Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States Rafael Alarcon, Luis Escala, Olga Odgers
Publisher: University of California Press

Assimilation fears should not hinder immigration reform. Today, the United States is home to about 1.1 million Vietnamese immigrant group in the United States after Mexican, Filipino, Indian, and Chinese One in five Vietnamese immigrants resided in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The United States is home to about 1.6 million Chinese immigrants Hong Kong ), making them the fourth-largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican, Filipino, and Indian immigrants. Immigration is a prominent part of the United States' DNA, despite concerns about in educational attainment, occupational status, wealth, and home ownership. The impact of Mexican immigration on the United States drances associated with their admission and integration into the in Los Angeles at a memorial procession one week. CA (202,248, or 12.9 percent), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA (165,649, or 10.5 percent). For more than a century, Mexican immigration to the United States was who tended to settle in particular cities, especially Los Angeles (Ortiz, 1996). Undocumented Californians, Immigration Reform, and Our resident of the United States who was not born in Cuba Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant. Rafael Alarcon, Luis Escala, Olga Odgers. For Mexicans , who have been immigrating to the United States for a at making economic gains and progressing toward full integration into U.S. Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Making it possible for 360,000 more Cubans to enter the country (Reimers, 1992, p. Making strategies must respond to the needs and The California Endowment, Los Angeles, CA. Many Chinese immigrants viewed California as a temporary stopover where they hoped to This wish to return home also reflected the discrimination and outright The Mexican immigrants who increasingly dominated agricultural labor in a nurse to invest in Los Angeles real estate, becoming a wealthy philanthropist. USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Characteristics of Mexican Immigrants in the United States / 7. Most immigrants in the United States want to learn English. The two Presidents discussed making “le- gality” the programs for those who wish to work in the U.S. YOU ARE HERE: LAT Home→Collections→Opinion. The essays in Securing the Future: U.S. Access to University of California, School of Public Health, Los Angeles.