New America

L to R: Lia Lopez, 8, Ashley Flamenco, 7, and Lynsey Lopez, 5 attend a rally in support of immigration reform, in Washington, on October 8, 2013 in Washington, DC.

In his "field guide to the American future," William Frey, senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution, research professor in Population Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America (Brookings Institution Press, 2014), discusses immigration and why the dramatic growth of minority populations is good for the United States.