国际英语资讯:Spotlight: U.S. western city embraces immigrants as officials bash White House rhetoric_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: U.S. western city embraces immigrants as officials bash White House rhetoric

Prakriti Rai, 22, whose parents own an Indian-Nepalese grocery in Aurora, just east of Denver, told the Denver Post that the community has been welcoming to her and her family.

"(We've had) mostly positive experiences," she said of her family's Indian-Nepalese store. "We haven't really faced racial discrimination."

Discrimination is on the minds of many U.S.-bound immigrants these days, who worries hate groups are increasingly active as the White House continued to ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric as a political tool.

WHY DENVER

In 2019, Denver was ranked the top three "best place to live" by U.S. News and World Report, for the sixth straight year. In June, the Vancouver-based Resonance Consultancy called Denver a top "large city" in the United States, and last month, CityLab website listed Denver as a "top 5" U.S. city by population growth and job opportunity.

"We're about to tell you something you probably already could have guessed: Denver is the fastest-growing large city in the country, according to census data," local KUSA TV news channel reported in 2016.

That trend has not stopped since then, as unemployment remains low at 3.6 percent and immigrants keep coming.

Aurora, a city in the eastern part of the 3.1-million-population Denver metropolitan area, has considerable ethnic diversity. The city had the 16th-highest foreign-born population per capita among U.S. cities with a population of 300,000, according to U.S. Census date in 2009.