Debating Immigration

There was a good crowd at New York University Tuesday evening for the Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. These are full-dress formal disputations on topics of public interest, held roughly once a month through the season, very professionally organized, and broadcast on Bloomberg TV and NPR. Tuesday’s topic was Don’t give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, the reference being to Emma Lazarus’s poem on the Statue of Liberty.