Friday Interview: Immigrant Assimilation

RALEIGH — Whether you think federal limits on immigration should be tight or loose, whether the government should do more or less to tackle illegal immigration, you’re likely to agree it’s a good thing when the immigrants who are here assimilate well into the surrounding society. That’s a topic of interest to Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of public policy studies and economics at Duke University and author of the Index of Immigrant Assimilation, released by the Manhattan Institute. He discussed the index with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.