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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”
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.
Continue reading “A Wild West-Inspired Germany”
Earlier this year KJZZ brought you a report on an airline pilot training school in Goodyear, where students with Germany’s airline Lufthansa earn their wings,
(Luft_Promo) Schreiber: “That’s a big step for me right now, just I’m very excited now, and I can’t wait to fly solo.”
After 8 months in the Valley, students head back to Germany to complete their training and move closer to becoming airline pilots. KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer caught up with some of the students who have returned Europe, and brings this report from Bremen.
Continue reading “UPDATE: Germans Take Flight”
In Western Germany the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest US military medical facility outside the U.S. and gives care to both US and coalition forces, as well as their families. KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer visited Landstuhl, and brings the voices of three Arizonans in the military medical system, with very different stories.
Continue reading “Arizona’s Military Service: Landstuhl”
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”