Obama OpEd: Nashville shows how immigrants benefit all

*This opinion piece was published to day in The Tennessean.  The President recently visited Nashville after signing his executive orders regarding immigration. VL

By Barack Obama, The Tennessean

Many Americans think of Nashville as the home of country music, barbecue, and a hit TV show. What they may not realize is that, in recent years, Music City also has had one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country.

“New Nashvillians” are from Somalia and Nepal and Laos. They’re from Mexico and Bangladesh. Nashville even boasts the largest Kurdish community in the United States. They work as teachers in our schools, doctors in our hospitals, and cops in our neighborhoods. They start small businesses and create jobs making this city a more prosperous, more innovative place. “They” are “us.”

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