It doesn't change what I said. The Somali community has brought nothing positive to Minneapolis or any other place they've settled in here and you can't point to any. We should be restricting immigration to people who bring value to our nation and economy. Third world countries aren't the way they are because of geography; they are that way because of the people who live there. You import enough of those people and they will turn your home into the place they left. This is illogical.
We are not the world's soup kitchen.
It would serve you to do some research before you open your mouth.
Somali
Somali immigrants have significantly contributed to Minnesota's economy, with a GDP estimated at around $12 billion. The impact of Somali workers in Minnesota could be about $8 billion, reflecting their production and the ripple effects it generates. Industries such as retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation would face immediate disruption if Somali workers left Minnesota. Despite facing challenges, such as hostility from immigration agents and the need to prove their citizenship, Somali Minnesotans generate at least $500 million in income annually and pay about $67 million in state and local taxes. Their contributions are essential to Minnesota's workforce and future growth, as they have seen poverty levels drop, workforce participation rise, and homeownership increase.
Somali Minnesotans generate at least $500 million in income annually and pay about $67 million in state and local taxes.
kstp.com
Third-world nations are the way they are primarily due to past Western colonization and current destabilization of those countries due to Western interference.
Somalia had every reason to succeed: an advantageous geographical situation, oil, ores and only one religion and one language for the whole territory; a rare phenomenon in Africa. Somalia could have been a great power in the region. But the reality is completely different: famine, wars...
www.globalresearch.ca
You can quit talking like some white European because you descend from 3rd world immigrants, and these white descendants of immigrants should also STFU ranting about Somalis to include Trump who comes from German and Scottish immigrants.
So learn this too:
On July 30, 2024, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released a report titled
“Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants.” This report found that undocumented immigrants contributed nearly $100 billion in federal and state taxes in 2022 alone.
- Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
- Undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of $8,889 per person in 2022. In other words, for every 1 million undocumented immigrants who reside in the country, public services receive $8.9 billion in additional tax revenue.
- More than a third of the tax dollars paid by undocumented immigrants go toward payroll taxes dedicated to funding programs that these workers are barred from accessing. Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.
- At the state and local levels, slightly less than half (46 percent, or $15.1 billion) of the tax payments made by undocumented immigrants are through sales and excise taxes levied on their purchases. Most other payments are made through property taxes, such as those levied on homeowners and renters (31 percent, or $10.4 billion), or through personal and business income taxes (21 percent, or $7.0 billion).
- Six states raised more than $1 billion each in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants living within their borders. Those states are California ($8.5 billion), Texas ($4.9 billion), New York ($3.1 billion), Florida ($1.8 billion), Illinois ($1.5 billion), and New Jersey ($1.3 billion).
- In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders.
Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both because their wages would rise and because their rates of tax compliance would increase.
itep.org
The rhetoric said that undocumented immigrants drain our economy, the truth says they contribute nearly 100 billion to this nation every year. The report says that if our government gave them a path to citizenship, it would add even more revenue. Racism comes with a price and the price for mass deportations now is at least 96.7 billion dollars annually. This was free money. Undocumented immigrants were paying for programs they could not get. Money for programs that anti-immigrant right wing Republicans were gladly taking advantage of.
www.yahoo.com
