Thread: Columbia University professor focuses on immigration, workfo

Appears this professor is also a member of the CFR:
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... coatsworth

Columbia University professor focuses on immigration, workforce
By Kelly Harbaugh
Publication Date: 10/02/07
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A professor who recently moderated an event at Columbia University with the President of Iran came to Purdue Monday to speak about immigration.

As the subject of many headlines after Columbia hosted Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, professor John Coatsworth addressed on Monday afternoon what happened at that event and did not discuss it further at his lecture Monday night.

"Ahmadinejad gave a fascinating talk," Coatsworth said. "It was a pretty interesting event and I was delighted by the news coverage."

But Coatsworth, a professor of history at Harvard, came to Purdue to speak specifically about immigration and U.S.-Latin American relations. His lecture centered around the "three related phenomena crucial to understanding the Americas: inequality, intervention and immigration."

Social and economic inequality in the Americas and U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs are responsible in large part for the immigration challenge the United States has today, Coatsworth said.

The current "topic of considerable debate" among American politicians is illegal immigration, and Coatsworth addressed the issues surrounding the subject.

"There aren't other people who would take those jobs (that immigrants have), especially when the jobs often pay less than minimum wage," he said. "Immigrants are a huge asset to our economy."

Every year, there are about 300,000 illegal immigrants coming into the country. But, Coatsworth said, with an American labor force of about 145 million men and women, the impact those immigrants have on the U.S. work force is virtually zero.

"The unemployment rate for U.S. citizens in cities with many undocumented workers is no higher than the unemployment rate in cities with less undocumented workers," he said.

But immigration and border control are still central issues in the American political debate, and ideas for a solution are widely contested on all sides of the political spectrum. Coatsworth said something needs to be done to change the immigration policies in the U.S.

"More Mexicans die in four months crossing the border than the total number of East Germans who died crossing the Berlin Wall in its 30 years."

Coatsworth suggested some "coherent alternatives" to solve the immigration-related problems in America, which include embracing the idea of a free flow of people across borders and enacting globalization.

Attending the lecture was Alejandro Gurdi�n, a senior in the School of Industrial Engineering, who was interested in hearing what Coatsworth had to say about free trade.

"I have to vote for the free trade agreement with the U.S. on Sunday when I go back to Costa Rica this weekend," Gurdi�n said. "He supported my stance that it's necessary for developed countries to establish free trade."

http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=a ... ry_id=7535

How much of our tax money has La Raza bribed this fool with?