June 12, 2006 2:18PM 

# Assimilation in America 

By [Tom G. Palmer](https://www.cato.org/people/tom-g-palmer) 

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In [today’s *Washington Post*](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100922.html?sub=AR), Cato Institute adjunct scholar Tyler Cowen and his colleague Daniel Rothschild of the Mercatus Center provide data to assuage fears from American nativists that the U.S. is being overrun by unassimilated and unassimilable Hispanic immigrants.

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