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Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.
But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.
The city of over 20,000 used to be much less diverse. In 1990, it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it, with a shudder, “an almost entirely homogeneous white community, not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration, and it had a meat processing plant, now partly shut down, which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.
Now Faribault is much more diverse and it has problems that it didn’t used to have.
Faribault was the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides, interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.
It was also part of the $250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.
Faribault’s part in the massive fraud in which nonprofits claimed to be providing free meals to hundreds of thousands of Somali kids who didn’t exist came through the Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) run by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali, who made off with $5 million in meal funds after claiming that their restaurant in Faribault, which only had 9 tables, was serving meals to 1,600 children a day and had served a total of 700,000 meals.
The Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2,500 children a day. Sizable amounts of kickbacks were paid to a man who then fled to Somalia. The Minnesota Post’s article praising the Somali takeover of Faribault had hailed SAFE, claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.
The other non-profit promoted by the Post article, the ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’, which operates out of the massive 115-year-old historic Gale Mansion, often used as a wedding venue, has been linked to one Faribault meal site that claimed to be offering 2,000 meals a day.
The ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly $3 million for the free meals and Somali elected officials had proposed bills that would pour millions into the organization.
The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where $1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali, initially identified only as a Somali mother, went.
“‘We need help.’ This sentiment, expressed by a Somali mother about the specific concern of youth drug use and the more general frustration of trying to parent in a new culture, captures the heart of this grant proposal.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services responded with nearly $1 million for the Faribault schools that was supposedly used to provide Somali services.
Faribault is much more diverse now with an estimated 4,600 Somalis out of 25,000 people. The white population has dropped to 65% and the school system is even more diverse.
Minority enrollment in the city’s schools was up 243% in twenty years. By 2018, minority students made up a majority of the school system. Today, 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white. A population of older white homeowners is subsidizing education and services for Somali and South American migrant meatpacking plant workers with their property taxes.
The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science, health and social studies in Somali. As of 2022, there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.
The Somali education program was proposed after complaints from Somalis and other migrants that their “home languages were being lost as students became more English-dominant” and “parents and children no longer shared a common language, weakening communication and cultural connections within families.” Rather than expecting their parents to learn English, Faribault schools are expected to prevent their children from learning English, instead teaching them in Somali.
Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%, science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores, graduation rates, attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.
What would Faribault be like if it were less diverse and Somali? Faribault chool statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math, science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science. Call it the ‘Somali Effect’.
Faribault is more diverse, it’s also more dangerous and has linked up with the epicenter of Somali fraud in the Twin Cities. Its schools are failing and it has no future.
“Faribault has become our city,” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.
The non Somali students would almost certainly perform even better if their education wasn’t being so heavily negatively impacted by the Somali presence in their schools.
As an alumnus of Middlebury College, where I majored in English literature and also mastered French, German, and Latin (Class of ’74, cum laude with Departmental Honors in English and election to Phi Beta Kappa), long renowned for its superb language programs, I will state, from experience and with authority, that the most effective method of teaching a language–even, or especially ESL–is Total Immersion.
Starting with the elementary basics on the first day, and then swiftly moving on.
Basic fluency should be achieved within, at most, about 6 months, and adequate mastery within a year.
EVERY non-English-speaking “immigrant” should be required to complete such a proven program to develop adequate fluency in English, WHICH OUR LANGUAGE.
And ALL communications from our Government agencies should be in English ONLY, without the now-universal separate page with the same message about how to collect Social Security, Welfare, or Food Stamps translated into the two-dozen foreign languages (and alphabets) of their “home” countries.
Don’t like it and refuse to learn English? THEN GO BACK TO MOGADISHU, or whatever Third World hellhole you came here from, and be more “comfortable” among your own kind!
We both know these inbred Somali grifters won’t bother to learn English for three reasons . . .
¹ They’re too stupid. The average I.Q. among them is 80
² They’re unwilling. They despise this country, and have zero interest in molding to it.
³ They’re enabled/coddled by leftist pricks who treat any thankless immigrant as their BFF.
(Woke & islam are united only in their hatred of us.)
What the hell was Bush41 thinking when he shipped those inbreds over here?
(H.W. didn’t dump them in Kennebunkport, so he had SOME idea of future consequences.)
People like to blame the presence of Somali immigrants on Obama, but their importation has been going on for some time. And you are correct, they were dumped in working class towns. I feel so sorry for those elderly white homeowners in Faribault. They never asked to move to Somalia!
Spot on except for one thing. The skinnys average IQ is around 60.
Bush 41 didn’t think. He kowtowed to his biggest donors. This is the way POTUSs have been until one came and broke the mold and set the bar so high, that it will be an Act of G-D Almighty, if we have a POTUS to equal or surpass President Trump!
Bush 41 does not have much of a mind and soul to think. Just a rino, and a poor one at that.
It used to be a requirement to become a naturalized US citizen one must be proficient in English. I believe that changed under Obama.
Exactly. Bilingual education is meant to keep the kids from learning good English, to keep them fragmented into a separate ethnic bloc that will vote for Democrats.
And the kids who do not learn English will be forever hampered, forever separate. This is really dark and destructive.
Are you saying bilingual education is an impediment to success? Such as Bibi’s perfect English and Hebrew??
Netanyahu was raised in a a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia. He went to Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, PA, class of 1967. I graduated there in 1969 and saw him there. He didn’t attend the graduation ceremony as he returned to Israel to serve in the Six Day War in June 1967. Later he returned and matriculated at MIT.
My daughter came to America when she was 6 years old without any knowledge of English.
After 6 months in regular school, she received all A’s except one B for conduct: she talked too much in class. She graduated high school among the top of her class.
When people are arriving from wild countries as conquers, without any desire to assimilate, they and their children remain problematic.
As has been observed, people who immigrate and then demand that the host culture adopt their ways–that’s not immigration, it is colonization.
Thank you, Leon. Your obviously very bright daughter is a perfect, real-life example (and proof, not just an “anecdote” to be dismissed) of what professional, expert linguists have recognized for a long time: That up until Age 6 (yes, that’s the age) a child can naturally, and perfectly, pick up, speak, and be perfectly fluent in a foreign language just from his/her natural, normal interactions with friends, playmates, classmates, and ordinary life.
Somehow, after that age, as the young child’s brain, well, “matures” (or maybe “hardens”?) that natural talent for easy, natural acquisition of a foreign tongue is lost; a 12-year-old (or mature adult) needs classroom instruction and formal practice to learn a foreign language.
My own grandmother’s story was identical to that of your daughter, proving the point: Although born here, in the United States, she spoke only Polish, the language of her mother and father (my great grandparents), who immigrated here from Poland around 1900, and the family language at the kitchen table.
On her first day of school–yes, 6 years old, like your daughter!–Polish was the only language she knew and spoke. No “bilingual” classes, no special accommodation, nothing like that. She naturally picked up, and learned, English from her classmates and playmates, and was quickly a fluent “Anglophone.”
I remember Grandmom’s perfect, fluent, unaccented English (well, maybe a New Jersey Accent, like “cawfee” instead of “coffee,” and “dawg” when she hugged my sweet little Dachshund). I never would have guessed that she hadn’t even started to learn English before she was a 6-year-old little girl who spoke only Polish on her first day at school.
Anyway, my heartiest congratulations to your wonderful, smart daughter, and my best wishes to her–and to you, as the wonderful father who raised her. Don’t dilute that sincere praise and admiration by ever telling her that she was “just a normal 6-year-old”!
Islam is supposed to taker over the world – by force or any means necessary. It’s not a religion. It’s a totalitarian ideolgy.
Good informing article. However there is nothing here that tells us how Faribault is cleaning up this mess.
Or if they are even trying. But not to worry-Gov Walz is probably on this.
Well of course. Oh wait, this just in. Tampon Tim, the CCP man of stolen valor honor just came out to publicly state his full support for the Somali community. And shut up you vile whistleblowers, our Somali brethren are beyond reproach. Perhaps the smoke from the burning tires during the George Floyd riots has fried his brain.
Can the handover of Minn. to Can’tada begin today? With no chance of any Minnesotans to cross the border.
Let’s trade for Alberta. Win/win.
Multilingual instruction punishes every student, and most especially the student not proficient in English. Childhood is the best time of life to acquire a new language, and immigrants to the USA are morally obliged to learn English and assimilate to our historic culture.
They should be morally obliged to learn English, but as long as 1) the immigrants have no morality, and 2) the ruling class (Gov. Walz and his liberal traitors) patronize their desires, there will be no assimilation to our society.
They want to be taught in Somali and read and write Somali (does Somali even HAVE a written language?) buy and wear Somali clothes and eat Somali food? I know a GREAT place where they can do that! It’s called – wait for it – SOMALIA! They should all MOVE THERE! And Good Riddance! We’re full-up with Third World farcles.
And schools in America being “English-dominant” are an issue… why?
America has been turned into Third World garbage in “progressive” states.
Hurry up, TEXIT, and get us out of this rat race.
Deport them. They don’t want to be American …
… and that’s why they were brought here
… and given billions in freebies
… and immunity to crime.
It’s the same story as all illegals, but worse because they literally follow a religion that tells them they’re superior to anyone who is civilized …
… so they will never be part of the community.
They can only destroy it.
You got it. Islam is like a deadly metastatic cancer.
We are currently cancelling the CDL’s of illegal drivers, so why would we want to NOT teach English….if they want private schools, let THEM pay for it, not US Citizens! No drivers license for those unable to speak English…..NO welfare benefits as well!
Somali’s “demand”…. That is the problem. They feel entitled to demand but deserve nothing.
When do MInnesotans put their foot down? Soon Minnesotans will be asked to press 1 for Somali, 2 for English when they make phone calls.
Thanks for that uplifting article about the destruction of our country that no one needed to read. What we need to read is the mass arrests and deportations of Somalians that our government should be doing right now.
Disgraceful! We continue to do it to ourselves. Get rid of the Somalis, they are an infection on America.
Immigrants should assimilate into their new society, not create a province of the s-hole they came from.
Having seen Dr David Wood’s You Have No Clue How Many Muslims Are Leaving Islam! By The Stream Published on November 9, 2025, I wonder if an added reason why the parents may not want their children to learn English, is that they do not want them acessing English language websites that expose the anpmalies within Islam.
Oddly enough, this explains the reason for the 2nd part of the Citizenship clause;
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ﴾’subject to the jurisdiction thereof’﴿, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Clearly, the Somalians are refusing to subject themselves to the jurisdiction of the United States.
They have denied the civil contract with our society’s jurisdiction and therefore should have their “citizenship revoked due to their failure to subject themselves to the jurisdiction of our Nation’s Laws…
The word, “Jurisdiction” refers to the specified area that is subject to that community’s laws…
Simple… No?
Reference TITLE 8 US CODE § 1182, Chapter 2 Section 212… This is Public Law 414 and is still active, meaning that it hasn’t been annulled and it is still hot…
I am currently a fan of school choice. If they want the best education they can get, taught in Somali, then they should choose to have their children attend schools in Somalia.
real damned simple pack your sorry asses up, got to the damned airport and take those sorry asses back to Somalia.
this is what happens when you let barbarians inside your gates . america has signed its own death warrant . you can thank your rep. in congress .
You’re in America. Speak English or go home.