Unpopular but correct opinion: Somalis are no different than any other 1st\/2nd gen immigrants; some are criminals; most aren’t.
What does ALL the fraud have in common?
The DFL. The non-profit system. And Walz’s “inability” (heh heh) to control it.
You can say the circumstances under which Somalis were brought here – a Clinton-era State Dept. program that gave money to non-profits to settle them here, to benefit the DFL – were a little suspicious. You might have a point.
So – what does that lead us to?
The non-profit\/government complex – the system that transfers taxpayer money to non-profits to do pseudo-government-y things, only without any accountability.
“Without any accountability? What do you mean?”
We’re at a billion dollars in fraud * so far*, and sources tell me there’s an even bigger wave on the way; we’re STILL just scratching the surface.
Seeing a pattern?
By the way, while there are a lot of immigrants – the illegal ones – that we need to deal with, people with TPS[1] aren’t them; they are already closely monitored. Somali with TPS – there are 200 of them in Minnesota – aren’t the problem.
I interviewed a counterterrorism expert once; he said 15% of Somali have *some* sympathy with terrorists, almost all of it passive. And that we learn about them from the *other* 85% who want nothing to do with that.
So if you want to knock out this state’s fraud problem, let’s go after the real villain; the non-profit\/government complex, and the people who have *at best* mismanaged it, and at worst created it.
[1] Not to me confused with Somali creating TPS reports…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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