As I remember it, their migration as political refugees to the U.S. started in DEC 1992 when part-time Maine resident POTUS #41 GHWB decided to invade Somalia during his last full month in office. He then handed that steaming pile to POTUS #42 WJC who didn't know what to do. The point being, many of these Somalis found their way down South, espeically the metro-Atlanta area. But then they heard about the state freebies Maine offered and they picked up and re-migrated to southwestern Maine.