Awards have been given to programs that help immigrants thrive and become successful in this country. - - Donna Poisl
Abby W. Schachter
The Migration Policy Institute has handed out its annual prize for "immigrant integration" -- what they call their E Pluribus Unum Awards . The point of the awards is to highlight "programs that help immigrants and their children adapt, thrive, and contribute to the United States or that bring immigrants and the native born together to build stronger, more cohesive communities," declares the MPI web site. And according to Margie McHugh, co-director of MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy this year's winners are "a terrific group for showing the breadth of integration across the country." Successful immigration can only be achieved with successful integration, McHugh argues.
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