Forum examines ways to fully assimilate immigrants into G.I.

Communities all over the country are having their own conferences, trying to solve immigrant problems in their own place and their own way. Little by little, we will fix these problems. Read this whole article, very interesting! - - Donna Poisl

By Harold Reutter

One sign that Grand Island's two-day secondary migration conference may have been successful was that people did not stop talking at the end of Friday's community forum.

Sudanese immigrants stood talking with Somali immigrants, while Anglos talked with Latinos. Then groups would re-arrange so a whole different mix of ethnic groups were talking with each other.

Those informal conversations mimicked the much more structured dialogue that had taken place for the preceding three hours during a community forum on secondary migration conducted by the Spring Institute of Denver.
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