Muslims from Somalia, Burma, Sudan, and Ethiopia began arriving in Garden City and in 2021 they were joined by a few Afghans. In 2022, one thousand Muslims were estimated to live in Garden City, and most of them worked in the meat-packing plant. Social and economic impacts In 2007, a scholar summed up the negative social impacts of the packing plants: "influx of immigrants and refugees, housing shortages, rising demands for social services, increases in various social disorders, the creation of lots of relatively low-paying or part-time jobs, and relative falls in income levels." He point out also that these same issues characterize the meat-packing industry -- whatever its location. In Garden City, Spanish speaking children made up more than one-half of the school population and Mexican-owned businesses abounded. In 2006, Pew Research Center estimated that 27 percent of the employees of meat processing plants nationwide were undocumented aliens. Several raids by immigration officers on meat-packing facilities elsewhere ignited fears of the same in the Golden Triangle, but large-scale raids never occurred. Overall, however, problems associated with the rapid growth of an immigrant population have either not been serious or have been overcome. In 2018, Deborah and James Fallows titled an article about Dodge City, "A Conservative Town Embraces its Immigrant Population, Documented or Undocumented." They quoted a researcher of the Center for Rural Affairs stating that “Latinos and immigrants are not only bringing population growth to rural America, they are also bringing economic growth... Economists have found that, nationwide, rural counties with larger proportions of Latino populations tend to be better off economically than those with smaller Latino populations. Rural counties with higher proportions of Latinos tend to have lower unemployment rates and higher average per capita incomes.” In 2021, a Hispanic woman and second-generation immigrant was elected to the City Commission in Liberal and another Hispanic, also a second-generation immigrant, ran for the City Commission of Dodge City. A Hispanic man, born in Mexico and undocumented (although a DACA recipient), is the Deputy City Manager of Dodge City. In 2022, several department heads in the Garden City government have Hispanic surnames. Muslim immigrants The most recent immigrants to the Golden Triangle have been Muslims from Somalia, Burma, Sudan, and other countries. For job opportunities Somalis began moving to Garden City about 2009. In 2016, three Anglo men from near Garden City were arrested for plotting to bomb a