Strategies: Time to celebrate immigrants - USA TODAY
Strategies: Time to celebrate immigrants It's the Fourth of July, and as you head to a holiday beach or barbecue, look around your town. Take a moment to notice and appreciate all the many small businesses — and large ones too — started by immigrants Check out this story on USATODAY. Take a moment to notice and appreciate all the many small businesses — and large ones, too — started by immigrants. As we celebrate America, we also celebrate what America has meant, and continues to mean, to immigrants from throughout the world. A few years ago, I toured the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, the New York City borough where my father grew up. My dad, Alex, was the son of hard-working, ambitious immigrants from Eastern Europe. Like most immigrants, they came to this shore seeking a better life for their children — more economic opportunity, more political and religious freedom. Walking around my father's old neighborhood was like taking a trip back in time, except the immigrants I saw were from the Caribbean instead of Eastern Europe, black instead of white, and spoke with a different accent. Some immigrants come here to save their lives, like child refugees from Honduras or gays fleeing persecution, or oppressed women seeking education and careers. Throughout America's history, most immigrants have been economic immigrants. Source: www.usatoday.com
