Immigration legislation is a hot issue, at both the state and federal levels. Despite the strong federal immigration policy in the US, distinctions in the immigrant experience in different states have become more and more apparent- for example, Arizona's strict SB1070 legislation vs. anti-race based profiling in Middlebury. Check out the Migration Policy Institute's cross-section of immigration trends across the US, including a surprising statistic on our own state of Vermont.
States vary in the share of naturalized US citizens among their immigrants. Out of immigrants in Hawaii and Vermont, 57 percent were US citizens by naturalization, compared to less than 31 percent in new immigrant-destination states such as Arkansas, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Nebraska.
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