Venezuela Has Been Dealt With. Somali Scammers Should Be Next.

One of the benefits of taking some time off, and letting the news of the day unfold for a couple of weeks without responding to it (or even hearing about it), is that you gain some perspective. You inoculate yourself from the usual call-and-response outrage cycles, the latest “true crime”-style conspiracy nonsense, and so on. Then, when you return, it’s easier to take stock of the issues that matter, and the ones that don’t. This is clarity that, on the Right, we’ve needed for some time now. And over Christmas and New Year’s, in a kind of one-two punch, that clarity arrived. We were treated to a contrast that was so stark and so sobering that it’s impossible to ignore.

First, there was the man-on-the-street video of the Somali daycares and health care centers, posted by the YouTuber Nick Shirley. Of course, the fact that Somalis are openly scamming Americans is not exactly new information. There have been dozens of reports — from outlets like Alpha News, County Highway, the Manhattan Institute, and so on — documenting, in excruciating detail, just how widespread the corruption is. Federal prosecutors proved that Somalis ripped off hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers as part of the so-called “Feeding Our Future” scam — and that’s just one of their fraudulent organizations, where they pretended to feed children in exchange for federal reimbursements. Somalis have also set up fake “autism treatment centers” on virtually every block, which is another scam that’s cost hundreds of millions of dollars in just the past five years. And then there’s the adult daycares, the normal daycares, the “home health aides,” the “housing stabilization services,” and so on. Somalis have scammed all of it. In fact, even before Nick Shirley’s video came out, the state of Minnesota announced that they were pausing all new licenses for “home and community-based human services providers,” because “the unprecedented increase in provider applications over the past five years far outpaces the increase in people receiving services.”