Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Constitution center sponsors teen video debate on immigration

This high school student debate on immigration reform brought up the same arguments that are in all the other debates. - - Donna Poisl

By Michael Matza, Inquirer Staff Writer

Alternating between giddiness and focused attention, a cross-section of American youth debated immigration reform yesterday in an innovative videoconference centered in Philadelphia and sponsored by the National Constitution Center.

Challenged by the prompt, "Should the United States reduce immigration?" the selected students from several high schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, New York, and California were linked via closed-circuit TV and watched one another on large, subdivided video monitors.
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