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Somali immigrants in Minnesota access mainstream federal and state safety-net programs—like SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and various state-funded social services—through the same enrollment systems us...
There is no single, authoritative figure in the supplied sources that gives a neat, recent percentage of households on “welfare” broken out exactly as White, Somali, Black, and Latino. Available repor...
Estimates of Minnesota’s Somali population vary widely across reputable and partisan sources: recent mainstream reporting and research groups put the figure between about 61,000 and nearly 110,000, wi...
Somali immigrants in the United States in 2025 show relatively high labor-force participation—around 70%—which exceeds the national native-born participation rate reported in some sources (about 63%) ...
Under review of the assembled analyses, the evidence shows ; direct head‑count comparisons of ICE agent numbers between the Trump (2017–2021) and Biden (2021– ) administrations are not documented in t...
Available reporting documents high welfare participation among Somali immigrant households in Minnesota—CIS and commentators cite figures around 80–89% for “some form of welfare” and 27% for cash assi...
Claims that President Biden “let in more immigrants than anyone” conflate different measures — encounters at the southern border, net international migration, parole releases and policy actions — and ...
Multiple reports and viral charts have claimed that Somali Americans enroll in SNAP at very high rates—figures floated include about 42% nationally and as high as 54% in some writeups—but these number...
Available reporting and policy summaries show no clear, consistent decade-long, national comparison of SNAP, TANF and Medicaid enrollment specifically for Somali immigrants versus other immigrant grou...
Available reporting does not provide a complete year-by-year panel from 2015–2025 for a single country, but the compiled sources show a consistent pattern over that decade: Somali immigrants in high‑i...
Undocumented immigrants in the United States face on most public benefits, but they and their U.S.-born children still access a mix of emergency care, school-based services, nutrition programs, and so...
Across the three presidencies the story is one of shifting emphasis and of numbers that rise and fall depending on which agency is counted and which enforcement action is tallied: Obama oversaw very l...
Claims that "more than 2 million" immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally received Social Security numbers (SSNs) last year have circulated in media and on social platforms; coverage cites figures o...
The short answer is: there is no single undisputed “number of deportations under Biden” because agencies and reporters use different definitions and timeframes—official counts range from roughly 1.1 m...
Stephen Miller has a long record of published opinion pieces, speechwriting and public remarks that consistently advance a hardline, nativist, “America First” immigration agenda and allied conservativ...
Different organizations give widely different counts for the U.S. undocumented/unauthorized population for 2023–2025: mainstream academic estimates cluster around 10.5–14 million (Pew: 14 million in 2...
Two principal federal and research estimates frame the recent surge in net migration: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) places net inflows of “other foreign nationals” — largely unauthorized migra...
The American Community Survey (ACS) is the backbone of U.S. research on immigrant populations but it is a blunt instrument for small, dispersed groups: useful for broad counts and socioeconomic snapsh...
Migration-policy researchers and data trackers report that Biden-era deportations were roughly comparable in scale to those under Trump in earlier years, while independent counts find Trump’s second-t...
For official DHS/ICE removal counts, consult ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics and DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) monthly tables — OHSS is described as DHS’s stati...