More on Immigrant Integration

The Washington Post has a story today about immigrant assimilation.  As chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, Alfonso Aguilar has spearheaded a new federal initiative to get immigrants to embrace English and American political values at a time of surging immigration — a trend that he warned could lead to a “country of enclaves.”   The article notes that more political debate today focuses on immigration reform than on encouraging immigrant integration, which unquestionably is true.   If one really wants to promote the assimimilation of immigrants into American social life, then the first step is reducing the naturalization backlogs, which we have written about extensively.

KJ

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