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Immigrants Help Revive Dayton

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    Welcome Dayton is an initiative meant to attract immigrants to the Rust Belt city.

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River fifty years the General Motors moraine assembly plants out the Dayton Ohio turned out Chevrolet as Buick and Oldsmobile.

Deployed around 2400 people when it should stores and 2000.

Think it was primarily a manufacturing -- we had General Motors here and along.

Citizens worked for General Motors and when they.

Poured out a lot of people lost their jobs -- the last ten years we've lost something like 20000 citizens because the jobs of going away.

-- it's actually made -- the backbone what was once one of America's working class.

But with its demise -- on the inevitable unemployment and home includes real time.

It's that you really got to work hard get out network card you know them.

Just make it a little bit of money.

Many of the people who lifted and lived on the city's east once solidly working class neighborhoods and now lives in shambles.

Despite the scenes of hardship there's an undercurrent of hope -- -- -- grocery items clothing shop -- there's.

-- -- of -- that advertise in Spanish.

And a few blocks and that is -- -- expect this is part of small but growing Latino community in Dayton.

Check detail by cheap housing lax immigration laws and -- -- city initiative meant to attract immigrants.

Took -- about seven years -- who aren't really out to build a house.

From then -- up.

-- -- -- as a contractor and a -- success story.

Unemployment -- to Mexico.

Or be it became the US at the age of fourteen in the trunk of -- car.

-- -- move -- around Texas building condominiums before -- work to date and -- minutes later decide to put down roots.

When I came here in the united these scientists had to keep moving from place to place and I just like themselves and and start building something.

Gain residency -- would -- built his business and one of the city's largest construction firms.

-- -- -- stories like their vehicles to attract immigrants from around the world.

According to a report compiled by the Migration Policy Institute there were just over 22000 immigrants in -- two -- six.

2010 that number jump between 9000.

Despite the atom -- to local economy there are some in the city who -- that the influx of immigrants into the job prospects and long term resident.

You -- and -- working I mean network it all the jobs that we used to work.

When we was growing up you know I mean you see a total turn around.

The city's Latino population is currently expanding to other parts of -- there was still remains to be seen whether or not the initiative can revitalize a struggling city.

Only time will tell.

For fox is Latino and -- --

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