Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses her trip to the southern border crossing at McAllen, Texas. King offered these comments on April 26, 2023.
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.
RALEIGH — Hiroshi Motomura, Kenan distinguished professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussed his immigration research earlier this year with the John Locke Foundation's Shaftesbury Society. Motomura also discussed immigration policy with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — North Carolina will take new steps in 2008 to find illegal immigrants jailed on felony and drunken driving charges. The General Assembly approved the measures during the closing days of the legislative session.
Some illegal immigrants may now pay resident tuition to attend public universities in California, thanks to legislation signed last year by Gov. Gray Davis and a vote this week by the University of California Board of Regents. In North Carolina, a bill before the Senate would create a commission to study doing the same thing here.
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