Does America Need an Integration Policy?

Though the U.S. does not demand ethnic homogeneity, we are deeply divided over how newcomers should assimilate and offer little support to arrivals eager to become American. Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, sits down with Alfonso Aguilar (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), José Luis Gutiérrez (Illinois Office for New Americans), Laureen Laglagaron (Migration Policy Institute), and Urban Planning Professor Dowell Myers (USC) visited Zócalo to ask what government should do to bridge the gap between immigration and integration. Should the federal government help immigrants adjust? And what does it all mean for Americans?

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• zocalo
• public square
• lecture series
• panel
• alfonso aguilar
• jose luis Gutierrez
• tomas Jimenez
• laureen laglagaron
• immigration
• migration
• assimilation
• integration
• American
• identity
• federal government
• comprehensive
• reform

[john51880]

Gerrymandering is all they will learn in Illinios! No Amnesty! SECURE OUR BORDERS AND DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW!

[foxinn]

Exceptions always revert to the mean without vigilance. In other words, without this type of civic education the U.S. will continue to progress/regress to a society that looks more like other countries. Not sure there's any chance to succeeed, because many powerful interests are served by the balkanization of the country's culture (and the dumbing of Americans to the principles that made the country great).