I think the State Dept has a standing deal with the Nashville Metro government to dump their problem refugees here. The city gets some resettlement bucks (for a while) and reliable welfare plantation votes. Chamber of Commerce gets cheap labor, slum tenants, WalMart customers, etc. Normal folks get to move.
Somalis are just plain awful
Lots of Illegal Mexicans too
Which means the usual pluses and minuses
Many groups of whites too from all over basically who tend to blend in
In Williamson where I am our biggest immigrant group is Californians
Some are happy refugees
Some non repentant refugees
Some reluctant transfers
Nashville has now once again elected another yankee lefty as mayor
This will be the fourth two termed in a row
Amazing
And people think Nashville is conservative