Baltimore and Chicago mayors welcome, and encourage immigrants into their city

· by · in News. ·

 

Courtesy of opacity/Flickr

While states like Alabama and Arizona are fighting tooth and nail to keep immigrants out, Mayors Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Baltimore’s Stephanie Rawlings-Blake are welcoming more immigrants into their cities. Both considered progressive and liberal mayors, they hope to boost their city’s economy by creating immigrant-friendly cities.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, or more famously known for being the former Chief of Staff to President Obama, recently passed a “Welcome City Ordinance” that protects law-abiding immigrants from being questioned about their immigration status by police and City services. He aims to protect “those who play by the rules” and “prevent law-abiding Chicagoans from being unfairly detained and deported”. The ordinance is quite the opposite to Arizona’s Immigration Law that allows police to detain anyone suspected of being in the US illegally, and requires everyone to have registration documents on them at all times.

Chicago has historically been considered a safe-haven for undocumented immigrants around the country. Emanuel hopes the ordinance will solve the city’s crime problem because more witnesses to crime will not be afraid to speak up. The passage of the ordinance came after much criticism of Emanuel for not doing enough for immigration reform while working in the Obama administration, and after a report by the Chicago Sun Times that said Latinos are under-represented in Emanuel’s cabinet.

While Emanuel may have been pressured by immigrant rights group in his city to reform immigration policies, Rawlings-Blake believes it was crucial to open the city doors to immigrants because of population decline.

The city of Baltimore’s population was at its highest in 1950 at 950,000 residents. Since then, the population has declined to a staggering 650,000 now according to this Washington Post report.Rawlings-Blake hopes to mimic Philadelphia’s immigrant-friendly measure that helped increase the population for the first time in 60 years. She has pushed for an end of police-questioning of law-abiding immigrants, and has expanded social services to cover more immigrants.

Baltimore badly needs to jump-start job creation in order to reverse years of economic decline. Rawlings-Blake believes immigrants will have strong role to play in improving the city’s future.

Regardless of what the motivation may have been for both Mayors, the outcome is the same: there’s hope in the midst of this ugly debate on immigration. More importantly, the President may soon have proof that immigrants really can be one of the pillars in economic growth, and not its downfall.

297 responses to “Baltimore and Chicago mayors welcome, and encourage immigrants into their city”

  2. I have to thank you for the efforts you’ve put in writing this site.

    I’m hoping to view the same high-grade content from you in the future
    as well. In truth, your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get
    my own, personal site now 😉

  3. The current cluster mode of production continues to grow, which it obtains by degrading the surface on which it
    is used onThe fumes emitted by the chemical that was used to kill mold.
    The best thing to mold bomb do is to keep moisture and
    wet areas because this is their natural and typical habitat.

    Bleach water is a problem, but as said, this is a scam.

  4. It’s appropriate time tto make some plans for the future and it’s time to be happy.
    I have read this post and if I could I want to suggest you few interesting things or suggestions.
    Perhaps yoou can write next articles referring to this article.
    I desire to read more things about it!

  5. 1) In order to be eligible to receive this bonus, you’ll have to have 20 active customers yourself.
    The initial way to generate income is via personal customer sales.
    An alarm is a great idea because this is something that makes a
    lot of noise and attracts a bunch of attention.

  6. This design is wicked! You definitely know how to
    keep a reader entertained. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Excellent job.

    I really enjoyed what you had to say, and more
    than that, how you presented it. Too cool!

  8. You’re so interesting! I do not think I’ve truly read anything like that before.
    So great to find another person with some
    genuine thoughts on this issue. Really.. many thanks
    for starting this up. This site is something that’s needed on the web, someone with a bit of originality!

  10. ‘Green coffee’, recommending to our own raw
    or perhaps a unroasted cannabis cup winning seeds of Coffea fruits first gained one lot towards buzz when researchers believed that they start to may wind up as helpful by weight
    lessening. In December 2007, definitely released regarding Jamba is often partnering among Nestl towards add their own phone to a wonderful brand of fit,
    arranged-to help you-beverage drinks with the Jamba trade name.
    Consider including a wide variety of teas into your day and weeks to come.

  11. I was suggested this website by my cousin. I’m not sure whether this post is written by him
    as no one else know such detailed about my problem.
    You’re incredible! Thanks!

  12. I absolutely love your blog and find the majority of your post’s to be
    just what I’m looking for. Would you offer guest writers to write
    content for yourself? I wouldn’t mind creating a post or elaborating on most
    of the subjects you write in relation to here. Again, awesome website!

  14. Howdy I am so glad I found your site, I really found you by error, while I was looking on Aol for something else, Anyways I am
    here now and would just like to say kudos for a tremendous post and a
    all round entertaining blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to go through it all at
    the minute but I have book-marked it and
    also included your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read much more,
    Please do keep up the awesome b.

  18. Hello there, I discovered your website by means of Google while
    searching for a comparable matter, your web site came up, it appears great.
    I have bookmarked it in my google bookmarks.
    Hello there, just was aware of your blog thru Google, and found that it is really informative.
    I’m going to be careful for brussels. I’ll appreciate in the event you continue this in future.
    Many other people shall be benefited out of your writing.
    Cheers!

  19. Hey! This is my first visit to your blog!

    We are a team of volunteers and starting a new initiative in a community
    in the same niche. Your blog provided us useful
    information to work on. You have done a outstanding job!

  21. Hi there! Do you know if they make any plugins to help with SEO?
    I’m trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very good results.
    If you know of any please share. Thank you!

  25. In the winter, the dog’s body heat is what helps to heat the house.
    By taking advantage of the latest computer
    technology this product has compiled enough projects
    to fill many bookshelves. Perfect if you want to be
    able to use the boat inside waters.

  33. Hello, i think that i saw you visited my website so i came
    to “return the favor”.I am trying to find things to enhance my site!I suppose its ok to
    use a few of your ideas!!

  35. After I originally commented I seem to have clicked on the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I get 4 emails with the exact same comment.
    There has to be a means you can remove me from that service?

    Cheers!

  37. Many adult females want their breasts to be even larger.
    Therefore, purchase exact measured bra, which will hold your busts tight
    and appear them more firm and bigger. Most women are not that into pushups,
    although with a few practices, it can be performed
    easier.

  38. My programmer is trying to convince me to move to .net from PHP.
    I have always disliked the idea because of the expenses. But he’s tryiong none the less.
    I’ve been using WordPress on a variety of websites for about a year and am nervous about switching to another platform.
    I have heard great things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I
    can transfer all my wordpress posts into it? Any
    help would be greatly appreciated!

  39. Hi! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website?
    I’m getting fed up of WordPress because I’ve had
    problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform.

    I would be great if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

  41. Someone necessarily help to make seriously articles I’d state.
    This is the first time I frequented your web page and so far?
    I surprised with the research you made to create this particular post amazing.
    Magnificent job!

  42. Fortunately, the r actions u n tk t gt rId f yeast Infections.

    About half are in between the ages of fifteen and 24.
    By no means use intercourse as a sport to get materials or psychological responses from your mate.

  44. You really make it seem so easy along with your presentation however I in finding this topic
    to be really something that I think I might by
    no means understand. It seems too complex and extremely vast
    for me. I’m taking a look forward for your subsequent
    put up, I will attempt to get the hang of it!

  46. With havin so much content do you ever run into any
    problems of plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of exclusive
    content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of
    it is popping it up all over the web without
    my agreement. Do you know any techniques to help reduce content from being ripped off?
    I’d really appreciate it.

  47. Hmm is anyone else encountering problems with the images on this blog loading?

    I’m trying to figure out if its a problem on my end or if it’s
    the blog. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

  49. Today, I went to the beach front with my kids. I found
    a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell
    to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
    She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had
    to tell someone!

Leave a reply to Ultra colon cleanse Cancel reply