Margaret Stock: "Immigration and National Security: Reframing the post-9/11 debate"

Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 8:16am

Margaret Stock is an attorney admitted in Alaska; a lieutenant colonel in the Military Police Corps, U.S. Army Reserve; and an associate professor assigned to the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Stock spoke at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at WWU on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, as part of the World Issues Forum.

After Sept. 11, 2001, the United States implemented sweeping changes in its immigration policies in an effort to prevent future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Some of these immigration policy changes have enhanced U.S. national security, while others, ironically, have undermined it. What key post-9/11 changes in immigration policy have been effective, and which ones have not? How should we gauge the effectiveness of national-security related immigration policies? What future changes to U.S. immigration policies will best serve U.S. national security?

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