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Somali immigration produces extreme lifetime costs across Western welfare states, regardless of host country.

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When outcomes repeat across borders, the cause is structural, not incidental.

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Calling this data “racist” replaces analysis with avoidance and leaves the system untouched.

BRIEFING

Grant here. There's a clip circulating on social media right now that breaks down the lifetime fiscal impact of different immigrant groups across Western societies, and one data point towers over the rest: Somali immigrants consistently rank as the most expensive group overall. Let’s break it down.

According to the figures cited, Somali immigrants represent a net lifetime cost that exceeds one million dollars per person in quite a few welfare systems. That number isn’t just higher than other groups, but it’s a clear outlier. And what matters here isn’t any type of "shock factor," but it’s the consistency.

SOURCE

WOW This is a breakdown of the true cost of immigration

A Somali immigrant is the most expensive immigrant on earth for taxpayers, contributing nothing and each one costing $1.1 million in lifetime welfare payments

- A North American immigrant that goes to another country will contribute in their lifetime $573,000 to the country

- Scandinavian immigrant will contribute over their lifetime $577,000

- Immigrants from Oceania $476,000

- Japanese $525,000

- Someone from the UK $481,00

All those are net positives for society

Well now let's look at the ones who cost Society someone from the Middle East

- Middle East, it's a net loss for these immigrants at a cost of $624,000 over their lifetime

- Caribbeans net loss of $675,000

- Central and North Africa, net loss of $700,000

- Sub-Saharan Africans, net loss of $730,000

- And it leads us to the worst offenders, the costliest immigrants to a society Somalians. Somalians cost $1.1 million over their lifetime

WOW 🚨 This is a breakdown of the true cost of immigration

A Somali immigrant is the most expensive immigrant on earth for taxpayers, contributing nothing and each one costing $1.1 million in lifetime welfare payments

- A North American immigrant that goes to another country… pic.twitter.com/yOlwOApo74

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 3, 2026

DEBRIEFING

Somalian migrants in the U.S. are quite the hot-button issue as of late, especially with all the controversy emerging around fraudulent social services in Tim Cook's Minnesota, Ohio, and soon to be many others.

But clearly, this pattern doesn’t belong to one country, one party, or one welfare system. It shows up repeatedly across nations with different politics, different cultures, and different social models. When the same group produces the same extreme fiscal outcome in multiple systems, the explanation stops being coincidence or media framing. Instead, it obviously points to something structural that keeps reappearing wherever the same policy assumptions are applied.

And this is the key part policymakers, politicians, and the media avoid. Not because the data is unclear, but because acknowledging it would force uncomfortable questions about immigration criteria, welfare design, and assimilation standards that have been treated as morally off-limits. As long as those questions stay untouched, the costs don’t disappear. They just compound quietly, year after year, while the debate stays stuck on everything except the system producing the outcome.

NOW YOU KNOW

If the numbers travel, the system is traveling with them.