In US Swing States, Migrants Aren’t Settling in Trump Country

This week’s MapLab comes from Elena Mejía, a Bloomberg graphics reporter who recently analyzed immigration patterns in swing states.

At campaign stops in Michigan and Wisconsin earlier this year, Donald Trump made headlines for dehumanizing statements about immigrants illegally in the US. “Every town is now a border town because Joe Biden has brought the carnage and chaos and killing from all over world and dumped it straight into our backyards,” the former president told an audience in Grand Rapids. (This was before Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee.)