And fund al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
Muslims have committed giant welfare frauds all over the country, but no place has been hit as hard as Minnesota by these frauds. Somali immigrants overwhelmingly commit the frauds — the largest Somali population in the country is in Minneapolis — and while the exact cost of the fraud is not known, some investigators suggest losses in the billions. This is money that is no longer available to provide succor to Minnesota’s poor and disabled. And what is still more infuriating, much of that money is sent abroad by the local fraudsters to Somalia, where a large cut of the loot goes to the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabaab. American taxpayers, that is, are unknowingly providing huge sums to a group linked to the very worst of Islamic terrorist groups.
Robert Spencer wrote about this here, and more on this fraud — one of so many that have been uncovered involving Somalis in Minnesota — can be found here: “Federal investigators warn Minnesota welfare fraud may have helped fund Al-Shabaab,” by Kayla Gaskins, The National News Desk, November 21, 2025:
Federal prosecutors say Minnesota is facing one of the largest welfare-fraud waves in U.S. history—schemes so widespread and lucrative that some of the stolen money may have ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization operating in Somalia.
Correction: No, “that stolen money may have ended up in the hands of Al-Shabab” — it did end up in the terror group’s hands.
According to a recent report in City Journal, former federal counterterrorism officials believe portions of the money stolen from Minnesota’s Medicaid and social-service programs were routed overseas through informal cash-transfer networks known as hawalas. Once the funds reached Somalia, investigators say, Al-Shabaab routinely took a share—regardless of the sender’s intentions.
The allegation, described by one former investigator as a “yes, absolutely” scenario, adds a national-security dimension to a widening series of criminal cases already rattling the state.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota has charged dozens of defendants across multiple schemes, including housing-assistance fraud, pandemic child-nutrition fraud, and millions of dollars in false billing for autism therapy. Collectively, prosecutors estimate taxpayers have lost billions....
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Immigration expert Simon Hankinson accused Gov Tim Walz of being 'asleep at the switch' amid Minnesota fraud scandal
An ongoing decline in American assimilation and a deep fear of being accused of racism were key factors in the massive fraud scheme in Minnesota that is now coming to light, according to an expert.
Minnesota is facing one of the largest social-services fraud scandals in U.S. history after federal prosecutors uncovered what they describe as "schemes stacked upon schemes" by Somali-run non-profits that siphoned hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from child-nutrition and Medicaid housing programs.
Prosecutors have since charged more than 70 defendants, a large percentage of whom are members of Minnesota’s Somali community, securing dozens of convictions as new waves of indictments continue. The scandal has triggered state and federal investigations, congressional scrutiny, and calls for accountability over why warnings were missed and how the fraud was allowed to reach this scale.
Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said that the decline in immigrant assimilation in America was key during an interview with Fox News Digital.
"Assimilation is a two-sided coin. The pressure comes from inside, from you wanting to assimilate so you can make it in the new society, but it also comes from outside, where the society says, ‘Hey, we expect you to do this. We expect you, if you want a driver's license, to be able to speak and read English at a basic level.’ We don't do that anymore in America. We don't we don't really expect anything of our immigrants," explained Hankinson.
"There are a lot of people who are American-born," he went on, "who really don't like this country and what it stands for. And so, they don't think anyone else ought to accept it and adapt to it either."
Hankinson noted that in no way can the fraud scheme be blamed writ large on the Minnesota-Somali community, which is estimated to have around 80,000 people. He said that those involved in the scam are a minority. However, the fact that the tight-knit community has by and large not assimilated into the broader American society and customs meant that many of the factors that could have exposed the scheme earlier were not there, according to Hankinson.
"When you come from a culture that provides you with nothing from the center, everything is family, everything is clan, everything is local, then it's almost impossible for you to understand how a federal system would work. And if your neighbor came to you and said, ‘Hey, we got this cool thing going, if you just say your kid's autistic, I'll give you a thousand dollars a month.’ I mean, that's a no-brainer for an awful lot of people," he explained.
"Even if they thought that maybe it was wrong on some level, they might think, ‘Well, hang on, in my new country, maybe that's frowned upon,’ they're not going to rat out the clan member, the family member," he added. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Stephen Miller calls billion-dollar Minnesota welfare scam ‘single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars’ with dozens of Somali migrants convicted+++++
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