US EditionScorned by the President, Somalis in Minnesota Are Embraced by the State that Took Them In
Minnesota officials and community leaders counter anti-Somali rhetoric amid $250 million fraud probe and threats to immigration programs protecting 430 Somali refugees.
- On Dec. 2, President Donald Trump disparaged Somali immigrants amid reports tying dozens of charges to schemes allegedly stealing $1 billion from Minnesota programs, while DHS announced Operation Metro Surge arrests starting Dec. 1.
- Since 2022, federal prosecutors charged 78 people in a $250 million fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future, and Asha Farhan Hassan in a $14 million autism therapy fraud case.
- More than 100 residents and elected officials gathered in St. Cloud to support Somali neighbors as community groups reported threats and recalled painful civil war memories.
- Federal policy moves include Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Dec. 1 reporting an investigation into alleged diversion of Minnesota tax dollars to Al-Shabaab, while Walz supports crime probes but warns against targeting immigrants.
- Minnesota hosts around 84,000 Somali Americans in the Twin Cities, a community formed through refugee resettlement and jobs since the early 1990s, with Gov. Tim Walz supporting ongoing resettlement despite policy challenges.
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A history of immigrants and refugees in Minnesota
This article was originally published by MNopedia on December 18, 2018. The history of Minnesota, its statehood, and immigration are closely intertwined. In fact, it is impossible to discuss Minnesota history without detailing immigration in the past and present. The Ojibwe and Dakota people who have made this land their home for centuries were joined and then driven out or confined by European settler-colonists and immigrants in the nineteenth …
PBS Creeps Up to Minnesota's Somali Fraud Scandal, Fixates on 'Xenophobic' Trump
PBS Creeps Up to Minnesota's Somali Fraud Scandal, Fixates on 'Xenophobic' Trump On PBS, every scandal seems to be a Trump scandal. Friday’s News Hour segment by Minnesota-based special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro finally acknowledged the incredible slow-emerging scandal of taxpayer fraud in that state, involving the theft of up to a billion dollars intended to feed children during the COVID crisis. The segment ran over seven minutes – but…
Trump Admin Reveals Tim Walz's Government "Is Complicit" In The Multi-Billion-Dollar Somali Migrant Fraud Scandal - The American Tribune.com
In an explosive interview, Stephen Miller decried Minnesota’s Somali fraud network as the largest welfare theft in U.S. history, claiming the state government is “fully complicit,” and the actual cost far exceeds reported figures, while 75%+ of Somalis there rely on welfare. Additionally, he warned that more profound revelations will shock Americans. Gov. Tim Walz, pathetically defending his administration on Meet the Press, while he took respon…
Scorned by the president, Somalis in Minnesota are embraced by the state that took them in
The wave of vitriol against Minnesota’s Somali community during the Trump administration’s continued nationwide immigration crackdown has been met with an opposing wave of solidarity.
Fraud scandals and Trump’s rhetoric escalate fears in Minnesota’s Somali community
President Trump has taken aim at Minnesota’s Somali community, with xenophobic remarks and calls for their removal from the U.S. It coincides with a new ICE operation in the Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the community’s response and how we arrived at this point, including a sweeping fraud scandal that has gripped the state.
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