In the previous post we gave readers the tiny Syrian resettlement numbers (so far!), but check out the Somali numbers—2,801 new Somalis have arrived in America in just the first three months of Fiscal Year 2015! At this pace they will surely be approaching the high George Bush Somali “welcoming” years!
Once again, see the very cool data base maintained by the US State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. (I use the fiscal year, but you might find it more understandable to use the calendar year option).
Somalis were resettled in about 115 cities large and small, but here are the top ten with the numbers in parenthesis. Again, these numbers are for three months (October, November and December 2014, the first three months of Fiscal Year 2015). And, it is possible that all December data has not yet been entered.
1. Minneapolis, MN (148)
2. Columbus, OH (127)
3. Phoenix, AZ (123)
4. Portland, OR (108)
5. Buffalo, NY (103)
6. Salt Lake, UT (100)
7. Louisville, KY (92)
8. Erie, PA (89)
9. Nashville, TN (81)
10. Three-way tie with (77) each
Seattle, WA
Houston, TX
St. Cloud, MN
(You might want to check my numbers, go to the data base, and see if I missed some top ten city and see if your city ‘welcomed’ Somalis! By the way, Anchorage, Alaska got 30 more mosque worshipers).
New readers: See ‘Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis?’ our top post of 2014 (even though it was written in 2011)—thank three ‘Christian Charities’ for flooding Minnesota with Somali Muslims.