The Somali-tied welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota is likely far worse than the American people think, involving &#8220;complicit&#8221; state government officials and totaling far more stolen money than original early estimates stated, according to Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller.
Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen from the state, and much of the welfare fraud has been tied to Somali migrants, as first reported by City Journal. And, alarmingly, some of the stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists. 
&#8220;We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history,&#8221; Miller said on Fox News. &#8220;We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes.&#8221;
Miller noted that some of the reported welfare scams include people &#8220;pretending that children have autism, who are not in fact autistic,&#8221; and &#8220;pretending to enroll people in food programs, when, in fact, nobody was ever enrolled.&#8221;
These fraudsters, Miller said, engaged in &#8220;massive fraud, lying, and theft, and grift on a scale we&#8217;ve never seen before in American history.&#8221;
&#8220;The total bill, the total tab for this, is going to be far beyond the numbers being reported,&#8221; he said, suggesting we are dealing with billions of stolen tax dollars tied directly to welfare schemes.
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&#8220;Based on the records we already have &#8212; this is a significant undercount, by the way &#8212; 75% of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that&#8217;s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,&#8221; Miller added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>: &#8220;We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history&#8230; and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/h4jfFit0jD">pic.twitter.com/h4jfFit0jD</a>
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The Trump administration advisor also claimed that Democrat leaders in the state were &#8220;fully complicit&#8221; in the fraud.
&#8220;We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people,&#8221; he asserted.
Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be tied up in the scandal.
&#8220;Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/what-did-ilhan-omar-know-about-the-1b-welfare-fraud-case-in-her-minnesota-district/">reported</a> this past week. &#8220;Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.&#8221;
There are also serious questions about the oversight, or lack thereof, from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. 
Currently, the Treasury Department is investigating allegations that “under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-trump-supporters-might-attack-somalis-brushes-off-fraud-scandal?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ilhan+Omar+Says+Trump+Supporters+Might+Attack+Somalis%2C+Brushes+Off+Fraud+Scandal">Ilhan Omar Says Trump Supporters Might Attack Somalis, Brushes Off Fraud Scandal</a>

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The Somali Welfare Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think

Trump Admin Says Somali Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think 

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It seems that the Somali welfare fraud scandal is now breaking into full view, and it&#8217;s hitting a lot of people who are elected officials, including the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, and possibly Ilhan Omar.
To understand why this matters so much, we have to understand that it is all tied to a couple of major national issues. One, of course, is mass migration from third-world countries. Is that something America should be pursuing?
The second is a gigantic, unaccountable welfare state in which billions of dollars can simply go missing, which takes years to uncover.
The two stories are intertwined. When it comes to the question of mass migration, the Trump administration has taken an incredibly strong position that mass migration, particularly from countries that do not adhere to American values, should be significantly limited or curtailed.
This is a very open question, implicated by not only the Afghan national who shot two members of the National Guard, killing one, but also by this gigantic Somali welfare fraud case in Minnesota.
As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/minnesota-welfare-fraud-feeding-our-future-smart-therapy-immigration-entitlement-state-1af9cce6?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfP4B6pv3eMh572ufYeXbMnTh4yprnMCoN0NfvinI8Fm3CPFcYsQLPo&amp;gaa_sig=WIg-EyVCa4rusgxC1lc_jfv3U5mW5GLP0tEWFn9lCpzt6AJX2qYNaPAE1sdSlYP4j7hqpCKVfm_280nvVWWONw%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=693323b7&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">points out</a>:
<blockquote>What happens when welfare becomes not a temporary hand up but an ingrained expectation of American life? For an ugly glimpse, look at the astonishing fraud unfolding in Minnesota. Turns out those GOP reformers were right to call out fraud in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 
The White House this week published a memo titled, “‘Yes, ‘There’s Something Wrong with Walz’—and it Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion,” highlighting various swindles in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. There may be as many fraud schemes as lakes in the state given the ease in which scammers tapped government funds.
Some 86 individuals have been charged with defrauding Medicaid and the Federal Child Nutrition Program in Minnesota—yes, literally stealing lunch money from kids. “No one was doing anything about the red flags,” one defendant’s attorney told the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/NYT">New York Times</a>. “It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it.”
One of those alleged schemes, The Outfit Feeding Our Future, recruited individuals to set up a network of sham companies and sites that claimed to feed children in the pandemic. They then submitted false invoices and fake attendance rosters to the state. In fact, one of those rosters actually grabbed names from another web site called <a href="http://listofrandomnames.com">listofrandomnames.com</a>.</blockquote>
And somehow this worked for years.
<blockquote>In another scheme, a 28-year-old woman allegedly launched a company, Smart Therapy, that claimed to provide one-on-one behavioral therapy to autistic children. She employed relatives with no formal education and recruited parents to enroll their non-autistic kids in her therapy sessions by paying them kickbacks of up to $1,500 a month per child.
In a darkly comic twist, some parents allegedly extorted the woman by threatening to enroll their children in other autism centers if they weren’t paid bigger kickbacks. Smart Therapy allegedly billed Medicaid for the kids’ supposed therapy as well as their transportation to the appointments. It also submitted false claims for meals to the state’s food programs. In another indictment, eight individuals this fall were charged with fraudulently billing Medicaid to help recovering addicts find stable housing. 
Yes, housing. Minnesota pioneered the use of Medicaid money to help beneficiaries secure housing on the questionable rationale that this would improve their health and reduce healthcare spending.</blockquote>
Democrats built this entire massive infrastructure. And now, it turns out, lots of people took advantage of it. And those people were, in this particular case, Somali.
It&#8217;s hilarious to watch members of the media try to create a rationale for why Somali immigrants to the United States, overall, have been a massive boon.
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In order for all this to happen, you need complicit politicians, because when the fraud is this big, and so many people seem to know about it, it seems almost impossible not to have elected officials who knew about it.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/what-did-ilhan-omar-know-about-the-1b-welfare-fraud-case-in-her-minnesota-district/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>US Rep. Ilhan Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered. Omar (D-Minn.) held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it. 
“[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program,” claimed Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, to The Post. “She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn’t put 2 and 2 together? Either she’s terminally naive, or knew and didn’t care,” Glahn added. 
Around $250 million was handed out by the Minnesota government to provide meals to schoolchildren during the pandemic from 2020 onward. Instead, it was pocketed by corrupt business owners, including Salim Ahmed Said. He’s the co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Said was found guilty in August of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million">stealing over $12 million</a> for serving 3.9 million “phantom” meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.</blockquote>
This happened inside Omar’s district. Her defense is, “Everybody who mentions this sort of stuff is racist.”
That is always and forever the defense.
President Trump, of course, has been highly critical of the Somali American mass migration issue. Omar says Trump is an abusive, deranged old man.
This woman, who once suggested that 9/11 was “something some people did” and who herself wrote a letter to a judge asking that an ISIS recruiter be granted mercy because of the evils of having to integrate in America, is now calling the president an abusive, deranged old man because he&#8217;s been critical of Somali mass migration.
Omar published a piece in The New York Times calling herself a victim, of course, because this is the way the Left always tries to get out of this. If you know a bunch of people who engaged in tremendous welfare fraud and they are big donors to you in your district, and you&#8217;ve made your career on pandering to that particular category of people, the best way out is to call everybody who notes it “racist.”
“All Americans have a duty to call out this hateful rhetoric when we hear it,” she said.
 Listening to Omar lecture people about calling out hateful rhetoric is truly an amazing and astonishing thing.

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Federal immigration authorities nabbed violent Somali offenders, including a gangbanger and a pedophile, as part of a recent operation targeting Minneapolis.
More than 100 ICE officers from across the country were deployed to Minneapolis this week to target roughly 500 Somalis with deportation orders, Homeland Security sources recently revealed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-sends-ice-to-minneapolis-to-nab-hundreds-of-somali-illegal-immigrants?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Sends+ICE+To+Minneapolis+To+Nab+Hundreds+Of+Somali+Illegal+Immigrants">The Daily Wire</a>. Within less than a week, ICE took several violent offenders off the streets.
Among them was Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, a former member of the Gangster Disciples and current member of the Vice Lord Nation gang, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Abdi also had convictions for fraud, receiving stolen property, receiving a stolen vehicle, vehicle theft, and multiple probation violations.
The feds also snatched pedophile Sahal Osman Shidane, who was convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor aged 13-15, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration placed the blame on the &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; leaders in Minnesota who allow illegal immigrant criminals to walk out of jails and onto the streets.
“Sanctuary policies and politicians like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed these pedophiles, domestic terrorists, and gang members to roam the streets and terrorize Americans,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday.
“ICE law enforcement are risking their lives to protect Minnesotans while their own elected officials sit by and do nothing. No matter when and where, ICE will find, arrest, and deport ALL criminal illegal aliens,&#8221; McLaughlin added.
The Trump administration set its sights on Minnesota after fraudsters in the sanctuary state allegedly stole billions of taxpayer funds, funneling cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month.
Much of the fraud has been tied to the state&#8217;s massive Somali population. Seventy-eight Somalis have so far been charged for their alleged roles in the fraud operation, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed during a recent press conference.
In one case, a nonprofit allegedly used federal funds meant to feed thousands of children during COVID to buy homes, luxury cars, and real estate in Turkey and Kenya, according to one example provided by Leavitt.

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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) suggested on Wednesday that Trump supporters might use violence against Somali migrants, while she brushed off a massive Somali-connected fraud scandal in Minnesota that cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Omar <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/us/video/donald-trump-immigration-somali-somalia-ice-deportation-border-illegal-jake-tapper-lead">told</a> CNN host Jake Tapper that Trump&#8217;s comments about the fraud scandal, and, in particular, Somali immigrants, &#8220;creates fear.&#8221;
&#8220;And there is a possible danger that a lot of the people who follow the president have exhibited violence in many cases, especially in my case, whenever he has said something about me that is derogatory or says I&#8217;m a threat to the country, I have gotten death threats,&#8221; the Democrat said.
&#8220;There are so many people that have been incarcerated over the years that have been encouraged by the president&#8217;s words,&#8221; Omar claimed. &#8220;And so there is fear for Somalis, not just in Minnesota, but across the country, that some of these people might attack and harm them.&#8221;
&#8220;And so, to me, it is important for us, one, to remind folks that we are Americans,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We’re not going anywhere, and we will continue to be in this country. And two, that Minnesotans are resilient, and we will continue to thrive.&#8221;
Further, Omar brushed off the fraud scandal when she was pressed about its concentration in Minnesota by Tapper. The rep merely blamed a lack of &#8220;guardrails&#8221; because the schemes started during COVID, though Omar notably did not condemn the fraud during the segment.
The fraud scheme in Minnesota deals with billions of stolen taxpayer dollars during the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. Notably, it&#8217;s been largely tied to the Somali community, and some stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists, according to <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">City Journal</a>.
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🚨🇺🇸 JAKE TAPPER ASKS OMAR WHY MINNESOTA FRAUD GOT SO OUT OF CONTROL&#8230; SHE BLAMES &#8220;GUARDRAILS&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Ilhan Omar on why the $1 billion Feeding Our Future fraud scheme involving mostly Somali perpetrators spiraled so badly in her state.
Her answer… <a href="https://t.co/wacQffwL8S">pic.twitter.com/wacQffwL8S</a>
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1996395142001864889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump on Tuesday railed against Somali migrants, who he said &#8220;ripped off&#8221; taxpayers and, generally, contribute &#8220;nothing&#8221; to the U.S., citing a welfare rate of 88%.
&#8220;I hear &#8230; Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions, every year,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;And they contribute nothing. Their welfare [rate] is like 88% — they contribute nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want &#8217;em in our country, I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Some will say, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s not politically correct.&#8217; I don&#8217;t care,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want them in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Their country is no good for a reason, their country stinks, and we don&#8217;t want them in our country. I could say that about other countries, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to rebuild our country — our country is at a tipping point. We can go one way or the other, and we are gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.&#8221;
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Referring to Omar and &#8220;her friends,&#8221; Trump added, &#8220;These aren&#8217;t people who work; these aren&#8217;t people who say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s make this place great.&#8217; These are people who do nothing but complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but b****, we don&#8217;t want them in our country. Let them go back from where they came from and fix it. We don&#8217;t want them in our country,&#8221; he said.
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🚨BREAKING: President Trump has HAD IT with these illegal aliens that are RIPPING-OFF our Country.
&#8220;Somalians—They contribute nothing!&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want them in our country, I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Some will say that it is not politically correct. I DON&#8217;T CARE!&#8221;
&#8220;Their country… <a href="https://t.co/SjUf4M8XT6">pic.twitter.com/SjUf4M8XT6</a>
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1995934088042082811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
Reacting to Trump&#8217;s comments, Omar claimed Trump often uses &#8220;very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not shocked, because we know that the president oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist rhetoric when he is trying to scapegoat and deflect from the actual failures that he has himself,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We know that this administration has not fulfilled the majority of the promises that they’ve made, whether it is bringing costs down, whether it is the tariffs that are decimating businesses in the United States, whether it is the possible war crimes that his defense secretary is committing.&#8221;
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Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to Trump&#8217;s attacks: He&#8217;s trying to &#8216;deflect&#8217; from his &#8216;failures&#8217; 
Watch the full video: <a href="https://t.co/v0DRknaiiC">https://t.co/v0DRknaiiC</a> <a href="https://t.co/bpZ0KxMxLf">pic.twitter.com/bpZ0KxMxLf</a>
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1996373733494382763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Omar has notably used extreme language when it comes to President Trump. Just last month, the rep seemed to openly threaten anyone &#8220;collaborating&#8221; with the Trump administration.
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Shockingly dangerous: Ilhan Omar openly threatens anyone &#8220;collaborating&#8221; with the Trump administration during a recent organizing call for May Day Strong.
She tells her radical base to make them &#8220;pay a costly price&#8221; at a time when their &#8220;price&#8221; is increasingly assassination. <a href="https://t.co/NpAghfrAV1">pic.twitter.com/NpAghfrAV1</a>
— Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TudorDixon/status/1996583701744959943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ilhan Omar Says Trump Supporters Might Attack Somalis, Brushes Off Fraud Scandal

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President Trump is now activating Immigration and Customs Enforcement to go after Somali illegal immigrants in Minneapolis. This follows the reports about large-scale Somali welfare fraud, including the attempt by many members of the Somali community to defraud the federal and state governments during the pandemic. A lot of that money ended up going in remittances back to Somalia.
On Tuesday, President Trump’s overall take was that the United States needs to radically limit immigration from places like Somalia.
That is correct, because not all countries are going to be equally useful as sources of migrants to the United States. The people who come from many of these countries do not have any sort of cultural habits that mesh well with the United States.
The president <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-declares-i-dont-want-somalis-in-the-us-that-is-not-politically-correct-i-dont-care/">stated</a> that he doesn&#8217;t want Somalis in the United States, saying:
<blockquote>I hear they ripped off — Somalians — ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year, billions of dollars, and they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88%. They contribute nothing. I don&#8217;t want them in our country. I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Somebody will say, &#8216;that&#8217;s not politically correct,&#8217; I don&#8217;t care. I don&#8217;t want them in our country. Their country&#8217;s no good for a reason.</blockquote>
When the president says, as a general point, that he does not want Somalis in the country,  that they&#8217;re coming from a culture that does not mesh well with the United States, is he wrong about that? As a general rule, is that wrong?
On Tuesday, the administration unveiled a new regulation that would prevent immigration applications from citizens of 19 countries already covered by President Trump&#8217;s travel bans. Right now, there&#8217;s a travel ban that says if you&#8217;re coming from Iran, Venezuela, or Haiti, you&#8217;re not going to get a travel visa. Now he&#8217;s extending that into a pause on all immigration applications from those 19 countries.
All of this raises the question as to whether the United States ought to block immigration from third-world countries. According to the Migration Policy Institute, from 2015 to 2019, Somalis, of all sub-Saharan African immigrants, had the lowest levels of educational attainment. Only 14% held a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher. Of all immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, Somali-headed households were the poorest immigrants who came into the United States, and had the lowest median income at $32,000. Somalis in the United States had a 37% poverty rate. Extremely poor, extremely uneducated. Somalis had the highest rates of being uninsured in terms of health insurance: 18%. Somalis had the highest naturalization rate of any of these groups.
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So they come here extremely poor, extremely uneducated, with a low income and wealth trajectory. And then they get naturalized at a super-high rate because they want to stay, which anyone would want. This is an amazing country. That, however, does not mean we have an obligation to take in everybody.
When they do earn money, a huge percentage of that money gets sent back to Somalia. And some of that money goes to terrorist groups like al-Shabaab.
This is what President Trump is railing against. You may not like his language. You may think that it&#8217;s colorful or purple or whatever, and that&#8217;s fine. Anyone can be critiqued for the language that they use.
But his general point, that the United States cannot afford to take in waves of extremely poor immigrants who do not cohere with the American system, that we cannot afford to bring in hundreds of thousands of people with actual allegiances to war-torn countries like Somalia, who then take a disproportionate share of our welfare dollars, is true.
So when you hear the argument that this is a country of immigrants, well, yes, it is certainly true that this was a country of settlers, and then it was also a country of immigrants. But the kinds of immigrants you take in help define your country, and the systems that they meet here help define your immigrants.
The reason so many people have left their home countries over the course of centuries to come to the United States is because the United States was a place that guaranteed opportunity, but it did not guarantee a gigantic welfare system that actively prevented assimilation.
We changed our own immigration system. We changed our own incentive structure. And then we were surprised when different people came.
The current argument being made is as though we are welcoming people from Eastern Europe or Italy or Ireland or Germany circa 1903, when there were no robust federal welfare systems in the United States. The income tax wasn&#8217;t even constitutional at that point. There were no robust welfare systems, even at the state level. There was no real attempt by the government to get involved in propping up people who were wildly poor, to the tune of not having to assimilate or get a job.
And so that drew a different kind of person. Yes, it drew people who were desperate, but the people who were desperate recognized that their path forward lay in embracing Anglo-American legal ideas, lay in embracing Biblical values , and embracing and assimilating to American rights and responsibilities, because that was the social safety net.
The social safety net was that you join a community, you come here, you join a church, your friends and your family help you out. But then it is your job to learn English. It is your job to go out and get a job. It is your job to put your kids in the local public school and make sure that they get educated the way Americans ought to be educated.
That is why the assimilated project in the United States was extremely successful up until the welfare era.
And then the welfare era began, and everything changed. And it doesn&#8217;t mean that we didn&#8217;t have extreme conflict over immigration prior to the welfare system. There was huge controversy over the levels of Chinese and Jewish immigration in the early part of the 20th century, and before that, huge levels of ire over Irish immigration in the 1840s, 1850s.
Immigration has always been a real hot point in American politics, because when new people come to a country, the question is, are they going to become part of the system or are they going to tear down the system from within?
The great guarantor that people were going to assimilate was the fact that they didn&#8217;t have a choice. The incentive structure drove them toward assimilation. It drove them toward participation in the American Dream.
And then came the welfare system and an incentive structure that said, “Come here and we give you free stuff; we demand nothing of you; you can do basically whatever you want in terms of employment; you can send all your money back home; you don&#8217;t have to actually try to get involved in the Anglo-American project.”
And we were surprised when we drew a different type of immigrant? That&#8217;s ridiculous.
It&#8217;s the same thing as saying, “I have a donut shop, and my donut shop is a prestige donut shop. You come in here, you can get the best of the best donuts. We go in the back every morning, and we handcraft our donuts. They&#8217;re amazing.”
The constituency drawn to that kind of donut shop is going to be of one particular sort of clientele. But then you decide that you&#8217;re going to change your policy, and you just hang a sign in the front window that says “free donuts.” Who do you think is going to show up? It&#8217;s going to be a very, very different constituency. Pretending otherwise is silly.
This is not the fault of the people attempting to come to the United States. This is the fault of our authorities. This is the fault of the elite in our society who claimed that you could change the entire incentive structure, taking people from cultures that have nothing in common with the United States, and somehow those two things could logically coexist within a similar project.
It&#8217;s ridiculous. And then, of course, if you point this out, you are bigoted or racist.
No, it&#8217;s not bigoted or racist to say that if people come from a place that does not have anything in common with the United States, and there is no actual incentivization toward assimilation, they&#8217;re not going to assimilate.

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The Trump administration has commenced a new deportation operation targeting Somalis in Minneapolis, The Daily Wire has learned.
More than 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from across the country have descended on Minneapolis with orders to scoop up hundreds of illegal immigrants from Somalia who already have deportation orders, Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire.
One source said as many as 500 Somalis are on the target list and that any additional illegal immigrants found during the operation are fair game.
Last month, President Donald Trump announced an end to Temporary Protected Status for Somali migrants in Minnesota after the community was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/send-them-back-trump-is-done-with-somali-migrants-in-minnesota?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Send+Them+Back%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+Is+Done+With+Somali+Migrants+In+Minnesota">connected</a> to a massive welfare fraud scheme.
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“Minnesota, under Governor [Walz], is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity,” Trump posted to Truth Social at the time. “I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.”
“Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing,” he said. “Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!”
Fraudsters in the sanctuary state have stolen billions of taxpayer funds, funneling the cash through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. A large portion of the fraud has been tied to Minnesota&#8217;s large Somali population, who have allegedly exploited state welfare programs.
So far, 78 Somalis have been charged for their alleged roles in the fraud operation, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed during a recent press conference.
One nonprofit, claiming to support migrants, used federal funds meant to feed thousands of children during COVID to buy houses, luxury cars, and real estate in Turkey and Kenya, according to one example provided by Leavitt.
“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never-ending,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”

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In a late-night Thanksgiving message that came hours after news that a National Guard soldier shot by an Afghan refugee had died, President Donald Trump promised not only to immediately &#8220;pause migration from all Third World Countries,&#8221; but also to undertake major actions that he says will reverse the immigration crisis plaguing the country.
In the blistering holiday message, Trump said the United States had been &#8220;divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at&#8221; for its &#8220;just plain STUPID&#8221; approach to immigration. He made a series of promises aimed at both stopping the flow of new immigrants, and both cutting off benefits to and removing certain populations that are already here.
&#8220;I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,&#8221; Trump pledged.
The president also promised to &#8220;end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.&#8221;
The nation’s generosity, Trump argued, has been weaponized against it, allowing a vast foreign-born population to overwhelm the country and inflict deep social harm.
Trump said the United States now hosts a “foreign population” of 53 million, citing census data, and charged that many recent arrivals depend on taxpayer-supported welfare programs while coming from &#8220;failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.&#8221;
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Trump asserted American families — too patriotic and well-mannered to complain — are the ones footing the bill. He claimed that a migrant earning $30,000 with a green card can receive roughly $50,000 in annual benefits, calling the situation a silent but growing burden on Americans that is “eating them alive.”
Trump pointed to the &#8220;disturbing&#8221; situation in Minnesota, where he says &#8220;hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over&#8221; the state. He took direct aim at Minnesota&#8217;s Democrat Governor Tim Walz, calling him &#8220;seriously retarded&#8221; and charging that he &#8220;does nothing&#8221; due to &#8220;fear, incompetence, or both.&#8221;
He also blasted Minnesota&#8217;s prominent Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar, invoking longstanding questions about whether the Somalian immigrant was married to her brother. He charged that Omar &#8220;does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how &#8216;badly&#8217; she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation.&#8221;
Trump said the ultimate goal of his promises on immigration is a &#8220;major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations.&#8221;
&#8220;Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!&#8221;
The message was posted just after midnight on the east coast, and was posted from Trump&#8217;s official X account.
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A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,…
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Trump’s Thanksgiving remarks echoed his announcement just days earlier that he would terminate Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals in Minnesota. That declaration followed a <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">report</a> in City Journal of massive welfare and nonprofit fraud schemes allegedly exploiting the state’s social-services system, with billions lost through sham providers, inflated diagnoses, fake meal programs, and networks of “hawalas” that some law-enforcement sources claim helped funnel money to al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/send-them-back-trump-is-done-with-somali-migrants-in-minnesota">‘Send Them Back’: Trump Is Done With Somali Migrants In Minnesota</a>
Trump&#8217;s Thanksgiving post made clear that, in his view, the immigration crisis is not merely a policy dispute — it is the defining threat to American security, prosperity, and civic life, and one that patriotic taxpayers should no longer be forced to tolerate.
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that he will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somali migrants in Minnesota, who&#8217;ve been connected to a massive welfare fraud.
&#8220;Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity,&#8221; Trump posted to Truth Social. &#8220;I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.&#8221;
&#8220;Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!&#8221;
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During the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen, reportedly funneled through fake nonprofits and shell companies, and — alarmingly — some of that money <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">has ended up in the hands</a> of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group Al-Shabaab, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesotas-somali-welfare-fraud-taxpayer-cash-funneled-to-terrorist-group?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Minnesota’s+Somali+Welfare+Fraud%3A+Taxpayer+Cash+Funneled+To+Terrorist+Group">The Daily Wire</a> reported this week.
“The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,&#8221; one law-enforcement source said.
Much of the fraud has been traced to Minnesota’s Somali community, where politically connected fraudsters have allegedly exploited numerous loopholes in the state’s welfare system. The Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program, designed to help seniors, addicts, and the disabled secure housing, quickly became a cash cow for fake providers. Payments soared from $2.6 million to more than $104 million in just a few years. Operators often ran companies out of dilapidated storefronts, billing for services they never intended to provide.
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“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never-ending,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”
“Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab,” City-Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">reported</a>. “According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of ‘hawalas,’ informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.”
Additionally, Minnesota’s Medicaid autism programs exploded from $3 million in 2018 to $399 million in 2023, with Somali-run centers inflating diagnoses and paying parents kickbacks to enroll children in therapy programs they didn’t need. Thompson called this a sprawling “network” of fraud, one that has stolen billions from taxpayers while leaving state officials seemingly asleep at the switch.
Meanwhile, the media and Democratic establishment have largely ignored the issue, leaving ordinary Minnesotans to foot the bill, while their money funds international terrorism.
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.
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