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   Fraudsters in the Somali community of Minnesota stole billions of   
   dollars from American taxpayers over a period of years, and the state   
   government did nothing to stop it.   
      
   That outrageous scandal has finally become part of a “national   
   conversation” after City Journal published a stunning article written by   
   Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe titled “The Largest Funder of   
   Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” in November. Al-Shabaab is a   
   Somalia-based Islamist terror organization.   
      
   “Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been   
   stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone,” Rufo and   
   Thorpe wrote. “Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most   
   generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And   
   the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the   
   dots.”   
      
   The piece highlighted truly titanic fraud schemes involving various   
   state welfare programs, including “Feeding Our Future,” a program that   
   received hundreds of millions of dollars annually and was ultimately   
   “being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy   
   real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya.”   
      
   The report set off a firestorm.   
      
   Rufo was accused of being anti-immigrant and racist. Many on social   
   media accused him of exaggerating the problem. But then The New York   
   Times published a follow-up basically confirming that Minnesota’s social   
   services were essentially eviscerated by Somali fraudsters under Walz’s   
   watch.   
      
   There was a very important line in this piece provided by Ahmed Samatar,   
   a professor at Macalester College. Samatar said, according to the Times,   
   that “Somali refugees who came to the United States after their   
   country’s civil war were raised in a culture in which stealing from the   
   country’s dysfunctional and corrupt government was widespread.”   
      
   This sort of gets to the heart of why immigration policies have been so   
   out of whack and destructive in Western countries for a generation,   
   producing the current justified backlash.   
      
   It should be no surprise that in concentrated Somali communities, like   
   the ones that exist in Minnesota, similar scams have taken place. One   
   doesn’t need to be wholly against immigration to understand that. After   
   all, Thomas Jefferson warned in his famed “Notes on the State of   
   Virginia” about taking in too many people from “absolute monarchies” who   
   will bring with them “the principles of the governments they leave   
   imbibed in their early youth.”   
      
   “These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their   
   children,” Jefferson wrote. “In proportion to their numbers, they will   
   share with us in legislation. Our laws and institutions must therefore   
   be guarded with jealous attention; and in order to preserve them, we   
   must incorporate our immigrants into the body of our people.”   
      
   He recommended essentially slowing our roll bringing in people from such   
   places. That’s prudence, not nativism.   
      
   What we’ve seen under President Joe Biden and Democrat governors like   
   Walz, is the furthest thing from prudence. Instead, our country has been   
   subjected to a reckless, cynical vote grab combined with the toxic   
   empathy of modern leftism.   
      
   President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. needs to stop taking   
   people in from countries like Somalia where they have “virtually no   
   government” and “then they come into our country and tell us how to run   
   our country.”   
      
   The president is on to something here when talking about the Somalia   
   issue. The war-torn nation typically ranks as one of the most corrupt on   
   Earth. Theft of public money is commonplace.   
      
   In 2022 it was discovered that two-thirds of the five thousand civil   
   servants in Somalia didn’t report to work and in many cases were likely   
   “ghost employees” according to the Horn Observer.   
      
   Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud groused about this issue.   
      
   “There are more than 5,000 civil servants registered in our biometric   
   system, but only 1,500 of them report to work every day,” he said,   
   according to the Horn Observer. “Where are the rest? They do not exist   
   or they do not live in the country. However, they are still paid. They   
   are thieves and their superiors who accepted this scheme are also   
   thieves. They are simply stealing public money.”   
      
   Hassan may be right, but it seems he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.   
   He’s been accused of corruption related to public land sales.   
      
   There has been, no surprise, widespread problems with theft of   
   international aid in Somalia too. The European Union had to temporarily   
   suspend Somalia’s World Food Programme in 2023 because of widespread   
   theft. Reuters reported how the program was supposed to send $130 a   
   month to displaced persons in a refugee camp, but they would frequently   
   only receive $65 after it was handled by the camp manager.   
      
   In 2024 the Minnesota Informer published an interesting piece about the   
   corruption clearly taking place among Somalis in Minnesota. It was   
   written by Kayseh Magan, a man with a Somali background who had worked   
   as a fraud investigator in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.   
      
   Magan explained that widespread fraud was common in the Somali   
   community. He said that this crime problem is the classic case of when   
   “desire meets opportunity.” Magan wrote that “Minnesota’s public   
   programs don’t adequately guard against organized fraud.”   
      
   Part of the issue: The fraudsters have exploited “the burgeoning   
   political power of the Somali community, and the feckless fear that   
   establishment politicians and state agencies show when confronted with   
   charges of racism or Islamophobia.”   
      
   It’s here we see the crisis facing many Western governments playing out   
   in the most extreme way in Minnesota. They’ve combined a generous   
   welfare state with the near religious belief in mass immigration from   
   developing, “third world” countries as Trump called them. To even   
   question that system is to be ostracized as part of the wholly   
   unacceptable “far right.”   
      
   The result in Europe, after years of evidence that the system isn’t   
   working, is that governments literally silence people who disagree with   
   unlimited immigration. The U.K. is conducting this Orwellian experiment   
   in tyranny as I write this.   
      
   What we are seeing in the United States is hopefully an immigration   
   reset of sorts. More Americans now question the value that unlimited,   
   unchecked migration from dysfunctional countries brings to ours. What is   
   happening in Minnesota needs to stop. The country can’t afford it.   
      
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