Bloomberg Information has created a visualization depicting the correlation between the political leanings of counties by state and their respective share of refugees and asylum seekers who settled there since 2023. The newspaper used immigration court docket information on 1.8 million arrivals that Syracuse College lately obtained. In response to the visualization, new immigrants in swing states, proven in yellow, and throughout the nation generally, are settling in counties that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. For instance, in Michigan, a battleground state for the upcoming 2024 presidential election, 78 p.c of latest immigrants settled in counties that voted for the Democratic Social gathering, though counties that voted for the Republican Social gathering usually tend to endure from labor pressure shortages.
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