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...Demographically, Italy is one of the most rapidly changing countries in Europe. Last year, according to the Catholic charity group Caritas, the percentage of noncitizen residents in the country - 7.2% - was greater than Britain's. And in a country where the native-born population is aging rapidly, 1 in 6 babies delivered in 2008 was born to a foreign-passport holder. La dolce vita is also becoming ever more dependent on immigrants and their labor. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that foreign workers account for 9% of Italy's annual gross domestic product. They pick the fruit...
Communities like St. Helens often have more invested in the newcomers' success than they might imagine. A Pew Hispanic Center survey in November found that the median income for noncitizen Hispanics fell at a rate almost six times as high as that of other workers in 2008. In January 2009, a new report said more than half that group reported being worried that their home will end up in foreclosure. Many illegal immigrants are homeowners, and driving them from their houses would be a Pyrrhic victory for any community fighting blight. Salvador's father-in-law Alejandro, an undocumented immigrant...
...single election may not be the fairest test. But as New York, Boston and several other cities consider allowing noncitizens to vote, the benefits of doing so are murky. Immigrant-rights advocates insist that giving newcomers a voice in local government integrates them quickly into their communities--and encourages them to become citizens. Opponents say that's backward: voting means little to an immigrant who hasn't earned citizenship. It's a divisive debate, and in a nation grown chilly toward immigrants, supporters of noncitizen voting have a tough case to make...
...when New York City decentralized its school system and allowed all parents--including illegal immigrants--to vote in school-board elections. (The practice ended with the dissolution of school boards in 2003.) Any parent in Chicago can still vote for local school-council members. The city doesn't track noncitizen voting, but a district spokesman says turnout...
...early 1990s, immigrant protests in Washington and New York City caused activists to argue that giving noncitizens the vote would help quell unrest. The idea fizzled everywhere but in Takoma Park and five smaller suburbs of Washington. For the 1993 election, noncitizens voted in Takoma Park at a 35% rate, better than the 30% for citizens. But the noncitizen figure plummeted over the following seven elections. City clerk Jessie Carpenter speculates that "early on, there was more interest because [voting] was new." She doesn't believe that resurgent concern over illegal immigrants has driven noncitizens from the polls...