This conference document was used in the Placemaking for Small Communities session during the 2015 ICMA Annual Conference.

According to the 2010 Census, approximately 40 million foreign-born people now live in the United States and seven million of them arrived within the past 8 years alone.

With the assistance of ICMA CityLinks partnerships, municipalities in El Salvador and Guatemala are adopting crime and violence prevention practices developed by communities in the United States.