Last updated on:
1/6/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Tamar Jacoby Biography
- Title:
- Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become US Citizens?"
- Reasoning:
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“But surely, once policymakers agree that it is unthinkable to deport these workers or allow them to remain here in legal limbo, it should be possible to agree on a compromise—one that signals the nation’s seriousness about enforcing its laws but does not preclude long-term residents from earning citizenship.”
Tamar Jacoby, “Immigration Nation,” Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2006
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with advanced degrees in fields relevant to immigration. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to immigration. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 1989-present
- Witness, “07/26/05, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary,” 2005
- U.S. Senate Confirmed, National Council on the Humanities, the National
- Endowment for the Humanities, 2004
- Senior Editor, Newsweek, 1987-1989
- Deputy Editor, The New York Times, 1981-1987
- Staff member, The New York Review of Books
- Instructor, race relations and american foreign policy, Yale University, the New School for Social Research, and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Member, Council of Foreign Relation
- Member, New York City Human Rights Coalition
- Education:
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- BA, Yale University, 1976
- Other:
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- None found
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