We probably have at least twice as many Somalis of ethnic descent living in the US as the federal government is telling us!
This little article caught my eye yesterday, so I went back this morning to look at numbers I have recorded for years.
Somalis in Minnesota with Somali flags!
From Orangeville.com about Minnesota Somali numbers, with this line at the end:
The 2015 American Community Survey says almost one-third of the more than 129,000 people in the United States reporting Somali ancestry lived in Minnesota.
129,000! No way!
This is what we know: Back in 2008, I laboriously poured over data provided by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s annual reports to Congress and wrote this post about the numbers. (We did not have access to Wrapsnet at the time). Each year after that I updated the post with the Somalis we admitted to the US—through only the Refugee Admissions Program.
Through FY16 we admitted 136,376 Somali ‘refugees’!..."
READ ON!
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