross the border without status, those ap
A lot of discussion of studies from other countries. A few housekeeping announcements, there will be a 15 to 20 minute break. Theres water available on the Winter Garden on the first floor. Restrooms are located on this level. I think you turn left when you go to the bottom of the stairs, the restrooms will be down there. Thank you. Now, more from the Cato Institute conference on immigration economics. Two sociological researchers discuss the findings of their decades long work tracking immigration and emgrags patterns, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Thank you so much, everyone. My name is phillip. Im the managing director for immigration at the center for american progress, im excited to be moderating this discussion with two top notch scholars of unauthorized migration. The question of Border Security, whether we do or do not have a secure border and how we measure what Border Security would mean, sits at the heart of every debate over immigration policy in this country. Its what we
Now joining us on booktv is robert george, professor of Juris Prudence here at princeton, university. Way want to talk to him about his recent book conscience and its enemies confronting the dog mas of liberal secularism. Dr. George oh, do you you define liberal secular system. Guest a view about human detonation and dignity that competes with other views some secular but not liberal, some religious. Its a view that is very common in places like the one where we are right now university communities. I would venture to say its the predominant view in the elite sector our our culture and prominent in europe, which has become a very secular society. It embraces ideas about liberty and the personality, about the nature of human beings about ethics that are distinctive in our own time. Its associated with socially liberal views about matters of sexuality, abortion life and death issues. Generally identity issues. Kind of the spectrum of socalled hot button morally charged issues in our own
Forward. In thinking about transgender issues and familiarity with transgender individuals theres a similar pattern to what one would have observed 20 years ago for gay men or lesbians that not many people know a transgender individual, are familiar with the issues or familiar with the concerns of transgender commitment. Therefore, it seems a little strange and alien to them. And it may make people uncomfortable. One of the big shifts that weve seen thats occurred in attitudes about lesbians and gay men has resulted in part because of Popular Culture depictions of gay men and lesbians. And still when transgender people are depicted in the mass media in Popular Culture often times theyre relatively tragic figures or problem, problem individuals that dont have positive sort of presentations of trans individuals which makes it even more difficult for people to sort of identify with and feel comfortable about trans individuals. So until popular representations change or at least opportunit