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City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
Operation Creep was a multi‑agency undercover sting in Bloomington, Minnesota, that resulted in 16 arrests of men alleged to have sought sex from a decoy they believed to be a 17‑year‑old; local polic...
Somali refugee resettlement to Minnesota began in earnest in the early 1990s after Somalia’s civil war, grew rapidly through the 1990s and 2000s into the largest concentration of Somalis outside Afric...
Minnesota’s Somali population remains concentrated in specific Minneapolis neighborhoods — most notably Cedar‑Riverside (often called “Little Mogadishu”) and parts of the Lake Street corridor around K...
Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the United States, concentrated primarily in the Twin Cities metro — especially Minneapolis’s Cedar‑Riverside (“Little Mogadishu”) and parts of St. Pau...
Federal refugee admissions, designations, and post‑9/11 immigration enforcement shaped who arrived and how they were classified, while , labor markets and secondary migration patterns determined where...
Somali neighborhoods in Minnesota show large, documented socioeconomic gaps compared with the state average: a Center for Immigration Studies analysis reports about 81% of Somali-headed households use...
By 2025 Minnesota remains the U.S. state with the largest Somali population—roughly 61,000–64,000 people in recent estimates—with major concentrations in Hennepin and Ramsey counties (Minneapolis and ...
State and local reporting and historical summaries show that Somali arrivals to Minnesota since 2005 have been concentrated in the Twin Cities metro—principally Hennepin County (Minneapolis) and Ramse...
Minnesota is consistently reported as home to the largest Somali population in the United States, with recent estimates ranging from about 61,000 to more than 107,000 people of Somali descent statewid...