Dramatic federal immigration policy proposals and executive actions appear to be a reaction to state and local governments that have taken leadership in responding to immigration. Some local governments have endorsed welcoming immigrants to stabilize high-poverty urban neighborhoods and to enhance regional economic development. Others embrace immigrant incorporation consistent with the social work grand challenge to achieve equal opportunity and justice. This research estimates the number of immigrant-friendly cities and counties in the United States. To generate this estimate, authors prepared a local government policy scan of all municipalities and counties in the United States with a population of more than 500 persons to identify policies designed to recruit or specifically serve immigrants. Authors also categorized these immigrant-friendly policies on a continuum ranging from rhetoric to outreach, integration, and facilitation. Only 7% of cities and 6% of counties were found to have immigrant-friendly policy. However, when taking population into account, nearly half of all people in the municipal sample live in a place with an immigrant-friendly policy. Article concludes with the discussion of the implications for social policy and social work practice.

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美国有多少移民友好社区？对策略流进行分类

引人注目的联邦移民政策提案和行政行动似乎是对在应对移民问题方面发挥领导作用的州和地方政府的反应。一些地方政府已经批准欢迎移民来稳定高贫困城市社区并促进区域经济发展。其他人则接受与实现平等机会和正义的社会工作重大挑战相一致的移民融入。这项研究估计了美国对移民友好的城市和县的数量。为了得出这个估计值，作者准备了对美国所有人口超过 500 人的市县的地方政府政策扫描，以确定旨在招募或专门为移民服务的政策。作者还将这些对移民友好的政策进行了分类，从言辞到外展、融合和便利化。只有 7% 的城市和 6% 的县被发现有移民友好政策。然而，如果考虑到人口，市政样本中近一半的人生活在有移民友好政策的地方。文章最后讨论了对社会政策和社会工作实践的影响。