A comment on one of those discussion boards just caught my eye—the statement was that Somalis are the least educated of the African immigrants living in America. I laughed out loud when I considered how clever they are at schemes to benefit themselves—like the housing voucher scheme in Cheyenne I just wrote about. Who needs a formal education when you know how to make it without working too hard.
The discussion thread led to this story about the US Census Bureau report from early October about the African population in America which included this graph:
I went to have a look at the Census report and followed a link to this information: The Census Bureau says that 76,205 Somali immigrants live in America. See Report and Supplemental tables here.
However, we have documented almost 120,000 admitted in the Refugee Resettlement Program alone, click here for that data. Our data doesn’t include all those who are here through other legal immigration programs or those who have entered illegally.
LOL! We know a bunch have left the country to join jihadists but not enough to account for that great a difference.
So, why the discrepancy? Did the Census Bureau not find about 45,000 or more of them?