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Should We Stop Taking The World's Huddled Masses?

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🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The U.S. is often referred to as a nation built by immigrants. But in recent years, the debate over the country's immigration laws has reached a boiling point. Do immigrants help the economy? Or do they take jobs away from Americans? Four experts recently went head to head on the issue in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The famous verse inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty says, give

0:36.2

me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. But do we really all agree

0:41.8

on what that means? Or if we flip it around and say, don't give us your tired, your poor,

0:46.4

your huddled masses, what does that mean? Well, that's what we are here to debate. This

0:51.0

is another debate from Intelligent Squared US. I'm John Donovan of ABC News. We're at

0:55.3

the Skurball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University and here on the stage

0:58.5

we have two teams of two members each to argue over this motion. Don't give us your tired,

1:04.2

your poor, your huddled masses. We have a Texas mayor, we have a man who has written

1:08.3

laws on immigration, we have a former congressman and a journalist who has written about immigration

1:13.4

who will be arguing this out and trying to change your minds because that's what this

1:16.7

is. This is a debate in which you, our live audience, are the judges. By the time the

1:22.1

debate has ended, you will have been asked to vote twice once before the debate and once

1:26.8

again afterwards. And the team that has changed the most minds will be declared our winners.

1:32.4

So on to round one. Round one, we have opening statements by each debater in turn. Speaking

1:38.8

first for this motion, Tom Tancredo, his former Colorado congressman who saw the 2008 Republican

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