Every ten years, the U.S. government releases a new census.

It’s a whole pile of data, and it tells us all kinds of things about Americans – how much money we make, how long it takes us to drive to work, even the rates at which we die.

These days we don’t have to wait a decade for an update. The American Community Survey gives us a snapshot of the country’s demographics every year.

Statisticians have been madly crunching the latest set of numbers, and it turns out they reveal some interesting trends in Illinois’s immigrant population.

Rob Paral, a fellow at the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington, D.C., sits down with Eight Forty-Eight’s Alison Cuddy.