Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The political debates over immigration can generate a lot of fuzzy facts. We wanted to test Americans’ knowledge — so, to wrap up our special series on immigration, we called some Freakonomics Radio listeners and quizzed them.

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0:00.0	Hey there. It's Stephen Dubner, and this is a bonus episode.
0:07.5	It's one last addition to our series called The True Story of America's Supremely Messed Up immigration system.
0:14.8	I learned a lot making this series, including how little most of us know about immigration.
0:20.6	One of the main voices in those episodes was Zeke Hernandez, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
0:27.0	He came to our attention because of a book he has got coming out soon called The Truth About Immigration. The book includes a quiz and we thought
0:36.2	it might be interesting to have some Freconomics radio listeners take this quiz.
0:40.8	So that's what we're hearing today. Let's see how they did.
0:44.0	Hello?
0:47.0	Hi, this is Jacob.
0:51.0	Jacob, hey, this is Stephen Dubner. How are you this is Stephen, how are you doing, man?
0:55.0	I'm doing great, thank you.
0:56.1	I'm here with Z. Hernandez, who's a business professor at Wharton.
0:59.8	Hey Jacob, how are you?
1:01.2	Good man.
1:02.2	Now, Jacob, tell us your last name and how old you are.
1:05.0	Sibolsky and I'm 30 years old.
1:07.0	Where do you live and what do you do?
1:09.0	I'm a United States Marine Corps officer.
1:11.0	I live in Wilmington, North Carolina and I work as a combat
1:14.7	engineer officer on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Now Jacob, would you
1:18.6	consider yourself an expert on immigration to the US by any chance?
1:24.0	No, sir, not really. I am from Texas originally, but no.
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