The August issue of Cato Unbound, starting this Monday, will discuss “Mexicans in America”, and will feature Richard Rodriguez, Victor Davis Hanson and Steve Trejo of the University of Texas.

They will be talking about:

Today’s heated debate over immigration and border control is largely a debate about Mexicans. It is often argued that Mexican immigrants in particular place a heavy burden on social services, especially in border states, bring crime in their wake, depress wages, and displace American workers. Some argue that although we are a nation of immigrants, and that immigration is generally good, Mexican immigrants are different: they are either unwilling or unable to assimilate and become full-fledged Americans, and, therefore, a heavy concentration of Mexican immigrants in the Southwest threatens a distinctively American way of life. How much truth, if any, is in these arguments? A reasonable debate about Mexican immigration requires that we really know about Mexicans in America. Who are the Mexicans coming to the U.S.? Are they fitting in? Are their children fitting in? Their children’s children? What kind of contribution are they making to the American economy and character? In what ways are the U.S. and Mexico interdependent? Are they buying homes, starting businesses, setting down roots? Are they upwardly mobile? Civically active? Is their labor market participation hurting American workers? Making America richer, economically and culturally? Answers to these questions can make a huge difference–between belief in amnesty and openness, or deportation and a wall. Getting it right matters. So let’s try to get it right.

Be sure to tune in, the discussion should get interesting. For more on this discussion go here.