inclusive place, a place where people want to contribute to the community. whether it is high skills or hourly employees. i think the current system right now does not work for anyone. for people concerned about amnesty, the current system is the facto amnesty in many ways. the time is now to solve this problem. people from around the country need to come forward and tell members of the house of representatives that now is a time for a great sense of urgency in the great parts that they have done to document that. we stand in solidarity. >> i imagine that in some ways, immigration reform is something that we know is going to change life as we know it.

somewhat. if we are working with immigrants in certain capacities. in some ways things are going to stay the same. do you anticipate -- you know, what do you see in this next move? >> the areas we have already been working on, regardless of what happens, they have been critical in building success for immigrant families. education, ending the cycle of poverty for children, language acquisition really helps with confidence, dual location esl partnering with california, janitors in silicon valley and downtown los angeles, keeping things clean, diverting waste management -- these issues are really important to our community and are part of this economy. one thing to highlight is that immigration reform is not about what is happening to the immigrant, it is a dual process happening to our communities. if we create a path for not just legalization, but for workforce development, those of the key indicators of b.c. create successful communities and what

we see adapting to communities that adapt to changes virtually, financially in our communities. it is important that we look at language acquisitions regardless of -- it was one of the possible requirements on the table, this acquisition, and it was something we were already working on in terms of becoming integrated.

>> let me turn the question around a little bit. it is clear that a lot of local areas have been doing a lot of work with immigrants who are children in neighborhoods locally. in many parts of the country this is going well. in new york or los angeles this is a way that these cities have grown, survive economically. in other places there is conflict in their struggle. jason sort of touched on this, can you talk a bit about what an action that the federal level would mean for fault -- for salt lake city are other places? welcoming and supporting?

at this point? >> as cecilia indicated, there were two places in the country where there was a preposterous to of both in one camp or another. washington, d.c. was close to 70% for obama, utah was close to the other side of the spectrum. that should not come as a surprise to anyone. although there are pockets of moderate and progressive people in utah, sometimes it is difficult to be a moderate or progressive in a conservative place like utah, but for our state, what it boils down to i think is thinking not just about the economics impact that immigrants have. it is clear that they are a net positive for high skilled and hourly employees, helping to create jobs for americans to contribute to our communities. it really also has to do with the kind of country want, the kind of community we want to

live in. the kind of place for people hide in the shadows and make decisions based on fear? or a place that is wealthy and inclusive across the spectrum? recognizing the diversity of talents, strength, and perspective of world views brought to the community by immigrants. i think that i am thinking about the history of my state over the past few years, where immigration has been a target and something that people talk about a lot, we went from following the arizona style example a few years ago, through the work of the business community, religious organizations, and citizens who said that that is not the right approach for our community we were able to change that thematically to providing in

state court -- in state tuition for undocumented people, a community that is true welcoming and sometimes i do not think has as much to do with the political spectrum. really, immigration reform is not about politics, it is about doing the right thing. my big question now is a community, we are hoping for is members of the house of representatives will find a way forward for comprehensive immigration reform, something critical. not just to the economy or the state, or the nation, but moving forward in a way that addresses our economy in the way we are proud of. >> it might be worth talking about the compound -- the compact briefly, maybe mentioning the principal. i know that the entire piece less than 300 words.

can you describe how that came about and what the goals of that word? itin 2010, the summer, seemed inevitable that we would pass a law that was similar to arizona. the majority of our legislature was moving forward on that path. to my mind it was being driven by a very small but vocal group of people who felt that this was a priority and wanted to move forward. but the people who really run by state, who care about the state, talk to university presidents or captain of industry, community leaders and organizations, they were very uncomfortable with it, but it felt like this freight train that was barreling down the track and there was no way to divert it. every time someone would stand up and there would be profiles in courage, the police chief in salt lake city who said that he would not enforce it, that it was the wrong thing to do to ask people to show their papers --

that they would not be supportive of this. these individual profiles in courage, saying that the arizona approach is not the right one for our community, it got smacked down. we thought that if a group of people stood up at the same time to articulate a simple values based solution, that that would be powerful enough to change the course of the conversation. over the course of several months we've probably had about 100 people working on this document. 227 words, just highlighting principles that we thought were critical to the immigration discussion.

the first is really a federal issue. it is not between utah and the other countries, it is between the federal government and other countries. recognizing the role that immigrants play as taxpayers and consumers, it is focused on law enforcement. we wanted law enforcement to spend their time pursuing criminals, not acting to pursue the violations of a civil code. that that is not the role of police officers and that this aggressive approach really limits their ability to get to know what is going on in the community. it is not just lip service, we really care about families and we did not want to create policies that separated children from their parents, or as was alluded to earlier, afraid to go to school. we wanted to live in a just and free society. we had a wide spectrum of people across multiple organizations who spoke up in favor of this. we had a signing ceremony at the state capitol building, a

similar document for people came together to talk about how they would govern their communities. a former u.s. senator, former congress member, along with several other people signed the document and said that these were the values they were going to use to make determinations about immigration in the community. it was a sea change, it really changed the tone of the discussion and helps our state to become a little bit more thoughtful, compassionate, and civil in the discussion. our hope is that the federal government will use that, something similar, as a template. >> whether it is measured by metropolitan areas for cities, i know you are from the largest. historically and personally your cities have been instrumental in terms of city government, nonprofits, and community-based and faith based organizations

by and bringing in people, receiving immigrants and providing the kinds of services that help them to make it and move up. is there anything you want to say about what federal inaction might mean for either of you? >> i have to say that in new york recognize it is a federal issue. they are human capital.

they are very much, for new york in particular, they are our past, present, and future. federal inaction is a problem. we do all that we can to make sure that what we create in new york is a place where individuals who choose new york as their home are welcome to, are able to enroll their children in our schools without concern or fear, doing all the weekend to make sure that if someone wants to small -- start a small business and be part of our community, there is an opportunity for them to engage. we go out and introduced government to the immigrant community, showing them that they understand we are here to serve and provide services to them. working with our communities, really understanding that the need to understand the needs of

the communities. we have had graduating class is of the police department that represent individuals from over 50 different countries. there is a real fabric of who we are. the truth is we have any number of young people in our schools who have graduated from our high schools who have any number of dreams. they are american in every way but a document. inaction is a problem, these young people absolutely want to be a part of our city, we want them to be a part of our city. they can be our teachers, doctors, the next mayor. so, there needs to be something there. i would say that we lose a tremendous amount of human capital in brilliant people coming to new york, creating patents, creating any number of things and want to be part of what is the american dream in our city. we lose that. i would say that we recently a financial services study

on immigrants. really focused on one of our fastest growing communities. all of them, rank or not, could overwhelmingly articulate to us that they were invested in their children's education and home ownership. every single one of them. at different points they all had bank accounts, every single one of them had absolute investment in recreating their success by these very markers that make a city successful. education outcome and home ownership, right?

without action -- we will do all we can to help these communities. >> i would just add that -- something we have been working on in los angeles is the council of immigration, a group coming together, a community-based organization out of the chamber commerce, labor, the sheriff's department, the mayor's department, to come together and have these discussions, they are all principles in terms of immigrants comprehensive reform, that it is important to have comprehensive immigration reform, it is taking the workers out of the shadows. in los angeles 14% of undocumented workers are

business owners, really bringing the economy to the surface and in times when there is the most conflict and when we most need to come together to feel out what our cities need, it might be different in los angeles from salt lake city or new york, and those are conversations where we need to step up and have them, to be able to understand where we have a common ground. 100 words? 200 words? let's start there. that alone can start being the guide. for us the work that we started doing in terms of this council is really helping to set the frame and building of a collaboration. services, education, information for not just the immigrants in our city, but everyone else in the city about immigration. >> i think that you all made important points and i want to highlight the distinction that was made that immigration really is a federal concern. but immigrants live in places. people that live in places with institutions in those places affected by immigrants and immigration policies. so, now i want to ask what kinds of services are you collecting that my be

helpful, extended, preparing you for implementation, for some kind of immigration reform. whether it is around the legalization of the undocumented population, widespread verify systems for unemployment verification, or temporary work visas that would bring different kinds of workers in and out of your cities.

what kinds of challenges do you see ahead? you can choose to talk about anything that connects. >> some of the work we have been doing for the last eight years or so with building skilled partnership is our vocational esl program. we do this in partnership with employers and our curriculum is really based on the need in terms of providing better customer service, green economy, and in new york the worker, the janitorial work force, what is needed, moving to cleaning in language acquisition skills. we have been working on this partnership. talk about bringing different points of view together, it is a labor-management partnership, often they are on opposite of the table with competing interests in terms of the bottom line and who can sell on our thing is that the industry needs to gather for labor-management. with over 40 janitorial companies, from the small, family companies to the largest

international companies, sitting down together to see the program that is needed to do work and development that will add value to my company. also value to the quality of life of the workers being invested in. that was all. building the confidence and knowing that my employer and industry -- we have companies that contract for high-tech, biotech. but it is also an added value to the quality of life of those workers being invested in. knowing that my employer, my industry is investing in me. i have also brought in client companies that contract these companies -- biotech companies and commercial real estate

owners, who are also at the table, saying, this is what i would like to see in my building. a janitor has them cleaning my office for 30 years. what have we invested in that person bringing the quality of service to my bottom line, in terms of being productive? being able to bring that together. but we also provide computer literacy skills. we also provide citizenship classes, and wellness, and health education. a lot of the training and partnerships are at work sites. you will have a building that has seven janitors in one building, 200 in another. workers are so red out everywhere. the union office and training center is kind of our hub where we go out to work and train the workers of a variety of employers. we are set up to have that access and that relationship to reach some of the hardest to reach folks. these are folks who are

immigrants. may have language barriers. they are also working late at night, when most of us are asleep, cleaning our offices, keeping our area safe and clean. they are the hardest to reach. and with the cuts that are happening, particularly in california, with adult education and other programs -- this is nonexistent. these opportunities would not exist for the workers and these families if we were not reaching them, and were not able to reach over 2000 workers throughout the state every year who are part of our programs. i think that is where we are already set up in terms of, if and when immigration reform happens, the additional investment in the work force -- what that means is these can come up to be higher-level probably service workers, and create opportunities.

these are union jobs with living wages and some form of stability, and access to healthcare. that is critical, really important for the workforce that is going to be coming out of the shadows. >> i will add to that thought. what services are you providing that directly relate to reforms? what are you anticipating in terms of scaling up or investing in core services you are already doing? what is the impact, looking ahead, on budgets and the like? >> i would say deferred action for childhood arrival was a really good case, for us and hopefully many other localities around the country. in new york, we estimated that we had approximately 80,000 young individuals who would be eligible for deferred action. the city of new york made a conscious decision that we create a partnership

within our city agencies, a task force, to figure out what documents any child would need so that we could put out a message on, if you need school records, immunization records, if you are part of an afterschool program, if you got married and needed a marriage license. we put a process in place that would tell you. my colleagues were wonderful champions about this. we all did really well. several communities around the country said, can we borrow your model? we were happy to share it. we learned a lot from that experience, which mainly was, in the state of new york, where we estimate 100 8000 -- we cannot get it down to the city level -- about 26% of the eligible population has applied. these are essentially dreamers who would get temporary relief of deportation and work

authorization. work authorization being a big one. we narrowed down the data set to figure out what is going on. we realized there were a number of individuals that might have dropped out from school. they were on the pathway to a ged, but disconnected for some reason or another. perhaps they started an english- language class, but had to disconnect. for us, this was an area of concern. we estimate 16,000 people fit into this category. bringing these young individuals out of the shadows is critical. there is an economic argument there. last week, i want to say wednesday, we were able to announce in new york city that $18 million is being invested specifically for the population of young people eligible for deferred action, and we were going to try our best to reach out to provide additional in which classes, additional

pathways to the ged and enrollment in ged programs. perhaps you can get into a certificate for graham. and legal services. the first time a concentrated amount of money is being put into an audience like this, which is undocumented. we need six times that amount of money to do what really needs to happen for our undocumented population. english-language acquisition is going to be a big one. i want to talk about the legalization process. legal services will be one of the greatest challenges we will witness with this reality. we in new york are very fortunate to have a tremendous number of law firms and law schools. we have a nonprofit community, a network that has robust legal services.

we have got quite a lot of legal minds in the city of new york. the reality is, we have one immigration lawyer for every 10,000 immigrants. the realities of immigration fraud and the number of individuals who hang shingles to say, i am here to help you, pay me money -- we see this now. we have individuals putting out messages that we can help you. we have had to put out counter messages to say, there is nothing out there. do not pay anyone a penny. we started a pilot two years ago with law students, where we engage law students and trained them in a curriculum to go into high schools and talk to immigrant youth in high schools, english-language learners in particular. it is a pipeline process, we think. we are embedding in law students a bit of information that we can hopefully engage them in thinking about maybe becoming an immigration attorney.

when the process happens, they may be lawyers. we can call them back to do additional work to help us around legalization. it also gets high school students talking about their rights, their responsibilities. undocumented youth get stopped by a police officer, decides to mouth off -- that could result in a young person being arrested, questioning their good moral character. for us, it has been a preventative strategy for the young person, and a recruitment strategy of the legal minds. we also did a similar program around citizenship, focusing on pro bono attorneys in the private space, engaging in working with them to help naturalize new yorkers. we want any number of our families to connect to banks and start bank accounts. we have started a number of relationships with banks to recognize that consular id's can be a secondary form of i.d. to open a bank account. in the studio new york -- the city of new york, it is a state issued i.d., so it is not

something we work on. we have created tools that can be used by volunteers to work on conversational english skills -- in libraries and houses of worship. we are going to be working with the largest volunteer service, new york cares, to start training volunteers to help run english classes in response to what will be the reality for immigration reform. and we have done a great amount of work on civic leadership, engaging individuals in our communities around being trained around leadership. they are our ambassadors. we have gradually help develop over 200 of these individuals. we think these folks are going to be our ambassadors. we need to get messages out there. ethnic press matters, but so does a local voice. to your point of the challenge, how we scale this up -- we are trying all we can using human capital and neighbors, using new yorkers to help us do this in a volunteer space, but money matters. we are going to have to be really creative with money, and have to lean on tax dollars and philanthropic dollars, and we are going to have to argue for some money for the federal space.

>> if new york needs more money, i do not know what other places are going to do. >> one of the issues you brought up that my distinguished panelists did not mention was either a five. -- was e-verify. there is no penalty now if you do not do it.

there has been a push by some legislators to create a so if you are found to have hired someone who is here without a per is, you would lose your business license. our organization said that is inappropriate. that is not a fair solution, and does not do anything to address the problem. one of the things that argues for a comprehensive solution is e-verify. we are not opposed to a system that has some teeth, but it has to be a national system where every state has the same system, where our state is not disadvantaged. this is a critical point. it has to come along with fisa reform, so employers can have the workers they need. it has to come along with recognizing a legal status for people who are here existing currently. you cannot just cherry pick one aspect of immigration reform and say, we are just going to enforce e-verify or visa reform.

any of these things do not work in isolation. it is a complicated problem, but the answer has to be a simple one. you have to do everything at once. none of these things will work on their own. they are all related to one another. it is not just a comprehensive reform is important. comprehensive reform is essential. the business community of utah, we are tired of waiting. the time for reform is now. we need to make sure our representatives understand that. my organization has taken up multiple full pays -- full-page ads. we have had press conferences from business leaders around the state saying this is not

important -- essential. there are lots of things we could do. we could do infrastructure improvement. we could reform the tax code. all kinds of things we could do to improve the national economy. some of those take resources. immigration reform will require a little bit of money, but it is a decision we can make right now that will have in norma's positive economic benefit for the entire country. they're frankly is no excuse not to move forward on this. the time is right and the time is now. >> before we take audience questions in a few minutes, i want to give each of you a minute, starting on this and, -- on this end, to say, what is one or two things you are doing that you think other organizations could learn from the way you are doing it? >> i think what has worked for us, and for a longer time than we thought, is collaboration. and to collaborate with folks who may not be a more traditional partner. through collaboration, i think it is surprising how much

further and faster we can get things done, being clear and putting principles and guidelines on the front-end. i think that helps us a lot, in terms of the work we have done within our industry and in our organization, to the point it gets everybody to trust each other, to work together. we understand we can respect each other's point of view, but we still have one mission in mind. sometimes, we have a different strategy of getting there, but those we can discuss and try out. those strategies might change, but our mission does not. just in terms of building an organization and being able to grow so fast, and build our capacity -- those are the elements that come to mind, in

terms of the work we are doing within the city and the council of immigrant immigration. i think it is the same thing of being patient with ourselves and really taking those small but solid steps forward, and really the collaboration. >> i hope congress hears this. that is a really important issue. >> i would build on that, and talk about the issue of trust. it is about trusting people. i really do think there is a well of goodness, decency, and compassion in the country that we have to rely on and have to go back to. i do not care what political persuasion you have, what your feelings are. americans are good people, deep down. we need to go back to that and trust each other, and trust ourselves to do the right things. i think that aspect of trust is so critical to collaboration. that is something we work to build in our organization and throughout the community, a sense that you can trust other

people, and that ultimately, as you said, it is about getting too larger goals of what is going to be the best society for us to live in. trust is integral. without trust, nothing gets done. with trust, you can accomplish anything. but trust is critical. >> i think what we have learned in new york is that our city has absolutely realized its economic reality because we invest in our communities, and we fundamentally believe that when you invest in communities, they invest back in you. we are now working with cities across the country to help them realize they do not have to wait for immigration reform. they can do a tremendous number of things right now with immigrant communities, recognizing the breadth of the assets of their communities, and the needs -- recognizing what they do for every resident in their city and how they can respond to the needs of the community. that can bring so much capital. audrey mentioned this. we created, essentially, a toolkit, a blueprint for immigrant integration, a how-to

guide. anyone across the country can borrow this. one thing that is important is, when cities start to engage in this, we will be able to collectively say, this is what we have been able to benefit, the benefits are cities have realized. the federal government, we can say to them, or to it, you cannot ignore the reality that in our localities we have the opportunity, the responsibility, and we have been able to do this. economically, we thrived. i would like to see a way to pipeline money to help support some of the innovations that happen in cities, because that is where communities live, and that is where opportunities matter. the money will go to the state. a do not know how it will pipeline into suburbs, where many communities are living and

are staking their claim as their home. for me, i think our space now has moved into really helping the work we have been able to do in new york lost some in other parts of the country. because i agree the time is now. >> i think those were three really important and clear messages. collaborate, trust, and investment. it really should drive the discussion and the legislation forward as we listen to local areas where local immigrants live and work. there are some microphones in the room. when you get them -- right here. please say your name and affiliation. >> i am sony a from a group involved in the global partnership.

we organize for a dialogue. they are similar to the ones we are having here. i will touch base with you later. you were talking about the communities and how in different parts, they were doing the same investing in houses and some firms, and having some say. the problem is they approach the community banks. they do not go to the other banks. there has been new legislation in the united states and the uk, where community development banks, even the ones working with migrants, close to. especially for the somalis. they have stopped them from sending remittances, because according to them, it is money laundering.

we would like to see your views on that and how community development banks in new york are dealing with this approach. second, in terms of the dais for a -- diaspora, we have seen countries help revive them some legal services. they have community groups here or in the uae where they provide legal services. maybe you can approach some of the diaspora. >> hold onto that thought. we are going to take another question. right there. the redskins fan. >> i am with the dhs. you guys have been talking about -- you're cities seem pretty stable economically. i see how immigration reform would benefit your cities. but when we talk about a city

like detroit, that just filed for bankruptcy, how is this going to give them a spark so they can become the city that once was? >> we will take one more question for now. right there, in the back. >> good to see you. my question was for ms. shama, about interagency cooperation in new york. it seemed there would be challenges scaling that to a federal level. i was curious about what she might think the challenges had been in new york, and how such cooperation could translate on the federal level. >> we have banking stuff from sonia. we have the detroit question. and in upscaling question.

i guess we should start with you, but everybody else can talk. >> in new york, i would would say our local credit union community has been incredibly, incredibly responsive. i have to also admit that many of our big banks have them. it is aced at the branch level. in some ways, it is a lot of handholding. but we have a robust financial empowerment network that works with the community development financial institutions as well as local branches. there are challenges when you look up the line. what we also learned in this study is that individuals feel more comfortable doing remittances the traditional way, and not through financial institutions. they prefer to go the route of western union. but i think it is a learning process. the second question around diaspora -- in new york, we celebrate where people are from and where they are today.

everyone in new york is comfortably identifying as a hyphenated american. we have any number of immigrant associations that are ethnically affiliated -- the latino bar association, the asian-american or south asian -- it can go on. when the time is right, we will activate all of them to be critically important to us. i want to answer the question on interagency. i think leadership matters. when the mayor makes a statement, like, my expectation is you are all going to do this, i can follow on the mayor's mandate. two of my colleagues will push back. -- few of my colleagues will push back, because it is an articulated decision from the mayor.

i think you said this. there are lots of good people. lots and lots of good people. not just in the city of new york who work in government, but across this country. the reality is, this is the time for us to come forward and work together. i will say that in absence of having a point person in the federal government, whose job it is to coordinate all of this stuff, you might have a challenge in who has ownership of that role. in the city of new york, we a person whose job it is to think about -- literally, the definition of my job is ensuring the well-being of immigrant new yorkers and their integration. although challenges? absolutely. have we overcome them? there is always a challenge to overcome. >> i do not know a time about the economy of detroit beyond what you might read in the

national press. i would say comprehensive immigration reform is not the only thing that is going to help detroit comeback. but it is one of the things that will help to make that happen. anytime you have a group of people living in the shadows, afraid to act as law enforcement, who may be unable to pay taxes, who may not be getting the education they need, not able to learn english, that is a problem. that creates a subset of people living in the shadows. that will drag down any community, to have these groups of people. comprehensive national immigration reform is not the only thing that will help detroit. but it is one of the things that will help detroit and every city, no matter where your local economy is. this is something that will help everyone. >> detroit has a lot of immigrants, metropolitan detroit. yes, metropolitan detroit. most are living outside the

city, but there is a long history of immigration. it was one of the aid gateways in the early part of the 20th century. there is a legacy and culture of immigration there, although the groups have changed over time. the immigrants that are there are participating in the economy at all different levels. it tilts toward the higher end of the scale, because immigrants have in their longer and found ways to stay in those kind of occupations and industries. there is also an initiative called global detroit. its main mission is to attract and retain important immigrants. it has a number of different strategies within that. it is something that has become an important part of initiatives throughout the great lakes to develop these types of programs, because of the energy and

investment that immigrants ring to these places. >> i want to add that there is a really in-depth center out of usc that did detailed work around these indicators and scorecards of immigrant integration. it uses civic participation, trajectory to becoming citizens, and the naturalization process, the economic status of immigrants, the trajectory of their economic status, and how welcoming the community was to immigrants. the higher the score of a community, the better they could adapt to changes that happen. a lot of times, our economies change. the whole community needs to adapt and change because of the economy and situation. the cities who had higher scores

for being able to integrate immigrants into their communities were more successful in making these changes. not just that alone, but that shows the type of environment overall. it was more collaborative. there was more trust. there was more investment overall. i think those are very important indicators. that study has shown being able to adapt and change. earlier, we were talking about -- it is not just about her role law reform. how are we doing integration and workforce development, and making sure there is a path to citizenship? naturalist citizens are actually more likely to buy a home than somebody who is a native born american. that is a huge indicator of what that can mean for the economy, and stabilizing. it is investing in workers. not just immigrant workers, but

all workers, integrating into all of our workforce strategies. >> we have time for two more questions. and i guess we should go away to the back next. >> i am retired, formerly a -- an economist who worked on urban policy. how can we focus on new immigration into this country given that we have a declining labor force related to the total population? i wonder whether brookings has done any studies to show that those cities and metropolitan areas which have the highest rates of growth in immigration have had the highest rates of economic growth. because in addition to immigrants adding to the supply of labor, they will also add to demand -- buying houses and furniture and services. i think you can show that. i wonder if brookings has done

anything in that line. cities like detroit, if that is the case, shouldn't we be trying to get incentives for new immigration to move into cities like detroit, which have suffered in growth? what policies can we make to stimulate more immigration into those areas without losing the population? >> we will take the one in the back. >> i am a medical student with the american medical association. my question is twofold. first, in this changing healthcare environment, where we are trying to focus more on moving individuals moving to the united states toward more primary care-based health systems, what is the future of health care for individuals that fall under population of immigrant status? the kind of general

understanding is that a lot of times these individuals tend to be consumers of the emergency room system, which is what we are trying as a nation to move away from. what is the future of healthcare for immigration populations in the united states? as a population in general, what is the health issue that is most relevant to the population in general? >> we do not have to much time. -- too much time. the democracy -- demography of the united states is such that we are looking at an aging population over the next couple of decades. we are looking at an aging population. we are going to become very old. we need younger people coming in to take over to bill this before us and build it well. immigration seems to be one of the main focuses for

strengthening and maintaining and growing our labor force so that we can support ourselves growing forward. on the impact of immigrant growth, there is this. other organizations have done very specific metropolitan work. i am speaking of the new york institute that looks at immigration and economic across the areas. i'm going to turn the rust over to my fellow panelists here. >> go ahead. i just want to pick up on the point of incentives and what that could mean for detroit. we have seen areas that have had some life.

the incentivizing of connecting immigrant entrepreneurs and figuring out two months up there. then they can open up a business. the absolute reality is this changed neighborhood. there is the economic outcome of that neighborhood. i was in minneapolis last week. they have told a very similar story with the mexican community. it is very much aligned around the high crime, flight, the city negotiated giving them a building, american economic development corporations. they transformed it to the central market.

there really is an opportunity for detroit to think about that. the reality of what is going to be the realization for immigrants is really quite real. they are becoming individuals who are legal permanent residents. in a place like new york we have a large public health system that is fantastic. they already work tirelessly to make sure they make ends meet. they will be doing that and so much more. they use the system in a way where we do need to regulate primary care. we are changing a number of our health care centers. it be community-based health centers which we believe will change centers. there is the that is not being discussed. i will say that the mayor has a

very large voice on this. obesity is a huge issue in america and will continue to be. lack of movement, greater engagement and poor eating habits, many people know us to care about the size of the soda you drink. the truth is sugars and lack of movement and poor eating habits are resulting in tremendous realities of obesity. and so on. we are officially out of time. >> i think these questions are actually related in some ways. typically emigrate are often younger and less fast than many americans. there is a preponderance of people that do not know where to go for health care until it becomes an emergency. a lot of that is education and making sure people understand there is an expensive way to health care.

this is not something unique to the immigrant population. this is something all americans can benefit from. they can make sure immigrant populations understand. >> they have the highest scorecard for immigrant immigration and all of california. it is due to silicon valley. we have an investment in higher skills. without us, it it comes all the service workers who are also immigrants. we have this program at the biotech programs out there where we do this for the janitors. we have this set up with employees. often you have maybe a higher

skilled immigrant who is tutoring in working with the janitor. it is different. being able to work together and teach each other about their experiences and also addressing the language skills and addressing it in becoming part of this community. you have this in areas like google in stamford. you have those coming together and learning each other and integrating into the workplace. they get to be a part of that community. they are coming out those shadows. they have the highest scorecard of immigrant immigration. they have a lot of recent immigrants.

>> want to thank our panelists. they left us with these important concepts. this was totally unplanned. they do not talk to each other. these are the things that are important when we think about immigrants and immigration policy going forward. thank you for being here. thank you for being here with us. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013]

chad to kill a couple of live events to tell you about today. -- a couple of live events to tell you about today-. the labor and a committee hold a confirmation hearings for president obama's nominees to the national labor relations board. since the previous nominees were withdrawn as part of the deal between senate republicans and democrats regarding several section and presidential nominees. as a typical eastern shore. a to a call, the house judiciary subcommittee on immigration and border security looks of the status of children of illegal immigrants now living in the west -- in

in a few moments, today's headlines plus your calls and ."eets on "washington journal after the house meets for general speeches we will a speech on the nsa's data collection program, security and privacy@1030 a.m. eastern. legislative business in the house begins at noon when members start work on the $512 billion defense spending bill. in about 45 minutes, delegate donna christensen, democrat from the virgin islands, will discuss the congressional black caucus foundation plans to inform minorities about the health care options available in the affordable care act. at 8:30 a.m. eastern we will be joined by republican representative patrick mchenry of north carolina to discuss the role of the irs in targeting political groups and in

implementing the affordable care act. we will also discuss what is in the health-care law for the self-employed. our guest will be kate vlietstra from the national association of the self-employed. "washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] this tuesday,ning july 23rd. congress is back in session and here is what we are covering in washington. the house judiciary immigration panel will hold a hearing on the status of illegal immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. look for cut -- and live coverage on c-span 3. before that, the senate health, education, labor and pension committee considers the president's new batch of nominees for the national labor relations board, part of a deal to stop senate democrats from changing the filibuster rules. live coverage on c-span 3 at