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Jerry Kammer
Former Senior Research Fellow
Jerry Kammer, a nationally recognized journalist, is a former Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). He is the author of "Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump".
Prior to joining the Center in 2009, Mr. Kammer spent over 30 years as a journalist. He began his work in journalism in 1974 as a reporter with the Navajo Times. In 1986, Mr. Kammer became the Northern Mexico correspondent for the Arizona Republic, where his work was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Award for humanitarian journalism. As a member of the Republic's investigative team, he received both the National Headliner Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for his coverage of the national savings and loan scandal, whose central figure was Phoenix financier Charles Keating.
In 2002 Mr. Kammer joined the Washington bureau of the Copley News Service, specializing in immigration and US-Mexico relations. He received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the George Polk Award for his work in helping uncover the bribery scandal whose central figure was Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
Mr. Kammer holds a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame and a Masters in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He later studied at Harvard University as a Nieman Journalism Fellow.
Why Does Immigration Reform Legislation Fail?
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 35
Cancel Culture at NPR
'We declined to talk to them'
Losing Control
How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump
New Book Asks If the GOP Has a Future
Will the upcoming companion book on Democrats address mass immigration?
Jerry Kammer Discusses Democratic Immigration Platform
Originally Aired on February 7, 2020 by FOX News
Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow at the Center, discusses his upcoming book "A House Divided" covering the evolution of the Democratic immigration policy stance and current legislative debate.