The Minnesota Crossroads Mall terror attack has cast light once again on the Somali presence in the state. Minnesota is nearly 1 percent Somali .St. Cloud is reportedly up to 10%. There's a booming industry in resettling Somali Muslim migrants in the state.
It's a problem that predated Obama, but statistics cited by Ann Corcoran at her invaluable site, Refugee Resettlement Watch, show a troubling spike in recent years.
Barack Hussein Obama: 46,378 (so far)
2010: 4,884
2011: 3,161
2012: 4,921
2013: 7,600
2014: 9,000
2015: 8,858
2016 (one month short of a full year): 7,954 (1,099 went to Minnesota in the last 11 months)
It did get quite bad under Bush from '04 to '06, but the spike under Obama appears to be more consistent and sustained.