Immigration reform is back on the American publicâ??s agenda, catapulted into the headlines with the passage of a controversial Arizona law that sent thousands of demonstrators into the streets across the country on May 1. Yet there is no legislation before Congress, and Democrats are floating only an outline for reform in the Senate. Where are these efforts heading, and where does immigration reform fit in American society? Reporter Pat Schneider of The Capital Times talks with Doris Meissner, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Bill Clinton, now a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Meissner, a Milwaukee native who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. She was in Madison recently to speak to the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations.
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