Reynolds Farley, The Detroit News: Michigan's closest international border is Canada, which doesn't send a lot of immigrants to the U.S. each year, said Reynolds Farley, research professor emeritus at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. "Immigrants often go from their country of origin to communities that are well established," Farley added. "So there is some immigration from the Middle East to Michigan since we have a fairly substantial Chaldean and Arab population."
"States are offering tax abatements to get firms to come to that state and there's just a lot of competition in that regard," Farley said, but Michigan doesn't always win these battles.
