[Black Agnes]

Do a search for 'somali' on this forum. Read the articles. After 18 months, 90% are still unemployed and the ones that will work don't want to work unless it's between 10am and 2pm.

[ozone1]

"Somali Bantu. Some 133,000 Somali Bantu (Mushunguli), descendents of persons captured along Africa's eastern edge of present-day Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania by Arab slave traders, are living in refugee camps along the Kenya-Somalia border. Although born in Somalia, most say they cannot return there, since they have no warlord to protect them- Somalia has been divided among rival warlords since 1991.

Zanzibar and Mozambique, where there are Bantu residents with similar languages, have refused to accept the Somali Bantu. The UNHCR is processing the Somali Bantu as refugees, and many hope to be resettled in the US; the US declared the Somali Bantu a persecuted group in 1999. "

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/archive_mn/jan_2002-17mn.html

[cp124]

But Renee Bernier, the City Council president, says the market for unskilled labor with limited English is gone.

Bernier, who has a security business, says that when she tried to hire 30 Somalis at $8 an hour to hold "stop and slow" signs at road construction sites, the few who showed interest wanted to work only from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. She was further irked when some Somalis sought low-interest loans for businesses downtown — without good credit or a track record — under an obscure city program.

"How the hell do they find out about this stuff?" she asks.

[SheLion]

After 18 months, 90% are still unemployed and the ones that will work don't want to work unless it's between 10am and 2pm.

Pure Heaven! And our farmers up here work from 5am until 9 - 10pm at night harvesting.

[FITZ]

After 18 months, 90% are still unemployed

A little different than previous immigrant groups. I know my Irish ancestors had to take hard jobs to come here ---I'm glad they didn't have welfare then. This group is another group destined to failure because they'll get used to project living and welfare, and watching Jerry Springer all day for something to do.