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By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
Mexicans with little education and limited English skills are leading a wave of newly arrived immigrants who are increasingly fanning out from traditional gateway states, Census data released Tuesday indicate.
The dispersal of new immigrants to parts of the Southeast and Midwest that are unaccustomed to foreign-born populations in large numbers may be fueling national concerns about illegal immigration, some population analysts say.
'The most rapid gainers are almost every state in the southeastern U.S. other than Florida,' says Jeffrey Passel, demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. 'Those are the states with the highest percentage of undocumented immigrants.'
