Uzbek Americans Respond; the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program; Is the U.S. Betraying Its Core Values?; Republican Nicole Malliotakis for Mayor

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 2, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Abdullah Kwaja, the president of the Turkistanian American Association, and Sergey Kadinsky, an English editor at the The Bukharian Times, talk about the diverse Uzbek community in New York City, and respond to the attack that took place in lower Manhattan on Tuesday. 
  • Priscilla Alvarez, politics editor and writer at The Atlantic where she covers immigration, discusses the history and present state of the green-card lottery, which was attacked Wednesday by President Trump after it was revealed that the terrorist behind the New York attack was admitted through the program.
  • Sasha Polakow-Suransky, an Open Society Foundations fellow, discusses his new book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy (Nation Books, 2017). 
  • New York State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R) talks about her campaign to become the next mayor of New York. 

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