Even for legal immigrants, the path to US citizenship is not paved with gold

MIPEX Blog, May 5, 2011; Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group

This Monday, the Migrant Integration Policy Index will be launched in the US with a public debate in the nation’s capital. MIPEX finds that once immigrants get a legal status in the US, the path to citizenship is still not paved with gold, as many Americans readily assume in the often vitriolic debates over immigration. Without a comprehensive integration strategy, America is falling behind many other leading countries of immigration.

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