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July 17, 2009September 26, 2021

German Firms Poised to Profit in the U.S.

The United States Senate is now looking into a sweeping piece of energy legislation which narrowly passed through the House of Representatives last month. The bill proposes wide-scale changes to the U-S energy system, including among other things adding a cap and trade system on carbon emissions, and allotting funds for major investment in clean technologies. But as the U-S tries to position itself in the renewable energy market, it may find fierce competition from German companies already setting up shop state-side. This is especially true in one of the sunniest states, Arizona . Tony Ganzer reports.

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October 18, 2008September 26, 2021

Transatlantic Immigration Reforms: Guest Workers

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.”)

October 2, 2008November 10, 2019

A Guest Worker Program that Works?

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.

September 5, 2008November 10, 2019

The Guest Worker Identity Crisis

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.

September 5, 2008September 26, 2021

A Wild West-Inspired Germany

Arizona’s sights and cities attract a broad range of people each year, in large numbers. The National Park Service estimates the Grand Canyon alone welcomes almost 5 million visitors annually. Some of these people are Europeans, drawn to the Wild West image of America. KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer found a club of Arizona fans in Dresden, Germany where the Old West is spurring a new kind of thinking.

August 8, 2008September 26, 2021

Salvador Reza: Transatlantic Immigration Lessons

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.