2. Austin, Texas
Austin is Texas’s fourth-largest city, in a border state that has always seen a large number of immigrants, mostly from Mexico. The population of more than 785,000 includes almost 150,000, or 19%, born in other countries. Only 22% of the foreign-born population are naturalized U.S. citizens. Austin’s immigrant outreach efforts concentrate on removing the Spanish language barrier between city officials, specifically police officers, and the Latino population, which has doubled in Austin since 1995. Recognizing the increasing proportion of immigrants from Asia, the city also hired an Asian Outreach Program Liaison to perform the same role with the Vietnamese community.
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