Immigration’s place in community - Butler County, Ohio

We are a nation of immigrants, a fact too often ignored in the modern debate over undocumented workers and what impact they do, or do not, have on the fabric of our communities.

As documented in reporter Dan Horn’s detailed story that begins on the cover of this section, the perceptions and realities of what an influx of immigrants means to a particular community do not always coincide. Horn looked at Butler County, a fast-growing and generally prosperous part of Greater Cincinnati, where such an influx has been much discussed.

Because it is growing and prosperous, Butler County has attracted more Hispanic immigrants in the past decade than any other county in the region. Currently the Hispanic population of the county is estimated at about 8,200 people - about 2.3 percent of the total population of 355,000. That’s an increase of 72 percent since 2000.”*

*From: http://news.enquirer.com
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