Immigration remains one of the hot-button issues this election season. This hour, we’ll look at the economic impact that immigrants have on the United States with Pia Orrenius, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank senior economist and a fellow at SMU’s John Tower Center. Her essay “The Benefits of Immigration Outweigh the Costs” appears in the spring issue of “The Catalyst,” a new quarterly publication produced by the Bush Institute.
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