This is the logical impact when the government actually gets serious about enforcing the rule of law.
Not dissimilar from the estimated 1-2 million illegals from Mexico & South America that have self-deported.
AS A CITIZEN OF MINNEAPOLIS, SOME LONG, RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON THE SITUATION AS WELL AS A LITTLE BIT OF MATH:
Imagine just the cost of welfare and social services for the Somali's (completely separate from all the fraud/scams). There's an estimated 80k somali's in the twin cities, though I strongly suspect the number is significantly higher than that. But for the sake of math, let's go with 80k.
80% of that 80k are unemployed and receiving benefits from the state and federal government.
So that comes out to 64k.
Let's be VERY conservative and assume that each of these Somalis are getting 50k per year in unemployment and social services benefits.
64,000 X 50,000 = 3.2 BILLION DOLLARS per year.
Again, the 50k is a very conservative number in my estimation. And there's still at least another 20k Somali's in the state outside of the twin cities, though my understanding is that a much higher percentage of them are employed.
What I'm getting at in this long, rambling post is two fold:
#1. Just getting these people out of here and off the welfare lists is going to save an enormous amount of tax dollars.
#2. I firmly believe the welfare angle was the original scam. I have little doubt that a large chunk of that welfare money was leaving the country (with some of it no doubt coming back to certain individuals) and I have equally little doubt that there were many Somali's collecting welfare who only existed on paper.
Lastly, for the small % of Somalis who are productive, hopefully they'll get to stay. I have run into a few over the years that work hard and have actually tried to integrate into the culture. My Uber driver to the airport for a recent business trip has been here for 12 years. Learned English in his first year, started driving a cab, then started doing Uber 8 years ago, works 6 days a week and does 14 hour days.
Got his citizenship 3 years ago and plans to retire in 5 years if he can maintain his current work/income pace. His family back in Somalia wants him to come home when he retires in part because they know he has money. But he said he'd never go back there other than a rare visit for family.
So for the rare guys like my driver, I hope he doesn't get caught up in this stuff. And if you made it this far in the post, I thank you.
Great find, OP!
This is the logical impact when the government actually gets serious about enforcing the rule of law.
Not dissimilar from the estimated 1-2 million illegals from Mexico & South America that have self-deported.
AS A CITIZEN OF MINNEAPOLIS, SOME LONG, RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON THE SITUATION AS WELL AS A LITTLE BIT OF MATH:
Imagine just the cost of welfare and social services for the Somali's (completely separate from all the fraud/scams). There's an estimated 80k somali's in the twin cities, though I strongly suspect the number is significantly higher than that. But for the sake of math, let's go with 80k.
80% of that 80k are unemployed and receiving benefits from the state and federal government.
So that comes out to 64k.
Let's be VERY conservative and assume that each of these Somalis are getting 50k per year in unemployment and social services benefits.
64,000 X 50,000 = 3.2 BILLION DOLLARS per year.
Again, the 50k is a very conservative number in my estimation. And there's still at least another 20k Somali's in the state outside of the twin cities, though my understanding is that a much higher percentage of them are employed.
What I'm getting at in this long, rambling post is two fold:
#1. Just getting these people out of here and off the welfare lists is going to save an enormous amount of tax dollars.
#2. I firmly believe the welfare angle was the original scam. I have little doubt that a large chunk of that welfare money was leaving the country (with some of it no doubt coming back to certain individuals) and I have equally little doubt that there were many Somali's collecting welfare who only existed on paper.
Lastly, for the small % of Somalis who are productive, hopefully they'll get to stay. I have run into a few over the years that work hard and have actually tried to integrate into the culture. My Uber driver to the airport for a recent business trip has been here for 12 years. Learned English in his first year, started driving a cab, then started doing Uber 8 years ago, works 6 days a week and does 14 hour days.
Got his citizenship 3 years ago and plans to retire in 5 years if he can maintain his current work/income pace. His family back in Somalia wants him to come home when he retires in part because they know he has money. But he said he'd never go back there other than a rare visit for family.
So for the rare guys like my driver, I hope he doesn't get caught up in this stuff. And if you made it this far in the post, I thank you.