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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
“Somali Immigrants Are Revitalizing Main Street America,” NBC News claimed. A barrage of similar stories hailed Somalis and other Muslim migrants for ‘transforming’ Middle America.
After President Trump’s criticism of Somali abuse, triggered by reporting of massive $1B plus frauds conducted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and other conservative media outlets, the media has rushed out more of these same stories about Somali accomplishments.
But let’s look at some of the facts.
Somalis are the second largest foreign-born population in Minnesota after Mexicans. 42% of Somalis fall below the poverty line. This is far worse than the 21% poverty rate for African-Americans or any Christian African immigrant population such as Ethiopians (18%) or Nigerians (8%). 45% of Nigerians own homes, so do 27% of African-Americans, but only 12% of Somali settlers in America do. Somali ‘exceptionalism’ is not racial or immigrant: it’s cultural.
40.6% of Somalis settlers in Minnesota don’t even have a high school degree. 40% of Somalis have an income at the 200% federal poverty line. 40% of Somali settlers in Minnesota earn below $35,000. Their median household income is $43,600.
This limits any taxes they are likely to pay and allows them nearly limitless access to welfare.
Recent media stories claim that Somalis “pay about $67 million in state and local taxes.” Considering that there are an estimated 100,000 Somalis, that comes out to around $670 per Somali. That $670 not only falls far short of the average tax burden of over $8,000 in the state, but it only pays for about two weeks of public school for one of their children, a few months of their food stamps or two of their medical visits. Never mind the cost of a single court date.
While Somalis for now form only a small part of the adult population in the state, their offspring represent a sizable part of the underage population with over 42,000 Somali offspring to over 68,000 black children. At this rate, Somalis will outnumber African-Americans in Minnesota.
1 in 5 children in the state are already foreign-born.
Minneapolis spends around $18,500 per pupil. The cost of educating the Somali offspring alone amounts to three quarters of a billion per year. The $67 million that Somalis allegedly pay in taxes doesn’t even cover 10% of the cost of educating their kids. Never mind everything else.
Had Somalis remained just another underemployed high-welfare population, they would have been mostly overlooked, but members of the community took existing welfare abuses to a whole new level with a massive series of ‘super-frauds’ beginning with a $250M meal fraud in which Somali facilities claimed to be feeding over 100,000 kids (more than twice as many kids as they had) that escalated to a $120,000 cash bribe and efforts by those responsible to flee America.
Then there was the signature billion dollar autism fraud. 1 in 16 Somali four-year-olds were supposedly suffering from autism leading to a mass demand for “culturally sensitive” services. The services were fraudulent and parents were paid to sign up their children by the providers.
Somali food aid demands shot up from $3.4M in 2019, to $42 million, to $197 million in 2021. Autism claims followed a similar pattern, going from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million in 2021, $279 million in 2022, $399 million in 2023, and nearing $400 million most of the way through 2024 for a total of over $1.4 billion.
These two giant frauds were supplemented by $100 million plus housing and daycare frauds that take the toll for Somali welfare to somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion.
Divide that up by the Somali population and you get a $15,000 per person fraud burden. Deduct the reported $67 million in taxes and you get $1.43 billion and a $14,300 per person burden.
Those are just the basic numbers. They do not take into account the wave of Somali crime, including the rapes recently reported on by the Freedom Center or the ICE arrests of illegal alien criminals in Minneapolis including a Somali pedophile and Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, a Somali illegal alien and a former member of the Gangster Disciples and a Vice Lord.
We are often told that Somali immigrants are in Minnesota to “do the jobs that Americans won’t do.” Are we really suffering from a shortage of gang members?
Does Minnesota have a dire shortage of people without high school diplomas earning 200% of the federal poverty line and sitting on every welfare program imaginable even if they have to make them up?
In the last fiscal year, Minnesota was supposed to have a $17 billion surplus. Now that surplus has turned into a $6 billion hole. The surplus was used to approve a gargantuan $72 billion budget with tons of welfare spending that was supposed to fix the state’s problems.
Welfare spending grew by 42% in 20 years. Health and Human Services spending, the political piggybank that was raided by the Somali fraud machines, went from a quarter of the budget to approaching a third of the budget. Per person welfare spending rose to around $35,000 per person. The Somalis frauds benefited massively from this unlimited spending spree.
But these numbers also show how Somalis benefited Minnesota. They certainly didn’t benefit its economy or build its future, but they provided the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party with the political and human capital to staff up and fund their welfare state machine.
Somalis not only voted DFL, but they justified the massive social welfare spending that the DFL wanted to build up the political infrastructure, provide the consulting contracts and employ the staffers who traditionally form the Democratic Party’s political and operational base.
And $1.5 billion is cheap at the price when you consider that in New York City, $850 million in mental health funding just ‘disappeared’ and in Los Angeles, $2.4 billion in homeless spending couldn’t be tracked. Somali welfare fraud isn’t American, but it’s certainly Democratic.
Somalis didn’t build Minnesota, but they built the Minnesota Democratic machine.
the answer to the question is , they have ripped off american taxpayers to the tune of billions . and your representatives in congress have facilitated it . they are well on their way to destroy america which is what they have bragged they will do . once the barbarians are inside the gates it is too late to do anything . tolerance is not a virtue when it comes to towel heads , it is a death sentence . the u.s. is chumpville . its destruction inevitable . there is evil then there is islam . they have openly said they will use the laws of democracy to destroy said countries .
Every single dime sent to any African country ends up being used corruptly.
Exactly. Tolerating the intolerant ideology of islam is suicide. Just look at the UK. They are done because they welcomed the evil muslims.
They are not towels. They are sheets
The only contributions was more Islamization and fraud. And that “progressive” Islamifascist ILHAN OMAR – their crown? More hatred and bigotry.
It appears none of that $8 billion was tossed their way.
However, if any jihadist cells begin forming, that may change. (Afterall; Al Shabaab is over there & future terrorists can get things started right here.)
Or, we could kick their parasitic butts out, to the sound of politicians & reporters weeping & wailing.
(Everyone else like us would be cheering wildly, because we’re the ones who have to live among them.)
Your remarks warrent a serious question: Why are there no prosecutions? Cheesus, I’ve never such wanton fraud and corruption! If the White population even thought about something so flagrent we’d be in chains…
Once again the Lying NBC Peacock tells big face Lies just like the rest of the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and then they wonder why Americans do trust them anymore
Made a mistake it should be Don’t Trust them Anymore
America needs Muslim immigrants like a fish needs a bicycle.
Or like I need a venereal disease…
Good one! (Pace, Gloria Steinem).
Can we trade Minnesota to Canada for Alberta? Asking for a friend.
Great idea.
Also include California, Western Washington, the Coastal of California, NYC, Portland, OR, let’s see, what am i missing? Oh yeah, require them to apply should they wish to visit the USA.
Nope. In the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) we have about 50,000 Somalis along with another 700,000 Muslims.
For any politician that feels it’s his/her duty to dump 3rd-world parasites in this country, it should be law that they’re dumped only in the posh enclaves where they themselves live.
Trump has a year left to pass a bill to stop the chain migration begun by Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration bill . . . or he’ll have only slowed our demise – not stopped it.
Politicians that insulate themselves from these immigrant tribes, don’t feel the sting. Cosseted fools rarely do.
Relocating every drug addict, islamist, and “Maryland Dad” thug to Martha’s Vineyard, until their final deportation would be a way to educate liberals what living with it is like. (And also, it’d be epic satisfaction to watch!)
Excellent idea. Also every “celebrity” who signed the woke petition to free that muslim terrorist murderer from an israeli prison should consider their public signature as legal permission to personally sponsor, pay for and house their very own released muslim terrorist murderer and his entire clan who will be flown to the UK or USA directly from Israeli prisons and delivered to the celeb’s door with mass media coverage and daily follow up to ensure the celebs are celebrating (and feeding) their new muslim diversity arrivals (all 200 of them) every day for the rest of the celeb’s lives or until their beloved multicultural oppressed muslim “house guests’ eat through all the celeb’s money and become eligible to claim their Democrat Party woke right of reparations in the form of legal title to the celeb’s former mansion and possessions. The celebs will then be forced to stand in front of their former home and sing Imagine while slapping themselves in the face with a dead fish so they can really feel that diversity they and Bobo and Stink and Cher and all the one name celebrities so love and shill for. I can just feel their happy.
So true, sadly. T, at best, will only be able to slow it down some. There are far too many zombies in our large cities.
It is the ONLY way leftist do gooders learn.
Oh, those cosseted fools will feel plenty of sting. Have you read “The Camp of the Saints”? If not, read it. If so, read it again. It is disturbingly prophetic.
somalis destroyed my old neighborhood in Cedar-Riverside. Once a safe and peaceful multi-ethnic community, it is now overrun with somali gangs and women covered from head to toe pushing government-supplied strollers and with large numbers of children in tow as they go about spending their SNAP benefits at somali-owned stores in somali-controlled neighborhoods. most do not speak English and cannot function outside of their enclave and are totally dependent on US taxpayers for their existence. no one who is not somali dare to go into their tightly controlled area. little mogadishu is a reality, funded nearly totally by you and me.
Sad to hear. I was at University of Minnesota in the 70’s and had friends in that neighborhood. Always seemed a pleasant place. Sorry to see it go downhill.
That is horrible. And they breed like roaches. They’re taking over America and Europe.
It wasn’t the Somalis, it was the traitorous politicians and bleeding hearts that let them in. Please, know your enemy…
That infuriates me to know of this abuse to our nation. Need to also prosecute all those, including the beauracrats, who perpetrated this atrocity upon us. Need to happen yesterday.
I wish I could say that I feel sorry for the people of the state of Minnesota but all things considered, I don’t. Elections have consequences.
Who you vote for or against or if you don’t vote at all, it all matters. An unnoticed fact that people far too often, fail to consider until after the fact and the election consequences starts to impact them in ways they come to regret.
The Constitutional Republic requires aware citizens in order to carry on. We have too many non-thinking zombies in and around our large cities.
Great article. Those are some awful statistics above. The question is: How do we get them out of the country NOW? And how soon do Walz and Omar get removed from their offices? What we know so far is appalling and disturbing. How much more is to come?
The answer is simple. Prosecute those that broke the law in all ways. Stealing, lying, embezzlement etc and being in the Us illegally. But that won’t happen. The political will does not exist to solve the problem from either side democrats or republicans. This will continue and fester as the US slowly transforms into something unrecognizable. And that is what is wanted by our political overlords.
“And that is what is wanted by our political overlords.”
Because? You left off the end of that sentence. Because overlords (political, oligarchical, billionaire, etc.) are orchestrating a feudal one world society with them as the elite global master rulers and everyone else as serfs (or prisoners or dead). Spoiled uppity powerful Western white middle and working classes were throwing a monkey wrench into the overlords’ plan with their historical dissenting freedom, independence, property and wealth so their money had to be wiped out and theiir spirit broken by covid, woke, DEI, diversity, “racism” accusations, etc. Somalis and all muslims are perfect serfs — all their societies are feudal so they’re the model citizens for the overlords with the destroyed white former middle classes now reduced to poverty, madness, addiction and euthasia. The perfect Brave New World. The only way white middle class young people can survive this future is to work for the overlords as “house Negros” (bureaucrat flunkeys, NGO lackeys, collage and media propagandists, etc.) to become obedient members of Orwell’s Outer Party — to work as the lickspittles of the Inner Party overlords. It’s all very simple if you know why it’s all happening. Ugly and terrifying but crystal clear.
It would be simple – provided we had a court system that was not abjectly and absolutely perverted by black-robed beasts afflicted with Stage 4 Ivy League Dementia, as well as totally lacking any semblance of morality (which comes from a Book that begins, “In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth”).
Send them back.
They are just parasites
They do nothing to build America.
EASY FIX to this entire mess! Want to rid the USA of the ILLEGALS? Want to remove all the “Temporaries”? What to finally SETTLE the black libers’ demands for REPARATIONS? Here’s how! Calculate the entire COSTS of ILLEGALS and TEMPS! Offer the black population a % of the SAVINGS for riding Our Nation of I&T’s! BUT, also make it MANDATORY for a TOTAL WELFARE REFORM! If you’re not MENTALLY (and I don’t mean simply a DEMOcrat) or PHYSICALLY Disabled then WELFARE is TEMPORARY – you need a job and there should be plenty available once the I&T’s are gone! This would be a BIG POSITIVE for Our Nation on every front! Instead of people being a drag on Society, they would be contributors! People at work have less time to commit crimes! Now don’t get your racial cards out and wave them – the reforms go to EVERYONE on welfare! We can fix a LOT of what’s wrong with Our Nation but we’ll cause some butt-hurt among the libers!
As much as the little ladies of the Left hate to admit – you cannot have your state run by a retard.
Another excellent summary. Thank you.
It does seem to me that IF our misfeasant, maybe malfeasant Congress cannot get their act together and do something about, e.g., the “treasonous six”, or the treasonous members of the
“squad” and the fraud they have committed, it will only continue, probably get worse, and hasten the decline of this once First World Nation that is now in clear decline by allowing such trash be drug into our homes.
And every Somali votes Democrat. They can vote to have non-citizens vote. America is headed in the same direction, state by state we have learned to keep voting for free stuff until there is no one paying any taxes. Proves to me Dems manage towards what’s best for their power and personal position not what’s best for the country, citizen or the economy.
Ban dual citizenship.
Now Minnesota smells like New Jersey Turnpike restrooms.
Can someone explore the large, corrupt Somali community in Maine?
What is the average IQ in the USA? I’m assuming it is in the range 100-109.
What did a people with this IQ range achieve? Well, it’s clear to see all around the USA.
What is the average IQ of Somalis? It’s estimated at about 68.
What is the classification of an IQ of 68? Very Low. In some scales that is classed as mild mental retardation.
Look at Somalia and that’s what low IQ people produce.
Oh, so Tampon Tim has some intellectual comrades.
Just wondering: Will Benny Johnson and /or any of his intellectually gifted DUM fellow travelers (Omar /Walz /Jefferies /Mad Maxine /AOC /Hank Johnson /Presley /Tlaib, etc.) AXE about any of this?
Muslims have done NOTHING to benefit Minnesota. They are ruining Minnesota, stealing from Minnesota, hateful of Minnesota and Minnesotans, and rampant violence against non-Muslims. They all need to be sent somewhere that they have loyalty to – SOMALIA!