Immigration migration.

• Position: TRENDS & TRANSITIONS - Brief article

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Where immigrants are coming from and which states they are heading to is changing, according to the Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey. Sixty-five percent of the 40 million foreign-born people in America live (no surprise) in California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois; each of these states has more than 1 million. North Dakota and Wyoming have the fewest--17,000 and 16,000, respectively.

Since 2005, however, a greater proportion of immigrants are heading toward Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. The largest proportion of these states' foreign-born population arrived in 2005 or later. Michigan, North Dakota and Vermont are experiencing the greatest influx of immigrants since 2008.

Where they are coming from also is changing. Before 2005, 54 percent of all foreign-born residents came from...