- Media downplays public disgust, outrage.
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- Minnesota, one of the whitest states in the U.S., has
been targeted by multiracialists to absorb some 15,000 Hmong immigrants
over the next six months.
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- Since the late 1970s, the backward, Southeast Asian tribe
has been flocking to the United States, with Minnesota being one of their
preferred destinations.
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- The Gopher State now hosts a Hmong population estimated
at 60,000, not counting the wave of newcomers arriving this year.
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- The Hmong arriving in Minnesota this year have spent
their entire lives in a refugee camp. The vast majority cannot speak English,
and have no job skills or education. Even some liberals have expressed
concern about a backlash from the anticipated increase in violent crime.
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- One Minnesota resident was chosen by the controlled media
to express mild concern about this latest influx, although she cited economic,
rather than racial reasons.
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- "I have a concern about all the Hmong coming to
Minnesota," said Jeanette Super. "Will jobs be given to them
that should be given to Minnesota residents? How much money will they be
given from our coffers?"
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- The cost to taxpayers of settling the newest Hmong immigrants
in Minnesota has been estimated at 22.2 million dollars.
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- Read full article
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- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid
=519&e=12&u=/ap/20040702/ap_on_re_us/hmong_arrivals
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