Somalia: From Failed State to Fraud Factory – Leftists Love Scammers Who Hate America

The past week has seen a bizarre propaganda blitz across X: Somalia, the poster child for collapsed states, warlordism, and Al-Shabaab terrorism, is suddenly being rebranded as a 2,000-year-old paradise of trade, scholarship, and maritime glory. Mogadishu is older than America! Somali refugees are the most resilient, entrepreneurial, patriotic Americans you’ll ever meet! Meanwhile, in the real world, Minnesota taxpayers are discovering that the single largest source of funding for Somali jihadists is… Minnesota taxpayers, funneled through a multi-billion-dollar welfare fraud industry run almost exclusively by members of the state’s Somali community.

This is not a handful of bad apples. This is a cultural and political pattern that Democrats, progressive activists, and their stenographers in the legacy media have spent years covering up, because calling it out would be “Islamophobic” or “racist”—and because the Somali bloc is now a decisive voting force inside the Minnesota DFL.

The scale of the looting is staggering.

- The Feeding Our Future COVID child-nutrition scam: at least $250–300 million stolen, the largest pandemic fraud in USDA history. Seventy-eight people charged; virtually all Somali-American.
- Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program: budgeted at $2.6 million, exploded to over $300 million in two years before being shut down in August 2025 after “credible allegations of fraud” from 77 providers—again, overwhelmingly Somali-owned shell companies.
- Autism daycare fraud: claims jumped from $3 million in 2018 to $399 million in 2023. One operator, Asha Farhan Hassan, billed the state for “autistic” diagnoses at triple the normal rate among Somali children and pocketed $14 million.
- Total estimated fraud across multiple programs since 2020: well north of $1 billion, possibly $2 billion when every shell company is finally audited.

These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of transplanting a clan-based, low-trust society—where corruption and informal hawala money-transfer networks are the norm—into one of the most generous welfare states on earth, then refusing to enforce basic oversight for fear of being called bigots.

Democrats knew. Republican warnings were dismissed for years as racism. Even Somali-American fraud investigators like Kayseh Magan, former employee of the Minnesota Attorney General, have gone on record: elected Democrats refused aggressive action because the Somali community is “a core voting bloc” and tackling fraud “might cause political backlash.” After George Floyd, any scrutiny became a career-ender. One juror in the Feeding Our Future trial was offered $120,000 in cash with a note whining, “Why is it always people of color and immigrants prosecuted?”

Worse: a significant slice of the stolen money is leaving the United States through hawala networks and ending up as “tax” revenue for Al-Shabaab. In 2023 alone, Somali-Minnesotans wired $1.7 billion back home—more than Somalia’s national budget. Counter-terrorism officials have repeatedly confirmed that fraud proceeds are a major funding stream for the terrorist group. Your taxes, laundered through fake nonprofits, pay for IEDs that kill American-trained Somali soldiers and African Union troops.

And now the pushback: a flood of X posts insisting Somali-Americans are “net contributors,” that their second generation is soaring, that they have higher “self-sufficiency” than native whites in Ramsey County. These claims collapse under the slightest scrutiny. Forty percent unemployment, sixty percent on some form of public assistance, and an entrepreneurship rate that consists largely of setting up fraudulent nonprofits do not make a success story.

The Netherlands ran the numbers on lifetime fiscal contribution by country of origin. Immigrants from Western countries: net positive. Immigrants from Somalia: among the worst net drains in Europe—economically ruinous and socially corrosive. Minnesota is simply experiencing the same pattern on a smaller scale, with the added twist that its ruling party has made itself politically dependent on the very community doing the draining.

Ilhan Omar, whose own immigration history remains clouded by persistent allegations of marriage fraud, personifies the racket. Her district is ground zero for the scams, yet she mocks anyone who notices. Tim Walz looked the other way for six years. The New York Times wrings its hands about “not tarring an entire community” while admitting the fraud is overwhelmingly concentrated in one.

This is what happens when a political class hates its own country so much that it will defend any group—no matter how hostile, no matter how parasitic—as long as they vote the right way and provide useful anti-American rhetoric.

President Trump’s revocation of Temporary Protected Status for Somalis is the first sane step in decades. The propaganda wave on X is the desperate reaction of a leftist ecosystem that knows the game is finally up.

America welcomed refugees from barbarism. A criminal minority repaid that generosity with contempt, theft, and in some cases material support for terrorism—while the Democratic Party, progressive activists, and a compliant media ran interference every step of the way.

Enough. Audit every Somali-linked nonprofit. Tax remittances at punitive rates. Deport every convicted fraudster and strip citizenship where it was obtained by fraud. Public policy is not individual charity; it is collective survival.

The Somali experiment in Minnesota has failed catastrophically. Pretending otherwise isn’t compassion—it’s suicide.

Sources
- New York Times, “In Minnesota, Somali Immigrants Confront a Path to Fraud That Ran Through Their Community,” Nov 2025
- Minnesota Department of Human Services, Housing Stabilization Services shutdown announcement, Aug 2025
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota – Feeding Our Future indictments and updates (2022–2025)
- Star Tribune, “Minnesota shuts down $300M housing program amid fraud concerns,” Aug 2025
- Alpha News / Minnesota Sun investigations on autism fraud surge (2023–2025)
- Former MN fraud investigator Kayseh Magan public statements (quoted NYT and local outlets)
- U.S. counter-terrorism reporting on Al-Shabaab funding via Minnesota hawala networks (2023–2025)
- Dutch government lifetime fiscal contribution study by immigrant origin (WODC/CBS Netherlands, most recent update 2023)
- U.S. Census, ACS data on Somali-American welfare usage and employment rates
- X platform posts and threads, Nov 25–30, 2025 (representative samples of pro-Somali propaganda surge)

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