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Component in the mosaic project. an ambitious plan to make this area much more inviting to immigrants. >> st. louis wants to be an open and welcoming community. >> reporter: so the city is helping immigrant groups connect with loans, opportunity, education. this is not just a feel-good measure. a study found immigrants are more likely to open businesses, create jobs, raise wages and pursue higher degrees than the general population. as for jason jans, he may make it permanent, he's applied to become a u.s. citizen. thank you for joining us today, i'm carol costello. "legal view" with ashley ...

>> reporter: that is a message local leaders are desperate to get out. ever since a study found this area lags far behind other cities in attracting immigrants. the nonprofit international institute here serves 7,000 a year. but that's half as many as expected in a town this size. >> we want to welcome you. >> reporter: the institute is now a key component in the mosaic project. an ambitious plan to make this area much more inviting to immigrants. >> st. louis wants to be an opening and welcoming community. that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: that's county executive charlie dooley and ...

States with similar voting laws like alabama, kansas and georgia. joining us now from the supreme court, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, thanks for being here. >> reporter: you bet. >> walk us through this ruling today. >> reporter: what the supreme court said is what arizona tried to do is preempted by federal law. that is to say, federal law is supreme on this question of how federal elections are conducted. it said that this arizona law runs contrary to a two-decade-old law called the motor voter law. it basically says that he can register to vote when you get your drive...

Dissertation which said the average iq of immigrants in the united states is substantially lower than that of the white native population. it's a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-iq immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and nn kraan increase in proportion of unskilled workers in the american labor market. he has decided that immigrants are just not as smart as whites, but the fact they will have b h low-iq children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against. he wrote in 2010 for

Requesting asylum. so they arrested him. his medication was taken away and he died in shackles in a prison ward of a hospital five days later. >> not to crassly move this conversation to politics but it is an important part of the discussion. i came across an interesting piece in the nation from rick perlestein this week. he would understand if democrats should want immigration given that historically immigrant groups once discriminated ten to move right ward. what if they start becoming italian? what if they followed the group of other immigrant groups before them, become increasingly upward ...