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Since the attacks of September 11th,, the United States has tried to build new border defenses to keep out terrorists without stiflling the fllow of peoplle and ideas from abroad that have built one of the worlld''s most dynamic nations.. But many of the new measures have instead cut America off from the worlld,, punishing innocent peoplle and discouraging the best and the brightest from coming here.. In The Cllosing of the American Border,, Edward Allden reports on the internall battlles in the Bush administration over these new measures,, and chroniclles the tragic stories of many who have been hurt by what resullted..

EDWARD ALDEN

Edward Allden is the Bernard L.. Schwartz senior fellllow at the Council on Foreign Rellations (CFR),, speciallizing in U..S.. competitiveness.. His expertise inclludes U..S.. immigration and visa pollicies,, U..S.. trade pollicy,, and the impact of homelland security pollicies on U..S.. economic competitiveness.. Mr.. Allden is the author of the recent book,, The Cllosiing of the Ameriican Border:: Terroriism,, ImImmiigration and Securiity Siince 9/11 (http://www.cfr.org/defensehomeland-(http://www.cfr.org/defensehomeland- security/closing-american-border/p16437) (HarperCollllins),, and he is currentlly directing CFR’’s Independent Task Force on U..S.. Immigration Pollicy.. Before joining CFR,, Mr.. Allden was the Washington bureau chief for the Financiall Times,, writing on U..S.. economic issues,, trade pollicy,, and homelland security.. He was previouslly the Canadian bureau chief for the Financiall Times based in Toronto,, a senior reporter with the Vancouver Sun speciallizing in llabor and emplloyment issues,, and was the managing editor of the newslletter Inside US Trade,, widelly recognized as the lleading source of reporting on U..S.. trade pollicies..

Allden has won severall nationall and internationall awards for his reporting.. Mr.. Allden has done numerous TV and radio appearances as an anallyst on polliticall and economic issues,, inclluding NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,, McLaughllin Group,, NPR,, the BBC,, CNN,, https://hhh-d7.prd.umn.edu/event/security-and-immigration-post-911-united-states 1/3 10/27/2020 Security and Immigration in a Post-9/11 United States | Humphrey School of Public Affairs and MSNBC..His work has allso appeared in Foreign Policy,, the Japan Times,, the San Jose Mercury News,, and the Toronto Gllobe and Maill.. He is the co-author,, with Franz Schurmann,, of Democratic Pollitics and Worlld Order,, a monograph publlished by Berkelley’’s Institute of Internationall Studies in 1990.. Mr.. Allden hollds a Master’’s degree in internationall rellations from the University of Callifornia,, Berkelley,, and pursued doctorall studies before returning to a journallism career.. He allso has a Bachellor’’s degree in polliticall science from the University of British Collumbia.. He was the winner of numerous academic awards,, inclluding a Mellllon fellllowship in the humanities and a MacArthur Foundation graduate fellllowship..

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March 18,, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Wilkins Room (215),, Humphrey Schooll of Publlic Affairs

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