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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Obama picks scholars to develop immigration plan
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday announced several “policy working groups” of experts to help craft proposals on various topics.
On immigration, he picked Alexander Aleinikoff, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, a professor at Stanford Law School.
Here are excerpts of their bios, sent out by the Obama transition team:
Aleinikoff has been dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and executive vice president of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997. He served as general counsel and executive associate commissioner for programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004, he was a senior associate at the Migration Policy Institute. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law.
Cuellar is professor at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration, he served at Treasury as senior advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers.
See the list of Obama’s other chosen experts here.
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Many Americans worried immigration could cause terrorism
The German Marshall Fund released an interesting survey this week which showed that 35 percent of Europeans and 40 percent of Americans believe that more immigration leads to increased risk of terrorism.
The survey also showed that 52 percent of Europeans and 47 percent of Americans say that immigration will increase crime in their society.
However, a significant number of respondents also said that they are only concerned about illegal immigrants, not legal ones.
Read more here.