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Hello, welcome to another episode of Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew

Iglesias. My guest today, Ali Nourani, is the president and CEO of the National Immigration

Forum, which is a great group. They work on immigration. You can tell. It's there in

the name. He is the author of a really interesting new sort of policy analysis paper that I was

reading really interested in. The idea of this is basically you are looking at immigration

in the broader context of American population growth changes. I wrote a book about this,

but my book is loopy. It's called One Billion Americans. Your paper is sensible. Tell

us what does it say? What's the news here? Let me be clear. If it had been left to my

own devices, I would have written a very loopy paper, but my co-author, Danilo Zach,

who is on our policy team at the forum, really just brought the rigorous goods, if you

will, to the paper. I want a credit for it right off the top.

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