Pajamas Media BWIR with Heather Mac Donald and Steven Malanga

The immigration issue, or really, the illegal immigration issue took Sen. Hillary Clinton by surprise at last month's Democratic presidential debate. The week's guests of moderator Austin Bay on Pajamas Blog Week in Review are writers Heather Mac Donald and Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute.

Malanga and Mac Donald mention in the podcast that other presidential candidates, with the exception of Republican Tom Tancredo, also haven't fully realized the importance of this issues, as it has arisen not from Washington of the media centers, but from the ground up.

Along with Pajamas Media's Victor Davis Hanson, Malanga and Mac Donald are the authors of The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's and this new book is one that our presidential candidates should add to their Christmas wish list.

A friend-of-the-blog was kind enough to send me an earlier Heather Mac Donald book, The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society, it was a great gift and a great read.

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As always, the podcast is produced by Ed Driscoll.

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