Denaturalizing Fraudsters Will Accomplish Almost Nothing

With all the talk of denaturalizing and deporting the Somalians who committed the welfare fraud in Minnesota, a much bigger truth is being ignored. 

Almost every Somali in Minnesota is a US citizen, with about 60% of the Somali population born in the United States. And Somalis have one of the highest birth rates of any ethnic group in the nation, and by some measures, the absolutely highest.

Evicting a few dozen will accomplish nothing aside from providing emotional satisfaction that at least a few people faced justice. 

Scott Jennings: Tim Walz is calling efforts to investigate fraud “white supremacy”

CNN panel: *Explodes* “No he has not said that”

Video of Tim Walz saying efforts to investigate fraud are akin to white supremacy
pic.twitter.com/qpCOjQ1Upr

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) December 31, 2025

Liberals will say—in fact, Tim Walz has already said—that Somalis are part of the fabric of Minnesota, and if there is a fraud problem here, it is mostly white men who commit the fraud, and among the Somalis, it is only a few bad apples in any case. There is no system problem, and the only reason people say otherwise is racism. 

Tim Walz issues a full apology to taxpayers, vows not to rest until every penny is repaid and guarantees everyone involved will go to prison.

Kidding, he called any investigating into the BILLIONS in fraud “White supremacy”pic.twitter.com/wjnhlh7Dqj

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) December 29, 2025

That is, unfortunately, entirely wrong. Not so much wrong in the sense that most Somalis are directly involved in any particular fraud. Rather, the Somali culture is clannish, and Somalis have among the highest rates of welfare use. They do not integrate, are very politically savvy, and are using their growing political power to take over the politics of the places where they have settled. 

Here is a video of a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party convention in Minneapolis, where a Somali candidate was at risk of losing an endorsement. 

Ah, democracy, Somali-style. 

In the Minneapolis mayor’s race, almost all the competition for votes centered around getting one Somali clan or another to vote for one of the two major candidates. Both candidates made commercials in Somali, and Mayor Jacob Frey is still making videos while speaking Somali. 

This man almost became my mayor:

Here’s Senator Omar Fateh (D) celebrating with Feeding Our Future after they blocked the state from stopping fraudulent payments.

He even bragged about lobbying Tim Walz’s office to keep the money flowing.

Feeding Our Future went on to steal $250 MILLION from taxpayers. pic.twitter.com/8HpGUoCdru

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 31, 2025

My current mayor, Jacob Frey, social media feed is still full of appeals to Somalis. He speaks Somali first, and only after does he shift into English to…defend Somalis. 

Over a minute of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaking Somali to his constituents before he speaks English.

This is what a conquered man acts like.pic.twitter.com/sASLzoQ2id

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) December 29, 2025

As I wrote earlier, the state government is STILL funneling money to the Feeding Our Future scammers, just using a different program run under Medicaid. That money gets spread around the Somali community, flows back into Democratic Party coffers, and even gets flown across the globe in suitcases back to Somalia. 

While we don’t do studies like this in America for very obvious reasons, in Nordic countries, they have crunched the numbers and found not only that immigrants from Somalia consume the most welfare and bring a net negative “contribution” of hundreds of thousands of dollars per migrant over their lifetime, but that their children actually are worse in both crime and welfare use. 

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— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) August 3, 2025

We are fooling ourselves if we believe that deporting a few dozen Somalis who get convicted of fraud will accomplish much at all. As with Great Britain, the mistake was importing these migrants at all and allowing them to become citizens. Somalis still practice female genital mutilation, have created “no-go” zones within American cities, and are stubbornly against any form of integration. 

It’s true that this is not true of all Somalis; it’s also true that, as a class, they have proven indigestible because their culture is incompatible with ours. 

I get that politicians pander but, good grief, has some level of self respect https://t.co/l632ACagD5

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 31, 2025

Westerners, particularly liberal Westerners, don’t want to face the fact that diversity is not, in fact, our strength. Western societies work because they are high-trust societies where most people are basically honest, and where we punish fraud vigorously to ensure that this remains the case. 

But…our political class has figured out that they can get in on the fraud, so they enable it. We are in danger of turning into Mexico, where the costs of opposing corruption is high, and the benefits of participating in it equally high. 

Liberals believe that the backlash against Islamic immigration is an Eastern European thing in the EU, but actually the Nordic countries woke up and started paying migrants to leave and rejecting new ones. They are among the most anti-immigrant countries in the world, as they saw their high-trust societies begin to crumble. 

I’m not exactly certain what we can legally do to solve the problem that lax immigration and refugee programs created, but we need to get serious about recognizing and dealing with the problem. 

Denaturalizing and deporting convicted criminals is all well and good, but it won’t make much of a difference. 

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