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Somalis are incredible welfare suckers. We just had the pleasure of having over a thousand suddenly descend on our sleepy little town. Since their arrival, they have doubled the city's welfare budget. They are receiving subsidized rent, free money from the gov't, food stamps, free medical care....the list goes on. Then they threatened an investigation into city funds when people started complaining (which they had every right to, the city funds the welfare budget largely from property taxes). They actually did get a lawsuit in on my town's failure to provide them with adequate English services. The city is fighting it, of course. The Somalis aren't learning English because they don't want to, not because the programs are not good enough.

They moved here from Georgia to take advantage of more generous welfare benefits. A lot of the households are one mother with a ton of kids. The dads stay in Georgia or another state, working and sending money. The moms send some of their welfare money to the dads. FYI if the dad is absent, the mom qualifies for more services. So there is a cute little welfare scam, reported in the papers, that no one will touch out of PC paranoia.

Take a look at THIS from an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

In writing about their first lunch experience at Como, most students said they were unfamiliar with the food. Some did not know how to pick it up. Others were unaware that it had to be paid for, accustomed as they were to living off the land or having food handed out at refugee camps.
"I was really surprised," wrote Ali Haji-Sufi, "because in my country, Somalia, there is such little money that you can just get the food for free."
He was equally surprised when a teacher who loaned him $2 to buy lunch expected to be paid back. The confusion continued when he took the food and looked for a place to sit. He didn't know anyone and wasn't sure what he was supposed to do, so he sat on the floor near a window.