Posted on 11/01/2025 4:28:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woman remembers when she first moved to the neighborhood more than 20 years ago, and the streets were full of empty storefronts and seemingly relentless poverty.
Today, Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor is jammed with businesses, many owned by Somali refugees.
“Look at what we did around here,” said Nasra Hassan, a community health worker whose family came to Minneapolis fleeing Somalia’s civil war, speaking one day after the Trump administration slashed the number of refugees allowed into the United States. “Because of us this place is thriving.”
Minnesota’s large Somali community was among the immigrant groups that helped revitalize the Lake Street corridor, which has long called out to newcomers to America. But scattered across the city are other communities and many other businesses built by refugees. They came to escape violence in Mexico, and war in Myanmar. Recent years have seen them arrive from the Congo and Ukraine.
“Where would America be without us?” Hassan asked.
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States, roughly 87,000 people according to the latest census figures, most of whom live in the Minneapolis area. They have been coming to Minnesota, often as refugees, since the 1990s, drawn by generous social services and an ever-growing diaspora community.
Fartun Weli, a prominent Somali activist, said refugees – from Somalia, Latin America and elsewhere - have seeped deeply into Minnesota life, whether as health care aides or helping stabilize the workforce of shrinking small towns. She wonders what will happen if they can no longer find a haven in the U.S.
“Who is going to take care of our elders, or work in our factories?” she asked.
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A(merican)P(ravda)
We would be FAR better off if we had not allowed so many millions with Godless belief systems to come into this country. It would be MUCH better. Your countries do NOT allow other religious beliefs to become dominant. They simply do NOT allow it. The media completely fails to report this.
This could be fun!! Are we going to have another“Day without a Mexican”?
Such a lack of gratitude.
Minneapolis is a Shithole...
Kind of a shame that a number of those people brought their civil wars and violence to America.
Cool
They should go back to Somalia
“Because of us this place is thriving.”
Well then why wasn’t Somalia thriving? These filthy sand maggots NEVER seem to thrive anywhere in the world unless they come to the USA (or another Western country).
I say take your thriving place back to the shithole you came from. /spit
Kinda sounds like Nasra is an illegal alien.
America would be like it was before you. Great. Thus...MAGA. fools.
Before these almost 100 million new Americans, we were hitting golf balls on the moon and were the best at almost everything in the world.
drawn by generous social services
I’d say that’s the key. I’m surprised the AP admitted it.
So, them bringing their third world, grifting, dirty, frauding society to America and turning it into their own mini-Somalia is a plus for us.
Nope. Send them BACK.
No barf alert?
The hmoungs took over with hard work and we're eventually driven out by Somalis with thier government assistance and fraud dollars..
When I was a kid, America was in much better shape. We all know what changed and now we are circling the drain. It isn’t rocket science.
I suspect many, if not most, are taxpayer-supported.
‘Where would America be without us?’
Better off! The world thinks US taxpayers ought to be serfs so the rest of the world’s rif raff can life like kings!
How about America's children, second generation Hispanics and people from countries who don't hate America? Just to name three quick examples.
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