They weren't 'allowed' to come in. They were brought in. Ask the Black Caucus what they were thinking when they demanded it. Who knows why they chose Minnesota and Maine? Neither location makes sense. Nothing about the project makes any sense. The poor immigrants didn't know about running water, washing machines, escalators and certainly knew nothing about snow and freezing temperatures.
Must have come over on a Carnival Cruise! ;-)
Somalis are in Tennessee, too. There is a Somali ghetto in Nashville, and the nearby Murfreesboro mega mosque is their jihad compound. Unassimilable, nobody can stand them, & the local black population hates them the worst.
IIRC, they were brought in by churches and migrated to places with the most generous welfare benefits. There were Settlement House-type classes to teach them about modern conveniences. Evidently, they adapted to the climate &/or decided it was a good trade-off for the benefits.
I know they were brought in (as refugees); I didn’t post that they had been “allowed in” (I was responding to that post). I thought they chose those places because it is hard to be a welfare parasite in cold places; they’d be productive or be very uncomfortable. On the other hand, I don’t know if they are even allowed to work; some European countries allowed refugees in on the specific condition that they couldn’t work there (to protect their own populations in a way our government doesn’t from illegals). It is weird to see them in Minneapolis with their burquas/veils; it is surreal.
Yes, they do. Both states are excessively white and vote Dem. They want to make sure they STAY voting Dem.
See my post #67 and Tax-chick's post #65. She also has it right. The first Somalis imported into the country were actually the ethnic Bantu. Nice people and hard workers for the most part. I actually remember television specials from the 1990s about some of them walking two and three miles one way to get to their jobs.
Unfortunately, the leftist media complex used them to pave the road for "real Somalis" who, unfortunately, make up most of the Somali community today.
A late 1940s equivalent would be allowing Jews and other victims of nazis into the country as a limited humanitarian gesture, then importing waves of nazis in their wake.
I don't think the governement chose Maine. Most of those Somalis in Maine originally lived in Atlanta, and then they heard about the unusually generous welfare benefits in Lewiston and the rest is history.