On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the economic impact  that immigrants from Somalia have had on the Dutch economy.

The article reports:

Immigrants are no longer expected to melt into American culture. In fact, even the suggestion of it is supposedly racist.

A wide-ranging data set out of the Netherlands is going viral this morning. It shows that immigrants from Somalia end up being a net drain on the Dutch economy. At the same time, it shows that North American and Japanese migrants are a net gain for the economy.

In fact, most everywhere that doesn’t have a native Western culture ends up being a massive net drag on the economy. Arab, African, Southwest Asia (Afghanistan et al.), all the Arab states. All in the toilet as far as becoming contributing members of the Dutch economy.

One estimate put the lifetime cost of the roughly 43,000 Somalis living there at around €50 billion, with a B.

People … noticing … these data were also throwing U.K. data around.

Only one in ten Somalis in the U.K. is employed. More than a quarter of Eritreans and just over one in five Somalis are in prison in Scotland.

And what about the U.S.? Did you see the story about the depressed Pennsylvania town with a population of 4,000 that imported 2,000 Haitians to work in a factory? The company defaulted. The factory closed. There are now 2,000 unemployed Haitians with no legal status living in a small Pennsylvania town. 

The article concludes:

We’ve been told two things over and over and over again. 1. Low-skilled, quasi-legal or outright illegal immigration is a net boost to the economy. 2. Forcing immigrants to learn English and adopt Western culture is racist.

I don’t think either of those things is true.

You know what they will do in spades though — as they’re flooding communities and draining economies — vote Democrat.

There is a difference in cultures. Expecting people from non-western cultures who come here in large groups to assimilate is not realistic. As individuals they might assimilate, but in large groups they can stay within their own people and never become assimilated American citizens.