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Minnesota has seen a marked uptick in new Somali refugee arrivals recently. The number of Somalis arriving directly from Africa has more than tripled in four years. But community leaders say there's also been an increase in so-called secondary arrivals: refugees resettled in a different state who within weeks or months head to Minnesota, with its established Somali community. Such new arrivals have come to dominate the population at Mary's Place, the homeless shelter in downtown Minneapolis, where Somali residents now make up more than two-thirds of the population.