USCIS and Los Angeles Announce Immigrant Integration Partnership

Late last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a new partnership to strengthen immigrant integration efforts in Los Angeles through proactive citizenship awareness, education, and outreach activities. The initiative kicks off with a free citizenship information session and naturalization workshop on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, at Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center in Northeast Los Angeles.

These are the kinds of programs that we need more of from the federal, state, and local governments.   Unfortunately, the need to promote the integration of immigrant sinto U.S. society often is lost in the discussion of immigration and immigration reform.

KJ