Host Chris Murray's special guest is Lora Ries (“Reese”) is Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security, at The Heritage Foundation. She has over 23 years’ experience in the immigration and homeland security arena. Mrs. Ries twice worked at the Department of Homeland Security on management and immigration policy and operations issues. She also worked in the private sector as a homeland security industry strategist and in government relations. She previously worked in the legislative branch as Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary
Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, and started her career at the
Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a law degree at
Valparaiso University in Indiana.