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Breaking News: Immigrants Like to Live Where Other Americans Live

Census Bureau data shows that foreign-born people arriving in America during the past decade

tended to settle in the suburbs

, the New York Times reports. This is not surprising to those of us who have spent the last 15 or so years deleting restaurant reviewers’ slack-jawed references to the startling fact that an authentically ethnic mom-and-pop place has turned up in—

of all places!

—a common strip mall. American habits! Our newest residents are eager to adopt them.