Personal site of journalist, baker, and storyteller Tony Ganzer.
Stories about immigration and emigration, and the issues surrounding them.
Earlier this year we brought the story of a German couple living in Eastern Arizona, whose investor visa renewal was denied by the U-S.
CUT from story: .”…they told me nope you don’t get it because the outcome of the business is not enough.”
KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer visited Joerg and Beate Bohlig near Stuttgart, Germany to see how they’re fairing.
Continue reading “E2 Visa: Leutenbach Update”
Like many countries Germany is still trying to solidify its immigration policy. Part of the continuing debate rests in how to better integrate former guest workers who helped build up the country in the 1960s and 70s. The United States has considered a similar guest worker program, and some of the lessons learned by Germany may signal how the US goes about its immigration reforms.
(Editor’s Note: This story was written in Germany, but subsequently produced and edited in the U.S. It is a 12-minute profile of German and U.S. immigration policy, and past, focusing on guest worker programs. The audio provided is from Deutsche Welle Radio’s “Insight.”)
Continue reading “Transatlantic Immigration Reforms: Guest Workers”
KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer has been investigating the Guest Worker program instituted by Germany in the 1960s and 70s, in hopes of finding something the US could use in its own efforts to reform immigration policy. Germany is still coping with the effects of its program, and as Ganzer reports, some experts say the US may not have better luck if it rolls out its own guest worker program.
Continue reading “A Guest Worker Program that Works?”
As debates in the US on immigration reform and a potential guest worker program have stalled, KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer is looking at Germany’s guest worker past for a potential look at the United States’ future, including what we may here see in Arizona. In the 1960s and 70s large numbers of Turkish immigrants helped rebuild Germany in an “Economic Miracle” but nearly half a century later, the country and some of its immigrants and their children are having a hard time getting along.
Continue reading “The Guest Worker Identity Crisis”
Immigration is a hot-button issue in the Southwest, with an ever-present debate on how to manage border security and labor. But immigration affects many nations in many ways, with some situations all too closely mirroring that of the U.S. This morning we have the first in an occasional series from KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer who’s in Germany on an international journalist exchange. Tony will be looking at immigration and guest worker issues from perspectives on both sides of the Atlantic, and in this report, he tells how one Phoenix man’s past influenced his sometimes heated future.
Continue reading “Salvador Reza: Transatlantic Immigration Lessons”
In Arizona , the issue of brings to mind drop houses, smugglers, and deaths in the desert. But a German couple living in Eastern Arizona has experienced a different immigration story, which they call a “nightmare.” KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer reports.
Continue reading “E2 Visa: Stranded in Leutenbach”
Finding the effects of Arizona ’s Employer Sanctions law is not an easy task. The law went into place in January, and pulls the licenses of businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Some economists say it will be years before the dust clears from the subprime mortgage mess, and until then, hard numbers will be murky. As KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer reports, some observers are already predicting what could happen in the agricultural industry—one segment of the economy that has been hit especially hard by the immigration debate.
Continue reading “Immigration Predictions”