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In this new Aspen Ideas format, all attendees gather each morning to kick off the day by exploring a current issue of deep complexity. For decades, American policy regarding those who reach our borders has been the subject of intense political disagreement, reflecting economic realities and cultural divides. What would a policy look like that meets both our labor and se...
Kirstjen Nielsen on Trump, Russia, and illegal immigration.
As the threat of terrorist attacks collides with Europe’s worst migration crisis since WWII, anti-migration sentiments are at an all-time high. With the world closing its doors, the number of migrants is only set to increase. Experts predict upwards of 500 million people will be uprooted as a result of climate change—almost half of them from Sub-Saharan Africa. Invariable...
This talk rethinks refugees as a potential economic benefit to the societies that host them, rather than simply passive victims of war and tyranny. Taking the audience on a research journey across continents, Alexander Betts, professor of forced migration and director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, shows how refugees’ skills, talents, and aspirations c...
In this episode, you’ll hear from the nation’s new White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly.
The crises continue to mount: Euroskepticism; crippling debt and high unemployment, ascendant nationalism and failures in integration, and homegrown terrorism—all compounded by the largest human migration on the continent since World War II. Headlines that sounded Europe’s dissolution just a few years ago seem only slightly hyperbolic today, on the heels of the Brexit refe...
President Trump’s sudden threat of US tariffs on Mexican imports escalates his immigration fight with Mexico, injecting potential chaos into economies on both sides of the border. Trump hopes tariffs will pressure Mexico into stepped up efforts to contain illegal border crossings, but how are such threats received in Mexico? Has Mexico in fact conceded to the “safe third...
With tariff threats, migration problems, and now, a mass shooting near the border, the US-Mexico relationship is strained.
The hard work of diplomacy, often mostly invisible, is arguably more important now than ever. In a shifting geopolitical landscape characterized by the emergence of Russia and China as significant rivals to the United States, new dangers threaten the American idea and an American-led world order. And yet, our diplomatic muscles have atrophied. Ambassador William Burns, pre...