Thus Glendale, like greater Los Angeles and so many other immigrant-oriented U.S. cities, is an example of the globalist model that makes America great; and a counterpunch to the nativism being peddled by President elect Donald Trump. The foreign-born percentage is even higher in Los Angeles proper, helping it rival cities like New York and Miami as America’s de facto immigrant capital. Have these informal and global qualities driven Los Angeles into dysfunction, as Donald Trump and other nativists might fear? But Los Angeles’ innate status as an economic powerhouse still overshadows these recent trends. Los Angeles isn’t an aberration; American cities as a rule seem to live or die based on whether they attract immigrants.

Source: Forbes November 25, 2016 01:02 UTC