[kearnyirish2]

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.

[Vigilanteman]

Somalia is a sparsely populated country with about the same density as Colorado. Only Colorado doesn't have over 2000 miles of coastline astride a major trade route, nor is it located in a semi and tropic region with a mild climate year round.

Turn Somalia over to the Jews or Chinese and it would be the most prosperous country in that part of Africa within two to three decades.

The problem with Somalia, like most third world countries, is the people and the system which they help perpetuate. I'm sure they would have preferred to locate in Florida if only had Florida provided the cornucopia of benefits and ELCA sponsors as Minnesota.

For the shiftless and indolent, lounging around on a sandy beach on the taxpayer's dime may be ideal. But if it isn't available, lounging around in a heated taxpayer furnished apartment with a big screen teevee in Minneapolis still beats the hell out of living on the edge of starvation in Mogadishu.