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Noah Pickus to Hold Online Office Hours on Immigration Policy

Professor Noah Pickus takes questions on a new Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable report on breaking the immigration policy stalemate

Immigration expert Noah Pickus will discuss the deadlocked immigration debate, how the Obama administration can advance reform and what that reform should look like, during a live webcast this Friday.

Duke's online office hours, hosted on the university's Ustream channel, will begin at noon EDT Friday, Oct. 9. Viewers can submit questions in advance or during the session by email to live@duke.edu, on the Duke University Live Ustream page on Facebook or via Twitter with the tag #dukelive.

Pickus is director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and associate research professor of public policy studies at Duke. He is the author of "True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism, Becoming American/America Becoming" and "Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century."

He also co-directs the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, a joint project of The Brookings Institution and the Kenan Institute for Ethics. It was created to address the implicit trade-offs and assumptions underlying the current immigration debate and generate policy recommendations that better reflect the wide range of views that Americans hold toward immigration.

The roundtable's report, "Breaking the Immigration Stalemate: From Deep Disagreements to Constructive Proposals," was released on Oct. 6.