Wrong! The Somalis were assigned to the United States by the United Nations. We were stupid enough to comply. They carefully researched which states had the most generous welfare programs and picked Minnesota and Maine.
In addition, the ELCA (ever more concerned with political correctness than Christianity) sponsored many of them in Minnesota because the ELCA is concentrated in Minnesota.
BTW, you find few Somalis in the coldest parts of Minnesota such as Baudette, International Falls, Two Harbors, etc. They are almost entirely concentrated in the cities, especially Minneapolis-St. Paul. There is a reason for this: more taxpayer teat to suckle.
Having been to Minneapolis, it is not a place I’d want to be on the dole (especially if I was from Africa).
The UN doesn’t make the US do anything the US doesn’t want to do; accepting the Somalis was done for the same reason we leave the southern border unguarded. We simply don’t have enough people (at 300 million) to compete with 2 large Asian countries with over a billion each.
In a global economy we’re not the big fish anymore.