Shrinking U.S. Cities Seek Immigrants

"A small but growing number of cities with declining populations are embracing new strategies to attract immigrants to replenish shrinking neighborhoods, fill labor shortages and inject greater ethnic diversity in their communities... It was not that long ago that many city officials viewed immigrants as a drain on public services and that workers saw them as competition for jobs... The fledgling efforts to attract immigrants have just begun in most cities and are part of broader revitalization plans. They are partly in response to new data from the 2000 census showing that immigrants are fueling the growth in the nation's fastest-growing cities, like Charlotte, N.C., and Las Vegas, and offsetting the flight to the suburbs in many others, like Chicago and New York."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan