Invite: Mon, June 10th - Immigration Reform: Bipartisanship's Improbable Poster Child

Submitted by Emma Buckhout on 6/3/13

Washington is broken, you may have heard, a victim of scorched-earth partisanship.  Congress can't get anything done because its members have abandoned the art of the compromise, opting instead for a zero-sum politics that incentivizes gridlock, lest the other side get any credit for getting things done.

And yet... this year the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight has advanced an ambitious comprehensive immigration reform bill, never something to rank high on anyone's list of low-hanging fruit to jumpstart comity between the parties. Almost as ambitious as the particulars of the bill recently voted out of the Senate Judiciary committee are the particulars that Democrats and Republicans each left out to make the package palatable to the other side.

Join us at New America as a prominent Republican and Democratic supporter of immigration reform come together to discuss this exceptional outbreak of bipartisanship and what it will take to keep it alive as immigration reform moves beyond the Senate and into the House, and onto most Americans' radar screen.

PARTICIPANTS

Tamar Jacoby
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA

Simon Rosenberg
President and Founder, NDN

Moderator
Andrés Martinez
Vice President and Editorial Director, New America Foundation

EVENT TIME AND LOCATION

Monday, June 10, 2013 - 12:15pm - 1:30pm
New America Foundation
1899 L Street NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
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