Some cities reach out to illegal immigrants – Illinois
Tagged: populationPosted on: November 12th, 2007
Larry Hartwig knows what it’s like to have constituents ruffled – or downright angry – over their Spanish-speaking neighbors. In Addison, Ill, a middle-class town just outside Chicago where Mr. Hartwig is mayor, roughly one-third of the population is Latino.
“There’s a perception that if you have a lot of minorities, it’s a bad community,” he says. “We have our share of tension.”
But instead of taking the route of nearby communities that have enacted laws hostile to immigrants, Addison has, among other projects, set up a resource center in a Latino neighborhood that offers everything from ESL and computer literacy classes to a food pantry.”*
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