How Did We Get Here?: Doris Meissner

07/29/20 • 30 min

This week we hear about what happened around immigration in the 1990s, and how that’s affected today’s conversations.

Ali talks to Doris Meissner, a former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She’s currently a Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute.

This week we hear about what happened around immigration in the 1990s, and how that’s affected today’s conversations.

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