The Center hosted a conversation with Loren Steffy about his new book with Stan Marek, Deconstructed: An Insider’s View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades. Immigrants have long been the source of America’s economic strength. Yet our immigration laws have been ill-defined and arbitrary, based largely on the fears of the moment and aimed at limiting particular groups of people.

Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and shows the ineffectiveness of America’s policies through the eyes of a man who has watched first-hand the immigration crisis unfold over the past 40 years.