Members of World Affairs i want to welcome the viewers from cspan and members of World Affairs councils from across the country. I think you are going to especially enjoy todays conversation with Jia Lynn Yang, the author of a new book, a mighty and irresistible tide, the epic struggle over American Immigration. The nation continues to be a nation that welcomes immigrants on one hand and then turns some away dependent on the shifting political mode. Today is laura collins, director of the Bush Institute Economic Growth initiative based here in dallas at the george w. Bush institute. Todays program is sponsored by Paige Hendricks of public relations. I hope you will purchase a copy of jias book. You can purchase a book that interrabankbooks. Com and you can get a 10 discount if you type in the discount code. I hope you will support the bookstore. I want to tell you a little bit about Jia Lynn Yang, Deputy Editor at the new york times. She has been there about three years, joined in sept
Century. This discussion took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The war Affairs Council of dallasfort worth provided the video. Welcomed to have it the viewers from cspan and numbers of world Affairs Councils from across the country. I think you are going to especially enjoy todays conversation with jia lynn yang, e author of a new book, mighty and irresistible tide,. The nation continues to be a nation that welcomes immigrants on one hand and then turns some away dependent on the shifting political mode. Joining me in the composition today is laura collins, director of the Bush Institute Economic Growth initiative based here in dallas at the george w. Bush institute. Todays program is sponsored by Paige Hendrix of public relations. I hope you will purchase a copy of jias book. You can purchase a book that rabankbooks. Com and you can get a 10 discount if you type in the discount code. I hope you will support the bookstore. I want to tell you a little bit about jia lynn yan
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To the topic of opioid addiction and before we get to it i want to ask about what you wrote on your blog. You said theyre writing about heroin is another way about writing about america, who weut are and what we have become. Can you explain that . I began to occur to me as i write in the middle of the project and i began to wonder why it was that this problem was affecting appalachia and why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and indianapolis in places that did well over the last 2030 years. What was the common denominator. I began to understand that the common denominator was our own isolation and that you are writing about much bigger topics then Drug Trafficking. My background is as a Crime Reporter and im wrote a book about Drug Trafficking from mexico and marketing from a supermarket and thats part of the story but i think beyond that it gets into who we have become. We become isolated, fragmented and weve done enormous amounts to destroy community in this country. The dream
In. Good morning i president dan cero the United Council the director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative had the piece published in the National Review this morning that captures the gravity of what we will be talking about today with the headline summed up the the following way. Thats democracy heads over a cliff where is the International Response . So it has been more than 100 days of ongoing opposition protest with more than 100 killed and thousands injured with 176 many basic food supply and what food can be distributed. Blast your infant mortality shot up 30 for said reaching levels of the poorest subsaharan african nations but i cannot tell you people who got familiar with venezuela understand that. The largest part of venezuelans and it goes on. To say alternately this is at a time with the International Community that yet has not happened so this enormously timely insignificant event with that humanitarian crisis of venezuela as well as try to identify new ways to