Earlier in the year, Lou Dobbs and other media were giving the impression that anti-immigrant forces were sweeping the country.  Immigration was supposed to be the grand wedge issue of the rightwing. Now, recent elections, including the Presidential primaries, showed the ultimate hallowness of the anti-immigrant political card, but it's worth understanding that below the hype, most states have quietly been promoting sane, sensible and positive programs to integrate new immigrants into our communities.

As a report Progressive States Network released this week (which I authored with support from our staff), what's astonishing is that at the actual point of implementation, anti-immigrant policy is dwarfed by progressive, integrative policy towards immigrants. Just a few facts from the report:

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