Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Pressure has been building from business leaders and politicians on both sides of the aisle to do something to reform U.S. immigration policies.
But with legislation seemingly stalled in the house, one research scholar from NYU has a provocative idea: Allow the undocumented to move to the U.S., provided they move to Detroit or any other city in need of more people and an economic boost.
Think of it as an H1-B Visa but for states instead of companies.
Brandon Fuller is deputy director if NYU Stern School of Business's Urbanization Project. He joins the show to explain his idea, which was written about recently in the National Journal.