USCIS Chief: Promote Immigrant Integration

Tyche Hendricks writes in the SF Chronicle:

Now, at the end of President Bush’s eight years in office, a federal task force he convened is echoing those concerns, saying, “Government can do more to help newcomers learn English, learn about America and promote integration across our nation.”

On the eve of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, with immigrants arriving in high numbers and anxiety in some quarters about a fracturing American identity, the issue is pressing, but some observers wonder whether Obama will take up the issue or put it behind more urgent concerns.

“It’s a roadmap for future administrations on how to strengthen the assimilation of new Americans,” said the report’s lead author, Alfonso Aguilar, in his final days as chief of the Office of Citizenship at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Click here for the rest of the story.

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