WASHINGTON – Immigrant integration remains largely an afterthought in U.S. immigration policy discussions and the country's integration policies remain chronically underfunded and limited in scope. In the absence of coherent policies at the federal level, the responsibility for immigrant integration historically has fallen to families, employers, churches, non-governmental organizations and an increasingly restive set of state and local governments.
New partners are emerging, though. Mexico's efforts to help its migrants succeed in the United States offer a new example of an immigrant-sending country looking to improve its emigrants' lives and connect with its diaspora, according to a report released today by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). With Mexicans accounting for one-third of all immigrants in the United States, Mexico's initiative is of particular note.
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[posted by Maria Rohani]
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