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[HaughtyFrank]

The whole debate surrounding the Somali immigrants got me thinking.

Like the defense for immigrants always seems to be that they're actually incredible valuable, the backbone of the community etc. etc. and that's always a nice sentiment but what if it's sometimes just objectively not true?

Like in this case it just seems objectively impossible that Somalis are an integral part to everything that happens in Boston because there's actually way too few of them.

In defense of the Minnesota Somalis there was this tweet saying that they're paying 67 million annually in taxes which is nice but also considerably less than average Minnesotans of a same sized group would pay

I don't mean to say with this "well kick them out" and there are likely various explanations, like poverty and lack of education, but I feel like those issues need to be talked about instead of pretending that every immigrant is instantly an economic net benefit.