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Somalia is a dirt-poor African country that serves as an example of a third-world hellhole.  Somalia is the fifth-poorest country in the world, with a per capita GDP of $1,601, so it is reasonable to raise questions about how so many of these indigent people were able to travel so far.  In 1882, Congress barred the admission of "any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge."  See for yourself.  This precludes the immigration of almost all illegal aliens, and certainly the sample we've seen from Somalia.  The average IQ in Somalia is about 67.  These guys are not brain surgeons or rocket scientists.  One thing they do well is reproduce:  Somalis have one of the highest birth rates in the U.S.  They are not here to assimilate.  They are here to drain money out of the U.S. welfare system and take it back to Somalia.

Introduction by the Editor:
Roughly half of the residents of the United States pay taxes, and half do not.  Plenty of U.S. residents ride the gravy train instead of working, and their handouts are paid for by the law-abiding taxpayers.  This situation is made worse by socialist Democrats, who not only keep the freeloaders addicted to those handouts, but also import additional deadweight from all over the world, apparently with the intention of buying their votes.  This corrupt system is unfair in several ways, but until recently, only a few news media organizations mentioned any of the problems, because the news media is clearly in cahoots with the socialist Democrats.

Time To Counter Escalating Radical Islam Menace In America.  If the American experiment is to survive, we must wake up to the rapidly escalating threat of radical Islam here at home.  After an era of open borders and the left's continued efforts to stifle reasonable debate about the effects of third world immigration, America grapples with the corrosive advance of radical Islam.  This ideology foments violence, rejects our foundational liberties, and undermines the Judeo-Christian values of our great nation's founding. [...] Americans in Minneapolis, which harbors the country's most expansive Somali Muslim diaspora, witness radical Islamic factions and Sharia-driven edicts fray the fabric of civil society.  Members of Minnesota's Somali Muslim population also developed an elaborate and complex fraud ring, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's social services programs, which are meant to help Americans in need, and then allegedly funneling these taxpayer funds to designated terrorist group Al-Shabab.

Somalis [are] Now the Least Desirable Immigrant Group.  Yes, that's what billion-dollar fraud schemes in Minneapolis, and ten-million-dollar fraud schemes in Lewiston, Maine, will do to how Americans view Somalis: not well at all.  The latest opinion poll by J.L. Partners rank Somalis as viewed far more unfavorably compared to other immigrant groups.  And that poll was taken as even more Somali fraud scandals are being unearthed almost every week.  In Minneapolis, there is still much investigation to be done, and some officials think that what they initially thought was a one-billion dollar fraud may balloon into a ten-billion dollar fraud.  Already, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who in the past has been a great promoter of the Somalis, for their presence provides his too-white state with such marvelous diversity — what could be better than diversity, the universal summum bonum? — has been forced to declare he will not, thank heaven, be running for governor again.

New Virginia Bill on Federal Benefits Draws Comparisons to Minnesota's Alleged Fraud.  On Tuesday, I reported on the flurry of new bills that have been introduced by state lawmakers in the days since Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's inauguration.  The slate of proposed legislation includes tax increases, rollbacks of mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, and even a measure that would prohibit the hand-counting of ballots in statewide elections.  Notably absent from these initiatives is any reference to "affordability" — the central issue Democrats campaigned on during the 2025 election cycle and one that resonated strongly with voters.  But I digress.  In the meantime, lawmakers have continued to roll out new proposals.  One in particular caught the eye of Christian Heiens, a self-described historian with a large following on X:  HB 1369.  This proposal stands out because of its similarity to the Minnesota law that enabled the alleged Somali day-care fraud.

'NGOs really want to use you': A Somali American speaks out on fraud, facing threats.  Somali American Abdi Nor Iftin is a naturalized U.S. citizen and the author of a memoir titled "Call Me American."  Iftin has also been outspoken about Somali fraud — and facing threats from the Somali community.  He spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about the consequences of telling the truth instead of taking sides.  [Video clip]  Iftin was very clear in discussing the facts — including that in Minnesota, 90% of those who have been federally charged in fraud related cases are Somali, according to court records.  "I have been speaking about these issues, fraud as well as corruption for a while.  I understand now every American is aware of it because the news is talking about it.  But I think my community, the Somali community, really needs to be honest and we need to talk about fraud and who's committing it, even if it's our own members," Iftin said.  "What's bothering me — it's just the fact that speaking up against fraud within my own community has become something that could get you in trouble, which is ridiculous," he added.

'The Mob Mentality Is Stunning'.  Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill came to Minnesota to get a firsthand look at the Medicaid fraud that, so far, has eaten up about half of all Medicaid money for the past several years.   [Advertisement]  What they found that was so interesting was not the fraud, but the efforts that the fraudsters are making to intimidate investigators looking into it.  [Tweet with video clip]  [Lengthy excerpt]  [Advertisement]  By now, we are all quite well aware of the massive fraud going on in Minnesota.  Despite being pushed out of the news by the anti-ICE protesters and the now-familiar attacks on both federal law enforcement and ordinary citizens, the fraud investigations are simmering in the background.  What was more interesting was the effort to cover it up, both by local Democratic Party elected officials and government workers, and by crowds of mainly Somalis who are working to intimidate federal investigators looking into it.  [Tweet with video clip]

Agitator William Kelly 'feels good' about terrorizing Christians in 'white supremacist' St. Paul church after visiting mosque.  William Kelly, the DC-based agitator who was arrested on Friday and released only to storm a St. Paul church with other anti-ICE agitators on Sunday, has said he "feels good" about his actions after visiting a local mosque that he praised, in contrast to churchgoers that he harassed on Sunday.  "So we've been invited to the local Somali mosque, and as you can see how beautiful it is.  This is where they do their prayer," Kelly said.  "This is where normally, 500 people will, you know, come and make prayer, but things are quiet because the local community is scared to come out.  They're terrified.  It was an honor to be invited to this mosque, but it was surreal to be there, and it made me feel good about my actions in that white supremacist church earlier."  "How can these people be not afraid to go out of their homes, afraid to go practice their prayer while these rich white people can live like nothing's happening and ignore it completely.  It's unjust, it's un-American.  What is?  What is freedom, if it only applies to white people?"  he added.

In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme.  As the magnitude and complexity of Minnesota's Somali immigrant welfare fraud scandal come into clearer focus, Republicans in Congress are more boldly talking about it being part of a larger scheme by Democrats to use illegal immigrants and purported refugees to hijack federal elections and manipulate apportionment that determines Americans' congressional representation and federal funding.  The Republicans' argument goes like this:  Democrats reversed Donald Trump's related first-term executive orders and ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted into 2020 U.S. Census.  Then-President Biden opened the southern border so that millions of illegals could flood the country in just a few years.  Next, liberal nonprofits helped move those migrants from the southern border red states, where they were not particularly welcome, to "sanctuary cities" in Democratic-run cities in the election battleground states and helped them enroll in welfare at the taxpayers' expense.

US Ends Aid to Somalia After Locals Torch and Loot Warehouse Filled with 76 Tons of US-Donated Food.  Such a grateful country!  They really appreciate all of the US taxpayer donated food sent their way.  The United States ended taxpayer-funded food aid to Somalia after local officials torched and looted the stockpiles of food stored in a local warehouse.  There is even video of the mass looting!  [Tweet with video clip]

And Suddenly, About 100 Minneapolis Cops Disappeared.  Where did all the Minneapolis police officers go?  We know where they aren't.  They aren't helping keep the mobs away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they arrest some of the city's worst characters and deport them.  [Advertisement]  We know they're not looking into the fraud conducted by their own "neighbors" and "residents," who have stolen billions in their apparently fraudulent daycare and transportation scams.  We know they couldn't care less, as millions of dollars have left the city in their "neighbors'" suitcases, bound for Atlanta, then Dubai, and finally to Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu.  They haven't quit en masse, as has been rumored.  Not yet, anyway.  After Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed downtown to be sacked by 2020's George Floyd rioters, there was a wave of retirements by Minneapolis police officers.  But that's not what we're talking about here.  [Tweet with video clip]

Somali businesses struggle during the Minneapolis ICE crackdown.  Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon.  Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing and food to insurance and accounting services.  On Thursday, the noisy hallways inside lay quiet, save for occasional chatter between neighboring vendors.  The smell of fried food still wafted from the bakeries, the central heating hummed and the sound of Quran recitation flowed quietly from some shops.  But many sellers sat alone in their clothing stores, waiting for the occasional customer to walk by.  Everyone is afraid of federal immigration agents, business owners said.  Sellers and customers, citizens and noncitizens.  Some don't bother opening shop because they aren't expecting any customers.

Furious Somali Men Pour out of 'Daycare' and Accost Journalist Investigating Where $2.25 Million in Grant Money Went.  The Somali "daycare" grift continues, with YouTuber Nick Shirley giving his audience more viral video that should open American eyes.  The latest from Shirley, published to YouTube on Wednesday, shows him back in Minneapolis, as there is unfortunately no shortage of fraudsters raking in tax dollars while the rest of us go to work.  In one segment, he paid a visit to Hopkins Childcare Center, a facility reportedly receiving $2.25 million a year in assistance.  The case at Hopkins mirrored the other businesses shown — blacked out windows, no signs of employees, no children in sight.  Shirley astutely noted that Hopkins, despite claiming 118 children attended daycare there, did not have a small footprint in sight leading to the front door.  An explosive moment came when he decided to ring the doorbell at the back door and knock, only to be greeted by a mob of angry, apparently Somali.  [Tweet with video clip]

Minneapolis Equity Report Urged Using Somali Muslim Genital Mutilation to "Learn About Their Culture".  How far did Minneapolis and Minnesota go in urging Americans to abandon their values and accept Somali Muslim 'cultural values'?  A report from the Hennepin County Medical Center that was posted on the Minneapolis Minnesota Department of Health site was titled "caring for women affected by female genital cutting" or FGM, a Muslim practice common among Somalis of mutilating the genital areas of young girls, "Striving for Health Equity'.  The 'Equity' report defined the "big hurdle" as, "Muslim (Somali) Culture:  Value Acquiescence to Allah as supreme authority" and "American Culture:  Value the supremacy of the individual".  Even though FGM is a crime in Minnesota (for now at least), the report urged American medical personnel to practice "humility" and "cultural sensitivity".  It warned Americans about "being aware of your values, biases and boundaries" and used as a negative example a previous statement by the medical facility, "This isn't about respecting someone's culture — it's about being complicit in mutilating women."  The 'equity' FGM report was very much about respecting Somali Islamic 'culture'.

Somalia's 'Temporary' Protection Lasted 35 Years.  Congress created Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to briefly assist those in need.  Shakespeare warned, "Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude."  In the case of TPS, "multitude" is correct.  As of January 2025, approximately 1.4 million foreign nationals in the United States were shielded from removal under the program.  The Trump administration decided to terminate TPS for several countries, with Somalia as the most recent.  That choice is the right step in a long-overdue course correction for an immigration program that previous administrations exploited far past its statutory purpose.  Somalia was first designated for TPS in 1991, following political turmoil and the outbreak of civil war.  At the time, granting temporary protection to Somali nationals already present in the United States was an act of kindness.

Hawala Lala Ding Dong Fraud.  Now, imagine you are a prosperous Somali Learing Center owner who needs to send goat purchase money to your granny in Somalia.  There are no Western Unions or Navy Fed branches there.  What to do?  Hello, hawala.  [Tweet]  Granny gets the message that her goat money has arrived and goes to retrieve it from the Puntland hawala broker.  She's got her $1000.  [Advertisement]  But, as the author of this enormously helpful thread points out, the broker in Somalia is now out the grand he gave your granny, and that needs to be repaid.  As there are no reciprocal exchanges coming from Somalia to the US, this has to be handled quickly.  Enter the suitcases filled with cash headed to the Horn of Africa.  They are paying the hawala dealers the cash they are owed for these transactions.  Cash is 'constantly being sent by courier to Somalia.'  Hawala services are all over the Minneapolis area, and, again, as the poster notes, operate outside the US banking system, so Secretary Bessent's lowering of the reporting threshold for remittances will probably have little impact.

What Is Hawala?  Money Transfer Without Money Movement.
  •   Hawala is an informal money transfer system, operating outside traditional banking, that relies heavily on trust and personal networks to move funds without actual money changing hands.
  •   Originally developed in South Asia, hawala remains a popular alternative for sending remittances due to its low fees, speed, and accessibility, particularly in regions lacking formal banking infrastructure.
  •   While beneficial for quick, low-cost financial transactions, hawala systems also pose risks as they can be exploited for money laundering, tax evasion, and financing terrorism due to their lack of formal records.
  •   Many countries, such as the U.S. and India, have laws against hawala due to regulatory and anti-money laundering concerns, though it remains legal under strict regulations in places like Dubai.
  •   Fintech solutions have started to incorporate elements of the hawala model to aid financial inclusion in underbanked regions through mobile banking and payment platforms.

The Lower Somali IQ Is Undeniable and Should No Longer Be Considered Controversial to Discuss.  [Video clip]

Some Are Saying Nick Shirley's Latest Video on Somali Fraud Is Worse Than the Daycare Investigation.  Well, it [was published] a little late, but the second video is here.  YouTuber-turned-investigative reporter Nick Shirley dropped his second video, albeit much later than his initial deadline yesterday.  Still, it was worth the wait, with many noting that usually sequels are not as good as the original — not this time.  [Advertisement]  Shirley exposed the ring of reportedly fraudulent daycare centers that have cheated taxpayers.  His investigations led Health and Human Services to cut off the payment spigot until these matters could be resolved.  This latest video featuring Shirley and Hoch delved into welfare fraud.  [Tweet with video clip]  [Advertisement]  Some of it was teased before the video, like medical transportation companies, where these Somali-led operations are being paid for vehicles that are supposed to be ferrying patients but are instead sitting idle in lots.  They're still being paid, however.  [Tweet with video clip]

Foreign Fraud Gangs Are Ripping Off West Coast States.  The Somali fraud scandal has captured Americans' imaginations.  The story is almost unbelievable:  Somalis in Minnesota allegedly set up fraudulent housing services, meal programs, and autism-therapy offerings, which formed part of a "web" that stole "billions of dollars in taxpayer money."  Some fraudulently obtained funds, according to federal law enforcement sources, ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab terrorists.  Meantime, on the West Coast, another pattern of fraud has taken root:  foreign criminals have developed sophisticated schemes to cheat and steal from unsuspecting Americans.  I spoke with a veteran blue-city police detective, who has spent two decades investigating serious c rimes, in order to learn more about how these groups operate and what might be done to stop them.  We granted the source anonymity so he could speak candidly about the fraud and the politicians who have enabled it.

Watch: Nick Shirley Exposes Fraud in Somali-Run, Taxpayer-Funded Taxi Companies.  Nick Shirley's latest video shows him visiting several addresses in Minneapolis that supposedly provide taxpayer-funded taxi services for poor and unhealthy people.  [Advertisement]  The ethnic Somalis that he meets at the sites respond by yelling at him, but do not try to offer any evidence that their taxpayer-funded groups are providing any services to Americans.  [Advertisement]  Shirley's exposures have compelled local pro-Democrat journalists to acknowledge and describe the fraud that they have long overlooked.  That silence was likely forced by career-threatening pressure from the Democratic politicians and activists who gain from the Somali-managed fraud.  The latest video focuses on the Somali-run companies that are paid to taxi poor or unhealthy people to and from government services, hospitals, retail stores, and their homes.

Minnesota's ACLU and the Politics of Pouring Gasoline.  The ACLU of Minnesota filed a lawsuit to stop ICE from arresting Somali and Hispanic illegal aliens living in the state.  Their idea is to target cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration agents, saying any arrests violate constitutional protections.  You know, for those fine, peaceful people who aren't supposed to be here.  Their timing couldn't be worse.  Minneapolis has turned into a powder keg over immigration enforcement, public safety, and trust between people and law enforcement.  Instead of trying to cool tensions, the lawsuit escalates them, turning the already volatile situation a little hotter.  Executive Director Deepinder Singh Mayell filed the suit, basing legal arguments on alleged civil rights violations tied to ICE arrests after the illegals leave jails.

Maryland's $760 Million Overpaid Unemployment Fraud Problem.  An audit has exposed that yet another blue state way overpaid thousands of citizens, including potential identity thieves, in a financial blow to the state's already foundering budget.  [Advertisement]  With the Somali fraud scandal and the SNAP welfare scandal still making headlines, the new unemployment debacle in Maryland is just one more proof of gross mismanagement of taxpayer funds at the state level.  While there is fraud in Republican states, it is particularly bad in Democrat states, because politicians there actively cover up or are complicit in fraud.  In this case, with Maryland, it is not clear if dishonesty or plain stupidity is to blame, but some people billed for the overpayments might be victims of identity theft.  Fox45 Baltimore reported on the $760 million in unemployment insurance overpayments on Jan. 13, explaining that the Maryland Department of Labor (DOL) sent out thousands of letters, demanding money back for the overpayments, with some people who received them not even being on unemployment.  Was this another fraud scam?  All socialist programs, like unemployment, are particularly vulnerable to fraud and usually end up being gamed by criminals.

Obama wingman Eric Holder defended Walz's vetting — then Minnesota's fraud scandal erupted.  Former Democratic Attorney General Eric Holder, who served during former President Barack Obama's tenure, played a key role in vouching for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the Democratic Party's 2024 pick for vice president before a massive fraud scandal rocked the Gopher State.  "There's nothing that of any substance that was missed by our vetting team," Holder told CNN in an October 2024 interview as the federal election came down to its final days.  Walz is in the midst of facing a sweeping fraud scandal involving alleged money laundering operations related to alleged fraudulent meal and housing programs, daycare centers and Medicaid services that prosecutors say could total as much as $9 billion, Fox News Digital has reported.  Dozens of individuals have been charged amid the investigations, most of whom are from the state's Somali community.

Nick Shirley Goes In Search Of Somali Transportation Companies.  YouTuber Nick Shirley uncovered additional alleged welfare fraud in Minneapolis in a new video released Tuesday, documenting transportation companies with idle vans and questionable addresses.  In Shirley's latest upload he uncovered more signs of widespread welfare fraud while investigating transportation companies tied to Minnesota's public assistance system, pointing to idle vehicles, nonexistent offices, and businesses that appear to exist only on paper.  While visiting a listed address for Dreamline Transportation, Shirley said the registered location was a liquor store lined with mailboxes.  Shirley also documented more than a dozen vans branded with Dreamline's name sitting untouched for months, buried in snow with no tire tracks.  The video showed that the vehicles were photographed repeatedly over an eight-month period and found parked in the exact same positions, suggesting they were never used to transport anyone.  Shirley said the findings raised questions about claims that the vans serve healthcare, childcare, or adult daycare clients.

Journalist Nick Shirley Showed Up To Minneapolis, Somali-Owned Transportation Company Only To Find It's A Liquor Store.  A Somali man has a screaming meltdown after Nick Shirley showed up at an address claiming to be a transportation company, only to find out it was a liquor store.  The man was so unhinged that security guards had to stand between Shirley and him.  "You're preparing for the Somali community to be taken to concentration camps!"  [Video clip]

Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somalia, Requiring Thousands of Somalis to Leave America by Mid-March.  In a much-needed move, the Trump administration has completely ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia, effective March 17, 2026, affecting 2,471 Somali nationals in the U.S., including ~600 in Minnesota, along with 1,383 pending cases, citing improved country conditions and national interests.  Explaining the situation, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem emphasized "temporary means temporary", adding that the administration is prioritizing doing what is good for Americans.  For context, this move follows intense ICE operations in Minneapolis amid a fraud scandal, protests, and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, labeled a "domestic terrorist" by Noem.  In reaction, woke Minnesota AG Keith Ellison sued, calling it unconstitutional targeting.  Likewise, Mayor Jacob Frey demanded ICE leave, while Gov. Tim Walz dismissed federal accounts as propaganda.

Billions [were] Flown Out of American Airports While the Feds Just Watched.  You would assume that when foreign couriers are transporting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country right under the noses of federal officials, somebody would be curious about where all that money comes from. [....] Yeah, well, no.  For years, Somali and other foreign couriers have been packing suitcases full of cash, declaring them at airports legally, and going their merry way with nobody seeming to be curious about where all that money came from.  [Tweet with video clip] [...] Carrying cash of any amount is not, in itself, illegal, although many an American has had his or her money seized as potentially being the proceeds of illegal activity if they don't fill out all the proper paperwork.  It can then take years of legal wrangling to get the money back from the feds in a civil forfeiture case.

Maine Rep Tells Mainers to Spend "Time, Money, Skills" on Somalia:  "Our Country".  Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac urged Somali-Americans in Maine to pour "our time our money our skills" into Somalia, repeatedly calling Somalia "our country," while promoting the overseas political campaign of Abdullahi Ali, a former colleague at Gateway Community Services as the embattled nonprofit faces state action, congressional scrutiny, and a Homeland Security visit to its Lewiston office.  In an online post promoting Ali's campaign, Dhalac told supporters gathered "tonight" that the community should rally behind "our brother Dr. Abdullahi Ali," not only in Jubbaland but from Maine as well.

The Editor says...
If Somalia is your country, what are you doing in this country?

Tim Walz can't leave Minnesota politics soon enough.  Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) declared no contest in his bid to seek a third term "leading" his state over the threat of a fraud scandal.  Walz, whom we always believed had no shame for the outrageous claims and chronic mendacity that surrounded his personal and political life, finally thought he wasn't going to beat the latest revelation of the overt corruption in Minnesota that has thrived during his two-term tenure as governor.  The fact that this scandal is deeper than many at first suspected, is probably the most visceral reason for Walz deciding to call it a day.  When 90 people in the Feeding Our Future scam are charged with stealing money that was supposed to go to starving children, well maybe even Walz can see the writing on the wall.  And the political base of support Walz has had among the immigrant community may be coming to an end after Trump suspended temporary protected status for Somalis.

Tempers Flare as Hundreds of Somalis Protest ICE Operation at Minnesota Strip Mall.  The agitprop coming from the Left has been hyperbolic since the death of Renee Good, the protester who was fatally shot after accelerating her vehicle toward an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week.  Despite the fact that Good went to extraordinary lengths to impede a federal law enforcement operation, blocking ICE vehicles, sounding her horn for minutes on end, dancing, and finally striking an agent with her car, the Left has tried desperately to present her as an innocent figure — and ICE officers as villains — in order to stoke nationwide outrage.  The skewed portrayal of this event by the legacy media, Democrats, and members of Congress has had the effect of legitimizing extreme and even illegal behavior by protesters against any and all ICE agents.  On Monday, hundreds of Somali protesters descended upon a St. Cloud, Minnesota, strip mall that is home to many Somali-owned businesses, where ICE was carrying out an immigration enforcement operation.

Somali Suitcase Stash:  Feds say $130 million moved from Ohio airport to Minnesota on way overseas.  Federal agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio airport.  Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.  The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin who flew out of the Columbus airport en route to either the airports in Minneapolis or Atlanta, and the couriers always declared the cash as legally required on documents, officials said.  "Typically, when they go to Minneapolis, they drop off the cash and then a subsequent courier travels abroad from Minneapolis to Dubai through Amsterdam," one official familiar with the investigation told Just the News on Tuesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

Somali Leader Admits 'Fraud Pipeline' Funnels Stolen Taxpayer Money Out of America.  Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of Somalia's Parliament and its Foreign Affairs Committee, is warning that his country's government has effectively become a "fraud pipeline," working with Somali fraudsters living in the U.S. to siphon stolen American taxpayer dollars intended for humanitarian aid, health care, and child care into one of the world's poorest and most corrupt nations.  In an interview with The Daily Caller, Abib said the sprawling fraud scandals now being uncovered in Minnesota and other parts of the United States did not emerge in isolation.  Instead, he argued, they are the downstream consequence of decades of entrenched corruption inside the Somali state.  Abib said his assessment is based on firsthand experience within Somalia's government and extensive financial data he claims ties senior political figures to systematic fraud.

Independent journalist reveals shocking similarities between Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, Maine.  Minnesota and Maine are two different states, but have a lot in common when it comes to Medicare fraud.  Steve Robinson, an independent journalist and editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire, has been sounding the alarm and pointed out some of the incredible similarities with Liz Collin on her podcast.  [Video clip]  Robinson and Collin appeared together on Tucker Carlson's show to talk about fraud in their respective states.  The similarities can't be ignored, but the mainstream media appear to be doing just that, according to Robinson.  "I find the similarities ... remarkable.  I think Minnesota expanded their Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act earlier than Maine did.  The programs are a little bit different.  But the way that the programs are being systematically exploited by very committed groups of actors who appear to have connections to foreign countries or at least foreign political factions is eerily similar," Robinson said.

We Resettled a Somali Marxist Regime and Now Act Surprised by the Result.  Consider the claim that the United States imported not just tens of thousands of Somali pirates and fraudsters, but hundreds of deadly killers as refugees.  This notion demands careful unpacking, for it touches on matters of immigration policy, national security, and moral accountability.  One might wonder how such a large-scale influx could occur without proper vetting, much like the hasty resettlement of Afghan refugees after the 2021 withdrawal.  The answer lies in a pattern of lax procedures that prioritized volume over scrutiny, leading to unforeseen consequences in communities like those in Minnesota.  Neither the residents of Minneapolis nor the broader population of the state voted to accept thousands of Somali refugees, yet federal decisions imposed this reality upon them.  To understand the depth of the issue, we must examine the historical context of Somalia's collapse and the figures who fled it.

New scheme revealed: the Somali fraud story just exploded again.  The Left tried to bury the Somali fraud story, but it just wouldn't stay buried.  They gave it a shot (pun intended) by turning the Renee Good death into their next big moral crusade, hoping to light the fuse on Summer of Love 2.0.  [Advertisement]  But that plan fizzled out fast.  It turns out you can't manufacture nationwide outrage around a chubby white lesbian activist the same way you can with a black ex con.  Needless to say, the spark never caught.  The crowds never showed up, and now that the emotional cover is burning out.  As a result, the spotlight is swinging right back to where Dems never wanted it to land in the first place.  The fraud.  Even the Left is being forced to admit it's real now.  They can't deny it anymore... they can only try to delay the damage that's coming.

Behind the Protesters are the Ballot Harvesters.  The situation in Minnesota is that the electorate is probably slightly Republican.  So how do our liberal friends manage to keep Minnesota blue?  Perfectly simple.  Minnesota goes Democrat because of the monolithic Somali vote, and the monolithic Somali vote is maximized by ballot harvesting.  But Somali clan lords don't harvest the Somali vote for Democrats for free.  They require just compensation for their heroic service.  And that's where the Somali fraud scandal comes in.  The Walzes and the Freys need to keep those Somali clan lords well fed with government grants in order to get the Somali vote delivered to the Democrats at each election and so they can continue in power.

MPS finance chief who signed contracts with questionable transportation companies placed on leave.  Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned.  Alpha News has reported extensively on Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services, hired by MPS to transport Homeless and Highly Mobile (HHM) students in passenger vans.  Additionally, another transportation company under contract with the district was filmed dropping off children at the now-closed Quality "Learing" Center — a moment many observers believe was staged to make the site appear active.  MEISA Transportation Services vans were recorded outside the Minneapolis daycare made famous in a viral Nick Shirley video for misspelling the word "learning."

Biden admin likely paid out $84.6M in error for Minnesota housing assistance — including to hundreds who were already dead.  The Department of Housing and Urban Development likely paid out more than $84 million in ineligible assistance to Minnesota during President Joe Biden's final year in office — including to more than 500 "deceased tenants," according to officials and documents reviewed by The [New York] Post.  HUD has been looking into billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded housing aid doled out by the Biden administration — and its most recent review found $84.6 million in potentially erroneous payments in fiscal year 2024.  That included up to $496,000 in improper assistance to 509 dead tenants.  Approximately $246,000 more was shelled out to 20 people whose Social Security numbers couldn't be verified, meaning they were likely non-citizens.  "Biden's HUD failed the people of Minnesota — paying dead people while vulnerable families were left behind," Secretary Scott Turner said.

Minneapolis Mayor Admits 'The Fraud Is Real, The Fraud Is Very Real'.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared in a televised interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker, where he was questioned about leadership in Minnesota following a series of high-profile taxpayer fraud cases tied to government programs.  The exchange focused on whether Minnesota Governor Tim Walz did enough to prevent fraud in the state and how Democratic leadership has responded after dozens of individuals were charged and convicted.  Welker opened the discussion by directly addressing the scope of the fraud cases and Walz's record as governor.

Somali Mob Descends on ICE in Minnesota.  The USA is under attack.  Foreign invaders are physically confronting forces representing the federal government at the front lines in Minnesota. [...] Defending the USA's sovereignty results in attack by those who have been violating it (and of course by their allies, the enemy within).  Opening fire would be the traditional response to a mob of foreign invaders assailing representatives of the federal government.  But that would facilitate the invasion by playing into the hands of the media.  It requires the self-restraint of a saint to be an ICE officer.  They are vastly outnumbered by savages and domestic terrorists who have zero respect for the law, yet they are not allowed to employ the force required to restore order.  Somalis are still only 8% of the population of St. Cloud.  Within a generation, it will be 50%.  St. Cloud will be a no-go zone off limits to Americans.  We will still have to send in welfare checks though.

Hundreds clash with ICE outside Somali mall in St. Cloud, MN.  A raucous confrontation between hundreds of residents and dozens of ICE agents unfolded midday Jan. 12 in the parking lot of a strip mall that's home to a number of Somali-owned businesses.  Abdi Abdullahi of St. Cloud said people started gathering at the Star City Mall parking lot after agents detained a man coming out of a deli.  More federal agents, as well as local police, then responded after residents blocked ICE vehicles in the parking lot.  After a local Somali news station posted a live video of the events on social media, more people arrived at the mall to protest.  Some held signs and blew whistles.  ICE asked people to move their cars so they could leave, but tensions escalated and agents deployed a chemical irritant, though no one seemed seriously injured in the event.

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If "a local Somali news station" has an FCC license, that license should be revoked.

The Same Leftists Outraged Over Renee Good, Didn't Care About Justine Damond.  Long before Renee Good drove her 4,000 lb SUV at an armed law enforcement officer, Minneapolis made headlines nationwide for the shooting of another woman by a 'law enforcement officer.'  Justine Damond was shot and killed by Mohammed Noor, a Somali acting as a Minneapolis police officer, Damond had called to report a woman being assaulted.  When she approached the police vehicle, the armed Somali opened fire on the unarmed woman.  Noor claimed that he felt threatened by Damond, who was on foot and just trying to tell the officers what she saw.  The Minneapolis police department tried to cover up the murder by Mohammed Noor, claiming that she had slapped the back of the police car.  Not only was it never explained how this was a threat, but her fingerprints were not found on the vehicle.  After the killing, then Mayor Betsy Hodges issued a statement, not to the murdered woman's family, but to the "Somali community".  "To the Somali community:  I want you to know that you are a valued and appreciated part of Minneapolis.  I stand with you and support you.  The strength and beauty of the Somali and East African communities are a vital part of what makes Minneapolis so strong and beautiful.  I am grateful to be your neighbor.["]

A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'.  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon — maybe even as early as Monday — is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.  [Advertisement]  In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years.  [Tweet with video clip]  And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.  Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.  "What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation.  A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT [Non-Emergency Medical Transport] companies.  Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned," he told Bessent.  Hoch went on, "In the second video, Nick Shirley and I went to 16 of them — I've actually been to about 70 of them."  At this point, he held up his papers and leaned forward to Bessent to emphasize, "THEY DON'T EXIST."

Somali Maine city councilor resigns days after taking office after felony charge, residency questions.  A Somali man elected city councilor in Maine has resigned days after taking office following his indictment on a felony charge and an investigation over his residency in the district he served, according to local reports.  Iman Osman, who served as a city councilor in Lewiston, wrote in a resignation letter sent to Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline and City Council President David Chittim that he did not come to the decision lightly, WMTW-TV reported.  "For the betterment of our community and in the best interest of our city, I believe it is time for me to step aside," Osman wrote in the letter.  "I hope my resignation serves as a call to action for those who remain — an opportunity to reflect on the values of respect, inclusivity and kindness that should guide our public service."

Yes, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime Than Natives.  Since the news of Minnesota's sprawling Somali-linked fraud cases went national, debate over immigrant crime has flared once again.  President Trump has dispatched federal agents to the Twin Cities to crack down on illegal immigrants. [...] There are no U.S. data explicitly measuring crime rates by nationality or country of birth.  The nation's major crime datasets don't record immigration status.  Instead, the figures that Nowrasteh and others cite on related questions come from the ACS, a general-purpose Census Bureau survey of roughly 3 million people each year.  The public ACS data report whether someone is living in "institutional group quarters," which includes prisons but also other types of institutions such as mental-health facilities and nursing homes.

Somali Fraudsters Almost Infiltrated the White House.  The United States came within inches of elevating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the second highest office in the land.  That fact should now give pause, not because of ideology alone, but because of governance.  What has since become clear is that Walz operated within, and benefited politically from, a Somali patronage system that his administration declined to disrupt even as evidence of massive fraud mounted.  A presidency is not merely a set of positions.  It is a test of judgment under pressure, of competence when facts are unwelcome, and of courage when the easy path is to look away.  On those measures, the record that has come into focus is not merely sobering.  It is alarming, because it suggests that the United States nearly walked a governor who tolerated, and politically coexisted with, large scale Somali fraud straight through the front door of the White House.

Quality 'Learing' Center Shuts Down After Fraud Exposure.  The Minnesota daycare at the center of mounting scrutiny over public childcare funds is now officially closed.  According to state licensing records, the Quality Learning Center shut its doors this week, marking a quiet end to a facility that became nationally known after being featured in an investigative video by YouTuber Nick Shirley.  Fox News reported that the Minnesota Department of Human Services confirmed the closure, noting that the daycare's license was formally terminated earlier this month.  "Quality Learning Center requested closure of their license and it was closed effective Jan. 6, 2026," a Minnesota Department of Youth, Children, and Families spokesperson told Fox News.  "The provider is unable to reopen without reapplying for a license."  No explanation was provided by the state for why the center requested the closure.  Fox News Digital said attempts to contact the facility were unsuccessful.

USDA Suspends Payment to Minnesota's Food Programs Over Suspected Fraud.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suspended payments for all federal food programs in Minnesota and Minneapolis Friday over alleged fraud and abuse of federal funds statewide.  "Enough is enough!"  USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on X, announcing the suspension.  "The Trump administration has uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis — billions siphoned off by fraudsters.  And those in charge have zero plan to fix it."  The agency plans to suspend all payments of federal financial awards to the state and city — totalling about $130 million — until state and local officials provide documentation detailing expenditures and transactions for the past year, Rollins said.  More than 440,000 people — about one in 13 residents — receive monthly assistance from the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), according to the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

MLB Legend John Rocker Visits Somali Daycares in Columbus, Ohio — No Children Observed!  Former Major League Baseball pitcher John Rocker joined an investigative journalist for a tour of several Somali daycares in Columbus, Ohio, reporting he did not observe children during any of his visits.  [Tweet]  Rocker posted footage of his exploits to X alongside investigator Jack Windsor, reporting that after 9 hours of touring daycares throughout the city, he was unable to spot one child, prompting him to conclude there are no children, and the daycares are scams designed to collect money from federal programs.  [Tweet with video clip]

Minnesota Somali Fraud, Illegal Trucking Scandals Share One Thing:  DEI.  We've talked in the past about the problems with diversity, equity, and inclusion.  That's the rubric for what, I guess, we could call mandated equality of result, rather than of opportunity.  But it's been in the news lately because there's a common denominator between the $9 to $10 billion, and climbing, fraud among the Somali community — some of them — in Minnesota.  Here in California, we're looking at $60 to $70 billion fraud, involving everything from homeless funds that were misspent through corruption, wasted, and unemployment insurance, etc., etc.  We have the problem with the truck drivers.  We had 17,000 licenses given to illegal aliens in California and put many of us in danger who drive frequently on the California freeways.  That's true nationwide as well.  And then, of course, the unknown number, it's in the several millions, somewhere between 8 and 12 million, who came in under the Biden administration.  But they were all given exemptions, is what I'm trying to say.

Fraud ignored:  Former Homeland Security investigator reveals how fraud cases weren't prosecuted.  Jeremy Christenson, a former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent, joined Liz Collin on her podcast and explained how cases of cash smuggling and fraudulent day care centers were ignored by prosecutors.  Christenson, who worked as a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent for 16 years, is also a former air marshal and police officer in Minnesota.  Christensen said many of the cases he investigated "went away into thin air."  He had concerns ever since he started investigating cases of fraud in Minnesota some 10 years ago.  But with Somali fraud making national headlines, he had to bring what he witnessed as an investigator to light.  Christenson told Collin that "around 2015, a case landed on my desk from my supervisor.  He advised me that the state was running a fraud case regarding daycare fraud in Minneapolis through Health and Human Services or Department of Human Services."  "Over the next several weeks and months, I attended ... planning meetings with this task force of about 20 personnel of various law enforcement agencies, the Health and Human Services, BCA, St. Paul PD, Minneapolis PD and it was all revolving around fraudulent daycares," Christenson said.  "They were setting up sham daycares, fake bills, fake students, or just enrolling students that never came," he added.

Scott Bessent boosts tracking of Minnesota overseas bank transfers to halt 'unchecked fraud'.  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Friday that his department is tightening international bank-reporting rules for two Minnesota counties to fight what he called "egregious, unchecked fraud" involving ill-gotten government benefits flowing to Somalia and other countries.  The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will now require banks and other financial institutions in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties — which encompass Minneapolis and St. Paul — to report overseas transfers exceeding $3,000, down from the standard $10,000 reporting limit.  "This will put a microscope on these businesses, advance prosecutions and assist in the recovery of funds laundered internationally," Bessent said during a visit to the Gopher State.

Secretary Bessent Announces Regional Action to Block Remittances From any Entity Receiving Public Assistance.  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is leading the charge to focus on Minneapolis, Minnesota Somali fraud rings for targeted regional actions.  The IRS Criminal Investigations division has been dispatched to focus on the Minneapolis region to identify fraudulent use of public assistance services, combined with the abuse of federal taxpayer funds.  These fraud cases, ongoing since the early 2020s and intensifying in 2024-2026, involve allegations of misappropriating hundreds of millions (potentially up to several billions) in taxpayer funds intended for child nutrition, autism therapy, housing stabilization, personal care assistance, and other Medicaid programs.  In a remarkable approach, Secretary Bessent announced during a Fox News interview that a regional targeting effort is now underway that will block anyone who receives public assistance from sending money overseas (remittances to foreign countries).  This is not a fee or tax on the remittance, or financial transaction; this is a complete block of their ability to send money overseas.  Anyone receiving public assistance will not be able to send money to foreign lands.

Welcome to Somalisota.  Say hello to Somalisota, born from an invasion of Somalian "refugees" who overwhelmingly refuse to assimilate into America.  Take a gander at the new Somalisota State flag which eerily bears resemblance to the flag of Somalia.  If there still exist any true Minnesotans, they would throw that insult into the woodchipper.  You could do a whole lot worse.  These "refugees" dragged a boat anchor of corruption from their failed nation of Somalia with them.  America is open to legal immigration but only to those who make a positive contribution.  Not in Somalisota where 85% of Somalians are grifting on America's welfare and good intentions.  That is only the beginning.  As everyone now knows, they have created a kleptocracy while birthing a symbiotic relationship to a corrupt state government that benefits from their theft with kickbacks and votes.  Election fraud is so virulent in Somalisota that a state Minnesota election policy allows a registered voter to "vouch" for up to eight people seeking same-day registration.  Talk about election fraud.  Your tax money has been and is still being stolen by these fraudsters, and some of it is even being sent to terrorist groups in Somalia.  Take a look at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's wealth, which has grown from a pittance in 2019 up to $30 million today.

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Somali Democrat Who Came To US Two Decades Ago Still Can't Speak Clear English.  Democratic Oregon state Sen. Kayse Jama is audibly incapable of speaking fluent English despite having moved to the U.S. nearly three decades ago.  Jama spoke at a podium in Portland on Thursday, where he, in broken English, condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and told them to get out of their city.  The state senator moved to the U.S. in 1998, according to his biography.  "This [is] Oregon, we do not need you ... you're not welcome and you need to get the hell out of our community," Jama spat out.  [Video clip] [...] Somalis are at the center of several fraudulent schemes being uncovered across the U.S., particularly in Minnesota, where federal prosecutors have charged 85 Somalis and about a dozen others with stealing over $350 million in taxpayer dollars from Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit that intended to feed low-income children.

Sen. Jim Banks Anti-Fraud Bill Blocks Somali Officials from American Taxpayer Funds.  Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced a bill to strike back at high-level Somali fraud of American taxpayers, Breitbart News learned exclusively.  [Advertisement]  Banks' "No Funding for Foreign Agents Act" would prevent entities that are controlled by agents of any nation covered by President Donald Trump's travel ban — including Somalia — from accessing taxpayer funds.  [Advertisement]  The Indiana senator introduced his bill following revelations that multiple high-ranking officials in the Somali government have run or owned taxpayer-funded businesses and organizations in the United States — many tied to widespread fraud.  "The Somali fraud scandal has revealed how broken the system is," Banks told Breitbart News.  "Foreign officials were able to take advantage of American taxpayers.  This bill stops it and puts Americans first."  Recent reports of massive fraud, a staggering amount by Somalians in Minnesota, have rocked the American public and even contributed to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) reversing his decision to run for reelection. [The second advertisement again]

Immigrant Fraudsters Aren't Going to Like This Bill If It Passes.  Senate Republicans introduced a measure on Wednesday that would make it easier to denaturalize and deport immigrants convicted of fraud.  The bill, called the Fraud Accountability Act, appears to be a response to recent revelations about rampant fraud in Minnesota.  Several organizations defrauded federal welfare programs by falsely claiming to be using taxpayer funds to benefit low-income children.  In reality, the fraudsters pocketed the cash and used it for luxury expenses and to fund terrorism in Somalia.  [Advertisement]  The bill would alter the Immigration and Nationality act so that a wider swath of fraud crimes could lead to serious consequences for immigrants who entered the country legally and illegally.  For starters, the proposed legislation makes "any alien who is convicted of a crime involving fraud committed against any private individual, fund, corporation, or government entity" deportable — even if the loss resulting from the fraud is below the usual aggravated felony threshold.  [Tweet with video clip]

Ilhan Omar Caught Sneaking Carveout for Somali-Led Group in Spending Package.  House appropriators plan to strike Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's $1 million earmark for a Somali-led organization from the lower chamber's funding package Wednesday, as the presence of the carveout threatened to tank the shutdown-preventing bill.  Omar's earmark was for Generation Hope's "Justice Empowerment Initiative" in her district and was tucked into the Commerce, Science, and Justice minibus, which will provide funding for the Commerce, Energy, Interior, and Justice departments, in addition to other related agencies.  Republican Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, who chairs the Appropriations Committee, told reporters he cannot allow one member's project to derail a carefully negotiated full-year funding bill with the Jan. 30 funding deadline fast approaching.  "I can't afford to have a million dollar project jeopardize a $184 billion package of bills," Cole said Wednesday.  "If we have an individual project that can pose a political problem, I've had these in the past from our side before, where we had to tell a member, 'Look, there might be a way to do this, but our advice to you is to withdraw this.'"

Freshman Rep goes full BEAST MODE during questioning over Somali scam.  A freshman congressman out of Texas just walked into Washington and lit a match.  While most new reps spend their first term learning where the cameras are and how to sound important on cable news, Brandon Gill came in like a freaking house on fire and put his name on the map, thanks to one hearing.  This guy, the youngest in Congress, just unleashed a series of rapid-fire questions that exposed exactly how deep and dirty the Minnesota Somali fraud actually goes.  The whole thing unfolded during the opening of the House Oversight investigation into what may be one of the biggest taxpayer fraud operations in modern history.  Billions that were meant to feed children, care for autistic kids, house the disabled, and fund Medicaid were allegedly used to buy luxury homes, flashy cars, and lavish vacations for Somali pirates.  Also, there are credible reports and evidence that show a lot of that money was routed overseas to fund terrorism.  And according to Oversight Chairman James Comer, state leadership in Minnesota knew it was happening and did nothing about it.

Somali Daycare Owner Flips Out When Citizen Journalists Show Up.  The fraud story surrounding the Somali community, in Minnesota and other states, just keeps getting more bizarre.  We learned that several members of the Somalian government, including its Ambassador to the United Nations, own "healthcare" companies in America.  The one we told you about yesterday, Abdullahi Kulane, was listed as the "maneger" of "Rismi Health Transpotation" in Waite Park, MN.  And no, those aren't typos.  That's how Kulane's title and business were listed on the Minnesota business website.  [Advertisement]  There's also Somali fraud in Ohio.  That's where that U.N. Ambassador, Abukar Dahir Osman, was also a "healthcare administrator."  And this story takes us back to the Buckeye State, where a daycare worker freaked out on citizen journalists doing the job the mainstream media refuses to do.  [Tweet with video clip]  The journalists open the door and the man screams, "Get back!  Get back!  Get back!"  as he pushes a woman out of the door.  "Alright, so what just happened?"  the man behind the camera asked the woman, who is journalist Mehek Cooke.

Mohammed Used Food Stamps to Buy $180,000 in Food to Resell at His Deli.  The lesson in Minnesota or in this case out of Pennsylvania is that while America's welfare rats may be too dumb and lack ambition to do anything more than sign up for welfare, there are malicious third worlders with the knack to really game the system and cash in on the welfare state.  Consider the allegations made by Pennsylvania in Mohammad's case.  ["]Pennsylvania's attorney general has charged a McCandless couple with running an 'elaborate scheme' to illegally buy food stamps at a cut rate, use them to purchase nearly $180,000 in food from area stores, then resell the items at their Pittsburgh deli and restaurant.  Rachna Anwar, 46, and her husband, Munir Mohammad Chaudhri, 62, used 453 Electronic Benefit Transfer cards belonging to other people on hundreds of transactions since 2021, authorities said.  The couple ran the operation, in part, by offering people cash in exchange for their EBT card.  Authorities said the operation dates back to at least 2021 and accounts for $178,289 worth of goods, mostly food items.["]

Foreign ATM? Somali cash exodus from Minneapolis exponentially larger than other major US airports.  The cash moved overseas in luggage by Somali couriers from the Minneapolis airport was 10 to 100 times larger than the total foreign exodus of money at other larger American airports the last two years, officials tell Just the News.  Homeland Security Department officials said the statistics they have gathered in recent weeks show the movement of cash out of Minnesota was substantially abnormal and should have raised red flags during the Biden administration, long before the Trump administration began investigating it as part of a major fraud scheme that stole billions from taxpayers in the state.  Just the News reported Tuesday that the Transportation Security Administration detected and flagged nearly $700 million in cash moved in luggage out of the Minneapolis airport by Somali couriers in 2024 and 2025 alone, a stunning total that averaged nearly $1 million a day.  Some of the cash moved to Amsterdam and then to Dubai, a route that has garnered concern in recent days by intelligence agencies and federal criminal investigators, officials said.

Confederacy of Enablers Downplays Somali Fraud.  Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan serves as the unwitting mascot for civic leaders.  Her priority?  She is more focused on photo ops than accountability for billions vanishing in massive statewide fraud schemes.  She is known for her fashion stunts, which have become her personal optic of choice.  This time, she recently wore a black hijab — the safest Muslim color — as a gesture she framed as "solidarity" with the Somali community being accused of the massive fraud.  Solidarity can be charming, but Flanagan's performance ignored a far more combustible reality: taxpayer outrage.  Minnesotans were witnessing what investigators have described as an "industrial-scale" fraud in real time.  And asking what had become of accountability from their civic leaders.  How could $9 billion vanish into a black hole of corruption?  The sheer scope and duration of what were, in many cases, absurdly amateurish schemes really struck a raw nerve with the public.

Democrat Lawmaker:  Focus of Hearing on Minnesota Somalian Fraud Should Be 'White Men'.  A Democrat lawmaker contended during a hearing on Wednesday about alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota that her colleagues should focus on crimes perpetrated by "white men" and American citizens instead of demonizing Somalis.  [Advertisement]  During the U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA) used her time during the questioning of Republican Minnesota state Rep. Kristan Robbins to launch off on a tirade about white men and Jan. 6 "insurrectionists," Fox News reported.  [Advertisement]  "What percentage of sexual assaults in the United States are committed by White men?"  Randall asked Robbins.  "Fifty-seven percent."  Randall went on to cite dozens of people she described as "Jan. 6 insurrectionists" who were pardoned and went on to commit more crimes.  She also cited data indicating that 41 percent of murder suspects in the U.S. in 2023 were white, as well as data attributing most domestic extremism to men.  [Tweet]

Did You Miss This Story About Alleged Medicaid Fraud From a Somali-Run Health Services Provider in Maine?  The story is a bit old, but given that state fraud is now under the microscope, here's a tale NewsNation did from Maine.  It's not about Somali daycare centers, but a Somali-run health services contractor, and the allegations are just as severe.  It could complicate Maine's Senate race, as Gov. Janet Mills, who is running to usurp Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, might be wrapped up in it.  [Advertisement]  Christopher Bernardini was the billing master for Gateway Community Services, who he claims is part of a scheme that defrauds taxpayers out of millions.  He's coming forward to expose the truth.  Sordid tales of fake file claims and services billed but never carried out are pervasive with this story, which first aired last December.  This scheme turned into a free-for-all during the COVID pandemic (via NewsNation):  [Tweet]

Somalian Named Mohammed Tells Democrats To Stop Talking About The Fraud They Are Committing Or They Will Stop Voting For Them.  A Somalian man named Mohammed took the podium in Maine to deliver a warning to Democrats.  If you keep talking about the fraud taking place, the entire voting community will abandon Democrats.  He actually says this, DEPORT THEM ALL.  'Somalians came out in droves, demanding the city NOT investigate one of their own, Iman Osman.' [...] The Somalian man they are demanding they stop investigating is the Somalian refugee named Iman Osman, who will be sworn into the Lewiston, Maine City Council even though he's under investigation for fraud and lied about his address to run for the seat.  [Video clip]

Nick Shirley [Produces] Another Video, and It Will Blow Your Mind.  [Scroll down]  As we previously reported, Minnesota's legislative auditor [published] a bombshell report this week, revealing that.  Walz's Department of Human Services cooked the books, skipped controls, and blew oversight of $400 million-plus in grants.  Employees faked documents to dodge audits.  I suspect this could shove Walz out the door for good — and potentially land him in cuffs.  Shirley's new video dials things up to 11.  David Hoch, co-founder of Minnesotans for Responsible Government, joined him on the ground in Minneapolis, revealing an insane truth:  this fraud hits hundreds of billions nationwide.  Minnesota's slice?  At least $80 billion.  Layers of shell companies obscure the cash trail, including 1,200 medical transport outfits in the area that do nothing while collecting taxpayer dollars.  Hoch swears by his evidence.  "I have been to many of these transportation companies, and I've been time-stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis, and those vans in that parking lot had not moved one inch in an entire year.  They're all still sitting there."  [Video clip]

Foreign ATM? Somali cash exodus from Minneapolis exponentially larger than other major US airports.  The cash moved overseas in luggage by Somali couriers from the Minneapolis airport was 10 to 100 times larger than the total foreign exodus of money at other larger American airports the last two years, officials tell Just the News.  Homeland Security Department officials said the statistics they have gathered in recent weeks show the movement of cash out of Minnesota was substantially abnormal and should have raised red flags during the Biden administration, long before the Trump administration began investigating it as part of a major fraud scheme that stole billions from taxpayers in the state.  Just the News reported Tuesday that the Transportation Security Administration detected and flagged nearly $700 million in cash moved in luggage out of the Minneapolis airport by Somali couriers in 2024 and 2025 alone, a stunning total that averaged nearly $1 million a day.  Some of the cash moved to Amsterdam and then to Dubai, a route that has garnered concern in recent days by intelligence agencies and federal criminal investigators, officials said.

Minnesota Democrats Blocked Auditors from Tackling 'Avalanche' of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers.  The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday.  [Advertisement]  Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing:  [Advertisement]  ["]The most severe ones was that they would be fired with cause so they couldn't have unemployment insurance, that they would be blacklisted from all state agencies... [including] Hennepin County, Ramsey County.  As you know, those are Democrat-run.["]

TSA Found Millions in Cash in Luggage of Somalians at Minneapolis Airport.  Federal officials have begun investigating the long-ignored shipping of at least $700 million in U.S. cash by Somalis in air travel luggage out of Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.  [Advertisement]  Witnesses say that the cash was legally flown out to Somalia and other countries and that TSA routinely flagged the money to their superiors.  The cash, in bundles of $1 million or more, were packed in passenger luggage and shown to airport security officials by migrants flying back to Somalia-area airports, as well as other African countries and places in the Middle East.  Biden's officials did not try to investigate any of these massive cash transfers during his term in office.  Arizona Republican Rep. Eli Crane was alarmed at the reports and said that Congress must investigate the millions found filling baggage sent to Africa and the Middle East.  The Congressman replied to a Libs of TikTok post that related TSA warnings that bags full of cash are being found checked in by Somalis from Minnesota.  [Tweet]

Nick Shirley Video Says MN Has More Than 1,000 Fraudulent Medical Transport Companies.  YouTuber Nick Shirley released a video Monday alleging that Minnesota's medical transport system is riddled with fraud.  In December, Shirley posted video showing several purported Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota — including one that reportedly received $4 million in taxpayer funds — with no children present on site.  In a video posted on his channel, Shirley said his yearlong review identified roughly 1,200 medical transportation outfits operating across the state.  This was an investigation he conducted together with David, who he says played an important role in helping to expose large-scale fraud in Minnesota.  Shirley says David contributed research, documentation, and first-hand insight.  "And so to have that many non-emergency medical transportation companies, it's not possible that they can transport that many people.  I have been to many of these transportation companies, and I've been time stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis," David said.  "And those vans in that parking lot have not moved one inch in an entire year.  They're all still sitting there."

DHS Launches Massive Door-to-Door Audit of Somali-Linked Daycares in Minneapolis.  The Department of Homeland Security is now conducting door-to-door audits of Somali-linked daycare centers and related social-service operations in Minneapolis, as part of a sweeping enforcement surge targeting fraud, illegal employment, and human trafficking tied to sanctuary-state policies.  [Tweet with video clip]  On-the-ground reporting from Fox News' Alexis McAdams captured the scope of the operation in real time.  "They say they see these daycare centers, adult daycare centers, autism centers, home health care centers all over the place," McAdams reported.  "That's why DHS has to be here — to knock on these doors and say, 'You received this much money.  What did you do with it?'"

HHS: UN Somalia Ambassador is Connected to Ohio Company Accused of Medicaid Fraud.  HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill confirmed that UN Somalia Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, who also serves as the UN Security Council president, has ties to a home health agency in Cincinnati, OH, that faced accusations of Medicare fraud.  [Tweet]  Rumors of Osman's involvement swirled last week when people started investigating Somali daycares in Columbus, OH, since the city has the second-largest Somali population.  LibsofTikTok, run by Chaya Raichik, posted the information on Twitter.  I do not know why Raichik decided to investigate Osman, or if someone dropped her a hint, but here we are!

What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught.  That Tim Walz is abandoning his reelection campaign for Minnesota governor amid a maddening multibillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal should serve as a big reminder:  Democrats are robbing you every day and hardly even trying to hide it.  Recall Walz as the stereotypical self-abasing Democrat white male, presumably heterosexual, who was inexplicably chosen to be Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 election.  His stint in that role was the equivalent of a 300-pound belly flop into a pool full of sand, with memorable moments like when he said he rode his bicycle as a child and was "proud of that service" or otherwise was proven to have lied when he referred to "the weapons of war that I carried in war."  (He never saw combat.)  [Advertisement]  Now, however, Walz is most known as the Minnesota governor who oversaw and enabled a years-long scam in which Somalis occupying large swaths of his state were pocketing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with fake child care and health care operations that provided no services to anyone at all.

Feds probe hundreds of millions in suspected Somali cash in luggage leaving Minneapolis airport.  The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers' luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport the last two years, a massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers, Homeland Security officials told Just the News.  The officials said the cash movements out of Minnesota's largest airport began about a decade ago — around the time Democrat Gov. Tim Walz took office — and has grown substantially in recent years.  Though all were legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage — some as much as $1 million in a single trip — raised regular suspicions among TSA agents.  The mountain of dollars leaving the country is now being investigated by the Homeland Security Investigations unit as part of a broader probe into a multibillion dollar fraud scheme centered around the state's Somali immigrant community, where dozens have been charged with or convicted of federal crimes.

Here's Why Democrats Are Subjugating Themselves To Somalis In Humiliation Rituals.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., declared herself to be "Somalia First."  Soyboy Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey danced before a group of Somalis on stage waving the Somali flag of Minnesota in a parody of pandering.  Not to be outdone, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently dressed in a hijab and extolled how "the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota."  These videos need to be encased in glass and paraded through the country, displayed like Tutankhamen's treasures were in 1977 as a glorious open window into what the left is.  Flanagan's fashion choice for Somali TV (yes, a real thing) and Frey's resurrection of burlesque are stunts — P.T. Barnum mermaids without any of the fun.  Take Flanagan.  She doesn't believe in the hijab, or Islam, or anything else she's peddling.  How could she when, in previous incarnations, she has flaunted a "Protect Trans Kids" tee (the knife illustration doing nice double duty as both reminder of child mutilation and perhaps a symbolic call for violence) and rocked the "middle age Pride parade marcher" look, both of which are at odds with Islam?  Her actions indicate that Flanagan believes only in power, and she will dance to whatever tune played by whatever fiddler to keep herself in power or to keep the way clear for amassing more of it (she's currently a frontrunner to be the Democrat's Minnesota nominee for the Senate).

Tim Walz Refuses To Resign As He Faces Major Backlash For Somali Scandal.  Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pledged to stand his ground on Tuesday while lawmakers in his own state are calling on him to resign over his handling of the Somali fraud scandal.  Republican state lawmakers in Minnesota have collectively called for Walz to step down as governor immediately over the scandal, which found that dozens of Somalis stole over $9 billion from federal social service programs in the state.  Walz told reporters that he would resign "over [his] dead body" and accused these lawmakers of doing President Donald Trump's bidding.  "It ain't happening.  I'm not going anywhere," Walz said.  "And you can make all of your requests for me to resign, over my dead body will that happen.  I will fight this thing until the very end to make this state better and the question I think they need to decide is when does the guy in the White House resign?  When does he take accountability for what he did?  Because it isn't going to happen here."

It's Not Just Gov. Walz.  It's Minnesota's Democrat Establishment.  As I noted in a previous article, "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."  Walz is a big part of the problem, but the problem didn't begin with him and now that he won't run again, it won't end with him.

2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe.  The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Twin Cities area as it escalates its federal crackdown amid a widening fraud scandal in Minnesota, multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the plan told CBS News.  The crackdown could involve roughly 2,000 agents and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation branch and Homeland Security Investigations, the agency's investigative arm tasked with fighting transnational crimes, the officials said.  They requested anonymity to discuss operations that have not been publicly announced.  The plan is for the agents and officers to oversee a 30-day surge in operations in the Twin Cities area, making the region the first major target of the Trump administration's expanded immigration crackdown in the new year, officials said.  Agents deployed from Homeland Security Investigations are expected to probe alleged cases of fraud, building on last month's inspection of dozens of sites in the Minneapolis area.

Walz Falls.  A little more than a year ago, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz came close to becoming the Vice President of the United States.  Today, Walz announced that he is dropping his bid for reelection as governor.  What drove this spectacular turn of events?  The Somali fraud story.  In November, my City Journal colleague Ryan Thorpe and I published an investigation into Somali fraud and its connection to the Al-Shabaab terror network, which catapulted to the top of the headlines.  Following the story, President Trump escalated the rhetoric about Somali crime and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced an official investigation.  Over the Christmas holiday, an independent YouTuber named Nick Shirley published a viral video alleging fraud at Somali daycare centers in Minneapolis, putting even more pressure on politicians, including Walz, who had turned a blind eye to the fraud.

Trump Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents To Minnesota For Month-Long Immigration Crackdown.  The Trump administration is calling up roughly 2,000 federal immigration agents to head to Minnesota as part of a massive month-long crackdown.  Officers from all areas of the country were instructed over the weekend to head to Minnesota "ASAP" to assist in the operation, Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire.  Homeland Security Investigations agents are also expected to conduct fraud investigations after federal prosecutors found that dozens of Somalis living in Minnesota were allegedly tied to a multibillion-dollar swindling scheme, CBS News reported.  Investigators believe that the alleged fraudsters stole $9 billion in taxpayer funds as they funneled cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported last month.

Somali Terror in America.  At Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, tens of thousands of people crowded around a massive Douglas fir tree decked with lights.  Waiting for the carnage to begin was Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali 'child' refugee, who was dreaming of killing them all.  In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray "that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise."  He planned to attack Americans "in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays."  And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it.  While fathers lifted up their children on their shoulders and music filled the air, Mohamud was smiling for a different reason.  "You know what I like, what makes me happy?"  he had told undercover agents.  As American families were enjoying the moment, the Somali Muslim was picturing their bodies ripped to shreds by his bomb.  "You know, what I like to see?  Is when I see the enemy of Allah, then you know their bodies are torn everywhere."

Costly refugee funding on the table as they rake in over a dozen taxpayer benefits.  As American taxpayers are plagued with high housing costs, rising medical expenses and other costs, many refugees continue to qualify for over a dozen costly federal benefits, as Congress could decide to continue the quadrupled funding for the program.  Hundreds of thousands of refugees were admitted into the U.S. during the Biden administration, including from countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia, resulting in skyrocketing funding for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance programs.  The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump's first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year — the first year of former President Joe Biden's administration.

Tim Walz is dropping out of Minnesota governor's race and I think we all know why.  Confirmed.  [Tweet]  Tim Walz, affectionately known around these parts as "Tampon Tim," is reportedly pulling out of the Minnesota governor's race and will not seek reelection.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  Yes, it looks like the internet may have officially bullied the man right out of politics.  That and the whole Somali fraud that he's tried to cover up.  And his general incompetence.  And his failure on the national stage — making Kamala seem like the intelligent person on the Democratic ticket.

Walz Ends Minnesota Governor Bid Amid Expanding Fraud Investigation.  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday that he is ending his bid for a third term, a decision that comes as state and federal authorities continue investigating a sweeping fraud scheme tied to Minnesota's social safety net programs, as reported by The New York Post.  [Irrelevant video clip]  Walz, a Democrat who served as former Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate in 2024, had launched his reelection campaign in September.  No Minnesota governor has been elected to three terms since the office shifted to four-year terms in the 1960s.  [Tweet]  [Two advertisements]  "In September, I announced that I would run for a historic third term as Minnesota's Governor.  And I have every confidence that, if I gave it my all, I would succeed in that effort," Walz said in a statement announcing his withdrawal.  "But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all," he added.

As fraud allegations spiral, Minnesota governor Tim Walz quits his reelection bid.  Just 10 days ago, a 23-year-old citizen journalist named Nick Shirley posted a video of empty state-funded "daycare centers" run by Somali immigrants across Minnesota.  Abuse of government programs by Somalis in Minnesota is not a new story.  Yet the video became a national sensation.  Shirley captured the brazenness of the apparent fraud, and the video has now been viewed 138 million times on X.  By this weekend, Minnesota governor Tim Walz was calling Shirley a "delusional conspiracy theorist" on X. News flash: if you are the governor of a state with almost 6 million people and you're arguing with a 23-year-old online, you've already lost.

Klobuchar's Relationships With Somali Community Should Get Scrutiny Too.  So far, Amy Klobuchar has not been associated directly with the Feeding Our Future, daycare, autism, and other Somali-led frauds that have taken down Tim Walz.  [Advertisement]  But then again, the scandal has not obviously damaged Attorney General Keith Ellison, or any of the many other Minnesota Democrats who have had ties as close or closer to the fraud as Tim Walz.  Our Pravda Media has, until recently, been so incurious about the fraud that has eaten half of Minnesota's Medicaid budget that only Walz has been tarred by the scandal.  But 2026 is an election year, and the smart money says Amy Klobuchar is going to run for governor and use her previous record as a county prosecutor to present herself as the ideal candidate to clean up Minnesota's fraud mess.  [Tweet]

Corrupt Amy Klobuchar Kickback:  Possible Scheme to Appoint Tim Walz to Senate Exposed Early.  Flailing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) does not believe he can win statewide reelection and is allegedly scheming with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to remain in public office, according to a report.  Walz announced Monday he would not run for a third term as Minnesota's governor.  The former Democrat vice presidential nominee is drowning under a deluge of reports of fraud that has flourished during his administration — fraud which he either did not properly oversee or perhaps colluded to facilitate.  Much of the reported fraud has originated with Minnesota's Somali community, which Walz has repeatedly defended throughout his political career despite Somalis' inability and unwillingness to assimilate.  But like the entire nation in 2024, Minnesotans may be ready to say no to Walz, leading to his decision to forego reelection and potentially a scheme to allow him to enter the U.S. Senate without appearing on the ballot.

Minnesota Democrat Gov Tim Walz announces he will not seek reelection.  Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday that he will not seek reelection for a third term, citing large-scale fraud scandals involving billions of dollars in misused federal and state program funds and partisan political backlash.  Walz, who also was the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, issued the following statement, obtained by local Minnesota TV station FOX 9. [...] At the heart of the fraud scams was one run by members of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which during the pandemic claimed to distribute thousands of meals to schoolchildren, but in fact stole at least hundreds of millions of dollars while providing few or no meals at most of its locations.  A state agency reportedly tried to cut off funds for the group.  But the operation was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022.  Seventy-eight people have so far been indicted in connection to the Justice Department case, with over 50 reportedly having pleaded guilty.

Politico reporter: expose Somali fraud and you're dead.  "Stand Your Ground" — SYG — laws are virtually universally misunderstood and/or lied about by Democrat politicians and particularly the Democrat media propaganda arm.  Among the more common misrepresentations is the lie that such laws allow white people to kill innocent, unarmed black men without consequences.  Now there's a new addition:  they allow Somali day care fraudsters to shoot conservatives who come to their daycare asking questions.  [Tweet]

POTUS Shares Claim That MN Rep. Melissa Hortman Was Murdered for Wanting to Stop Somali Fraud.  [Video clip]

Somali fraudsters got luxury digs, beachside resort, rented Rolls Royce and Lamborghini with stolen funds.  These are the lifestyles of the rich and shameless.  The Somali fraudsters convicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal flaunted government-funded lifestyles and robust real estate portfolios with the millions of dollars they bilked from the federal government.  Brazen scammers stole hundreds of millions of dollars of federal COVID relief funds — spending their loot on tony condos, expensive cars, and real estate projects in Kenya — including a four-story apartment building and luxury resort, according to court documents.

SBA Suspends 7,000 Minnesota Borrowers Over "Suspected Fraudulent Activity".  Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced late Thursday that nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers have been suspended over suspected fraud.  The move follows a bombshell report last week by citizen journalist Nick Shirley, who detailed alleged large-scale fraud tied to daycare centers operated by Somali-linked networks.  The revelations sparked national outrage, with many Americans angered that their taxes are funding what appears to be industrial-scale migrant welfare fraud.  "Over the last week, SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota," Loeffler said Thursday on X.

DOJ official warns Seattle mayor to leave journalists alone after she accused 'extremist influencers' of harassing Somali child care providers.  A Justice Department official vowed to protect the free speech of citizen journalists Thursday after Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson accused "extremist influencers" of harassing Somali child care providers in the city.  On the eve of her inauguration, Wilson posted a message expressing "solidarity" with Somali child care providers in the city who have come under scrutiny amid a day care fraud scandal more than 1,000 miles away in Minnesota.  "I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers," the self-proclaimed socialist mayor wrote on X, including a statement warning against filming day care centers.

Somalia's UN Ambassador, Who Previously Oversaw Adult Medicaid, Also Served as CEO at a Company Reportedly Placed on a Federal Fraud Exclusion List and Banned from Receiving Medicaid Funds.  While Ohio taxpayers are being told to accept daycare fraud as merely "the cost of doing business," a stunning new report has surfaced that raises serious questions about who has been operating inside the state's taxpayer-funded welfare ecosystem and how far those connections now extend onto the global stage.  As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, RINO Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's office has brushed off mounting concerns over potential large-scale fraud in taxpayer-funded daycare centers — particularly in Columbus, home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — as merely "the cost of doing business," even after two independent journalists uncovered disturbing evidence of potential ghost daycare operations in Columbus, Ohio.  Speaking to the Columbus Dispatch, DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney openly acknowledged that daycare fraud has been "known to the state for decades," suggesting that outrage from taxpayers is simply the product of naivety.

Ethics Questions Swirl Around Somalia's UN Ambassador Tied To Ohio Healthcare Company.  For those wishing to connect back to the original research on the topic of Somali community fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere, we recommend this Nick Shirley video showcasing the 9-year investigative work of a guy simply called David, who's followed actual daycares, and the paperwork attached to them.  All this appears to go back to Obama and the Democrat policy of loading up certain US constituency areas with immigrants/illegals, who receive generous taxpayer funding with no accountability — [...] We believe Nick Shirley has white hat connections, meaning this was a timed operation waiting to finally be exposed for citizen wake-up.  Likely, concrete actions have already happened in the background. [...] The tentacles of this now go back to the UN in a case of curious timing as Somalia bcomes the chair of the UNSC as of Jan 1. Further, the current Somalian UN rep. has been involved in these dubious conflictual dealings going back to 2017-18.  This is all a done deal waiting to surface, we believe.

10 Times Democrats, Corporate Media Leaped to Defend Somalis Despite Massive Fraud Scandals.  Democrats and the corporate media rushed to defend Somalis throughout the end of 2025 as reports emerged that they committed widespread fraud in Minnesota.  Federal prosecutors charged dozens of Somalis with stealing over $9 billion of taxpayer money intended for social services, including the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.  As more details have emerged about their fraudulent actions, Democrats accused President Donald Trump and conservatives of using Somalis as scapegoats and expressed their support for the population.

Now We Know Why Democrats Are Defending Somali Fraud.  Have you ever wondered why Democrats are so aggressively defending rampant fraud in Minnesota?  Why Gov. Tim Walz so desperately wants to handle the investigation on his own?  There's a simple explanation: it has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable communities or fighting discrimination.  Democrats are shielding these schemes because they profit directly from them.  [Advertisement]  Somali-run childcare centers, adult care facilities, and social service operations across the country are getting funded through programs riddled with fraud, and then the Democrats who enabled the fraud and looked the other way get a kickback.  The arrangement works beautifully for everyone except the taxpayers funding it.  For example, we know that many of the now-convicted felons behind the Somali-run Feeding Our Future scheme were also generous political donors to Democrats.  The same organization that stole $250 million from Minnesota's welfare system donated roughly $50,000 to Democratic campaigns in the state.  [Tweet]

Seattle's wokest mayor EVER pledges to 'stand with Somali childcare providers' as she takes a shot at Trump during inauguration.  Seattle's new socialist mayor pledged to 'stand with Somali health childcare providers' as she took a shot at Donald Trump during her inauguration.  Katie Wilson, 43, has drawn scrutiny for openly taking money from her parents to fund her life, and for her so-called 'communist' plans to remake the Emerald City.  In her first major speech in office, she acknowledged Trump's criticism of her campaign.  'I've been noticed by the president of the United States, who called me a "very, very liberal/communist mayor."  It's nice to feel seen,' she said to laughs from the crowd.  Wilson has also taken shots at Trump and the Republican Party for going after the ongoing daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota.  On her first day in office, she tweeted out a condemnation of those going after the Somali community.

Trump Admin Suspends Thousands of 'Minnesota Borrowers' Over Suspected Fraud.  Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced late Thursday that her agency was suspending thousands of "Minnesota borrowers" amid "suspected fraudulent activity" involving COVID-era lending programs.  Loeffler wrote in an X post that the SBA had taken action to suspend 6,900 borrowers in Minnesota after reviewing "thousands" of potentially "fraudulent" Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans approved in the state.  She added that "borrowers" in the state suspected of fraud had been approved for 7,900 PPP and EIDL loans totaling $400 million.  "In total, these borrowers were approved for 7,900 PPP and EIDL loans worth approximately $400M," Loeffler wrote in the social media post.  "These individuals will be banned from all SBA loan programs, including disaster loans, going forward.  We will also refer every case, where appropriate, to federal law enforcement for prosecution and repayment."

Database Searches Show Somali Fraudsters Funding Democrat Politicians.  Somali operators of daycare centers and other social services receiving tax dollars, many fraudulently, are also donating shares of their looted funds to the Democratic Party, say citizen journalists, and others.  [Advertisement]  The New York Post, for instance, found that Minnesota Democrats were the happy recipients of $50,000 in campaign donations from many of the now convicted felons who ran the Somalian Feeding Our Future organization that stole some $250 million in Minnesota welfare funding.  For another example, X user Cam Higby looked at some of the numbers in Washington State and found that 80 percent of all donations made by people listing "childcare" as their occupation had donated to Somali Port of Seattle Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed.  [Tweet]

'Window fronts': Building in Minnesota has 60 'healthcare' businesses registered to it.  The scope of the Somali fraud scandal began in Minnesota, but that appears to be just the tip of the iceberg as reports pour in from across the country of suspicious childcare facilities and now healthcare businesses being run by Somali migrants.  The theft may be in the tens of billions of dollars, and the Department of Health and Human Services is freezing some child care funds nationwide as it investigates claims of fraud, but that does little to recoup the massive theft of taxpayer dollars.  Back in Minnesota, NewsNation's Rich McHugh found one building with 60 "healthcare" businesses registered to it.  When he went to knock on doors, McHugh found "nothing" inside.  "Many of them ... they appear to be just window fronts, door fronts with nothing, with nobody behind," he reported.  [Tweet]

Day Care Fraud Probes Are Popping Up in More States Following Minnesota Revelations.  Minnesota's day care fraud scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg.  With YouTuber Nick Shirley's investigation garnering national attention, investigative journalists and public officials in other states are now sounding the alarm, noting similar schemes could be playing out in their respective states.  On Wednesday, The Center Square did its own investigation in Washington state, visiting several taxpayer-subsidized "day cares" there.  [Advertisement]  Their journalists visited Brightstar Early Learning, which took $141,686 in taxpayer subsidies for the latter half of 2025.  A woman on the scene refused to discuss whether child care is provided at the site.  "I don't have to answer," she responded, as she pulled out a smartphone and began recording, demanding to know, "Where do you come from?"

US-based Somali pirates are panicking and making laughable rookie mistakes.  Thanks to Nick Shirley's reporting, the layers are still being peeled back on the massive Somali daycare fraud.  And as the heat gets turned up to "nuclear levels," something else is happening: panic.  [Two advertisements]  But it's not just US-based Somali pirates who are panicking; the media is as well.  Just look at how they report on Nick's incredible investigative journalism:  [Tweet]  When the spotlight isn't shining too bright, it's easy for scams to stay polished.  But when it gets bright, people start coming unglued and slipping.  And now, as public scrutiny and outrage reach the boiling point in Minnesota, Ohio, and beyond, what we're seeing unfold doesn't look like sophisticated fraud; it reads more like pure desperation.  So, the panic really got kicked up a notch thanks to a viral local X thread.  Locals began posting what they were seeing with their own eyes.  Buildings being passed off as daycares where no families were ever seen coming or going.  Vans parked outside that never moved, lights that rarely changed, and addresses that were more about paperwork than real-life stuff.

Trump Vows to Claw Back $18 Billion in Alleged Minnesota Medicaid Fraud:  "It's a Giant Scam".  President Donald Trump is escalating pressure on Minnesota officials after federal investigators uncovered what his administration says could amount to $18 billion in Medicaid-related fraud, much of it tied to childcare and social service providers operating in Somali-majority neighborhoods.  Speaking forcefully during a New Year's Eve event, Trump left little room for ambiguity.  "They stole $18 BILLION! And that's just what we've heard about," Trump said.

Minnesotans Begged GOP Rep To Stop The Somalis Over A Decade Ago — He Told Them It Was Impossible.  Minnesotans begged House Majority Whip Tom Emmer more than a decade ago to halt the flood of Somali refugees to the area, but the lawmaker scolded them for their concerns.  Minnesota's Somali population is back in the spotlight after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video canvassing multiple Somali-run childcare centers accused of fraud.  However, A resurfaced audio clip from "This American Life" shows that voters were concerned about mass Somali migration long before the recent controversy.

In England:
Stopping fraud IS impossible, if there is no difference between the two political parties, and if politicians don't listen.

Minnesota: DHS Inspecting Over 30 Sites of Suspected Fraud.  DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that her department has boots on the ground in Minneapolis, MN, to investigate over 30 sites suspected of fraud, including the ghost daycare center.  Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been conducting the investigations.  A person told CBS News that the investigations include a "little bit of everything," meaning immigration enforcement is included.

Minnesota Fraud Scandal Exposes the Real Crisis Facing the West.  The Minnesota Somali fraud scandal somehow manages to get worse and worse as the legacy media mostly ignore the issue and Democrats shrug.  At the heart of this scandal lies the larger crisis facing the West.  On Friday, independent journalist Nick Shirley released a 42-minute YouTube documentary detailing his efforts to undercover what exactly is going on in Minnesota and how a ring of mostly Somali scammers squelched billions of dollars from taxpayers under the noses of Gov. Tim Walz and state authorities.  [Tweet with video clip]

What is the difference between this and human trafficking?
Misspelled Minnesota day care Quality 'Learing' trucks in children after viral fraud video: 'Never seen kids go in there until today'.  The Quality "Learing" Center Minneapolis, a purported day care flagged in a viral video designed to expose fraud, may have been bustling with kids Monday, but it is typically such a ghost town that it appeared closed, a local told The [New York] Post.  The resident called the kiddie scene at the site Monday — a few days after explosive footage called it out and suggested it was part of widespread state fraud — "highly unusual.  "We've never seen kids go in there until today.  That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed," the person said.

Alpha News reporters visit autism, adult day care centers as Medicaid fraud concerns mount.  Prompted by a flood of tips from readers about facilities that tipsters say do not appear to be providing services, Alpha News reporters Liz Collin and Jenna Gloeb visited more than a dozen autism centers and adult day care businesses across the Twin Cities during posted business hours on Monday, Dec. 15.  [Video clip]

Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists to Stop Investigating Somali Daycares or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges.  The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.  "My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking," State AG Nick Brown stated.  "We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers.  Showing up on someone's porch, threatening, or harassing them isn't an investigation.  Neither is filming minors who may be in the home.  This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior."  Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil rights, issued a warning of her own in reaction to the Washington state AG's post.  "ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist's 1A rights will have some 'splainin to do," she wrote on X, Wednesday morning. "[The DOJ Civil Rights Division] takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!"  Dhillon added.

Harmeet Dhillon Levels the WA AG After Troubling Remarks on Journos Investigating State's Daycares.  We've been covering the massive fraud scandal in Minnesota.  But as we reported, independent journalists are also raising questions about daycare centers in Washington state.  [Advertisement]  Cam Higby and Jonathan Choe visited centers in that state, as Nick Shirley had done in Minnesota.  You would think that the response from Washington officials would be, "Well, thanks very much!  We'll get right on it, looking into that and making sure we stop any fraud."  That's if they want to do the right thing, and are reading the anger of people in the room on this issue.  But the response from state Attorney General Nick Brown was lacking at best.  He claimed that people at the daycare centers are being harassed.  [Tweet]

Plethora of Childcare Centers in Subsidized Housing Raise Questions.  [Links to a Tweet, which says]  @iamfreeauditing finds 20 Somalian daycares in a 3 block area of subsidized housing (same style as Lewiston Maine).  He goes to 12 and has doors slammed in his face & no kids!  The "community" gets [angry] that he is investigating & try to have him removed by lying to the police saying he is armed with a gun and flashed it at them (which was completely made up).  [Tweet with video clip]

$5 Billion in HUD Fraud in 1 Year of Biden.  The welfare state is one giant scam.  Once you start handing out money, much of it will be stolen.  And the more they steal, the more thieves will show up and at that point you either cut off the dough or go bankrupt.  If you look at our federal, state and local budgets, they've been climbing, so the thievery is only getting worse.  The Somalis are only the tip of the iceberg.

Somali Americans Face Audits for Potential Immigration Fraud.  The Trump administration is auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to uncover potential fraud that might be grounds for revoking their citizenship, known as denaturalization.  "Under U.S. law, if an individual procures citizenship on a fraudulent basis, that is grounds for denaturalization," Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement reported by Fox News then shared by the White House on social media.  Such denaturalization actions are rare, and the process often lasts years. [...] Federal authorities have in recent months turned their focus to Minnesota's Somali population, alleging it is an epicenter for fraud involving millions in federal funds for social services.  FBI Director Kash Patel announced Sunday that the bureau has "surged" investigators and resources to Minnesota.  Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday that it has stopped all child care payments to Minnesota.  Nationwide, payments from the department's Administration for Children and Families "will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state."

Citizen Journalists Uncover Defunct Shell Organization Linked To 40 Ohio Daycares.  Dozens of citizen journalists are combing through public filings and conducting on-the-ground investigations in corrupt Democratic-run cities, aiming to map out the scale of an alleged Somali-linked welfare fraud network.  The on-the-ground footage these journalists have posted on X suggests that some daycare operations may be front companies.  The latest revelation centers on a defunct nonprofit, the Somali Education & Resource Center, which Right Angle News Network and others claim operated more than 40 daycare centers in Columbus under its name and received millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year.  "Over 40 daycare centers in Columbus, Ohio, all opened under the same defunct shell organization, the Somali Education & Resource Center, have been identified as opening and beginning operations on the exact same day, with combined earnings of $14 million in 2024 alone," the outlet said.

Pravda Focuses on Defending Fraud, Not Investigating It.  I guess it shouldn't surprise me that after Nick Shirley, whose viral video sparked a nationwide examination of the fraud that has resulted in half of all Medicaid expenditures being stolen in Minnesota, did his investigation, the media had one and only one focus:  debunk Shirley.  The "debunkings" were a joke.  As in the equivalent of Saturday Night Live skits, but it was important to give the talking point ASAP, so they did what they could.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet with video clip]  CBS, for instance, sent a reporter to... read a government website to claim that everything was just great.  Since one of the accusations, made not just by Shirley, but the actual f'ing US Attorney prosecuting these cases, is that the way the programs were designed was to facilitate fraud, I would suggest that going to the perpetrators to ask if they were guilty is not quite an in-depth investigation.  [Tweet]

Despite It All, They Will Continue to Vote for Democrats.  I have some hope that the explosion in coverage of the massive welfare fraud will make an impact, but no hope at all that the impact will go beyond Independent voters who recoil in disgust.  If Tim Walz were marched into jail along with half the Democratic governors in the country — which no doubt will not happen — Democrats would still march to the polls and vote for the next Democrat.

Somali Corruption and the Mainstream Media.  Conservatives said for years that the massive importation of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees was a corruption of our immigration process, that they were brought here to shore up Minnesota's voting patterns, that they were an NGO project to funnel tax dollars into ill-considered social spending and likely corrupt programs.  And the Democrat Party and their media puppets looked the other way as crime rose, as tax dollars were burned up, as the standard of living of one of the Midwest's once-great communities fell at a record rate.  They didn't acknowledge what was happening right in front of their eyes; they just stopped watching the crime reports, the economic statistics, the climbing welfare state, and plummeting test scores in the schools.  Until, in December 2025, they just couldn't avert their eyes anymore.

ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods.  While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota's Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network.  Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study's publishing, ABC hasn't touched the story outside of a single offhand mention on December 3.

Long Live Somaliland!  If you had asked me a week ago about the location of Somaliland, like 99.99% of my fellow Americans, I would have drawn a blank.  I knew, of course, that Somalia, a mish-mash of tribes in the Horn of Africa, was basically a failed state and that a famous, exasperating Somali congresswoman who hates America could well be in this country illegally.  I was also well aware — how could I not be — of the outrageous metastasizing scandal in Minnesota and elsewhere with Somali immigrants accused of defrauding billions in taxpayer money via phony daycare centers and other faux government enterprises.  I saw the nauseating defenses of these practices by Minnesota's execrable governor, who might have been our vice president — we dodged the proverbial bullet on that one — and the equally execrable mayor of Minneapolis.  But nothing about Somaliland... until December 26, 2025, when I read that Israel became the first United Nations member state to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state.

Somali Looting Spree Not Limited to Minnesota.  Somali grifters have looted taxpayers for as much as $9 billion in Minnesota.  If only that were the extent of it. [...] A favorite scam involves connecting restaurants to grocery stores.  ["]According to the journalist, these grocery stores are able to process EBT transactions for bulk food purchases, which are then used to supply the adjacent restaurants.["]  Then the grocery stores — which do their business in cash — report large losses that can be used to claim tax write-offs.  Muslim polygamous marriages also increase access to entitlement moola.  Multiple wives get paid to be single mothers while working low-wage jobs as they displace the American population by squirting out staggering quantities of offspring. [...] Combine the welfare state with open borders and you get a looting spree that will bleed America to death.  Due to relative reproduction rates, the problem will continue to get increasingly severe even if Democrats do not open the immigration floodgates all the way — and once they get the opportunity, they will.

The Federalist Staff's 2025 Winners And Losers Of The Year.  Now, we're finding out [Tim] Walz truly is Governor Fraud.  One of the left's best empty vessels, Walz was either asleep at the switch or knew about and did nothing to stop the "largest pandemic fraud in the United States."  As we are finding out, he had plenty of warnings about leftist nonprofits like Feeding Our Future bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.  State Sen. Jordan Rasmusson told Fox News Digital what should have been obvious to Walz:  Somali scammers "were claiming to feed 6,000 kids a day, seven days a week, in a community of only 2,500 people. ... You don't need to be an FBI analyst to figure out that there's probably fraud occurring."  But the Feeding Our Future scam was just the tip of the swindling iceberg in a fraud scandal believed to have cost taxpayers $1 billion, likely more.  Of course, the fraud scandal is bigger than Minnesota.  Just look at all the blue state governors who are prickly about opening their books to federal auditors.

The Trump/Bondi DOJ Is Aggressively Pursuing Multiple Fraud Investigations In Minnesota.  It has been a difficult 72 hours on social media since Nick Shirley's video was posted documenting his visits to Somali-run daycare centers in Minneapolis which exposed the obvious fraud many of them are almost certain to be.  But among the most egregious instances of outright fabrications have come from conservative "social media influencers" who are using the Minnesota fraud schemes to attack the performance of DOJ under the stewardship of Attorney General Pam Bondi.  Before I go into a discussion of what DOJ is currently doing with regard to welfare and health program fraud schemes, I want to lay out FACTS in a timeline about when the fraud is alleged to have begun, when the investigation started, what has been accomplished so far, and what is happening today. [...]

Ohio Governor:  Fraud Is 'the Cost of Doing Business'.  Look, as a practical matter, it is impossible to prevent and discover 100% of all fraud.  The incentives are too high, government resources are not infinite, and at some point, the juice is not worth the squeeze.  [Advertisement]  That point, though, is pretty close to 0% fraud.  Once fraud reaches a level substantially above a few percent at most, citizens rightly feel like they are being taken for a ride.  That does not appear to be the opinion of Ohio's governor, however, whose spokesman characterized fraud, which is likely quite substantial, according to what is being revealed at this early stage of the investigations.  And not just fraud, but people are revealing that daycares that have been inspected have been — by the government's own records — dangerous petri dishes that are unfit for human habitation.  [Tweet]

Somalis have never been an important part of American history.  Contrary to what Somali Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar said about Somalis  [Video clip]  Rob Finnerty of Newsman contradicts Omar's and the media's false narrative that Somali immigrants are part of the fabric of America's long-standing history  [Video clip]  and based on the just uncovered $9 billion+ Somali welfare fraud scandal, Somalis, including naturalized Somali-American citizens, could soon have their citizenship revoked and be subjected to deportation.

The 9 billion dollar Somali fraud that Walz denies and media goes silent.  In a stunning display of citizen journalism that the legacy media has refused to touch, 23-year-old YouTuber and independent journalist Nick Shirley has single-handedly exposed what could be one of the largest taxpayer-funded scams in American history.  His explosive 42-minute YouTube video, posted right after Christmas, takes viewers on a boots-on-the-ground tour of multiple Minneapolis daycare centers — many tied to the Somali immigrant community — that have raked in millions (and collectively billions) in federal and state child care assistance funds, all while appearing completely shuttered during normal business hours.  Empty parking lots, locked doors, no children in sight: these are the damning images Shirley captured, backed by public records showing these "centers" collecting enormous payouts from hardworking American taxpayers.

Shirley you jest.  Late last night Star Tribune reporter Jeff Meitrodt emailed me a link to his and Deena Winter's story "We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did.  Here's what we found"  ("Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having 'no children' invited reporters in to see for themselves").  His subject line read "Check this out."  Having checked it out.  I would say the accuracy of Nick Shirley's viral video has been called into question and the facts remain unclear.  Meitrodt and Winter visited six of the ten daycares featured in the video.  The reporters found children inside four of them.  Six others were either closed or did not open their doors.  However, their most striking finding raises a huge red flag.  Five of the ten daycare businesses operated as meal sites sponsored by Feeding Our Future and those five businesses received nearly $5 million in payments between 2018 and 2021, "according to trial evidence."  I take it that would be the government exhibit summarizing payments for fraudulent meals.  I wish Meitrodt and Winter had identified the five businesses and stated whether they found children at them or not.  It seems to me that the frauds are like Russian nesting dolls.

Politico Should Fire Josh Gerstein.  Just how corrupt are journalists these days?  Consider this example from earlier in the week involving the explosive Minnesota fraud scandal — the one the mainstream media covered up for years and is now busy trying to downplay.  On Tuesday, Josh Gerstein, a "senior legal affairs reporter" for Politico, weighed in in response to the Nick Shirley video, in which the amateur journalist took his camera to various empty taxpayer-supported "day care centers" that were obvious fronts.  Instead of expressing outrage that fraudsters were stealing massive amounts of money meant to support poor families — and his colleagues in the mainstream press got scooped by a kid — Gerstein issued a veiled threat to people like Shirley.  "At some point," he posted on X, "the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws."  [Tweet]

The Most Convenient 'Burglary' in History Hits Somali-Run Daycare in Minneapolis.  Just as the heat turns up on massive daycare fraud in Minnesota, a Somali-run daycare in Minneapolis claims that someone conveniently broke in during the early morning hours, smashed up a wall, and walked off with the one thing investigators would care about most:  records on employees and children.  Not cash.  Not electronics.  "Important documentation."  The manager, Nasrulah Mohamed, claims the Nokomis Day Care Center was hit sometime between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., with a damaged door, interior vandalism, and missing files on kids and staff.  Police confirmed that a break-in happened, and local TV video shows part of a wall ripped open and a security camera mounted outside the building, though no one seems eager to say whether that camera actually captured anything useful.  Can you hear the sound of me rolling my eyes?  I mean, seriously, this is all going down at the exact moment Somali-run daycare centers in Minneapolis sit under a national microscope because of fraud allegations that could reach up to $1 billion across Minnesota's public assistance programs, and we're supposed to nod our heads and believe this at face value?

Obama's Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire.  Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty.  Every dollar you saved for your children's tuition, your retirement, your security — gone.  Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief driving a Porsche bought with your money, laughing as he waves a government-issued thank you note.  This is not a hypothetical scenario.  It is the reality of the American taxpayer in the wake of the single largest COVID-era fraud scheme in the nation's history.  While you were locked down, masked up, and worrying about the price of eggs, a sophisticated network of fraudsters in Minnesota was siphoning off a quarter of a billion dollars — likely far more — from programs meant to feed hungry children.

Somali daycare fraud shows failure of government meddling.  It has been ordinary citizens, not billions spent on federal law enforcement, that uncovered the immense daycare fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota.  In one video posted on Facebook, a Minnesota resident explains that he personally visited 40 to 50 Somali-run daycares in the Minneapolis area and never saw a child at any one of them.  "So one of the things that I've noticed is there's an exceptional number of childcare centers that are set up mostly in Minneapolis, but also in St.  Paul.  And I said, wow, how many kids are there in the Twin Cities?"  the Minnesotan commented to a reporter.  When he inquired at one facility about availability for his grandson, "they said, no, we're all full, we're all full.  And they had the door open and I looked and there were no kids."

TCS investigating potential child care center fraud in WA.  Daycare centers that receive hundreds of thousands in taxpayer subsides did not appear to have any children when The Center Square visited the facilities this week and were either openly hostile or told journalists that they were hoping to have children in their care, but did not have an application available or anyone to talk with about enrolling a child.  The focus on Washington's taxpayer subsidized daycares comes at the time federal authorities are conducting what they call a "massive" investigation into fraud in Somali-run facilities in Minnesota.

The Legacy Media's Long Knives Are Out for Nick Shirley.  You knew this would happen.  An independent journalist scoops the legacy media, and they go after him.  It's happened before, and it will happen again.  Nick Shirley has made CNNCBSABCNBCNYT and all of the other leftist media look bad, and now they will try to make sure he pays.  [Advertisement]  Our own Eric Florack captured the essence of what Shirley accomplished just a few days ago:  ["]This is most likely the single biggest story ever covered by an independent journalist.  In one video alone, Nick Shirley has exposed over $100 million in fraud.  I suspect he's merely scratched the surface on the story. [... "]  Eric is right.  The legacy media couldn't be bothered, that is, until Shirley's discoveries spurred on more investigations in Minnesota and elsewhere, and a pattern has emerged.  There is a ton of corruption in the Somali-American communities, and we're paying for it, [...]

Minnesota GOP Rep. Tom Emmer Goes Scorched Earth, Calls for 'Denaturalization and Deportation of Every Somali Engaged in Fraud'.  The House Majority Whip has some strong — very strong — thoughts on the current fraud scandal engulfing his state.  There's just one problem:  The message isn't quite landing the way he'd probably like it to.  Minnesota GOP Rep. Tom Emmer took to X on Monday and absolutely torched the Somali immigrants who've been busted in the Gopher State's ongoing fraud debacle.

'Send Them Home': MN Rep. Tom Emmer Calls for Deportation of Every Somali Engaged in Fraud.  House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) called for the deportation of all Somalis linked to fraud in Minnesota, as scrutiny intensifies on the state's handling of the alleged schemes.  [Advertisement]  In a post on X, Emmer said even naturalized citizens should have their citizenship revoked so they can be deported — and he signaled he's willing to push legislation to make it happen.  "I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers:  Send them home.  If they're here illegally, deport them immediately; if they're naturalized citizens, revoke their citizenship and deport them quickly thereafter," the No. 3 House Republican wrote.  "If we need to change the law to do that, I will."  "Our nation will not tolerate those who take advantage of our charity and refuse to assimilate into our culture," he added.

The Editor says...
[#1] Send them home after they serve time in prison.  [#2] The few Somali immigrants who are not criminals should be deported because they are currently (or likely to become) a public charge, and were inadmissible from the outset.

Minnesota Somali woman goes silent, covers mouth at staged press conference after mentioning fraud is bad.  So the Minnesota "day care center" that was mysteriously robbed of it's documents last night decided to hold a scripted, really bad press conference in Minnesota today.  It was a total disaster of course, with none of the speakers sounding authentic, and sounding like robots reading from a script.  Check out this Somali woman.  She was forced to say fraud is bad in her script.  That was a bad idea as she got speechless and covered her mouth as if to say fraud is good, it's cool, keep ripping off the taxpayer..  I just don't understand this woman's reaction.  She didn't admit to anything.  She didn't name anyone.  Why that reaction?  [Tweet with video clip]

Deport them all, and let's see if this is true!
State Senator:  Minnesota Would Not 'Survive, Nor Thrive' Without Somali Community.  Somali migrants are claiming that Minnesota's economy would crash without them, even as the cost of Somali-run welfare fraud is growing on a weekly basis.  [Advertisement]  Minnesota has been wracked with a series of massive welfare fraud cases, leaving Democrat governor and failed 2024 vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz reeling.  Much of the multibillions in fraud has been perpetrated by Somali migrants, who first began pouring into the state in the 1990s.  [Advertisement]  However, one state legislator is insisting that Minnesota would not be able to survive without Somalians.  Democrat Minnesota State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed — who was born in Somalia — in a recent interview said, "We are in every industry, and Minnesota would not be able to survive, nor thrive, without the Somali community."

Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City's 'Every Achievement'.  Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for "every achievement" that the city has ever had.  Somalis have gained national attention after several were charged with stealing over $1 billion from Minnesota's social programs, including those intended to feed poor children.  Wu claimed that the Somalians are responsible for every positive thing that has happened in Boston.  "You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.  We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors.  Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society," Wu said.

The Editor says...
If "hate has no place in [y]our society," why do you hate white people so much, and Donald Trump in particular?

Young Somali girl in Minnesota says Somalis shouldn't be called illegal because America is "stolen land".  Obama imported hundreds of thousands of these people into Minnesota, Maine and Ohio.  Now they are demanding not be called "illegal aliens", even though they are because America is stolen land or something?  Look at me little Somali girl, you are in my country now!  Not the other way around!  These people weren't indoctrinated with this crap in Somali.  They were indoctrinated with this crap in American public schools, especially in Minnesota.  [Tweet with video clip]

The Editor says...
Where did she get that guff about "stolen land?"  Public schools, I suspect.

Somali girl says foreigners shouldn't be illegal in Minnesota because "this is literally, like, stolen land".  The woke mind virus is a terrible disease.  [Tweet with video clip]  The U.S. government didn't always hold up its end of the bargain when it was making treaties with native tribes that were constantly fighting each other and/or killing Americans, so that means Muslim tribes from East Africa can claim ownership to Minnesota?  I guess that explains the billions in welfare and tax fraud!

Somali Daycare Manager Claims Burglars Mysteriously Broke Into Facility, Stole All "Important Documents".  Nobody believes this.  A Somali daycare manager on Tuesday claimed all "important documents" were stolen from Nokomis Day Care Center in Minneapolis after a mysterious break-in.  Nokomis Day Care Center was one of the Somali-owned daycare centers featured in journalist Nick Shirley's video reporting on widespread fraud in the Somali community.  Nick Shirley uncovered at least $110 million in Somali daycare fraud in one day.  The manager, Nasrulah Mohamed, blamed Nick Shirley for the break-in; however, no one is buying the claims.

Ilhan Omar & Husband's Net Worth Skyrockets amid Minnesota's Somali Fraud Crisis.  While Minnesota grapples with a staggering $9 billion fraud crisis, radical Somalia-born Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her husband have seen their net worth inexplicably skyrocket in just one year.  The companies of Omar's husband, Tim Mynet, are raking in valuations that defy belief.  Two ventures owned by Mynett have dramatically ballooned in worth recently, with Rose Lake Capital LLC jumping from a measly $1-$1,000 in 2023 to $5 million-$25 million in 2024, and ESTCRU LLC climbing from $15,000-$50,000 to $1 million-$5 million in the same span, per congressional disclosures.  For hardworking Minnesota taxpayers, this raises red flags about potential windfalls tied to a state drowning in government program abuse, with losses that could burden families with higher taxes or slashed services.

Democrat Rep. Jayapal claims Somalis, Indians, Latin Americans, 'built this country" and made it 'what it is today'.  Washington state Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal recently appeared on MS NOW's "Ana Cabrera Reports" show to claim that deporting Somalians will hurt America economically.  This, in the face of the massive Minnesota scandals involving Somalis and more than a billion dollars in fraud.  What did we here in America do before all the Somalis came here in the past two or three decades?  Oh yeah, we defeated the British and became the strongest, freest, greatest country the Earth had ever known, with more entrepreneurs and inventions to our credit than any other nation.  Yet, now we are being massively defrauded by Somalis (among a few others), more than half of whom are on the public dole.  In no way, shape, or form would deporting every last Somali be a negative for the U.S. economy.

Journalists look into Somali-owned daycares in Washington.  Here's what they found.  Intrepid journalist Nick Shirley isn't the only reporter looking into fraudulent Somali daycares — so are many others.  Shirley went viral late last week after he published a deep investigative exposé about the fraud being committed by Somali-owned daycare centers in the blue state of Minnesota.  [Tweet with video clip]  This week, Cam Higby and Jonathan Choe followed up on Shirley's investigation by conducting their own in Washington State.  They discovered, for example, that the owner of one daycare has received $210,000 in taxpayer funds, despite people living nearby claiming they've never seen a daycare operating there.

Former Minnesotan EJ Haust Says Five State Agencies Should Be Raided and Investigated for Possible Complicity in Massive Fraud.  EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show and self-described political refugee from Minnesota, identified five Minnesota entities she believes failed or were complicit in allowing fraud to persist in the state: the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, the Minnesota Department of Human Services, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor, and Minnesota Management and Budget.  She argued that each of these agencies has a formal responsibility to detect fraud and yet failed to do so, despite the scale of the alleged misconduct.  "These are all state agencies that are responsible — it literally says in their description — for identifying fraud risks in state agencies and programs," Haust stressed.  "Someone has to be complicit in these agencies in order to make that happen," she added.  [Tweet with video clip]

The Effort to Rehabilitate Somalis Is Getting Hilarious.  Americans are, and with good reason, very sensitive about discussing any topic that touches on race.  No, scratch that.  The left is filled with people who use our fraught history of racial discrimination to bludgeon people into silence on any number of issues that could be, even tangentially, related to racial disparities.  [Advertisement]  Until recently, the people who are constantly attacked for being racists or white supremacists have been cowed because we don't want to be tarred as racists.  The taboo is breaking down, now that accusations about racism are as common as grains of sand on a beach. [...] Somalis have not one, but three units of "oppression" in the oppression Olympics, and they and their advocates are trying to use every advantage they have to push back on people noticing that they have been terrible guests in our country.  They are "migrants," they are black, and they are Muslim.  Obviously, they are the oppressed, and we are the oppressors.

Let's Make 'Temporary Protected Status' Really Temporary.  "Temporary Protected Status" (TPS) is a legal fig leaf invented by Congress in 1990 that allows the secretary of Homeland Security to exempt nationals of a designated country under certain conditions from having to go back there. [...] Haitians have enjoyed Temporary Protected Status in the United States for almost 14 years.  They're not the record-holders.  Somalis are, having had TPS since 1991.  Being president is a more temporary status than being a Somali TPS holder:  six presidents have come and gone since Somalis were first given permission to remain "temporarily" in the United States.  TPS is authorized when the situation in a person's country of origin is so unstable as to endanger people going back there.  Legal criteria of dangerous instability can include armed conflict (e.g., a coup where military rule is ongoing or a civil war has broken out), environmental disaster (e.g., an earthquake), an epidemic, or "other extraordinary and temporary conditions."  TPS holders receive permission to work in the United States.  They can also travel abroad and come back to America.  Under immigration law, people who have a temporary status to remain in the United States usually cannot leave without losing that status.

The Editor says...
If you have the money to "travel abroad," after coming here as a refugee, you should not be re-admitted to the U.S.

Tip of Iceberg — HHS Suspends all Childcare Payments to State of Minnesota Pending Investigative Review.  The federal [Department] of Health and Human Services has announced the suspension of all childcare service payments to the state of Minnesota, pending investigative review and compliance audits.  The announcement follows several grassroots reports showing extensive fraud and corruption stemming mostly from the Somali immigrant community.  Several taxpayer-funded assistance programs have been exploited.  From daycares to nonprofits, immigrant communities in Minnesota now face multiple accusations of fraud, where they allegedly used state policies to take what some estimate to be about $9 billion in taxpayer dollars.  [Video clip]  There are numerous indications the Minnesota fraud is only the tip of the iceberg.  Several states with large migrant population are also suspected of similar activity.  The Dept of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation and HHS are now doing compliance audits to determine the scale and scope of the overall theft.

False refugee study used by Dems to justify open borders — and massive spending.  Even as massive fraud schemes are uncovered in Minnesota, orchestrated primarily by Somali refugees, Democrats are circling the wagons.  Refugees and asylum seekers provide a substantial net benefit to the United States, they claim, generating more wealth than they take from the government.  But that talking point is based on a federal study that was rejected in 2017 by the first Trump administration as methodologically unsound and preposterous in its conclusions.  The study was resurrected and expanded by the Biden administration in 2024. Today, 73% of Somali households have at least one member enrolled in Medicaid, and 89% of Somali families with children participate in at least one welfare program.

Pramila Jayapal Thinks Everyone In The World Built America Except Americans.  My eleventh-great grandfather Thomas Rogers arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower.  He signed the Mayflower Compact, which affirmed the right of free men to establish a government they would all be subject to. [...] But on Thursday, Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., informed me that it wasn't ancestors like mine who built this nation.  No, it was Somalians, Indians, and immigrants from Latin America and Africa.  "The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party, know that immigrants from all over the world — Somalia, India, wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa — that immigrants have built this country and make this country what it is today," Jayapal said on MS Now.  [Video clip]  But if Somalians, Indians, or immigrants from "wherever they're from" "built America," why didn't they just "build" their own version of America in their native country?

It Takes A Village of Somalis To Defraud Minnesota.  Whenever I see reports surface of fraud going on in another state, I typically scoff.  But over the last couple of weeks, seeing the reports of the breadth and depth of fraud the Somali community has perpetrated on the state of Minnesota, and by extension the federal taxpayers, it's enough to make this cynical Californian stand up and applaud.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, allegedly vetted at one time by former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder as the best choice for Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's emergency vice-presidential nominee in 2024, has been absolutely John Belushi-esque in delivering excuses for the fraud rampant in the Gopher State.  In regards to the fraudulant Medicaid food, housing, autism support, a story that our friends Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker have owned from the beginning at Powerline Blog, totaling close to $9 billion dollars across 14 different programs thus far, Walz has had no shortage of people to blame.

What Somalis Have Done for Minnesota.  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.

Somali Immigrants in Minnesota.  The migration of Somalis to Minnesota has created stark socioeconomic disparities in a region once known for its egalitarianism.  This report documents the struggles of the Minnesota Somali population, now numbering over 75,000, in an otherwise high-achieving state.  Among the findings:
  •   More than half (52 percent) of children in Somali immigrant homes in Minnesota live in poverty, while only 8 percent of children in native-headed homes are in poverty.
  •   One in eight children in poverty in Minnesota lives in a Somali immigrant home.
  •   About 39 percent of working-age Somalis have no high school diploma, compared to just 5 percent of natives.
  •   Among working-age adult Somalis who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, half still cannot speak English "very well".
  •   About 54 percent of Somali-headed households in Minnesota receive food stamps, and 73 percent of Somali households have at least one member on Medicaid.  The comparable figures for native households are 7 percent and 18 percent.
  •   Nearly every Somali household with children (89 percent) receives some form of welfare.
  •   Although Somalis have recently been implicated in welfare fraud, any population with poverty rates as high as theirs will qualify for extensive means-tested aid.  The best way to reduce immigrant consumption of welfare is not simply to crack down on fraud, but to reduce the number of new arrivals who have low earning power.

Zohran the Barbarian Takes New York.  Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, are forced to hear Islamic calls to prayer booming from mosques' outdoor loudspeakers several times each day.  There are so many Somalis in Minneapolis that the whole city is Somali-town and native Minnesotans are the exotic foreigners living in Little America neighborhoods.  The people who settled Michigan and Minnesota were tough, self-sufficient, devout Christians.  They wouldn't recognize the areas that have been handed over to non-Christian foreigners who have no intention of assimilating to American culture.  The deep thinkers inside Washington, D.C.'s Deep State have spent the last several decades transplanting entire villages from the Middle East and Asia into the American heartland.  Nobody should be surprised when those deadly decisions give America a heart attack.  Whenever I write about the danger of Islamic conquerors taking over the West, the pro-jihad brigades come out in force to denounce me as a "bigot" and "hater" before heading out on their suicide bomber runs.  I don't care.  How many more examples do Americans and Europeans need before they understand that Islam is incompatible with the West?  Freedom and personal liberty have no home in the Muslim world.  Freedom of religion and free speech have no home in the Muslim world.  Women's rights do not exist in the Muslim world.

An NGO In Minnesota Is Getting $2,375 For Each Somali Migrant It Brings To The US.  An NGO headquartered in Minnesota is getting paid $2,375 for every Somali immigrant it brings into the United States.  "Why are Somalians in America?  I looked into it — The main group bringing in Somalians is Lutheran Social Services — it turns out they get $2,375 for every Somalian they bring over."  "We have to ask the question, why are they coming over here in the first place?  And another surprise, turns out our government was funding a dictatorship in Somalia — This is where the movie Black Hawk Down comes from.  But overall, Somalis have no right to be in America, especially in North Dakota and Minnesota.  They don't integrate into our societies.  They carry over their clan mentalities.  If you personally have never interacted with Somalian or just don't believe me, I would recommend checking out Nick Shirley's video he did the other day.  What do you guys think about all this?"  [Video clip]

The Somali Fraud Story Busts Liberal Myths.  There is a moment when every news story either achieves lift-off or tumbles back to the earth.  Having covered a few that drove national headlines, I've discovered there is no universal formula for which ones hit the stratosphere, and which do not.  Our recent story detailing Minnesota's Somali fraud rings has been one of the lucky ones, achieving liftoff in record time.  City Journal reporter Ryan Thorpe and I summarized a decade of Somali fraud schemes that stole billions of taxpayer dollars, some of which ended up with Al-Shabaab terrorists back in Somalia.  These were sophisticated criminal enterprises that exploited Minnesota's generous welfare state, deployed accusations of racism to deter scrutiny, and looted the public treasury until local prosecutors did the hard work to bring them down. [...] The next step in the process is for the liberal media to respond.  Right on cue, CBS News published a story misrepresenting our report and "debunking" that misrepresentation — a claim that it eventually retracted under pressure.

Ohio Rep. Ismail Mohamed Delivers Victory Speech Entirely in Somali.  Following his victory in the Ohio primary on Tuesday, Rep. Ismail Mohamed, an immigrant from Somalia, delivered his victory speech entirely in Somali without one word of English.  Mohamed's district in Columbus, Ohio, is home to more than 45,000 Somalis.  He campaigned primarily in Somali, promising to "represent the interests of Somalia."  According to the Columbus Dispatch, Mohamed, the incumbent in the district, defeated fellow Somali immigrant Abdirizak Diini, capturing 55 percent to Diini's 33 percent.

Dem House Candidate Gives Victory Speech In Somali After Primary Victory.  Democratic Ohio Rep. Ismail Mohamed, a Somali immigrant, won the Democratic primary for Ohio's 3rd House District on Tuesday night and delivered his victory speech almost entirety in Somali.  Mohamed, the incumbent in the district, defeated fellow Somali immigrant Abdirizak Diini, capturing 55 percent to Diini's 33 percent, according to the Columbus Dispatch.  [Tweet]  The 31-year-old Columbus lawyer became Ohio's first Somali lawmaker in 2022, alongside Munira Abdullahi, who won in Ohio's 9th district in 2022 as well.  Mohamed is a Somali refugee who, after originally escaping the violence in his home country and fleeing to Kenya, came to the United States in 2005, he told Spectrum News in 2022.

The Editor says...
This proves that the Somali immigrants have no intention (or motive) to assimilate and become English-speaking Americans.

The Collapse of the Democrat Brand.  A Democrat sweep in November will provide amnesty to 20+ million illegal aliens, plus another five to ten million immigrants imported over the next four years through our new open borders policy.  These new American citizens will be bribed with our tax dollars to vote away our rights.  A Somalian immigrant isn't going to turn down a monthly paycheck to preserve your Second Amendment rights.

Vast fraud of Somali migrants, starting with Ilhan Omar, finally being exposed.  This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement:  Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud.  The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marriages, fake death certificates and "other bizarre schemes," as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.  But the revelation was no great surprise to those of us who have followed the settlement of some 100,000 Somali immigrants in Minnesota over the past three decades.

Omar Fateh Lost the Minneapolis Mayor's Race Because He Lost the Loyalty of Somali Clans.  Perhaps the greatest fallacy of the whole "our diversity is our strength" nonsense is the idea that people from Third World, or even post-Stone Age, low-trust societies can successfully set aside their culture and upbringing to function as members of a modern nation where their neighbor is a fellow citizen and not prey.  Once upon a time, our education system was at least as devoted to developing citizens as it was to gender pronouns.  Teachers took kids from rural Sicily, Jews from the ghettos of Poland and Russia, the kids of sharecroppers and coal miners; in fact, they took all comers and turned them into Americans.  Then, and I date this from probably the 1970s, the "melting pot" that saw Americans as Americans became the "salad bowl" where everyone was hyphenated and where preserving ethnic peculiarities was seen as a governmental duty, not a parental responsibility.  [Advertisement]  Where the tradition of vendetta and pogrom never took root under the old system, it is on the cusp of flourishing today.  However, the "multicultural" hogwash and DEI have done in a couple of decades what a Civil War and mass immigration from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century could not do.  It has succeeded in balkanizing America.  It created multigenerational ethnic enclaves that held to the "old ways," with no desire to either assimilate or adapt to American culture.

Minneapolis's Reelected Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey Delivers Victory Speech in Somali.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) recently won reelection, but his victory speech has drawn criticism.  [Advertisement]  Video footage shows Frey speaking to a crowd in Somali and appeared to thank those who voted for him, addressing "the great people of Minneapolis," Fox News reported Saturday.  [Advertisement]  "And I say that very intentionally, because no matter where you are from, Minneapolis should be a place where you are proud to call home," he added.  However, social media users criticized Frey's use of the foreign language, one person writing, "How embarrassing.  This is America."  [Advertisement]  "This dude faked cried at Floyd's funeral, got booed out of his own town, threw his cops under the bus, & is now speaking Somali," another user commented, while someone else called his speech "sad and pathetic."  More video footage appears to show Frey ramping up a crowd while wearing a T-shirt that reads "I Love Somalia."  [Advertisement]

Somali averages are terrible.  [Scroll down]  Tens of millions of dollars sluice though annually from U.S. taxpayers to the resettlement agencies, most of which have deceptively churchy-sounding names.  Then, after refugees have been settled in our country a few weeks, the agencies hand them over to municipal, state, and national welfare services, with untold billions of further costs to the public fisc for healthcare, education, housing, and law enforcement stretching away into the future.  That's the process by which the U.S.A. acquired a big population of Somalis — around 150,000, of whom about half live in Minnesota.  The Census Bureau estimates that 74,000 people in Minnesota speak Somali.  There's the Minnesota connection.  Why so many Somalis in Minnesota?  It's a combination of things. [...] And then, once the so-called refugee is settled in the U.S.A., he's free to move from one place to another.  The most attractive place for him to move to is whichever place has the biggest concentration of his fellow-countrymen.  So there's a snowball effect:  augmented, once people have been here long enough to get citizenship, by chain migration.  Somalis are black; they're also, for the most part, Muslim.  So they are twofers for Designated Victim Status, and white Americans better not even hint at anything negative about them.

Welcome to Somaliasota!  America's premier 3rd world destination.  If left-wing politicians get their way, Minnesota's future travel guide will read as follows:  Welcome to the tribal republic of Somaliasota!  The former US state and now Somalian colony.  A place where you can enjoy all the amenities of 3rd world countries without having to get a visa or get on an airplane.  Come to the governor's palace (no longer a mansion) ordained with thousands of canceled welfare check wallpaper and all the lavish comforts that American taxpayers can afford.  Meet Ayatollah Tim Walz and his Lieutenant Governor Penny Flanagan (Imommy), who will be dressed in traditional Muslim garb and eager to convert you to a new way of life.  Visit our capital city of Minnedishu, where the flag, a white star on a blue backgroun,d flies high.  However, since the 5 points of the star represent a Somali homeland, a 6th point is currently being added to represent Somlisota.

Minnesota's lieutenant governor dons hijab to praise accomplishments of Somalis.  [Scroll down]  She's flanked by Somalis, wearing a hijab, telling everyone that she just LOVES the Somalis and that they're what makes Minnesota so great.  Peggy, what do they have on you?  Or you believe that the Somali community is under attack just because leaders perpetrated a welfare fraud that cost Americans billions of dollars and because every major Somali politician vocally declares loyalty to their home country over the United States.

Why are Minnesota Police not speaking in English?  [Tweet with video clip]

Oh Look, It's Graduation Day In Somalia.  Just Kidding, This Is Minneapolis.  An American records a college graduation in Minnesota.  It seriously looks like over 90% of the entire school is from Somalia.  [Video clip]

Tim Waltz, Fraud King Of The Somali Pirates.  The people of the United States of America owe independent journalist Nick Shirley and his like and creative genius Elon Musk a huge thank you.  Without them Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would be ruling over D.C. and we would have no clue what was going on with our government.  Thank you.  Nick Shirley is currently exposing Fraud King Tim Walz and the Somali pirates and we need more of this.  Our Nina has done some superb blogposts on Fraud King Tim Walz here and here.  Nina has included the misspelled "Learing" sign in the second post, fyi.  Still we got lazy.  The citizen journalist has been a thing in this country beginning with Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776) before our country was its own country.  We should never let the elites tell us we have nothing to contribute (Katie Couric, Bill Kristol).  Shirley already has about 100,000,000 views of his 43+ minute video exposing the fraud.  [Video clip]

Sec. of Education McMahon Urges Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to Resign Over Fraud Scandal.  U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has joined the growing number of official voices urging Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to resign in the wake of massive welfare fraud in his state.  Walz has been under fire in recent weeks following the uncovering of a billion dollar fraud scheme that funneled federal taxpayer funds to various groups including Somali immigrants with ties to al Shabaab, a Somali-based al Qaeda affiliate.  McMahon sent Walz a scathing letter on Dec. 15, accusing the Minnesota governor of carelessness and lack of oversight that has "attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country."  [Tweet]

CNN: Somalis on Welfare Are No Different Than Poor White Folks in Appalachia.  Feast your eyes on these numbers out of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) concerning the number of Somali households on welfare compared to the native US households in Minnesota.  And, for giggles, they even broke out a third column that quantifies the number of Somali households who remain on welfare in the state after they've been residents for at least TEN YEARS.  [Screenshot] [...] Unsurprisingly, to CNN's Abby Phillip, it's not fair to pick on the immigrants unless you have figures for the number of poor in Appalachia and Alabama who are also on benefits.  [Tweet with video clip]

Patel:  Convicted Somali fraudsters face loss of citizenship as DHS probes Minnesota.  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday said the federal government is launching a "massive" investigation into alleged fraud schemes and shared video footage from Minnesota.  Earlier, FBI Director Kash Patel said Somali immigrants convicted of fraud could face possible denaturalization and deportation.  In a statement Sunday, Patel said the FBI previously dismantled a $250 million fraud scheme involving COVID-19 relief funds intended to provide meals for children in Minnesota.  Patel said the case resulted in 78 indictments and 57 convictions.  He identified several defendants — including Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, Ahmed Ali, Hussein Farah, Abdullahe Nur Jesow, Asha Farhan Hassan, Ousman Camara, and Abdirashid Bixi Dool — who were charged with crimes ranging from wire fraud to money laundering and conspiracy.  "These criminals didn't just engage[] in historic fraud, but tried to subvert justice as well," Patel said.  He added that Abdimajid Mohamed Nur and others were charged with attempting to bribe a juror with $120,000 in cash.  Those defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced, including one individual who received a 10-year prison term.  Courts also ordered nearly $48 million in restitution in related cases, Patel said.

Gaslighted about Somali Refugees.  Early 1993, I deployed to Somalia to support Operation Restore Hope.  If you saw the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down, the Mogadishu of 1993 was worse than portrayed in that movie.  Somalia was never what one could call a "successful country."  However, by the time that President Bush sent U.S. troops in 1992-1993, it had collapsed into complete failure.  To say Somalia was a typical third-world or regular failed country is an insult to "run-of-the-mill" failed countries.  It was, and remains, the most impoverished, dysfunctional, undeveloped, backwards, failed country on the planet.  Why is that?  Instead of answering why Somalia failed, in our lack of wisdom, we decided to bring the very people who failed and their failed ideology into our country.  Even worse, we've told them[,] "Because things worked so splendidly back home, don't bother assimilating."  Of all the stupid ideas this country has ever advanced, (and we've advanced many) bringing uneducated third-world refugees with no skills into this country, giving them endless government freebies, insisting they not assimilate, while encouraging them to remain faithful to their failed Islamic ideology and culture is perhaps our dumbest yet.

Did Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Help Somali Non-Profits Defraud State Taxpayers?  Yesterday, Townhall reported that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was not only aware of the massive fraud taking place in his state — fraud that not only bilked Minnesota taxpayers of billions, but led to the death of at least one vulnerable Minnesota man and helped to fund Islamic terrorism in Somalia — but he was punishing whistleblowers who reported on the fraud.  [Advertisement]  But the rot and corruption didn't stop there.  It now appears that Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison not only helped Somali non-profit groups continue to get funding, despite the numerous red flags popping up, but that he allegedly received campaign donations after doing so.  We'll start with audio that reportedly shows Ellison promising to help Somali groups in exchange for campaign donations.  [Tweet]

The Somalization of North Dakota.  On July 13, 2023, Mohamad Barakat, a Syrian refugee, packed up several rifles and handguns 1,800 rounds of ammo, a hand grenade, and a car filled with gas cans on the way to carry out an Islamic terrorist attack at Fargo's Downtown Street fair aiming to kill thousands of Americans.  Instead the terror refugee got into a confrontation with police and died in an exchange of fire.  North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley insisted that there was 'no evidence of political, racial or religious motivation'.  "At this point it seems [no] more notable that he's Muslim than I'm Lutheran," he bafflingly argued.  He also dismissed footage of Mohamad holding a Koran.  "I can't discern, from the evidence that we have, any other motivation," he claimed.  A year before, Fargo had gotten its first Somali Muslim mayoral candidate, the head of a social justice group, who had been photographed meeting with top state officials.  And no one was looking to offend the state's growing Muslim population who were wielding more political clout.

America Needs to Get Real About its Surging Somali Crisis.  Rapid growth carries rapidly transformational consequences.  Minnesota now hosts the largest Somali community in the country, wielding significant political influence through leftist representatives who support sanctuary policies for illegal aliens and expanded welfare for immigrants moreover.  Representative Ilhan Omar's district reflects this shift, featuring voting patterns aligned closely with the Democrats' hard-left. [...] For years, federal authorities have warned that Minnesota has produced more individuals who joined or attempted to join foreign terrorist organizations than any other location in the United States.  Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliate, has repeatedly recruited from Somali communities in America.  Research shows these recruits are often drawn in through appeals to Somali nationalism, combined with radical interpretations of Islam, frequently spread through personal networks.  In December 2025, renewed concern followed reports of informal Sharia enforcement and expressed preferences for Islamic law within Minneapolis Somali neighborhoods.  Such developments deepen credible fears that large parts of the diaspora reject American legal norms outright.

American Taxpayers Are Paying Somalis Millions To Not Assimilate.  Civil war and famine spurred many Somalians to immigrate to the United States in 1991 and settle in Minnesota.  That was 34 years ago.  Somalians could have assimilated into U.S. culture by now, but American taxpayers have been roped into funding programs that coddle Somalians' Third-World culture and disincentivize their assimilation.  The Somali population explosion has rendered parts of Minneapolis unrecognizable as they impose a decidedly non-American culture on every aspect of the city.  Somalis are members of the police force, city council, state legislature, and even Congress, still speaking their own language in those positions and, at times, cutting English speakers out of the loop.  Their business signs are not in English.  To the Western eye, their women's clothing looks oppressive on a hot day.  The Muslim call to prayer can be broadcast across Minneapolis five times a day.  [Advertisement]  In the name of helping Somalians in culturally sensitive ways, many federally funded programs have been tailored specifically for their population.  And like other so-called refugee communities, big bucks have gone to university researchers who have made careers studying immigrant populations.

A Minnesota fraud primer.  What's going on in Minnesota, the land of a thousand lakes and "Minnesota nice?"  It's simple, really:  Minnesota has gone full leftist.  Never go full leftist — or communist.  The primary fraud, which has resulted in 78 arrests thus far is the "Feeding Our Future" scandal where the state paid almost exclusively Somalis to supposedly feed children. [...] There are two additional facts to keep in mind:  All cultures are not alike.  Importing a tribal culture with no similarities to American culture and with no desire to assimilate and obey the law is suicidal.  Not a single prosecution brought against the fraudsters has been done by Minnesota authorities.  All have been done by federal prosecutors, and only since Donald Trump's reelection.  Only the surface has been scratched.

Afghan terror and Somalia fraud shows why Trump is right on migrants.  You have to be careful with a country.  Even a nation as vast in size and huge in population as the United States cannot be endlessly experimented upon.  You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.  That is the mistake many European countries have committed in recent years.  They have opened their homes up to people from almost every part of the world where there is civil strife, war or just a lower standard of living.  The results can be seen everywhere.  It is the reason why a country like Sweden — that used to be such a placid, decent place — has become one of the most violent countries in the world not actually at war.  Grenade attacks, gang-warfare: these things were recently alien to Sweden.  Not anymore.  It is the same here in the United States — though here the effects are more dispersed, so the problem can be covered up for longer.

Trump revokes Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota.  They can now be deported.  The arrogance of the Somalis that Obama shipped to Minnesota during his reign of terror is something to behold.  Well all their arrogance and cockiness is about to change.  They are no longer under "Temporary Protected Status", which means, the hundreds of thousands of Somalis shipped to Minnesota can be deported.  [Tweets]

Trump torches TPS.  President Trump dropped a Friday night bombshell in a Truth Social post: the immediate termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota.  "Minnesota, under Governor Walz is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump declared.  "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing.  Send them back to where they came from.  It's OVER!"  This is a long-overdue action against a welfare racket that has been bleeding taxpayers while funding Jihadists abroad.  The epicenter appears to be in Minneapolis, the heart of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Jihad Squad) extremist fiefdom, where an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Somalis cluster — the largest such enclave in the U.S.  More than 70 defendants — nearly all Somali — face charges in the $250 million Feeding Our Future heist alone, with U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson warning of "billions" stolen in a fraud ecosystem that rivals organized crime syndicates.

Trump Announces He is Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota — Effective Immediately.  President Donald J. Trump just delivered a brutal Friday night nuke to the Somali enclave in Minneapolis, announcing the immediate termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis, a move that opens the door to rapid deportations in the heart of Ilhan Omar's district.  The termination of TPS for these Somali migrants comes after years of exploding crime and the massive Feeding Our Future Medicaid fraud scandal that saw some of the stolen money funneled to the al-Shabaab terror group.  US Attorney Joseph Thompson believes "billions of dollars in taxpayer money" have been stolen from welfare fraud schemes.  "To be clear, this is not an isolated scheme," Thompson said in September.  "From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money."

'Send Them Back': Trump Is Done With Somali Migrants In Minnesota.  President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that he will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somali migrants in Minnesota, who've been connected to a massive welfare fraud.  "Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump posted to Truth Social.  "I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota."  "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing," he said.  "Send them back to where they came from.  It's OVER!"

Carrots and Sticks.  In 1991 Somalis were granted temporary protected status (TPS), allowing them to remain in the U.S. As we know "temporary" in federal parlance tends to slide into permanency.  In any event, the Somalis have been engaged in significant criminal activities, stealing about a billion dollars.  In two instances, for example, a Minnesota autism treatment and a pandemic food program "Feeding our Future," Somalis fraudulently stole almost 300 million dollars.  Even worse, there's evidence some of the money they siphoned was sent overseas to fund terrorist activities.  President Trump ended the generous status this week, and the Minnesota Somalis are now subject to deportation.

USCIS Operation Uncovers Fraud In 44% Of Pending Immigration Cases In Minneapolis.  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI, has announced the results of Operation Twin Shield, a large-scale fraud detection effort conducted across Minneapolis-St. Paul from September 19 to 28. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest Somali communities in the U.S., reflected in the election of Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American who became the first refugee and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.  The operation marked the first targeted surge of its kind, with immigration officers investigating more than 1,000 pending cases flagged for fraud or ineligibility concerns, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration.  USCIS said officers carried out over 900 site visits and interviews, uncovering fraud, non-compliance, or security issues in 275 cases — about 44 percent of those reviewed.

Trump Axes Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota.  President Donald Trump announced he was terminating deportation protections for Somalis in Minnesota "effective immediately." [...] Trump's announcement comes after an investigation conducted by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo of The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, uncovered massive Medicaid fraud that allegedly involved funneling millions of dollars in Minnesota taxpayer funds to entities in Somalia.  Reportedly, a portion of these funds went to the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab.  Thorpe and Rufo detailed their findings on Wednesday in a City Journal article appropriately titled The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer.  The report begins with an overview of the vast scope of Minnesota's welfare system, which the authors argue has, by its very design, made the state especially susceptible to fraud.

Mother of rape victim says her family received death threats from Somali community.  The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was raped by a Somali migrant has said her family has received death threats from the Somali community, according to a memo written by state prosecutors.  Earlier this year, Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie was found guilty of first-degree sexual assault after being charged for raping a 12-year-old girl who was playing in her backyard.  Dirie, a 42-year-old Somali migrant, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the crime.  Minnesota law allows Dirie to be released in 2033 and remain on probation for the rest of his sentence.  Dirie is currently being held in Minnesota Correctional Facility-St.  Cloud and he is required to register as a predatory offender.  Prior to sentencing, prosecutors submitted a memo to the court which asked the judge to impose a sentence of 12 years and deny Dirie's request for a downward departure from the state sentencing guidelines.  In that memo, prosecutors said Dirie continued to deny that he raped the girl and he also claimed the victim's mother was "behind everything."

Somali Sheriff in Minnesota Just Called American Officers 'Foreigners' and Said He Serves Somalis First.  A Minnesota Sheriff gave a speech (not in English) making it very clear who he believes he is obligated to protect.  [Multiple tweets with video clips]

Minnesota Somalis express strong preference for Shariah over U.S. law.  A new man-on-the-street video made in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shows interviews with several Somali Muslims who says they'd much rather live under Shariah law than U.S. law.  Filmmaker Ami Horowitz shared the footage on X with the description, "What Somalis living in America really think of the U.S."  Besides the affirmations of Shariah law, the video features a woman commending the practice of forced marriage, beginning when the "bride" is 15 years old, and defending those who kill others for "insulting Muhammad."

Socialist Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Has Rally With Almost No English.  A small rally for Minneapolis Democratic Socialist Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh was held mostly in Somali on Sunday night.  Fateh, who currently serves as a Minnesota state senator, announced his mayoral candidacy last year and was recently endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer (DFL) Party.  He became the first Somali American and Muslim elected to the Minnesota Senate after defeating Democrat Jeff Hayden in 2020.  [Tweet]  During the rally, which was recorded and broadcast by Somali TV Minnesota, multiple speakers, including Fateh, took to the microphone while speaking Somali.  The music is Somalian, and no American flags were flown.  Some attendees wore stickers with the Palestinian flag.  The mayoral hopeful, speaking both in Somali and some English, urged supporters to continue canvassing until the primary in September.  Fateh finished the speech by saying, "Let's get to work, Inshallah."

Inside Omar Fateh's Mayoral Rally in Minneapolis.  What unfolded in Minneapolis was not a normal political campaign rally.  It was an imported ideological ceremony that looked and sounded more like Mogadishu than Minnesota.  For nearly twenty minutes, a burqa-clad woman shrieked Omar Fateh's name into a microphone, surrounded by a crowd chanting in Somali and Arabic.  The rally was punctuated with bursts of applause, shouts of "Insha'Allah" ("God willing"), and invocations of Imam Shafi'i — the 8th-century Islamic jurist whose rulings still guide Somali religious law today.

Maine statehouse representative says her priority is developing 'our country of Somalia'.  Rep. Deqa Dhalac, a Maine statehouse Democrat and a Somali immigrant, recently stated that her priority is developing "our country of Somalia."  Say what?!  "Our country of Somalia?!"  Yes, forget about serving the American citizens who pay your salary[,] or at least put their interests on the back burner.  What really matters is that you focus on Somalia.  Is that even Constitutional?  I thought elected representatives were supposed to support and defend the (American) Constitution, not commit themselves to helping out the nations from which they hail.  Dhalac routinely refers to Somalia as "our country," and is deeply involved in far-left politics, often advocating for policies that are anathema to conservatives and that undermine American values.  Unsurprisingly, she is vehemently anti-border enforcement.  Moreover, she pushed to create Maine's "Office of New Americans," which was founded to expand resources for immigrants and non-citizens — and, like Dhalac, is funded by taxpayers.  In short, there doesn't appear to be a progressive or far-left cause she does not support, especially those involving "undocumented migrants."

Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac Says Her Goal Is to Help 'Our Country of Somalia'.  Maine Representative Deqa Dhalac (D), a Somali immigrant turned state legislator, recently stirred controversy by declaring that her priority is developing "our country of Somalia" rather than serving American interests.  Dhalac's admission exposes a troubling allegiance to foreign priorities at a time of growing concern over immigrant loyalty and national identity.  [Advertisement]  During a recent appearance on ABC News, Dhalac faced some questioning about her intent, and others defending her focus on supporting global communities while serving locally.  Dhalac was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and often refers to Somalia as "our country," despite serving in elected office in the United States.  She has become deeply involved in left-wing politics in Maine, advocating for policies that many conservatives argue undermine American values and border enforcement.  She also pushed to create Maine's "Office of New Americans," aimed at expanding resources for immigrants, including non-citizens, funded by taxpayers.  Critics say this represents identity-based politics that puts Americans second.  Progressive causes, including equity initiatives, welfare expansion, and sanctuary-style support for undocumented immigrants, are hallmarks of her policy record.  [Tweet]

In England:
If you like Somalia so much, go there.  If you come to America, leave Somalia behind.  If you run for Congress, you work for the U.S.A., not Somalia.  If you are not 100 percent loyal to the United States, you should resign from the Congress and go back to your beloved Somalia.

The almost-terrorist attack you didn't hear about.  If I were to tell you that a man allegedly walked into a gun store, stole more than two thousand dollars worth of gear (body armor, magazines, pepper spray), [...] what kind of "man" do you think I'm talking about?  If you guessed an Islamic jihadi, you'd be correct.  [Tweet]  Now, if I were to ask you to guess where this man was when he allegedly engaged in this sick behavior, what would you say?  I mean, he should live in Somalia or Ethiopia, or wherever he and his family actually hail from, but instead, we've been cursed with open borders political executives, and for decades, third world Muslims have been pouring in, bringing with them the chaos and death of their culture and homelands.  So this is actually a story out of Minnesota.  Yes, a place which had historically low crime rates thanks to the demographics of the state at that time.  But then Ilhan Omar and her ilk blew in and turned the Land of 10,000 Lakes into Somaliland, USA.

Non-citizen cop can now arrest you in Walz's Minnesota.  We give our police officers extreme power.  We provide them with the right to arrest us before we are convicted in court or even indicted by a Grand Jury.  We give them guns and qualified immunity to use those firearms.  Now, in Tim Walz's Minnesota, a non-citizen Muslim from Somalia has all those special rights.  I'll assume Somali-native Officer Lesly Vera is a good woman.  Now 23, she emigrated legally when she was four.  Although she has been here for 19 years, we wonder how much of America she really understands, and respects.  Rather than moving to a town where she could assimilate into our American culture, her mother took her to the largest Somali community in the U.S.  If a mother wants to adopt good American values, Minneapolis is a bad choice.

Minneapolis Swears In First Non-U.S. Citizen as Police Officer.  Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sworn in its first police officer who is not a U.S. citizen, according to reports.  The Minnesota Police Dept. has reported that Lesly Vera, a native of Somalia, was sworn in on Thursday as the department's first non-citizen officer.  Vera was seen at the swearing-in ceremony wearing a hijab over her head as she took the oath of office and received her badge.  [Tweet]  Vera moved to Minneapolis with her parents from their arrival point in Mexico when she was four.  She is a legal resident alien and authorized to work, but is not a U.S. citizen.

As Somali Gangs Waged War and Trafficked Children In Minnesota, Tim Walz Asked for More Somali Refugees.  As Somali refugees in Minnesota waged gang wars and engaged in child sex trafficking, Governor Tim Walz pushed for even more refugees to be resettled in his state.  Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris tapped as her running mate this week, petitioned the Trump administration to send more refugees to Minnesota in 2019, even though the state already had the highest number of refugees per capita in the United States.  The call came as Somali refugees, a large and growing population in Minnesota, engaged in gang warfare, child sex trafficking, and later, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

$120,000 Cash Bribe For Juror In Somali $250M Fraud Case — Of Course, There's An Ilhan Omar Connection.  Somali Muslim immigrants in Minnesota pulled off the single largest pandemic fraud.  And that took some doing.  There was inevitably a Rep. Ilhan Omar connection and trips to Mecca. [...] End the mass migration from a corrupt terror state or it will only get worse.

Secession Without Secession.  Minnesota wants to change its flag to one that more closely represents their Muslim population and specifically the Somali flag.  I've had a couple of connections to Minnesota that alerted me to this secession of Minnesota from the laws of the United States, more than the union itself, but I can't help but point out that any government that utilizes or allows to be utilized Sharia law rather than the laws of the United States in courts or society in general is guilty of disenfranchising their citizens.  I know, all of this falls under the Constitution, a document that sits under glass in Washington DC, but has little else to do with the daily functioning of the communist nation that has risen up and displaced the republic.  This all signals a separation from the union.  In the case of Minnesota, it's a signal of its Muslim minority, which might soon become a majority, seeking to effectively secede from the union without having to go through any official means of declaring secession.

Minnesota to get a new state flag that looks nearly identical to one out of Somalia.  If you've ever wondered what colonization in real time looks like, look no further:  [Tweet]  In September, Minnesota launched an initiative to create a new state seal and flag to replace the longstanding designs after it was determined these dated elements were "offensive" to certain elevated classes. [...] Well as we saw above, the final design has now been selected; but not only has the white man been eliminated from the equation, but the rest of those "tribal" people too — the proposed design looks nearly identical to that of Puntland, an "autonomous" zone of Somalia that remains unrecognized by the international community. [...] This is a flag of which I'm utterly ashamed and embarrassed, and I suspect millions of Americans would agree — but we aren't who "they" were considering.  Imported people, conditioned to subjugation, poverty, and tyranny, have no interest in, expectation of, or practice with a government restrained from violating unalienable rights.  (As the post to X noted, Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the West.)

Stabbing, shots fired, and 50 people brawl as 'Somali Culture Night' held at high school in Minneapolis.  A Thursday evening event held at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, located in an upscale neighborhood, was planned as a "Minnesota nice" event, celebrating diversity and the arrival over the last 3 decades of a Somali immigrant community that now comprises almost one-fifth of the city's population.  A video on the school's website offered free admission and free food.  But as the event unfolded in the school's auditorium, it turned into a nightmare. [...] I grew up in the same area of the city more than half a century ago, and Washburn High was known for high academic and athletic standards.  I never heard of anything remotely resembling this incident.  But that was a different era, and ethnically a different city.

Melee, stabbing, and shots fired at Washburn HS Somali culture night.  Mayhem erupted at a south Minneapolis high school Thursday evening during a planned Somali cultural event and performance that resulted in fights, a stabbing, and shots fired.  According to dispatch audio at the time, one person was reportedly stabbed around 7:45 p.m. during a fight involving about 50 people at Washburn High School located at 201 West 49th Street.  As police arrived to respond to the fight, an officer called out over the air that shots had been fired, and a city-wide officer help call was toned by the dispatcher.  Several squads responded from across the city as well as state troopers, Hennepin County deputies, and officers from Edina and Richfield police departments.

The Editor says...
Legal or illegal immigrants are expected to assimilate quickly and behave lawfully while they are here.  If they cannot act like good citizens, they should be rounded up and deported.  Anyone who takes to the streets to protest their deportation should be put on the boat with them.

City Council bedlam: Somali 'culture' takes Minneapolis by storm.  Such a scene may be "embarrassing" for the American landscape, but it is also part and parcel of Somali culture.  Violence and chaos are precisely how "politics" are done in Somalia, one of the most lawless, war-torn, and tribal nations in the world.  That Somalis felt comfortable enough to enact their culture here in America is connected to the unwavering Rule of Numbers:  the more non-Westerners, especially Muslims, grow in the West, the more phenomena endemic to their nations — in this case, a breakdown of law and rise in thuggery — grows with them.  As such and considering that Somalis make up nearly 20% of the population of Minneapolis, the deplorable display at that recent city council, while embarrassing, should certainly not be surprising.  Somalia, incidentally, is also one of the world's most radical Muslim nations.  When it comes to the persecution of Christians — always a litmus test concerning the "extremism" of any given country — Somalia is considered the second-worst nation in the world (following North Korea), and the worst Muslim nation in the world (which is saying much since 39 of the 50 worst persecuting nations are Islamic).

St. Cloud man sentenced to 30 years for kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct.  On Oct. 26, Abdirahin Omar Ali, 23, was convicted of four felonies:  Three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of kidnapping, court records show.  In a Stearns County court on Friday, he was sentenced to 360 months behind bars — the maximum sentence for the crimes, according to a press release.  The sentence includes a 10-year conditional release period after he serves his time in prison.  He must also register as a predatory offender, the release said.  During his trial, the jury found "several aggravating factors" including threatening to kill the victim and multiple people taking part in the sexual assault, according to the release. [...] The victim told police that she had gone to the Pickled Loon the night before the assault with friends, consumed alcohol and remembered walking out the front door of the restaurant to step outside, the complaint states.  The next thing she remembered was being in a car with five Somali males who tried to kiss her despite her attempts to fend them off.

Somali man stabs a homeless man in Germany, then cuts off his head.  One week ago, a 21-year-old stabbed a 52-year-old man in a homeless shelter in the German town of Regen.  Local police disclosed the incident on Monday, adding that the killer had cut off the victim's head with a knife.  The perpetrator refuses to testify, so the investigators have yet to find out the motive behind this particularly brutal crime.  The Die Welt daily, which reported on the case, stated that according to the police, the forensic doctor concluded at autopsy that the victim was no longer alive at the time of the beheading.  The suspect, who came to Germany from Somalia, was detained several hours after the crime and later taken to a district hospital.  A local police spokesman said it was not yet clear what the motive of the attacker was.

Disclosure: The Four "Swedes" in Custody For Gang Rape Are Somali Citizens.  Ostentatious headlines in Aftonbladet, Expressen and other media declared that "six Swedes", later "eight Swedes" had been arrested for a rough gang rape on a Finland ferry.  Nya Tider is now the first newspaper to reveal that not even the white lie that the arrested Somalis are "Swedish citizens" is right — all the detainees are Somali citizens, and of all the suspects only one has a Swedish citizenship.

Minneapolis Protesters Raise Somali Flag.  On December 30, a 23-year-old man named Dolal Idd, who was wanted on felony charges, fired on Minneapolis police officers, who returned fire and killed him.  Despite the fact that what happened is clear and there is no actual question of excessive force by the police, hundreds of people protested Sunday, claiming that Idd had been treated unjustly.  In the course of the protests, some of the participants replaced an American flag that was flying over a South Minneapolis gas station with a Somali flag.  It was a telling indication of what mass immigration without assimilation has already done to this country, and what it is likely to do in the future.  Joe Biden is set to reopen the mass migration floodgates, and so it is virtually certain that before too long, numerous Somalis will enter the United States and further increase the Somali population in Minneapolis and elsewhere.  Will any attempt whatsoever be made to ensure that the people entering the United States will become loyal citizens, or at very least loyal residents, and that they will accept American values including?  Will any attempt whatsoever be made to ensure that none of those immigrants who are coming in are Islamic jihadis?

Another Murder by a Somali Immigrant Leaves 7-Year-Old Girl Dead.  A Somali immigrant stabbed a seven-year-old British girl to death on March 22, 2020.  The girl, Emily Jones Bolton, was riding her scooter past a park bench when a 30-year-old woman stabbed her in the neck.  All of this brutal incident took place in front of the girl's father.  Emergency services were summoned to the park around 2.30 pm and the child was taken to the Salford Royal Hospital.  The child succumbed to her wounds despite the "best efforts" of doctors.

Muslim religious leader in Texas charged with sex crimes against four children.  A well-known Islamic religious leader in Texas has been busted for sexually assaulting four children — though authorities believe he's victimized others.  Mohamed Omar Ali, a 59-year-old Somali national, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault of a child and sexual indecency of a child after an investigation was launched in September, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls told reporters at a press conference Monday [1/6/2020].  Nehls described Ali as a popular "religious leader" who spent time at several mosques in Fort Bend County, as well as in greater Houston.  Investigators believe Ali also victimized other children dating back to 2013 after he arrived in the US.

9 Somali men in Minnesota sentenced this week on terrorism charges.  Six men in Minnesota's large Somali community have been sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including three on Tuesday.  Adnan Farah, 20, and Hanad Musse, 21, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Hamza Ahmed, 21, will serve 15 years for that count in addition financial aid fraud, according to a Justice Department press release issued Monday evening.  All three young men will also be under supervised released for 20 years following their release.  Minnesota prosecutors went after nine men they say were part of a larger group of friends who had recruited one another to joining the Islamic State.

The Editor says...
These people are being brought into this country because they are allegedly "refugees," fleeing from war and violence in their home countries.  And yet, they appear to be willing and able to return to their home countries any time they please.  Moreover, they appear to be contributing to the war and violence in Africa.  Why are they being welcomed here?

These people are not refugees.
Seattle: Somali Muslims caught transporting suitcases full of cash out of the country.  In 2016, travelers pulling suitcases filled with cash started showing up at Sea-Tac Airport holding tickets destined for recipients in Somalia, raising concerns among anti-terrorism officials.  Transporting large amounts of cash overseas isn't illegal, but it was who was carrying the money and where it was going (to Somali terror groups like Al-Shabaab) that caught the attention of security officials.

Somali 'refugee' with criminal history charged with murder of young mother in North Dakota.  A 28-year-old mother was murdered this weekend in Grand Forks, North Dakota after allegedly being shot by a refugee from Somalia with a criminal history.  Ahmed Mohamed Abdullahi, a 26-year-old Somali refugee, has been charged with murder (amended from the initial charge of manslaughter, according to Valley News Live), one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, and theft of property in the fatal shooting of Megan Lea Gustafson.  Police officers were on the scene before the murder, responding to a call reporting a suspicious person.  They knocked on Gustafson's door, spoke with her, and walked away only to hear an argument escalating inside the apartment at the residence on the 1300 block of 8th Avenue North around 1:30 AM.

Somali Clan Gangs Claim Minneapolis Territory And Kill To Defend It.  Immediately following the rapid intake and resettling of Somalian refugees, crime in Minneapolis spiked.  Abuse of government funding, murders, theft, and a variety of public menacing strongly correlate to predominantly Somali neighborhoods.  Those arriving from Somalia are accustomed to gang related behavior since culturally tribal behavior is prevalent between clans.  Fights and even murder in public areas are common in Somalia.  Such incidents that may result in death are oddly "socially acceptable" when there is rivalry or "beef" between them.

Somali parents in London send their children to Africa because of knife crime epidemic.  Hundreds of British parents are sending their teenage children back to East Africa to avoid the knife crime epidemic that has struck London and seen 51 murders this year.  And the teenagers say they feel safer there, despite the Foreign and Commonwealth office advising against all travel to Somalia and warning against the threat of terrorism across Kenya.

The Editor asks...
If you're sending your kids back to Africa so they can have a better life, why aren't you going with them?

'These People Aren't Coming From Norway': Refugees in a Minnesota City Face a Backlash.  Minnesota's biggest city, Minneapolis, has long struggled to incorporate a growing immigrant population into the city's fabric, but the recent ascension of some former refugees into political power was taken as a sign of progress by many liberals.  In central Minnesota, which is more conservative than the state's urban centers, advocates for refugees fear that the resettlements could be met with more resistance. [...] Their increased presence — and an attack at a mall in 2016, when Dahir Adan, a Somali-American refugee living in St. Cloud, stabbed 10 people — has emboldened a loosely connected network of white, anti-immigration activists who are trying to pressure local and state Republicans to embrace an increasingly explicit anti-Muslim agenda.

Ilhan Omar Refuses to Comment on Terrorist Recruitment in Her District.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) declined to address a report that found the highest level of terrorist group recruitment has taken place in her congressional district.  According to a Fox News report from February, "More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined — or attempted to join — a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country."  The city of Minneapolis is located in Omar's district.  "FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined.  And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS," stated the report.

German boat captain faces 20 years in jail for rescuing 1,000 migrants.  A German boat captain faces 20 years in jail in Italy for rescuing 1,000 migrants in the Mediterranean after being accused of colluding with smugglers.  Pia Klemp, 35, could be tried and imprisoned for helping people enter Europe illegally from the North African coast.  Italian authorities allege that she colluded with smugglers to collect migrants at Mediterranean rendezvous points and stage rescues at sea.  Undercover officers took pictures that allegedly showed human traffickers "escorting" vessels full of migrants before they were transferred to aid boats.

Rep. Omar's (Somali) Constituency Terrorizes White Community.  Last Friday [5/17/2019], a dispatch audio from the Minneapolis Police Department reveals that an incident involving "a group of 8-10 males chasing people with hammers" occurred near the University of Minnesota in the "Little Mogadishu" neighborhood.  Turns out this was a group of juveniles ages 12 [to] 15.  In the police reports their names are redacted due to the fact that they are minors.  It is clear that the group of males were Somali minors and were targeting white people and people who they perceived to "have money," according to one eyewitness account.

Mob with Hammers Descends on Minneapolis East Bank LRT Patrons.  [Scroll down]  A mob of eight to 10 males wielding hammers descended upon bystanders at the East Bank Light Rail station on Friday night [5/17/2019] injuring several, according to recorded police dispatch audio.  The incident was apparently reported to 911 just before 10 p.m. on Friday according to the audio and other social media police scanner reports.  A 9:48 p.m.  Facebook post on 2nd Precinct Minneapolis Crime Watch page said that University of Minnesota (U of M) police were requesting assistance from Minneapolis police (MPD) and Metro Transit police for "a group of 8-10 males chasing people with hammers" and that some people were injured.  A Facebook post a minute later on Minneapolis Scanner page said that the three police departments were responding to "multiple [911] calls" about "10-12 Somali teen males armed with hammers chasing people," also with "several injuries reported."  Both Facebook pages regularly post summaries of police scanner audio.  A person who claimed on social media to have been at the station when the incident occurred said that the group of males had "hammers and bars," and that they seemed to be "attacking anyone who looked like they had money or were white."

Minnesota is raping itself.  The national news media has recently and grudgingly begun to take interest in Minnesota.  An integral part of the Democrat Party's national strategy, until now Minnesota was primarily known as Ground Zero of the George Floyd debacle which sparked the 2020 "Summer of Love" and its billions in damages, largely to blue cities. [...] Last week nearly 500 state employees went public, saying they told Walz about the fraud, but were ignored and persecuted.  Pressed on his coverup, Walz said he accepted responsibility for "putting people in jail."  That was a lie.  No local or state authority has been involved in investigating, arresting or prosecuting any of the fraudsters.  It has all been done by federal authorities.  Walz is very upset, however, because Minnesotans have been calling him "retard," which he sees as a credible death threat.  Why would Walz and the entire criminal justice apparatus of Minnesota allow such blatant lawlessness?  It's Trump Derangement Syndrome and their far leftist dedication to fully protecting criminals, particularly illegal alien and black criminals, over the safety of Minnesotans.

Trump Admin Sweeping Minneapolis For Illegals After Somali Fraud Exposed.  The Trump administration will sweep Minneapolis seeking criminal illegal aliens after rampant fraud in Minnesota, White House Border Czar Tom Homan told CNN.  The interview follows Somalis in Minnesota taking $14 million from a program meant to help kids with autism.  [Several tweets with video clips]

TSA Whistleblower:  Somalis Regularly Flew Out with Suitcases Stuffed with Millions in Cash.  A former TSA agent at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport detailed repeated encounters with Somali men carrying suitcases packed with cash and, in one case, a bag filled with new passports.  In an interview, Liz Jaksa told journalist Liz Collin that she witnessed these incidents regularly during her five years at the airport.  "2016 to 2021, Liz, thank you for joining me," Collin said at the start of the discussion. [...] According to Jaksa, law enforcement routinely documented the couriers.  "And typically, what would happen is a Leo or a law enforcement officer would come check their credentials.  I don't know what kind of questions they asked them, but, but their IDs were always documented, and probably their plane tickets as well.  So so there is a trail of that out there, and I would believe, with all the cameras at the airport, that if they started there, they could probably find each and every individual that brought money through the checkpoint," she said.

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Hides Ties to Somali Muslim Charity Fraud.  Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison is trying to explain his support for a Muslim children's organization that is being prosecuted for massive fraud.  Federal prosecutors have been investigating the Minneapolis-based Somali organization that was supposed to be raising funds for children but instead turned into the most expensive fraud concerning COVID funding in the entire nation, where 47 Somali immigrants have been charged with stealing $250 million in federal COVID funding.  Yet, Ellison took a meeting with representatives of that charity even as it was being investigated and now, in an op-ed, he is suddenly claiming, "as for the meeting — if I had had any way of knowing beforehand who those people were and what they'd done, I never would have agreed to it."

Somalis have Changed Minneapolis.  [H]ere's a week Minneapolitans had with their Somali neighbors last month:  On Wednesday, May 15th a couple of University students were attacked on campus at the East Bank Train station by two Somali thugs.  It was an attempted robbery that the guys rebuffed sustaining injuries that required a hospital visit.  On Thursday, May 16th two Somalis burned down the pavilion at Lake Calhoun [or Lake Bde Maka Ska if you're a virtue signaler) an eating and hanging out meeting place in the heart of the city enjoyed by generations of Americans around the prettiest city lake you've ever seen.  This is in the most expensive neighborhood in Minneapolis.  On Friday, May 17th a gang of 10-12 Somali youths attacked all the white people at that same East Bank Train station with hammers and pipes.

For Today's Democrats, Fraud Is A Feature, Not A Bug.  One of the unanswered questions raised by Minnesota's massive welfare scandal is how it could have gone on so long, given its scale and the fact that alarm bells had been clanging for years.  The New York Times provided the answer, if inadvertently, when it quoted a former fraud investigator in the state attorney general's office, who said that "There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc" for Democrats.  That is it in a nutshell when it comes to government waste, fraud, and abuse.  For today's Democrats, these aren't problems to be solved.  They are cherished benefits that support their (and their friends') lifestyles and keep them in office.  How else to explain why they are so often caught with their hands in the till, and why they routinely try to thwart anti-fraud efforts?  We're not just talking about Democrats ripping off government programs for their personal benefit — examples of which are legion — but the opportunities for fraud built into the programs they create.

Tim Walz, bagman for Somalia.  A billion-dollar scandal in Minnesota has solved the puzzle of why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate.  It wasn't because she was drunk (although she was).  It wasn't because he is the only national politician who is dumber than she (although he is).  It wasn't because he is a Chairman Xi-approved communist (although he is).  Follow the money.  Kamala picked Tampon Tim because he is a loyal soldier who does what the capos tell him to do.  He is FJB without the senility.  He is Rip Taylor without the confetti.  Walz has turned his head while taxpayers coughed at least a billion dollars in to the coffers of the people who have turned Minnesota into Somalia West.

One Of The Minneapolis Daycare Centers Pulls The Old 'Thieves Stole All The Paperwork' Excuse.  The Nokomis Daycare Center in Minneapolis claims someone broke into their center and stole "important documentation."  Staff claims a burglar broke in and stole employee payroll documents and client files.  "There were also checkbooks that were ripped from our check papers that were from our book.  This is devastating news."  [Video clip]

Remove, Deport, Denaturalize:  Chip Roy Unloads on Minnesota Fraudsters — 'People Need to Be Sent Back to Somalia'.  Texas Rep. Chip Roy stopped by Fox News this week to blast Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for allowing massive fraud — to the tune of billions of dollars — on his watch.  "People need to be REMOVED, DEPORTED, denaturalized, and sent BACK to Somalia!"  Roy said.  "It defies all logic and reason to believe that Gov. Walz was 'ignorant' of what was happening in Minnesota," Roy said.  "Let's be clear: he was campaigning on it last year with respect to the campaign with Vice President Harris and her run for the presidency.  He literally was talking about it!"  Roy said, "Thank God Trump won the election."  "Thank God that we do not have a Harris-Walz presidency, because they would be encouraging this to continue, whereas this president is rooting out the fraud, securing the border, stopping the flow of people into our country," Roy said.

The Editor says...
Politicians don't just "stop by" a TV network studio and sit down to chat on the air.  Such an appearance is usually scheduled days in advance.

Somalis gonna Somali.  [Scroll down]  Now I am back in Nairobi, talking about the problem of Somalia, which Kenyans face up close.  Kenya is mostly Christian.  Somalis are Muslim — and poor even by African standards.  Further, Kenya needs Western safari tourism for jobs and cash.  The kidnappings have not helped.  Kenyans would rather keep their neighbors out.  But the United Nations and aid groups have given them little choice (oh, the irony; poor countries hate open borders even more than rich ones).  Anyway, I am having drinks at a hotel talking about Somalia with (white) non-governmental aid workers — they live well, these NGO types.  And one says:  ["]Here's what you need to know about Somalia.  It's on the ocean, right? [Somalia has the longest coastline in Africa, almost 2,000 miles.]  But most Somalis, they can't swim, can't fish, they have no interest in the water.  That's how inward-facing they are, how tribal.["]  The words stuck with me.

Former Homeland Security agent alleges Minnesota day care fraud cases 'just evaporated'.  A former Homeland Security Investigations agent alleges prosecutors failed to pursue Minnesota day care fraud cases, claiming investigations were ignored or dropped.  [Video clip]

Laughable Criticism of Nick Shirley.  It is absolutely true that Nick Shirley's one-day video blitz investigation of Somali daycares in Minnesota produced insufficient evidence to put anybody in jail.  [Advertisement]  It's even possible that he made a mistake or two, although given what we already know, the preponderance of the evidence says that most of these daycares are shell companies that exist only to fleece the government.  It's not like Shirley's video is the only evidence — the US Attorney is actively prosecuting cases, and now citizen journalists around the country are revealing fake Somali daycares.  The State of Minnesota has taken the database of daycares offline, and already, legislators in other states are scrambling to hide their own databases to prevent investigations by ordinary people.  [Tweet]  The scale of the fraud is difficult to comprehend.  Seriously, I don't think people can wrap their heads around it because anything this large could only be accomplished with the implicit help of the government, and nobody likes the idea that the people whom they hand over a large percentage of their income to are helping others steal it.

Somali Fraud Story Explodes Due to the Democratization of DOGE.  Democrats and legacy media really don't want to keep talking about the Somali fraud scandal anymore, but the American people are stepping right around them.  That's my take as the story about a colossal Somali fraud ring in Minnesota explodes to the point where similar programs in other states are now being rightly looked at with suspicion.  What's incredible about this whole thing is not just the extent of the scams taking place in Minnesota, but how it's now all being uncovered.  The most aggressive investigation and reporting on this issue hasn't been traditional media.  It's a handful of conservative websites and legions of people on X and other social media simply looking through public documents, doing some on-the-scene investigations and asking questions.

This is an admission of disloyalty, if not treason:
Somali-Born Maine State Rep Admits Her Purpose is to Develop Somalia: 'We Must Always Prioritize Our Country'.  One Maine state representative has single priority.  And it isn't America.  Deqa Dhalac, a Somali immigrant who was formerly the Mayor of South Portland and is now a member of the Maine House of Representatives, has argued her fellow Somalis should focus on putting their own country first.  "We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, Somalia, and think of developing our country," she said in a video obtained by The Maine Wire.  "This must be done, especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the U.S."

State Representative And Somali Immigrant Says Somalia Is Her Priority, Not America.  Former mayor of South Portland, Deqa Dhalac, a Somali immigrant and now a member of the Maine House of Representatives, says:  "We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, Somalia, and think of developing our country," she said in a video obtained by The Maine Wire.  "This must be done, especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the U.S."  [Video clip]

Another US Pol Admits She Is Loyal to Somalia.  They say the average IQ in Somalia is 72.67, right in the 70-75 range that has been considered a qualification for US government benefits on the grounds of mental retardation.  This could explain why Somali "refugees" say things in public that even most Democrats would know enough to keep to themselves.  Don't get the idea that all the diversity people in Maine's state government are loyal to Somalia rather than America.  Ekhlas Ahmed of the governor's Office of New Americans is loyal to neighboring Sudan, which she says she fights for in all of her fortunately limited capacity: [...]

Desperately Defending Timmy.  Minnesota's welfare fraud scandals dominate the national news, and calls are rising for Governor Tim Walz to resign.  The Minnesota Star Tribune, a longtime DFL mouthpiece that is now run by a former Walz cabinet member, is doing its best to fend off criticism of the Walz regime.  Toward that end, its "reporters" are desperately looking for a way to discredit the Nick Shirley video of Somali day care centers that has been seen by more than 100 million people.  Deena Winter, a Star Tribune reporter, evidently was assigned that task.  In the Shirley video, he has a colleague who is identified only as "David."  Winter apparently thought this could be the weak link.  So she set out to dox David:  [Tweet]

News Outlet Threatened With Defamation Lawsuit for Report on MN Autism Center.  A month before we had even heard about Nick Shirley or "Quality Learing Center," Alpha News did an expose on the Fountain Autism Center in Burnsville, Minnesota.  Another business in the neighborhood tipped off Alpha News to the fact that the autism center rarely ever appeared to be open, so they launched an investigation and allegedly found what many are now discovering.  [Advertisement]  Alpha News reported that since October 2023, the Fountain Autism Center had billed the state of Minnesota for two million dollars through Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.  Now that Shirley's investigative reporting has put a glaring spotlight on more alleged Minnesota fraud, rather than being accountable, Fountain Autism has apparently decided to threaten the journalists who allegedly exposed them.  On December 23, Fountain Autism sent a letter to Alpha News threatening a lawsuit for "defamation by implication."  The company further claimed that Alpha News "juxtaposes facts in a misleading way to falsely accuse my client of fraud."

Boom: DC Hearings Will Target Walz, Ellison Over 'Asleep or Complicit' Roles in Somali Fraud Scandal.  Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) announced Wednesday that his committee will begin holding hearings on the growing Minnesota Somali fraud scandal next week.  The first hearing is scheduled for January 7, and will feature the testimonies of three Minnesota Republican lawmakers.  A second hearing is scheduled for February 10, with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and its attorney general, Keith Ellison, invited to answer questions from Congress.  [Advertisement]  In his announcement, Comer said Walz and Ellison "have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota's social services programs," and promised "Congress will not stop until taxpayers get the answers and accountability they deserve."  [Tweet]

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.  [Advertisement]  Evicting a few dozen will accomplish nothing aside from providing emotional satisfaction that at least a few people faced justice.  [Tweet with video clip]  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.  [Tweet]

Minnesota Somali-run day care bizarrely reports their documents were stolen in mysterious break-in — but cops tell a different story.  A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole "important documents," but cops say the facility didn't report anything was actually taken.  The alleged burglary comes as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services, with particular scrutiny on day care facilities run by Somali immigrants after dozens of people from the community have been busted for pilfering state funds.  Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building's office, sometime on Tuesday.  He said the alleged prowler stole "important documentation" including children's enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.

This State Might Be Another Hotbed of Somali Fraud.  Attorney General Pam Bondi issued the first slate of indictments against those committing mass fraud in Minnesota, most of whom are of Somalian descent.  It's a Great Lakes grab and go for sure:  food charities being used as fronts for fraud schemes, Medicare fraud, and of course, the network of child daycare centers that have no kids enrolled but are still collecting millions in funds.  At least $9 billion has been defrauded from taxpayers with these Somali-led schemes.  And now, Ohio might be the next hotbed for mayhem.

The Somali Patronage System has taken Hold of Minnesota Politics.  The United States has long comforted itself with a story about immigration.  People arrive poor and traumatized, they struggle, and over time they assimilate.  Languages fade, loyalties widen, and civic norms take root.  That story has been true often enough to feel like a law of nature.  But it is not a law.  It is a wager.  And in the case of Somali immigration, particularly in Minnesota, the wager is failing in plain sight.  The failure is not mysterious.  It has a name, a structure, and a logic.  What is routinely described as fraud, mismanagement, or isolated criminal behavior is more accurately understood as the Somali patronage system.  This is not a rhetorical invention.  It is the standard term in academic and policy literature for a deeply entrenched social and political order organized around clans, sub clans, and binding kinship obligations.  It predates the modern Somali state by centuries and survived because it had to.  In Somalia, it replaced the state.  In the West, it is colonizing one.

Bondi announces 60 people have been convicted of fraud in four Minnesota scams so far.  Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday detailed four cases of alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota, which have led to the conviction of over 60 people so far and the arrests of 98 people, the majority of whom are of Somali descent.  Minnesota has been accused of allowing widespread fraud schemes to infiltrate their publicly funded programs, such as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program and Medicaid, and steal millions of taxpayer dollars.  Although the fraud allegations have received national attention under the Trump administration in recent months, local outlets have reported that fraud in the state has been going on for over a decade, with some resulting in guilty pleas in 2016.

The Media Went Dark on Minnesota Somali Fraud Scandal in 2024 to Protect Tim Walz.  At the time of this writing, the video produced by GenZ YouTuber Nick Shirley documenting some of the fraud committed by Somalis in Minneapolis over the past few years has nearly 121 million views.  Shirley's expose revealing how a handful of Somalis received more than $100 million in Medicaid-related funds to operate nonexistent programs for the needy caught the attention of millions including Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk, and top Republican lawmakers in Washington; both the FBI and Department of Homeland Security quickly deployed agents to the ground in an apparent effort to follow up on Shirley's reporting.  (He was aided by a courageous Minneapolis resident named "David," who has been collecting volumes of paperwork demonstrating the extensive fraud.)  Earlier this month, federal prosecutors in Minnesota brought more criminal charges in the sprawling scandal that has rocked the state and the nation.  Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joseph Thompson said his office has identified 14 high-risk Medicaid-funded entities, including many tied to the Somali community, that have received $18 billion in tax dollars since 2018.

As Minnesota's Fraud Scandal Explodes, Questions About the Hortman Murder Refuse to Go Away.  Billions of dollars in medical fraud have poured through Minnesota programs in recent years.  Not millions.  Billions.  That alone should trigger wall-to-wall scrutiny, subpoenas, resignations, and long press conferences filled with uncomfortable questions.  Instead, we get bureaucratic shrugs and vague assurances that reforms are coming.  Someday.  However, unearthing blatant fraud of this magnitude begs for one question to resurface.  What really happened to Melissa Hortman?  Hortman, the longtime Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was killed alongside her husband in a fatal shooting at their Brooklyn Park home in June 2025.  Authorities described this crime as politically motivated.  Melissa Hortman was not a backbencher.  She was a powerful Democrat.  She was also, notably, the only Democrat to vote against a bill expanding healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants.  She killed the bill.  Full stop.  That vote made her an outlier in her own party, and it made her a problem for activists who treat immigration policy as sacred scripture.  Shortly after that vote, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered.  [Tweet]  Those are not opinions.  Those are facts.  This is the moment where the dots don't connect neatly, but they start lining up.

Caught Flat-Footed on Massive MN Fraud, Tim Walz Deflects and Points at Trump.  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is scrambling madly now to deal with the burgeoning fraud scandal in his state, in the wake of independent journalist Nick Shirley's viral video.  [Advertisement]  He put out a statement on X on Tuesday, hoping to stem the tide of fury over the problem.  I don't think this is going to work.  And you'll never guess who he tried to deflect to/blame for not taking fraud seriously.  Or maybe you will guess, if you know what the Democrats' default excuse always is.  [Tweet] [...] He claims in this screed that he's taking responsibility and that they've been addressing this for years.  But if that were true, why is it still going on across multiple social service programs?  He hasn't stopped it.  Why is he trying to deflect and somehow blame President Donald Trump, who has nothing to do with this fraud?  Indeed, it's the DOJ that has brought cases against almost 100 people, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Shocking unearthed footage shows parents pretending to drop kids off at a Minnesota day care center.  Shocking unearthed video from a 2018 state fraud case shows Minnesota parents dropping their children off at a day care center and then leaving with the kids moments later — as authorities probe a rampant billion-dollar fraud scheme in Minneapolis.  In the surveillance footage, dated 2015 and obtained by Fox 9, parents are seen signing their kids into the facility so providers could bill the state for full days of care for children who didn't actually attend.  On some days, no families would even show up at all, but the day cares would still claim reimbursements from the government, the outlet reported at the time.  [Video clips]  Another video obtained by Fox 9 shows a man handing an envelope to a parent with an alleged kickback payment for participating in the scheme.

Ghost Daycare Gravy Train Derails:  Trump Admin Freezes All Child Care Payments to MN Amid Fraud Scandal.  Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Jim O'Neill announced late Tuesday that the Trump administration has immediately frozen all federal child care payments to the state of Minnesota.  The move marks a noticeable escalation of the ongoing fraud probes plaguing the North Star State's social services programs.  It is a clear response to a recent viral video, covered extensively here at RedState, reportedly showing empty "daycare" facilities with misspelled signs, locked doors, and no trace of children.  Numerous daycares in the 42-minute video from independent videographer Nick Shirley — which has been viewed over 128 million times — appear to not be operational, despite millions in taxpayer funds flowing to them.  Now, some of those daycares are seeing their funds get cut off.  And they'll have to jump through a few hoops to get the gravy train back on track.

No it isn't.
The Minnesota Welfare Fraud Story Is Really About a Broken Medicaid Bureaucracy.  A sprawling welfare scheme that saw fraudsters steal over $9 billion in Minnesota is a damning indictment of a federal and state bureaucracy that failed at some of its most basic responsibilities to taxpayers.  That fraud is back at the top of the news this week after YouTuber Nick Shirley went viral with a 42-minute video in which he claims to be "investigating" the fraud scandal.  In the video, Shirley knocks on the doors of several day care centers and demands to know whether the centers are engaged in fraud.  It's a flashy piece of media, to be sure, and it caught fire over the Christmas weekend on YouTube and Twitter, where Shirley won praise from conservatives for covering a story that the mainstream media is supposedly refusing to touch.  But that is simply not true.  Indeed, media outlets in Minnesota and around the country have been covering this story for months.  Locally, the day care fraud story has been in the news for years — here's a Minnesota Public Radio article from 2015 about prosecutors targeting four potentially fraudulent day cares. [...]

The Editor says...
The problem is not "broken Medicaid bureaucracy."  The problem is wholesale corruption in the Minnesota state government from top to bottom, willful blindness of the news media, and the introduction of thousands of inadmissible morons (who have no intention to assimilate) from one of the poorest and most backward countries in the world for the sake of "diversity."  They are not rocket scientists or brain surgeons.  All these people know how to do is lie, cheat, steal, and reproduce.  This entire fiasco was initiated, operated, and covered up by socialist Democrats.  If Medicaid itself was the problem, there would be similar scandals in all 50 states.

Pravda Didn't Miss the Fraud — They Covered It Up.  Shaping public opinion isn't just a matter of pushing propaganda or using censorship.  To do it right, you have to create what amounts to an alternate reality in which The Narrative is reinforced to such an extent that people, when confronted with reality, actually have their minds blown. [...] Still, we are getting much closer to the latter for people who live in comfortable bubbles where their affluence shields them from the gritty realities of life.  Their information feedback flow is carefully controlled, and there is relatively little in their day-to-day lives that appears to contradict what they are told by Pravda.  And, frankly, when they see the contradictions, the cost of acknowledging reality is so high that they ignore it.  Examples abound, but the current "shock" over the Somali-led welfare fraud in Minnesota is a superb example.  The relatively few of us in Minnesota who both live in the real world here in Minnesota and have had occasion to become aware of welfare fraud have been trying to get attention (mostly at the state level, although Minnesota's Republican Congressmen surely knew) for almost a decade.

Whistleblower Exposes Massive Somali Fraud Scam in Ohio.  A new whistleblower has come forward with alarming claims that the Somali welfare fraud scandal exposed in Minnesota may be far more widespread than previously believed, extending deep into Ohio and beyond.  Attorney Mehek Cooke, an Ohio legal and policy expert, says similar schemes involving Somali fraudsters are now operating through home-health and Medicaid programs, siphoning off staggering sums of taxpayer money while state officials look the other way.  Her warning arrives on the heels of independent journalist Nick Shirley's viral exposé documenting alleged fraud tied to Somali-run daycare operations in Minnesota.  The facilities are reportedly receiving millions in public funds while appearing empty or inactive.

Calls for Walz's Resignation Intensify Amid Somali Fraud Scandal.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) is facing mounting calls to resign amid revelations of widespread fraud in state-administered federal programs.  Federal authorities have alleged that fraud schemes targeting these programs could involve billions in losses for the American taxpayer, with many cases reportedly involving members of the Somali community.  The scandal has prompted criticism from both parties.  On December 19, five Republican members of the Minnesota House and Senate released a joint statement calling for Walz to resign, declaring, "For the good of the state, Gov. Walz should step aside."  U.S. Representative Tom Emmer, a Minnesota Republican and House Majority Whip, told the media:  "He should resign.  He's a total embarrassment."  Emmer stressed that concerns about these problems had been flagged for years.

Somali Scammers Allegedly Stole Almost as Much in Minnesota as Entire Somalia GDP.  The amount of fraudulent billing in Minnesota's Medicaid programs could be as high as $9 billion, Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson said Dec. 18.  FBI Director Kash Patel announced the agency was already sending additional resources in an X post Sunday, saying the deployment occurred before a 42-minute video of independent journalist Nick Shirley visiting various day care centers went viral Friday.  [Tweet]

Breaking: DOJ Announces 98 Total Arrests in Minnesota Fraud Case — 85 of 'Somali Descent'.  U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Department of Justice has already arrested and charged 98 individuals with fraud in Minnesota, 85 of whom are of Somali descent.  What's more, the attorney general said, there are further prosecutions coming.  The announcement came after a series of videos from YouTuber Nick Shirley that indicated fraud in the Somali community went beyond just the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, in which a Minneapolis-based nonprofit allegedly misappropriated massive sums of money meant to feed at-risk families.

Minnesota Fraud Controversy Shakes Capitol Hill.  House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, one of Washington's top-ranking Republicans, says he is open to legal action against Minnesota's Democrat leaders following the viral release of a video alleging fraud in state-funded day care centers.  Appearing on Fox News' "Fox Report Weekend" on Sunday, Emmer praised YouTube content creator Nick Shirley's recent report, which alleges that several state-funded day care and learning centers, largely operated by immigrants from Somalia, do not provide legitimate services.  "It's amazing to me that a 23-year-old journalist, a YouTuber who's now got over 80 million views on this thing, found more in a matter of hours than Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, our attorney general, found in seven years," Emmer, R-Minn., said on Fox.

"Quality Learing Center" [is the] First Domino To Fall As [the] Somali-Linked Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Shocks [the] Nation.  The dominoes are beginning to fall in the Democratic-run stronghold of Minneapolis, where federal investigators were on the ground earlier today as part of expanded investigations into childcare centers and other widespread alleged fraud schemes by Somali-linked operators.  By evening, Nick Shirley, the citizen journalist who brought the "empty" childcare companies into the national spotlight with a video that has received 121 million views in just three days, revealed that one of the Somali-linked childcare centers had been shut down by the Minnesota Department of Children.

Minnesota fraud video.  This video on the empty Somali daycare centers of Minnesota has gone viral:  [Video clip]

Small Business Administration Blocks All Grants to Minnesota Amid Shocking Fraud Investigation.  Supporters of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement have shown patience, but the time for results has come.  In short, we must make 2026 the year of the arrests.  Sunday on the social media platform X, conservative podcaster Benny Johnson reported that Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, has cut off all SBA grants to Minnesota amid that state's outrageous fraud scandal, much of it involving the state's Somali community, which investigative journalist Nick Shirley further exposed in a 42-minute video posted to X on Friday.  [Advertisement]  "SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler tells me she is 'disgusted and sickened' by Nick Shirley's expose of Somali small business fraud and is taking immediate action," Johnson wrote.  "SBA is cutting off and clawing back ALL SBA grants to Minnesota, effective immediately."  According to Johnson, Loeffler blamed Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota.  She also indicated that "within days" SBA had found $500 million in fraud.

What Nick Shirley's Minnesota Fraud Story Says About Legacy Media.  Nick Shirley's 42-minute YouTube video on daycare fraud in Minnesota is shocking not just because of the scale of abuse he uncovered in a day.  It's shocking because it took a young kid to expose this years-long scheme.  Where was the mainstream media all this time?  In the must-see video, Shirley teams up with a citizen investigator and goes door-to-door visiting various "daycare" facilities in Minneapolis that pocketed millions in taxpayer money through a Child Care Assistance Program.  [Tweet with video clip]  The first two "daycare centers" are both located at the same address in an industrial park, which combined got some $5 million in taxpayer support over the past five years.  Another, located a block away, got $3 million.  None were open.  Another was the "Quality Learing Center" — which misspelled "learning" in its sign.  Like the others, it was closed, but outside of it was a woman who kept shouting "don't open up!"  and "go away!"  and "shame on you!"  and "ICE!"

Somali fraud is being exposed all over the country.  Sure, Somalis may have stolen at least $9 billion dollars in Minnesota over the past few years, but have you heard about the rest of the country?  This fine American, who bills himself as "God's most retarded soldier", is one person who is trying to set up a database to track Somali fraud schemes across the United States.  [Tweet]  The SomaliScam website, still in its infancy, allows users to quickly see where verified and potential fraud cases have been identified.  There's not much information logged at the moment, and many of the businesses identified in other states appear to be legitimate American entities, but internet sleuths are racing to create tools that will help Americans make use of the data that is pouring in hour by hour.  Without such a database, Americans must rely on a flood of posts from various social media accounts that are uncovering migrant fraud all over the place.

Somali Fraud is the Tip of a Very Large Iceberg.  What's exceptional about Somali fraud isn't how it was done, but the scale of it.  The Somalis weren't doing anything that multiple other welfare-dependent groups weren't doing.  Indeed, before long we'll hear that defense of it.  Setting up community groups, cashing in on every kind of welfare program has become as American as Cloward-Piven.  Democrats bought the allegiance of generations of minorities and immigrants by doling out massive amounts of handouts to their corrupt cronies who then offered a tenth of it to the voters they were recruiting.  And when I say generations, we're talking about going back well into the 19th century.  The sophistication of the modern welfare system, the growing cradle-to-grave system, the invention of new problems to be treated, has expanded it massively since Tammany Hall's gift baskets and jobs to the 'right people', but this was always here.  And the toll isn't just in the billions.  We're looking at the trillions in the long run.

Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Reveals The Trajectory Of Blue Zone Fraud Culture.  Let's bracket a great piece of journalism with more details and some context.  By now, I assume most readers here have seen the magnificent work of the independent journalist Nick Shirley in Minnesota, showing widespread Somali fraud in government-funded programs by simply walking up to the front doors of daycare centers and healthcare organizations and inquiring about their services.  [Advertisement]  [Video clip]  Daycare centers with millions of dollars in government funding and no children inside, and neighbors who say they've never seen children going in or coming out.  This is a slam dunk, and I couldn't possibly love it any more.  He names the daycare centers he visits, so you can start to find out how much the state of Minnesota knows about the scam without getting off the couch.  Daycare centers are licensed and inspected: government inspectors regularly show up with a clipboard and look around.  So go look at the record of inspections for Quality Learning Center of Minneapolis, the one in the video with the misspelled sign over the door.  The whole thing instantly becomes darkly funny, because there's no way anyone has ever believed that this is a functioning daycare center running at anything near its declared and funded capacity of 99 children:  [Screenshot]

Minnesotans Begged GOP Rep To Stop The Somalis Over A Decade Ago — He Told Them It Was Impossible.  Minnesotans begged House Majority Whip Tom Emmer more than a decade ago to halt the flood of Somali refugees to the area, but the lawmaker scolded them for their concerns.  Minnesota's Somali population is back in the spotlight after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video canvassing multiple Somali-run childcare centers accused of fraud.  However, A resurfaced audio clip from "This American Life" shows that voters were concerned about mass Somali migration long before the recent controversy.  In an episode that aired in October 2016, journalist Zoe Chace narrated portions of the story, including a reflection on a July 2015 town hall event at Aces Bar in downtown St. Cloud.  Describing the room as packed, Chace said one constituent told Emmer that he believed most people in the bar "are here to find out how you feel about assimilation of immigrants," before playing a clip from the event.

Somali Child-Free Childcare Center.  Moonbats like Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan gush obsequiously over how Somalis enrich Minnesota.  One example of how they have done this is by introducing the concept of child-free childcare centers. [...] In a state run by moonbats like Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Flanagan, massive graft is so easy, Somalis can do it.  In a possibly related story, Ilhan Omar's net worth just rose by 3,500% in 1 year.  Hopefully Nick Shirley's ears are not still ringing from the shrill shrieks of a moonbat who apparently mistook him for immigration enforcement:  [Video clip]

A daycare without kids?  More Minnesota 'Somali Daycare Fraud' adds to $1 Billion case.  A lawmaker is calling on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to explain a new report involving an alleged fake daycare center that allegedly received $4 million in state funds despite an apparent lack of activity and Somali fraud, according to offiicals.  GOP Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents the state, took to social media to question Walz after independent journalist Nick Shirley shared a 42-minute video showing him as he attempted to confront daycare staff members.  "Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers' money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating.  That is more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections," the New York Times reported.  [Tweet]

Minnesota resident collected data on Somali immigrant run daycares — 50 daycares have no kids!  Nick Shirley's exposing of the Minnesota "learing center" daycare with zero children is only the tip of the iceberg of the fraud in Minnesota, and likely other states like Maine.  A Minnesota resident has been investigating Somali run daycare centers all over Minneapolis... What he found was at least 50 of them had ZERO children in them!  [Tweet with video clip]

This is what the news media is supposed to do, but they won't if it makes Democrats look bad.
Ohio Journalist Exposes Alleged Somalian EBT Scam Fueling Cash Businesses.  [Advertisement]  [Stock photo]    [Advertisement]  An independent journalist in Ohio has released a video investigation alleging extensive fraud schemes involving the misuse of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) benefits within parts of the state's Somali community, adding to broader scrutiny of welfare programs and oversight failures.  [Advertisement]  The investigation, shared widely on social media and posted on X by the account @WallStreetApes, centers on neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio.  In the video, the journalist documents what he describes as a pattern in which Somali-owned restaurants are closely connected to grocery stores, allowing welfare benefits intended for household food purchases to be redirected into commercial operations.  [Two more advertisements]  The journalist is shown touring multiple areas of Columbus while explaining how the alleged scheme operates.  "Every single Somali restaurant has a grocery store right next door or within eye shot of the restaurant," he said in the video.]

Tim Walz under fire after YouTuber reveals alleged $110 [million] Minnesota scam.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has come under renewed scrutiny after a YouTuber exposed alleged $110 million child care and healthcare fraud in the state, adding fuel to a wider scandal over social service scams linked to the local Somali community.  A 42-minute video posted on X and YouTube on Friday by independent reporter Nick Shirley shows him visiting several Minnesota childcare and healthcare centers, including a Minneapolis site with a misspelled sign reading "Quality Learing Center."  The footage shows no visible activity despite the center being registered for 99 children and having reportedly received about $4 million in state funds.  Another segment shows Shirley visiting a building listed as housing 14 healthcare companies, none of which appear operational, before police escort him from the premises.

Minnesota: day care and spelling fraud.  Minnesota fraud is a seemingly never-ending and endlessly entertaining story.  The alternate media reports on the skyrocketing dollar total, now up to $9 billion, while the legacy media tries to explain why the fraud isn't anywhere near $9 billion as if fraud totaling a mere few billion isn't really a big deal. [...] Until recently, "the Feeding our Future" fraud was taking top honors.  In that scam, Somali restaurants submitted invoices for hundreds of thousands of meals supposedly delivered to children out of hole in the wall restaurants or other shacks, and Tim Walz's government gladly paid.  It appears some state employees did due diligence and noticed no food was being delivered to those places, nor were any children showing up to eat all that nonexistent food and tried to complain but were harassed or ignored.  Under Walz, no prosecutions have occurred; every prosecution to date has been [done by] the Feds.

Citizen Journalist Exposes Scale of Somali Fraud in Minnesota.  The number of mainstream news outlets who are doing investigative journalism on the ground in Minnesota to uncover the scale and scope of the Somali fraud rings are zero.  However, one citizen journalist named Nick Shirley has put some extensive time into actually visiting the childcare centers at the heart of the scandal and his report is stunning.  In this 40-minute video, Shirley takes the time to search govt databases for grants, then goes and visits the actual businesses.  Shirley confronts the fraudsters directly and has likely just put a big target on his back.  [Video clip]

Hijabbed Lt. Gov. Says Somalis Are Part of the Fabric of Minnesota.  In the clip below, the Lt. Gov. didn't exactly say Somalis built Minneapolis.  Instead, she said they are part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.  They've "always been a part of our state of Minnesota."  She comforted the Somalis by saying she "knows it's scary right now."  I doubt they're scared.  The Somalis scare me.  Ilhan Omarr [sic] is enough to scare anyone.  Every time I check a community where they live unassimilated, the overwhelming majority are on welfare, and some admit they plan to one day take over.  Rep. Comer said 75% of the Somalis in Minnesota are on full welfare.  Then you have the massive fraud on top of that.  So, yes, they are part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota, as Flanagan says.  Unfortunately, its the welfare fabric.  [Tweet with video clip]

Tim Walz Called Out Over Viral Video of MN Daycare Tied to Millions With No Kids and a Misspelled Sign.  A viral video highlighting the Quality Learning Center in Minneapolis has reignited scrutiny of alleged fraud in Minnesota's child care programs under Governor Tim Walz (D).  The clip, posted to social media accounts by independent videographer Nick Shirley, shows that the daycare in question, which Fox News reports is licensed to care for up to 99 children, was seriously bereft of children.  "There's no one here," Shirley says in the video.  At one point, he and another man approach the building, prompting a woman there to shout to others, "Don't open up.  It's ICE."  "Go away.  You're not welcome here.  Shame on you," the woman states.  Shirley notes that, according to his research, the center was the beneficiary of a good chunk of taxpayer funds in the 2025 fiscal year, yet couldn't even take the time to spell the word "learning" correctly on their sign.  "Are you in favor of $1.9 million going illegally/fraudulently to this business that [is called] 'Quality Learning Center' but can't spell 'learning' right on the door?"  he asks.  [Tweet]

Misspelled learning center, no children inside:  Emmer presses Walz over Minnesota daycare tied to $4M.  The third-ranking leader in the House of Representatives, who also happens to hail from Minnesota, demanded answers from Gov. Tim Walz after a YouTuber tried to confront employees of an alleged daycare center that had misspelled signage and no signs of activity outside but reportedly received $4 million in state funds.  The video went viral this week amid the burgeoning scandal enveloping the Walz administration that notably included at least $1 billion lost to alleged social services fraud largely tied to the Somali community in the Twin Cities.  A portion reportedly ended up in the hands of the Somali terror group Al-Shabab.  [Tweet]

Investigation into Minnesota's Somali Immigrant Fraud Ring Expanding.  Representative Kristin Robbins claims there are multiple millions in assisted living program fraud, while highlighting failures in basic internal controls and ongoing payments indicted individuals.  Federal Education Secretary Linda McMahon, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, and Rep. Robbins have all urged Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to step down.  Governor Walz says he accepts accountability; however, he blames pre-existing vulnerabilities and pandemic-era program expansion.  Walz now claims his reforms will include tighter provider screening, enhanced audits, and cooperation with federal prosecutors.  All of this is happening as the scale of the fraud is yet to be fully identified.  [Tweet]

Somali Fraud equals DEI Hypocrisy equals Climate Scam.  I popped over to Tim's Somalian Café yesterday in the hope of hearing Keith Ellison say that he was shocked, shocked, that Medicaid fraud was happening in Minnesota.  But I was disappointed.  But at least we found out what the fraud was all about.  Because now there's this from Oilfield Rando:  ["]Democrats allow Somalis to commit welfare fraud in exchange for Somalis engaging in election fraud.["]  Tell me it ain't so, Rando!  Needless to say, "the county prosecutor declined to charge the case."  Politics, you see, is all about rewarding your supporters for helping you get elected — with other peoples' money.

America cannot survive the unintended consequences of the liberals good intentions.  Social programs, formally called welfare programs, administered in Minnesota under governor Tim Waltz, former Democrat candidate for vice president, indicate that Minnesota social programs are fraught with profits for companies formed in order to scam the welfare system.  One scheme billed under the federal child nutrition program for serving meals to thousands of children each day when in fact few if any meals were served.  Another scam took advantage of Minnesota's autism program and billed for diagnosing and treating people with autism spectrum disorder.  The number of providers of autism services increased 700% in a few years.  The amount paid to providers during that time increased 3000% according to data provided by the Department of Human Services.  Minnesota governor Tim Waltz faces a congressional subpoena for his refusal to respond with requested information to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee chaired by Rep. James Comer.  The scandal seems to involve the Somali immigrant-invaders, 80,000 of whom were dumped by the Biden regime on one Minnesota city alone:  Minneapolis.

Who ya gonna believe?  On Thursday First Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson unveiled new charges and a search warrant in a case under investigation in Minnesota's massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators.  Yesterday Minnesota Governor Tim Walz attacked Thompson for his assessment of the ulimate loss in these cases based on what he has seen to date. [...] The Star Tribune story raises the question, who ya gonna believe?  The governor who has blamed everyone but himself for the massive fraud that he concedes — $1 billion per the Star Tribune story — even if he disputes Thompson on the ultimate amount, or the independent prosecutor who has devoted his career over the past four years to these cases?  Thompson or the Star Tribune's Operation Walz?

Fed Prosecutors Suggest $9B Fraud in Minnesota.  Remember when the media was bragging that Somalis pay $67 million in taxes a year?  Here three Somalis alone stole $20 million.  ["]In the Housing Stabilization Services fraud scheme, Hassan Ahmed Hussein, age 28, and Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed, age 27, have both been charged by federal indictment with one count of wire fraud.  As set forth in the indictment, Hussein and Mohamed owned and operated a company called Pristine Health LLC in St.  Paul.  Hussein and Mohamed registered Pristine Health with the Minnesota Secretary of State and then submitted paperwork to DHS to operate Pristine as an HSS provider.  Hussein and Mohamed were supposed to provide housing consulting, transitioning, and sustaining services to qualifying people in need.  Instead, and in furtherance of their fraud scheme, Hussein and Mohamed caused the submission of false claims information that significantly overrepresented the services they provided.["]

"Fraud tourists" traveled to Minnesota after a friend told them state programs were "a good opportunity to make money," prosecutors say.  Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented "a good opportunity to make money."  Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown are accused of siphoning millions from federally funded programs administered by Minnesota officials that were meant to help people with disabilities and those suffering from addiction.  Unlike many of the individuals previously caught up in the state's sprawling fraud scandal, they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota's large Somali-American community.  Prosecutors say they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota at all.

Ed Department:  Nearly 2,000 Minnesota 'Ghost Students' Fraudulently Received $12.5 Million.  In Minnesota, home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the U.S. and the site of numerous fraud investigations, fraudsters received $12.5 million in student loan and education grant money, according to a letter Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.  The letter calls on Walz to resign, and states that a new fraud prevention system at the department has found over $1 billion in "attempted financial aid theft," including by international fraud rings and artificial intelligence (AI) bots.  [Advertisement]  "[Y]our careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country," McMahon wrote.  "As President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a 'fraudulent hub of money laundering activity.'"  "At the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Education became aware that fraudulent college applicants, especially concentrated in Minnesota, were gaming the federal postsecondary education system to collect money that was intended for young Americans to help them afford college," she said.

Sen. Kennedy Reveals [Bad] Minnesota AG Office Memo on Somali Fraud.  Americans were stunned last month to learn that members of Minnesota's Somali community had scammed state taxpayers out of hundreds of millions — possibly even billions — of dollars.  The question on everyone's mind was how did this go undetected for so long?  Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) may have provided the answer in remarks delivered earlier this month that have only recently come to the media's attention.  The always entertaining senator from Louisiana read a particularly [bad] portion of an internal memo written by a fraud investigator from the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.  Kennedy told his colleagues that those benefiting from the Feeding our Future program.

Stephen Miller Says Somali Fraud Scandal Could Create Unprecedented Milestone In US History.  White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Friday that the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota centered around Somali immigrants could make for the "greatest financial fraud" in the history of the United States.  United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is surging into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations into at least $1 billion in fraud, prompting a probe by the Treasury Department into allegations that some of the stolen funds went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab.  Miller observed during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle" that almost all of the Somalis who immigrated to Minnesota were on welfare programs.

Red States, Blue Cities:  Minnesota, Somalia and 'The Great Replacement'.  In an appearance Friday on Fox News, Trump strategist Stephen Miller said the Somali welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota could end up "being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history."  The complete scale of this fraud has yet to be fully calculated, but the total amount certainly appears to be in the billions of dollars.  The underlying question is why and how the situation in Minnesota developed, and was allowed to continue for so long, and the basic answer is Democrats — or, as they call themselves in Minnesota, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL).

How fears of being labeled 'racist' helped 'provide cover' for the exploding Minnesota fraud scandal.  In the aftermath of the massive Feeding Our Future scandal and broader allegations of systemic fraud in Minnesota's social programs, a troubling theme has emerged:  accusations of racism repeatedly used to deflect scrutiny, intimidate investigators and stall accountability.  Rumors and reports of fraud in Minneapolis, primarily within the city's exploding Somali community, have been circulating for at least a decade, but criticism of the fraud has been largely dismissed by elected Democrats as "racist" or being underpinned by animosity toward foreigners.  News stories focused on Somali fraudsters in recent years were shot down as "racist."  "The whole story kind of died under these accusations that people were being racist," Bill Glahn, policy fellow with Center of the American Experiment, told Fox News Digital.  "Oh, maybe somebody stole a little bit here, a little bit there, but there's nothing systemic going on."

Whistleblower: Massive Welfare Fraud by Somali Migrants in Ohio.  A whistleblower claims that the Somali migrant community in Ohio is also involved in the same sort of massive social services funding fraud being uncovered day-by-day in Minnesota.  Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke says that the same sort of theft of public funding seen in Minnesota has been occurring in the Buckeye State for more than a decade, Fox News reports.  [Advertisement]  Cooke also accuses Ohio doctors of "rubber stamping" the fraud by failing to do any due diligence on those who are filing for aid.  [Advertisement]  "They're just rubberstamping a lot of these.  And then that same individual, a week later, that's supposed to be bedridden, is all over social media, whether they're out dancing at a party or something like that.  So, the symptoms aren't really adding up at the end of the day," Cooke says.  Cooke adds that the Somali scammers in Ohio are exploiting a loophole in the state's Medicaid program that has doled out as much as $91,000 a year per individual, money that is supposed to be paying to care for elderly or infirm family members in the home.  She says that Ohio's system is the "easiest in the Midwest to game."

The Somali Experiment Failed, It's Time to Change Course.  Minnesota is on top of everyone's mind once again for all of the wrong reasons.  The Somali fraud crisis is being reported as up to $1 billion, but that is just the fraud that is being charged right now.  Minnesota U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has already said that our fraud problem breaks into the billions of dollars, and whistleblowers within the Minnesota Department of Human Services predict the fraud will reach up to $6.5 billion just in the time that Tim Walz has been in office. [...] Many are familiar with Feeding Our Future, the nation's single largest COVID fraud scheme that defrauded a quarter billion dollars from taxpayers.  But the Somali fraud problem actually started with the Minnesota Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) in 2013.  Surveillance videos of these Somali-run daycare centers showed children showing up for minutes, then leaving with envelopes of kickbacks while charging for a full day's worth of child care.  Everyone seemed to be in on the fraud, not just a few bad apples collecting millions.  Oftentimes, children did not show up at all.  The program was defrauded of millions of dollars, with money being transferred to the United Arab Emirates.  Fast forward to 2018.  The problem was never adequately addressed, and by this point, whistleblowers had predicted up to $100 million in fraud occurring annually in the program.  More importantly, they accused the program of funding terrorism in Somalia, which is what made the Rufo report so explosive for national media attention.  We are talking about millions of dollars in cash being stuffed into carry-on suitcases and making its way to the Horn of Africa, all made possible by the Minnesota taxpayer.  This phenomenon had begun just as Tim Walz entered office.

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If you were in any way connected to an on-going fraud in your hometown, in which the taxpayers were cheated out of $6,500, you would already be in prison.  Multiply that amount by a million, and that's the scale of the Minnesota Somali fraud racket.  The participants are apparently known to the relevant state and federal law enforcement agencies, and how many crooks have been arrested?  Zero, as far as I can tell.

Former Fed Prosecutor Reveals How 'Shockingly Easy' It Was to Pull Off MN Fraud Scam.  As we've reported, federal prosecutors have uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota's federally funded food child nutrition programs, where scammers — many of them of Somalian descent — allegedly ripped off over a billion dollars from taxpayers.  Some are predicting the end of Gov. Tim Walz's political career, as this went down under his watch, and it's been revealed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) held her campaign victory party in 2018 at a restaurant owned by a man who was convicted in March on 21 counts related to the scandal, including wire fraud, federal programs bribery and money laundering.  [Advertisement]  Not a good look.  What's stunning about these massive crimes is just how easy they were to pull off, according to former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who worked on the Feeding Our Future case.  Feeding Our Future was the non-profit that claimed to provide meals to low-income children, but in reality, was just taking the money and running off with it.

Walz, Omar and the Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Scandal.  Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history.  Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last five years.  [Advertisement]  As of this writing, 87 individuals have been charged in connection with the scheme, with 61 convictions already secured and more charges continuing to be filed against these fraudsters.  The bulk of the fraud scheme centers around two government programs.  The first target was the Minneapolis-based not-for-profit Feeding Our Future, which distributed federal child nutrition funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Beginning in April 2020, the organization's founder and executive director allegedly oversaw an elaborate fraud operation that involved over 250 fake meal sites throughout Minnesota, siphoning over $250 million in taxpayer funds.  The second scheme involved Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, which provides treatment to people with autism.  Defendants allegedly fraudulently billed Medicaid for autism therapy services that were never provided.

House chairman says Tim Walz's political career over, threatens subpoena in Minnesota fraud probe.  House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he is willing to subpoena Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and failed vice-presidential candidate, over a fraud scheme in his state that reportedly saw hundreds of millions of dollars routed through nonprofits to Somali immigrants and others.  "If anyone that has received correspondence from us thus far requesting information, if they don't turn over that information, then they will get a subpoena.  And we're serious about this.  We're not going to back down," Comer warned in an interview with Just the News.  The massive fraud scheme initiated largely by individuals of Somali descent reportedly defrauded taxpayers of more than $1 billion through nonprofits like Feeding Our Future, which, critics and prosecutors say, falsely claimed to provide child nutrition, housing assistance, and autism therapy services to nonexistent recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Somali immigrant challenge.  This past weekend, Michael Dorgan of Fox News devoted an episode to Minnesota's "Little Mogadishu,"America's largest Somali community.  The rapidly expanding Muslim population in Minneapolis has become a focus of intense national debate over immigration and welfare fraud.  Dorgan observes how the Somalian population is reshaping the state's historically Scandinavian, Christian cultural landscape.  President Donald Trump blasted Somali Minnesotans as welfare abusers who have been raiding state coffers for years.  Says President Trump, "I hear they ripped off — Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year... They contribute nothing," Trump said, amid news that some Somalis were involved in bilking that state out of hundreds of millions of dollars in various fraud schemes.  Never timid politically, Trump is blunt in his defiant, politically incorrect truth-telling.

Stephen Miller calls billion-dollar Minnesota welfare scam 'single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars' with dozens of Somali migrants convicted.  The welfare fraud scam engulfing Minnesota's Somali community is "the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history," White House Deputy Chief of Staff for policy Stephen Miller declared.  Miller, who also serves as a homeland security advisor to President Trump, said the fraud operation apparently carried out by numerous Somali migrants in the state will "rock the core of Minnesota politics and American politics."  "We believe that we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes," he told Sean Hannity Friday on his "Hannity" show on Fox.

Scamming Somalis Are The Love Children Of Dems' Mass Welfare And Immigration Policies.  If there was ever a perfect case study in just how destructive the Democrat Party's top two policy priorities — mass welfare distribution and unchecked immigration from the Third World — are to America, it's what continues to unfold in Minnesota.  Federal prosecutors have uncovered hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars stolen over the past five years by Somali descendants living throughout the state in pockets of immigrant-dense communities.  The schemes led to more than $1 billion in theft of welfare money intended for the impoverished who are supposedly unable to feed and house themselves.  The dollars instead were pocketed primarily by Somali scammers who ran fake nonprofits claiming to help the needy.

The Somali margin.  Stop the fraud or win elections.  This is the choice now facing Democrats in Minnesota.  Want to guess which one will prevail?  The ethnic-Somali population in Minnesota (including refugees and 2nd generation) numbers around 107,000, according to census data.  Thirty-five (35) years ago, that number was zero.  Nearly all are citizens.  The total foreign-born population in Minnesota sits around 500,000, most of whom are naturalized American citizens.  Even allowing for persons who have not yet reached voting age, we have sizable voting blocs here that lean heavily towards the Democrats.  The last statewide election was held in November 2022. [...] All four races were decided by single-digit-percentage margins.  The two closest races were within 1%.  It's entirely fair to observe that the Democrats prevailed in 2022 through foreign-born votes.  The two closest contests were decided with Somali votes.  The next statewide election is next year, 2026.

The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Just Got a Whole Lot Worse for Walz and Omar.  Earlier this month, over 400 Minnesota Department of Human Services employees accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of being "100% responsible" for the massive fraud in Minnesota.  I wrote at the time that the Minnesota Somali fraud scandal could take down Walz, and every day it looks even more likely.  And what do you know, the scandal just got significantly worse for Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar.  Newly surfaced photographs show both Democrats smiling alongside Abdul Dahir Ibrahim, a Somali national and convicted fraudster who spent decades in America as an illegal immigrant before Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently arrested him.

Rep. Ilhan Omar's Links to Massive $1 Billion Somali Fraud Scheme Revealed.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has glaring ties to the $1 billion Somali food fraud scam in Minnesota, a report has revealed.  As The Gateway Pundit reported, 70 members of the Somali community in Minnesota were involved in stealing $250 million in COVID funds that were intended to feed children.  Millions of dollars were stolen from American taxpayers and sent overseas to Somalia, and 80% of the money has not been recovered.  Seven defendants were tried in connection with the scheme on charges related to stealing more than $40 million in taxpayer funds, and five were found guilty.  However, the FBI is still investigating an attempt by a Somali woman to bribe one of the jurors with $120,000 in cash.  However, the fraud extends deeper, with multiple schemes of this nature occurring over the last five years.

Minnesota government workers blame Walz for 'massive fraud' amid allegations against Somali community.  More than 400 employees of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) accused Gov. Tim Walz of failing to act on widespread fraud warnings and retaliating against whistleblowers.  The Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees account, which says it consists of more than 480 current staff members at the Minnesota DHS, wrote on X that Walz is "100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota."  "We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response.  Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports," the group claimed.  "In addition to retaliating against whistleblower[s], Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance."

Here's the inside scoop on what's happening with fraud in Minnesota.  It's not complicated.  But it does appear to be covered up.  This level of fraud doesn't happen by accident.  [Tweet with video clip]

400 Minnesota state employees turn on Walz over his $1 billion Somali fraud scandal.  How bad is the Somali fraud scandal, in which the State of Minnesota allowed Somalis to rip off the system to the tune of $1 billion, some of them using the cash to bankroll Al Shabaab terrorism?  This bad:  Minnesota's largely Democrat bureaucrats are publicly blaming Walz. [...] All one can hope in the wake of this monstrosity is that a whole lot of lowlife and their governor find their way to jail and their ill-gotten gains are somehow recovered.  As the Times notes, this scandal threatens the Minnesota 'way of life' meaning, why Minnesota can't have nice things.  What a revolting scandal.

Massive fraud by Somali immigrants in Minnesota hands GOP political hammer against liberal programs.  Federal prosecutors have uncovered multiple fraud schemes involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota that have siphoned billions in taxpayer money from food, welfare and autism safety net programs and even routed some to overseas terrorists.  The scandal uncovered by Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in Minneapolis has handed Republicans a political cudgel heading into the 2026 election to bash liberals like Gov. Tim Walz for creating a welfare state with little or no safeguards and now countless victims of fraud.  The dragnet has already resulted in 77 indictments for fraud against a food welfare program called Feeding our Future as well as a medical professional who prosecutors alleged falsely diagnosed Somali children to steal $14 million from a federal autism assistance program.

MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link — 'Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer'.  Somalis in Minnesota swindled millions in state Medicaid autism-care programs and sent the cash back to their homeland and its terror groups, investigators say.  [Advertisement]  Breitbart News reported in July that nearly 100 autism clinics in Minnesota were being investigated for fraudulently billing Medicaid for treatment of children supposedly diagnosed with autism, most of it in connection with the rampantly corrupt Somali community around Minneapolis.  [The same advertisement again, only larger]  But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz.  The money paid out by Minnesota's scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental.  The state's failed Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, for instance, was kicked off in 2021 with expenses expected to ring in at $2.6 million.  But instead, the program paid out $21 million its first year.  In each subsequent year the program ballooned to $42 million, then $74, and then $104 million, respectively.  During the first half of 2025, costs had already reached $61 million, according to City Journal.

The Land of 10,000 Grafts!  For example, under Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, autism claims against Medicaid accelerated every year, from $3 million in 2018 to $399 million in 2023!  The number of autism centers blossomed from 41 to 328 over that same period, "with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers," citing the need for "culturally appropriate programming."  The scammers approached parents and recruited children into autism therapy services and generated fraudulent diagnoses of autism.  The conspirators drove up enrollment by paying kickbacks to parents which "ranged from approximately $300 to $500 per month, per child," depending on how much the child was authorized to receive from the DHS.  "Often, parents threatened to leave ... and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks."

"The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer".  If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program.  The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing.  It was designed with "low barriers to entry" and "minimal requirements for reimbursement."  Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.  Costs quickly spiraled out of control.  In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims.  In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million.  During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.  On August 1, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to "credible allegations of fraud."

Minnesota Somalis ripping off the system with an Autism scam!  End the visa programs[.]  [T]he country's being overrun by radical Islamists[.]  Raise your hand if you want the President to send every law enforcement agency we have in the federal Govt into Minnesota, and round up all of the Somali's [sic] involved in this massive fraud scheme[.]  [Video clip]

A little experiment:  Maintain SNAP pause for 30 days to see how drastically foreign shipments drop.  Recall a 2013 exposé from the New York Post that revealed a major scam in the food stamps world:  Caribbean migrants, enrolled in SNAP, were buying up non-perishable items like cereal and baby formula, packaging it all up into those 55-gallon blue barrel drums, and shipping it back to their home nations, all to be sold on the black market for a quick buck at the American taxpayer's expense. [...] How many Somalians in Somalia are going to go hungry when Minnesota EBT coffers don't get filled?  Probably a lot, and I'm okay with that.  So, I propose we run a little experiment, to at least get some idea of how widespread this de facto foreign remittance scheme is:  maintain the SNAP pause for 30 straight days, even if the shutdown ends.

A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota.  The $250 million 'Feeding Our Future' free food fraud in which Somali groups stole a quarter of a billion dollars while claiming to feed hundreds of thousands of children who never existed seemed like the biggest case of welfare fraud in Minnesota, but it may be just the beginning.  Somali autism fraud, partly linked to the 'Feeding Our Future' scam, may be even bigger and after the FBI raids of autism clinics last December, the scale of it is still being put together.  The pattern in both Somali meals for children and autism treatment for children is similar.  In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.  EIDBI autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota similarly shot up 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.

Minnesota AG Ellison Defends 'Routine' Meeting With Feeding Our Future Fraudsters.  Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison was not aware of a federal investigation into the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme when he took a friendly meeting with its perpetrators in December 2021, he said in a Star Tribune op-ed.  His defense flatly contradicts a statement his office released months after the meeting crediting him with working "for two solid years" to "hold Feeding Our Future accountable," including by assisting the investigation in its early stages.  Ellison has faced scrutiny from Republican lawmakers after a conservative think tank in the state, the Center of the American Experiment, released an audio recording of the meeting, during which Ellison told the fraudsters he was "here to help" and offered to call state officials who were skeptical of their fake food banks.  The cast of mostly Somali immigrants siphoned $250 million from the federal child nutrition program during the coronavirus pandemic by falsely claiming they were serving meals to thousands of children each day.

A group of Somalian migrants in MN stole $250,000,000+ from a taxpayer-funded childhood nutrition program.  A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic.  "This is completely beyond the pale," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday.  "This is outrageous behavior.  This is stuff that happens in mob movies."  These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million.  Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation's largest pandemic-related fraud cases.  Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.

Pandemic Fraud Juror Got a Bag Full of $120,000 and a Promise of More if She'll Acquit.  A juror in a huge pandemic fraud trial reports receiving a bag full of $120,000 with a promise of more where that came from if she acquits seven defendants who allegedly stole $40 million from a fund created to feed poor children during the pandemic.  [Advertisement]  The seven defendants are part of a huge federal criminal complaint alleging that 70 individuals stole more than $250 million of pandemic relief funds.  "This is completely beyond the pale," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday.  "This is outrageous behavior.  This is stuff that happens in mob movies."  The difference between real life and a mob movie is that the mobsters had to work to steal the money.  Stealing pandemic funds from Uncle Sam was like taking food out of the mouths of children.

Woman allegedly attempts to bribe juror on COVID fraud case with $120K — all 7 defendants arrested.  Ajuror on a case of alleged COVID fraud in Minneapolis has been dismissed and all seven defendants arrested after a woman allegedly dropped off a bag full of cash in hopes of securing an acquittal.  Just before 9 p.m. on Sunday, a woman who appeared to be Somali, wearing a long dress and who spoke with an accent, rang the doorbell at the home of a 23-year-old woman impaneled on a jury for one of the largest COVID-funding fraud cases in the nation.  The case involves seven defendants of East African descent accused of buying expensive property, jewelry, cars, and other luxury items with $41 million allocated to Feeding Our Future, an organization entrusted with providing food for underprivileged children.  The case is part of a larger case involving 70 total defendants and $250 million in allegedly stolen funds.  So far, 18 defendants have pled guilty, and $50 million has been recovered, the AP reported.

The Editor says...
If this situation is not addressed, there will be more welfare fraud perpetrated by these alleged "refugees," so immediate action is called for.  Here's my proposed solution:  Deport all illegal aliens from Somalia.  The laws are already on the books.  Go out and enforce those laws.

DOJ: 47 in Minnesota's Somali Community Charged with Stealing $250M in COVID-19 Funds from Child Nutrition Program.  Forty-seven individuals, primarily in Minneapolis, Minnesota's large Somali community, have been charged for their roles in allegedly stealing $250 million in COVID-19 federal funds meant for a child nutrition program.  According to federal prosecutors, the 47 individuals charged across six indictments and three criminal informations committed conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering when they defrauded millions from the Federal Child Nutrition Program during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.  Specifically, the 47 individuals allegedly used COVID-19 changes to the Federal Child Nutrition Program to oversee the massive fraud scheme via the Minneapolis-based Feeding Our Future and the for-profit restaurants as well as the food distribution services sponsored by the nonprofit.

Meals program in Willmar offers a window into Feeding Our Future fraud investigation.  A video pans over trays filled with freshly cooked rice and marinated meat as a man's voice booms in Somali:  "As you can see, the food is beautiful today.  Come get the food for the children while it's ready."  Abti Liban, a popular Somali filmmaker and comedian, urges viewers to come quickly to a downtown restaurant in this city 90 miles west of Minneapolis.  "Please," he says.  "I'm begging you:  Come get the food before it finishes."  The video advertised a program to feed disadvantaged children during the pandemic — overseen by a firm that claimed to be serving 2,000 meals a day here last summer.  Now the Willmar meal initiative is part of a massive FBI fraud investigation that alleges that tens of millions of dollars in federal government meal funds were misspent by a sprawling web of providers contracted by the St. Anthony nonprofit Feeding Our Future.

Ohio Market Owners Accused of $10 Million Food Stamp Fraud.  Two former Somali specialty market owners in Columbus, Ohio, are facing more than $10 million in food stamp fraud charges, authorities say.  Hassan Nuriso and Abdurahim Nuriso, the former owners of Towfiq Market on Sullivant Avenue, have been charged by a federal grand jury with conspiring to fraudulently redeem more than $10 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and WIC program benefits between 2010 and 2019, WCMH reported.

CNN: 'Tens of Thousands' of Fraudulent African Refugees Living in America.  There are likely "tens of thousands" of fraudulent refugees from Africa living in the United States, a CNN investigation reveals.  In an investigative report by CNN, fraudulent refugees from Kenya who posed as persecuted Somalians detail how they and their entire families came to the U.S. and lived on food stamps for years.

FBI 'won't touch it' for fear of offending Muslims.
Refugees sending 'suitcases of welfare cash' home to Somalia.  Men and women pulling "suitcases full of cash" started showing up at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for international flights bound for Africa.  Transporting large amounts of cash overseas is perfectly legal.  But it was who was carrying the money ... and where it was going that caught the attention of law enforcement, according to a report by KING 5, the local NBC affiliate for western Washington.  Those hauling the cash-laden cases were Somali-Americans who'd come to this country as refugees.  They routinely send money back to Somalia.  And many of the greenbacks headed to the jihadist-infested East African country come from welfare checks the refugees receive from the U.S. government, compliments of American taxpayers.  Carrying more than $10,000 while traveling out of the United States is legal as long as the traveler declares it by filling out a one-page federal form.  It was while looking at these slips of paper that terrorism expert Glenn Kerns found a disturbing pattern.

San Francisco Leftists Outraged and Fearful That Immigrants Are Taking Over Their Neighborhoods.  As long as Somali refugees and other Third World migrants are seeded into small cities in the Midwest, the lefty-loos of San Francisco are all for it.  But don't go sticking those dirty brown foreigners in their neighborhoods.

Obama And His Admission Of Treason.  A browner country is exactly what Gay Mulatto wanted.  It's why he refuses to close the border, why he won't enforce immigration laws, why he wanted to fast-track unconditional amnesty and give illegals the vote, and why he has spent years and political capital bum rushing Somalis into heartland America.  Make no mistake, this was Gay Mulatto's treasonous plan all along:  the dispossession and demographic displacement of White heritage America.  Open borders to the brown world was his biggest middle finger yet to the White lineage that he so despises in his own family tree.

Take a step back:  Did Trump really even say the s-word?  Anyone who wouldn't say that Haiti and Somalia are hellholes is lacking in compassion.  The people in Somalia and many other African countries live miserable lives, and pointing that out is hardly an act of evil.  The real problem for the Democrats is that Trump is saying what most Americans believe:  the role of immigration is to help America, not to help the rest of the world.  If someone from Somalia has what it takes to be a good American, by all means, let him in, but that doesn't mean we should be taking pretty much anyone from Somalia while rejecting highly skilled people from Japan or Norway.  What's really interesting is that the same leftists now having a conniption fit over what Trump might have said have been telling us for decades that those same countries are in fact hellholes.  For ages, leftists have been saying we have to let immigrants in from poor third-world countries because life in those countries is so bad.

Somali Refugees Arriving in U.S. at Highest Rate Ever in First Two Months of FY 2017.  Somali refugees are arriving in the United States at the highest rate ever in the first two months of Fiscal Year 2017, according to the State Department's interactive website.  Between October 1, 2016, the beginning of the fiscal year, and December 7, 2016, a total of 2,775 Somali refugees have arrived in the United States.  That rate is more than thirty percent higher than the previous record during the same period of time during any of the fourteen most recent previous fiscal years, beginning in FY 2002.  The State Department interactive website does not provide refugee arrival data prior to that time.

Information slowly emerging about pipe-wielding mob of Somali 'youths' who attacked people waiting for light rail train in Minneapolis last Friday.  My hometown of Minneapolis has been totally transformed by the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees from Somalis, one of whom now represents the city and a few suburbs in Congress.  Nobody there was asked if such a makeover was desired by the residents; State Department officials decided that the generous welfare benefits available in Minnesota were reason enough to send people whose native land is tropical to the coldest major city in the United States.  But now that the old 97%-plus Caucasian city has been made into a multicultural exemplar, the local establishment, including the newspapers and broadcasters, is ultra-protective of its prized diversity-endowing Somali community.  That might explain why the news of a horrific attack on people waiting for a light rail train at the University of Minnesota has been so slow to emerge.

Is The Mall of America Now a Sharia Space?  You might wonder why there are Somali "refugees" in Minnesota.  Why the U.S. flew them over a half dozen or so safe, Sunni Muslim countries.  Then brought them to our shores.  Why at the same time we spurned Iraqi Christians with nowhere to go, whose country we'd actually messed up and rendered unsafe for them.  But that would be silly.  We can spot it as part of a plan, one newly elected President Barack Obama announced right at the start.  His goal?  The "fundamental transformation" of America.  His core supporters counted on that, and its interruption by Trump's narrow win brought on their two year tantrum.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ilhan Omar?  Conservatives are accustomed to leftists hiding their true motives and feelings as they attempt to claw their way to political control over all of us, but Omar is different in that she makes no attempt to disguise her true feelings, either about America or the Jews.  Anti-Western to her core, she rewards the generosity of the Americans toward the Somali Muslim community by spitting in our faces.  As I wrote recently at PJ Media, there's something about the Somalis that makes them different from other cultural aliens who have arrived in — or, in the Somalis' case, been deliberately imported to — the United States.  An ethnic group low on its share of geniuses but long on violence, the Minnesota Somalis have the disgraceful distinction of sending more men and boys to join foreign terrorist organizations such as al-Shabab and ISIS over the past dozen years than any other place in the country.  And this, of course, is Omar's district — why would we have any doubt that she will represent it faithfully?

East African community reeling from weekend violence, demands solutions.  After the latest spasm of gang violence, Minneapolis' Somali residents and business owners on Monday [3/4/2019] stepped up their calls for help from City Hall and police headquarters to help curb the senseless shootings that they say too often go overlooked.  On Friday alone, five men of Somali descent were shot in separate attacks, one fatally.  Police and community members pinned the blame for the bloodshed on an ongoing feud between Cedar-Riverside neighborhood gangs like 1627 and Madhiban With Attitude (MWA) and their rivals, the Somali Outlaws, whose territory includes the area around Karmel Mall.

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Allow me to propose two partial solutions:  [#1] Absolutely no one else from Somalia should be admitted to the U.S., and [#2] Wholesale, fast-track, overnight deportations of every gang-related non-citizen troublemaker of any race.

Denmark Refuses to Rule Out Deporting Somalis by Force.  The Danish government has refused to rule out forced deportations of Somalians without the right to stay in the country, although Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has said he would rather they left voluntarily.  The Danish leader commented on the situation following a recent meeting with Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Egypt saying he thought it would be beneficial if the Somalians returned to their country to help rebuild it, BT reports.

There's Something about the Somalis.  An Islamic radical is an Islamic radical, fighting not for a "country" but for the caliphate and the ummah.  The fact that even today we have government officials who can't understand the difference is surely a cause for concern.  These are people whose "faith" compels them to wage war on the West and those sufficiently radicalized will do it when and wherever they can — as the number of "lone wolf" attacks in the U.S. and Europe can attest.

How Minneapolis' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US.  More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined — or attempted to join — a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.  FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined.  And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS.  Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.

Sweden: Elderly man is prosecuted for calling Somali Muslim immigrant freeloaders what they are:  "LAZY".  A Swedish man in his 70s faced a court in the town of Uddevalla this week after far left social justice warriors reported him to the police for labeling Somali migrants "lazy" on social media.

Holes in the Map.  Though not exactly a tourist magnet, the northeastern part of Columbus, Ohio used to be an unpretentious, unremarkable part of America.  You could go there if you wanted to.  It is now an unofficial colony of Somalia.  The business signs, grimy and grey for decades, are now in Arabic.  Somali women, grown fat on an American diet doled out by the public's confiscated largesse, waddle along the street in their abysmal burkas.  Somali men are something other than Americans with funny accents.  Something has gone badly wrong.  While I can still drive through this part of Columbus, I notice the Americans who used to live there, white and black, are fewer and farther between.  I notice when I hear on the local news that a "refugee" has run his car into a group of students at Ohio State, then chased others down the street with a knife while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" I notice when another "migrant," a Muslim from Ghana, enters a restaurant owned by an Israeli and proceeds to hack at the customers with a machete.  America's earlier minorities didn't do these things.

U.S. woman stabbed 14 times by Somali migrant, media go dark.  Morgan Evenson was walking home in downtown Minneapolis on the evening of Dec. 13 when a black man got out of his car, chased her down, tackled her and repeatedly thrust a 3 [to] 4-inch blade into her flailing body.  The 26-year-old computer-store clerk frantically fought back, kicking, scratching and screaming for help.  At some point, neighbors heard her screams and came to her aid.  Her attacker — described as a Somali man in his early 20s, about 5-foot-7 with a slight build and wearing grey stone-washed jeans — fled.  Evenson was left bleeding on the curb with 14 stab wounds on her arms, neck and back.  Her kidney was lacerated.  She was lucky to survive.  It happened while she was walking home from the Apple Store, where she worked, about eight blocks away from her apartment.  That's when the man attacked her for no apparent reason.  Police, who have not made any arrests in the case, are calling it a botched robbery.

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Right.  Maybe it was a "botched robbery," or maybe it was an Islamic terrorist going nuts over an unaccompanied female going out in public with her head uncovered.

It looks as if the toddler was savaged by wild dogs, but she was bitten by Somali Muslim migrant children.  17-month old toddler, Willow-Ivy Doherty, could be scarred for life after two very young Somali Muslim brothers bit the girl 15 times on her face and body at a play center.  But you'd never know it from the media coverage that fails to identify her attackers, even though the victim's mother had clearly stated their ethnicity in her Facebook post.

Guess what happens when a leading Western country puts a Somali Muslim in charge of immigration.  With the blessing and backing of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Somali Muslim Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen, plans to increase annual immigration admissions to Canada to 350,000 by 2021, with as many as possible of those immigrants being uneducated, unskilled Somali Muslims who will live off the generosity of Canadian taxpayers for the rest of their lives.

Mogadishu, Minnesota.  When it was noted that the carry-on bags of multiple airline passengers traveling from Minneapolis to Somalia contained millions of dollars in cash, on a regular basis, law enforcement was naturally curious to know where the money came from and where it was going.  It soon emerged that millions of taxpayer dollars, and possibly much more, had been stolen through a massive scam of Minnesota's social-services sector, specifically through fraudulent daycare claims.  To make matters worse, the money appears to have wound up in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Shabab, the Islamic jihadist group responsible for numerous terrorist outrages.  Starting in the 1990s, the State Department directed thousands of refugees from Somalia's civil war to Minnesota, which is now home to the largest population of Somalis outside Somalia itself.

Muslim refugee accused of Somali terror ties lied at every turn.  Whether Mohamed Abdirahman Osman is a refugee who lied about terrorist links to get immigration benefits or if he's been wrongly targeted by a flawed government investigation that matches the Trump administration's rejection of certain refugees is being played out in a Tucson courtroom.  Hearings here last week illustrated the difficulty in finding facts in the case, including whether Mohamed Abdirahman Osman is even his real name.

Maine: Gang of young Somali Muslim thugs are now attacking citizens in the streets of Lewiston.  Somali Muslim thugs posing as refugees have turned liberal Lewiston into a virtual Mogadishu — 'No Go Zone' for non-Muslims — as two dozen Somali Muslim youth swarmed and attacked two local residents in Kennedy Park.

Mogadishu, Minnesota.  Starting in the 1990s, the State Department directed thousands of refugees from Somalia's civil war to Minnesota, which is now home to the largest population of Somalis outside Somalia itself.  As the Washington Times noted in 2015, in Minnesota, these refugees "can take advantage of some of America's most generous welfare and charity programs."  Professor Ahmed Samatar of Macalester College in St.  Paul observed, "Minnesota is exceptional in so many ways but it's the closest thing in the United States to a true social democratic state."  A high-trust, traditionally homogenous community with a deep civil society marked by thrift, industriousness, and openness, Minnesota seemed like the ideal place to locate an indigent Somali population now estimated at 100,000.  Public discussion of the resulting contradictions has been limited, to say the least.

Liberal, Kansas — A Growing Somali Muslim Enclave Known as "Little Somalia".  First a stream of newcomers started renting ramshackle homes by the train tracks, and then a two-room mosque opened on a nearby street corner, and then an African grocery store took the space of what had once been a used car lot.  And then, one day early last year, a bus pulled up to the Greyhound station and out came the latest arrival to the growing neighborhood known as "Little Somalia."  Mohamed Ahmed, 23, held one suitcase and clutched a plastic bag with migration documents — the evidence of a trek in which he'd fled warring Somalia as a young child, lost his father and spent years living with the remainder of his family under a United Nations tent in the Kenyan desert.  His journey to America had been nearly two decades in the making, and now he was coming to its heartland — as were thousands of other Somali refugees — to take a grisly job that few others in his new country wanted to take.

25 Disturbing Facts About Refugee Resettlements From Somalia.  Of the 11 countries included in President Trump's refugee ban, one stands out — Somalia.  That ban expired two weeks ago and the U.S. has begun accepting refugees again from Somalia and 10 other high-risk nations.  Although Trump promises "extreme vetting," many Muslim refugees come as children and become radicalized years later.  Somali crime rivals Somali terrorism as a major problem, and the two clearly blur into one another.  The problem is leaking from Minnesota into South Dakota — as Lutheran Social Services has resettled more than 4,500 Somalis in Sioux Falls.  Many of the Somalis have migrated from Sioux Falls to the city of Aberdeen in search of work at Demkota Ranch Co.'s beef-packing plant.  South Dakota State Senator and GOP congressional candidate Neal Tapio is leading perhaps the nation's most aggressive effort to expose the danger and fraud of refugee resettlements.  Tapio has introduced several bills that seek to rein in high-risk resettlements in his state.

U.S. woman stabbed 14 times by Somali migrant, media go dark.  [Scroll down]  Police have called the case unusual for the level of brutality just to get a woman's purse, leading some to wonder if the assailant didn't want more than just a purse.  The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the city's largest newspaper, has been AWOL on the story.  The newspaper's on-duty news editor, Maria Reeve, did not return WND's calls Tuesday to inquire about why it went dark on such a brutal, unprovoked attack on a defenseless, unarmed woman walking home from work.  Other media, such as the Southwest Journal, have reported on the crime but left out the assailant's full description as a Somali migrant.  Only one media outlet, local ABC News affiliate KSTP, included in its on-air coverage the fact that the victim described her assailant as Somali, but the station's website article failed to mention that fact.

Somali stabs Minneapolis woman 14 times as she walked home from work.  Morgan Evenson was walking home in downtown Minneapolis about 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 when a black man got out of his car, chased her down, tackled her and repeatedly thrust a four-inch blade into her flailing body.  The 26-year-old computer-store clerk frantically fought back, kicking, scratching and screaming for help.  At some point, neighbors heard her screams and came to her aid.  Her attacker — described as a Somali man in his early 20s, about 5-foot-7 with a slight build and wearing grey stone-washed jeans — ran away.  Evenson was left bleeding on the curb with 14 stab wounds on her arms, neck and back.  Her kidney was lacerated.  She was lucky to survive the attack. [...] "You had to get all the way through that KSTP [broadcast only] report to find out he's Somali, and it was never mentioned in the other media outlets at all."

Plane with deportees lands in Africa and then returns to US without dropping off Somalis.  This is a very strange story this morning at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Thanks to reader Margaret for sending.  When the ICE plane touched down in Dakar, seems there was a problem getting a crew that had enough rest in order for the nearly 6,000 mile upcoming leg of the trip to continue from Dakar (Senegal) to Mogadishu in Somalia.

You won't hear much about this in the media, but Donald Trump is deporting Somali Muslim illegal/criminal aliens.  There are tens of thousands, maybe more, Somali Muslim freeloaders/jihadists mostly living off welfare in Minnesotastan and the Trump Administration has already begin deporting many of them, with 5,000 more scheduled.

Somali refugee, 20, who raped two Utah women in 2011 when he was 14 is spared adult prison.  A Somali refugee who raped two Utah women when he was 14, has been spared adult prison — despite pleas from one of his victims.  Mohammed Ali Mohammed, 20, has spent almost six years at a Salt Lake Valley juvenile detention center after pleading guilty rape, sexual assault and kidnapping charges in 2012, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.  He was due to age out of the juvenile system when he turns 21 next month, leaving Judge Vernice Trease with a choice; sentence him to serve time in an adult prison for his crimes, or release him on five year's probation.  She chose the latter.  The sentence comes as a bitter blow to his victims and prosecutors who sought to keep him behind bars.

Mall of America stabbing suspect is a Somali Muslim invader.  Yesterday evening [11/12/2017], Bloomington police raced to the Mall of America after a man stabbed two people inside Macy's.  Police have identified the suspect as 20-year-old Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman.

Mall Of America Stabbing Suspected ID'ed As Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman.  Two men were stabbed Sunday night [11/12/2017] at the Mall of America in Minnesota in what police are claiming was an attempted theft.  Police identified the stabbing suspect as 20-year-old Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman.  "The initial investigation has revealed that one of the victims returned to the dressing room after trying on clothing and found the suspect attempting to steal his personal property," Bloomington Police said in a press release.

More fraud in Diversity Visa Lottery as feds move to strip citizenship from four Somalis.  The Justice Department moved Monday [11/6/2017] to strip citizenship from four Somali immigrants who prosecutors say lied about being a family, defrauding the Diversity Visa Lottery program that Republicans are aiming to nix.  The government says one woman, Fosia Abdi Adan, won the visa lottery in 2000 and then illegally brought in three cousins, claiming two were her children and one was her husband — even though the man was married to another woman at the time.  The fake couple quickly filed for divorce and the bogus husband later tried to bring his real wife and children to the U.S., investigators said in court documents.

DOJ Announces Denaturalization Complaints Against Somali Diversity Visa Immigrants.  Four individuals who pretended to be a family and arrived in the United States from Somalia through the controversial diversity visa program are now the subject of civil complaints seeking their denaturalization, the Department of Justice announced Monday [11/6/2017].  The complaints were filed by the Department of Justice, Department of State, and Department of Homeland Security, challenging Fosia Abdi Adan, Ahmed Mohamed Warsame, Mustaf Abdi Adan, and Faysal Jama Mire.  According to the Justice Department, the four came to the United States claiming to be part of a family, ultimately naturalizing on the basis of this apparently false contention.

Somali Muslim jihadi who mowed down, stabbed cop was ordered deported from U.S..  The Somali immigrant charged with attempted murder in connection with a weekend vehicle and knife attack in Edmonton, Alberta, was detained in the United States pending deportation before claiming refugee status in Canada, U.S. officials said on Tuesday [10/3/2017].

Canada police charge Somali refugee in Edmonton stabbing, car attacks.  A Somali refugee who had been on a watch list over extremist views faced five counts of attempted murder and terror charges on Sunday [10/1/2017] after Canadian police said he stabbed a police officer and ran down four pedestrians with a car in Edmonton, Alberta.

Knife-wielding Somali Muslim threatens to kill Faribault shoppers.  It took a brave witness to stand up to a Minneapolis man allegedly pointing a knife a people and threatening others in downtown Faribault.  A complaint filed in Rice County Court alleges that Abdinzak Ahmed Farah, 29, was in the Third Street NW area July 12, pointing a knife and threatening to kill anyone who called police.  The call followed alleged odd behavior by Farah earlier that day.  A witness told officers that Farah was eating raw beef with the same knife and holding the knife to patrons, asking them to play games.  Farah was asked to leave the area, but returned, again holding the knife to people as he spoke with them.

Dogwalker Hospitalised After Attack By Somalian Migrant Who Said 'Dogs are Unclean'.  A middle aged woman had to be hospitalised in Vienna following a brutal beating in broad daylight by a veiled Somali asylum seeker offended by her pet dogs.  The victim, named only as Ingrid T., described how she was talking with neighbours at the gate of her garden, accompanied by dogs — her deaf, almost-blind, three-legged Collie mix "sitting peacefully" alongside while 10-month-old 'Poco' meandered along an alleyway towards her parents' house — when she "saw a pretty, veiled woman approaching slowly."

Somali Asylum Seeker Accused of Killing Woman and Raping Disabled Elderly Men.  A Somali asylum seeker has been charged with raping two disabled men and murdering the wife of one of the victims in Germany last year.  The unnamed 18-year-old is accused of breaking into a care home in the town of Neuenhaus in October and raping a paralysed 59-year-old man.  He is then alleged to have entered an adjoining room and raped a second man before killing his 87-year-old wife when she confronted him.

Government demographic studies all wrong on Somali numbers in US.  We probably have at least twice as many Somalis of ethnic descent living in the US as the federal government is telling us! [...] Virtually all Somalis are Muslims.  And, of all the ethnic groups entering the US right now, Somalis (I believe) lead the pack in the number of terrorist attacks or attempted terrorist attacks, or who have been arrested and convicted of helping to support jihadists in some form or another.  Frankly, there is absolutely no reason for the US to take in more Somalis!  The UN is pushing them on us!

Somali Refugee Rapes Mother on Minnesota Bus Near Her Child Won't Be Deported.  The Somali refugee who raped a mother on a bus in Minnesota at knifepoint near her 7-year old daughter is not only remaining in the U.S., he is out on $5,000 bail.  People are asking why he can't be deported according to a local news report.  ICE has no control according to a spokesman.

Media Blackout as yet another Somali Muslim so-called 'refugee' is convicted of attempting to sexually assault a special-needs disabled woman.  Liban Mohamed, 39, was in the the United States for only about a week when he tried to force himself on a 31-year-old woman with severe disabilities in Aberdeen, South Dakota.  He is not a U.S. citizen, but whether he will be deported in the wake of his conviction remains unclear.

Somali American goes home for visit to Somalia!  There is no reason that we are admitting thousands of Somalis to the US every month when their country is safe enough for newly elected Minnesota legislator, Ilhan Omar, to go home for a visit!  Maybe it is time for Omar to stay at home and help Somalia!  Legitimate refugees claim that they fear to go home because they they will be persecuted!  What a joke!  I've just been telling readers in my two previous posts that we have admitted over 100,000 Somalis to the US since Black Hawk Down (over the last two plus decades) and they are coming in now at the highest rate ever!

43,000 Somali refugees settled in US under Obama, 99 percent Muslim.  The Obama administration resettled 8,858 Somali refugees in the United States last year, and nearly 43,000 during Obama's eight years, a huge number that is now raising concerns after a Somali refugee led a one-man attack spree on the campus of Ohio State.

In This War Minnesota's Twin Cities Are Lost.  Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in America.  It is estimated that over 125,000 Somalis live there, most of whom are in the Minneapolis area.  This community sent at least 22 Islamic jihadi fighters overseas to fight for the terrorist group Al Shabaab, although some estimate the number is closer to four dozen.  The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is also called "Little Mogadishu" in reference to Somalia's capital.  Some Minneapolis residents feel parts of their city have become like a third world nation.  Inside a 10 mile radius of Minneapolis city-center, there are at least 29 Islamic Centers/mosques, and an unknown number of home-mosques.  The Twin Cities area is home to Hamas organizations including CAIR and Islamic Associations.  The Muslim Brotherhood's Muslim Students Associations (MSAs) are on at least 21 Minnesota college and university campuses.

More Federal Money for Somali Refugees in Maine.  The federal government is sending more taxpayer money to Somali refugees in Maine.  "The United States Department of Agriculture is committing nearly $400,000 to increase food access for the Somali community in Lewiston," the Associated Press reports.

Taxpayers pay rent for Somalis who feel the need to visit Somalia (for months!)  You cannot make this up!  Virtually all Somalis who live in the US came here (we are told) as poor refugees (there are going on 200,000 of them).  So how persecuted and fearful of returning home are they if many travel back and forth to Africa and the taxpayers of Minneapolis cover most of their rent while they are gone!  By the way, Somalis are not the only (fake) persecuted and impoverished 'refugees' who go 'home' for visits from time to time.

Somali Americans want Sharia Law.  Filmmaker Ami Horowitz was alarmed by the growing number of Somali Americans living in Minneapolis who have joined up with the Islamist-terror groups ISIS and al-Shabaab.  So he recently traveled to that city to speak with members of the community about how much American values resonated with them, their feelings about sharia law and terrorism, and whether they'd prefer to live in Somalia or America.  Their answers were revealing.  [Video clip]

Under Secretary Clinton, U.S. Permanently Resettled 31,000 Somali Migrants.  Reports have identified the suspect responsible for stabbing nine people at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota as Dahir Adan, a recent immigrant from Somalia.  According to Ahmed Adan, the suspect's father, his son immigrated to the United States 15 years ago.

Almost 100,000 Somali Refugees Admitted to US Since 9/11; 99.6% Muslim.  Almost 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States since 9/11, including 8,619 so far during the current fiscal year.  The largest number — some 16 percent of the total over the past 15 years — have been resettled in Minnesota, home to the nation's biggest Somali-American community.  Of the 97,046 Somali refugees admitted to the U.S. since the fall of 2001, 99.6 percent were Muslim, and 28,836 (29.7 percent) were males between the ages of 14 and 50.

Hundreds of Somalis and other Africans coming across US southern border, requesting asylum.  This is nothing new, it's been going on for all the years I've been writing this blog.  However, I expect the pace has been picking up lately as they fear that Trump might be serious about the wall.  You know that anyone, supposedly impoverished, but with the resources to travel across the world to get to our border, has to be up to no good.  In fact, since we take thousands (over 8,000 Somalis this year alone) of supposedly legitimate refugees from Africa, my first question is, so why didn't they apply through regular channels?

Soros Foundation Spends Millions Promoting Somalian Migrants.  Documents show that George Soros' Open Society Foundations has spent 1.8 million dollars to improve the image of Somalians in Europe and to combat Islamophobia.  Newly leaked documents form the Open Society foundation by site DC Leaks show the organized web of funding that George Soros and Open Society have become infamous for.  One particular report shows funding for an initiative to promote the image of Somalians in Europe who, according to the report are in the top ten most discriminated people on the continent.  According to the foundations the real problem is the image of Somalians in the media and not the problems that have led to the creation of that image.

Woman assaulted by 5 males while walking south Minneapolis at night.  The victim was walking in the Lyndale neighborhood around 9 p.m. when a car full of men called her over to their vehicle.  They spoke briefly and she continued walking, police said.  A short time later, the five men returned and approached her on foot.  They forced the woman to go to an area near 32nd Street and Blaisdell Avenue S., where they sexually assaulted her, police said. [...] Police released the following descriptions for the five, all identified as Somalis, with dark complexions.

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Shocking.  Who would have thought that importing Somali men would have any down side?  After all, everybody in Somalia is so well behaved, and they practice that Religion of Peace and everything.

American Mogadishu: 1.2% of Somalia's population has been resettled in America.  For all the talk about the security risks of Muslim "refugees" coming from Syria, little is said about another refugee program that has been delivering thousands of Muslims annually to U.S. cities for 33 years.  That country is Somalia, which, just like Syria, is a hotbed of Sunni jihad terrorism and warring factions of Shariah-compliant tribal clans.  Every president since Ronald Reagan has his fingerprints on the Somali refugee program, but it really found its footing under President Clinton and hasn't slowed down since.

Despite a "Terror Recruitment Problem", Obama Continues Importing Nearly 1,000 Somalis Each Month.  Despite fears that dozens of Somali immigrants have disappeared from Minnesota communities and believed to have joined ISIS, Barack Obama's efforts to import more Somalis into the U.S. continues unabated.  Over 700 Somali colonists arrive each year and are distributed into select communities around the country.

Somali 'Refugee' Influx Continues Unabated.  It's not as though Congress hasn't been warned about the festering radicalism of Somali youth.  Back in March 2009 the Senate Homeland Security Committee heard testimony that Somali youth were being radicalized in Minnesota.  The 2009 hearing highlighted the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old Somali who came to Minnesota as a refugee and was radicalized in his adopted country by al-Shabab — which convinced him to travel to Somalia and blow himself up along with 29 others. [...] The problem has only gotten worse since 2009.  Andrew Luger, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, admitted last spring, after six more Somalis were arrested for trying to board planes bound for Turkey with plans to join ISIS, that his state has "a terror-recruitment problem."  Yet, the Obama administration has kept the pipeline of new Somali "refugees" well-oiled.  They continue to come at a rate of 700 per month, most of them coming from United Nations' camps in Kenya — camps that the Kenyan president has threatened to shut down because of their suspected ties to terrorist attacks inside his country.

The Threat from 'Minnesota Men'.  Starting in the 1990s, the State Department directed thousands of refugees from Somalia's civil war to Minnesota.  As Kelly Riddell pointed out in the Washington Times this past February, in Minnesota these refugees "can take advantage of some of America's most generous welfare and charity programs." [...] Unfortunately, according to a September report of the House Homeland Security Committee task force on combating terrorist and foreign fighter travel, Minnesota also leads the country in contributing foreign fighters to ISIS.  Reviewing the public cases of 58 Americans who had joined or attempted to join ISIS, the task force found that 26 percent of them came from Minnesota.  When it comes to exports to ISIS, we're number one.

Muslim immigrants have neither the intention nor any incentive to assimilate.
Small Town America Transformed By Somali Migrants.  Newly arrived Somali immigrants have transformed small towns and cities throughout the United States into tuulas (Somali villages).  The process is underway in such places as Lewiston, Maine; Shelbyville, Tennessee, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Clarkston, Georgia, and Jamestown, North Dakota.  The Jamestown Sun reports that 400 Somalis have applied for public housing in the past four months.  The Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kansas and nearby small towns have created the Somali Community Center of Southwest Kansas in order to tap into public welfare programs.  Within this section of the heartland, white Christians have become the minority.

'The Twin Cities have an ISIS problem'.  Minneapolis-St. Paul has what the media refers to as "an ISIS problem."  It's no coincidence ISIS is recruiting in the Twin Cities area.  There is a huge population of 30,000 Somali Muslims who live there.  I would say the area has a Muslim problem, but that's just me.

Before Welcoming Thousands of Syrian Refugees, We Should Consider What Somali Immigrants Have Brought the U.S..  Thanks to American refugee-resettlement and family-reunification policies, Minneapolis has the dubious distinction of hosting the largest concentration of Somalis in the United States — some 30,000, according to census records, though Somali leaders say that underestimates the population by tens of thousands.  The influx began in the 1980s, as Somalia succumbed to internal violence, and continued through the '90s, as it was consumed by civil war.  A quarter-century later, Somalia remains among the least stable countries on Earth, and Somalis continue to come to the United States in droves.  Before the Obama administration welcomes 10,000 (or more) Syrian refugees, it should consider the Somalis.

Minnesota Dept of Health needs $5 million to fight infectious diseases in immigrant population.  Hey, since many of the refugees and other immigrants now causing expensive infectious diseases to spread in the state are a result of Obama's migration policy, maybe he could contribute his $3 million speaking fee to Minnesota as a partial payment to handle the crisis!  Here is the latest news generated by the recent Measles epidemic in Minnesota.  As of Tuesday there were 50 diagnosed cases, most (45) are in the 'Somali community.'  And, we are told that refugees don't cost state and local taxpayers a dime!

296 Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB in Minnesota, Ten Times Any Other State; Majority Are Somalis.  Two hundred and ninety-six refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2010 and 2014 in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.  Seventy-one were diagnosed within one year of their arrival, while 225 were diagnosed after the first year.  The number of active TB cases reported among refugees arriving in Minnesota is ten times higher than reported in any of the fourteen other states that have released refugee TB data to the public, or made it available to Breitbart News.

'Epidemic Alert' As Doctors Diagnose Outbreak of Highly Contagious, Deadly Disease Among Migrants.  A former luxury hotel-turned migrant centre in Austria is the site of an outbreak of a deadly bacterial disease which has seen at least one migrant put into intensive care.  The outbreak of louse-born relapsing fever is just the latest re-emergence of diseases long thought exterminated in Europe, carried back to the continent by a great migratory movement of millions of people from Africa and Asia.  Particularly associated with Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia, the extremely contagious bacteria causes severe illness and can be fatal in 30 to 70 percent of cases, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

Who Commits Most of the World's Extremist Violence?  Even a superficial glance at the record indicates that of the nearly 20,000 people killed in thousands of extremist killings in 2017, white supremacists were responsible for very few.  The worst terrorist event of 2017, according to the State Department, was the explosion of a truck bomb outside the Safari Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed more than 580 people.  This violent act is believed to have been the work of Al-Shabaab, which was responsible for 97 percent of the 370 instances of extremist killings in Somalia in 2017, accounting for about 1,400 deaths — mostly civilian.  The remaining violent acts were carried out by Jabha East Africa (ISIS-Somalia), a dissident Al-Shabaab splinter group.

Christian convert in Somalia attacked by knife-wielding Muslim relatives, loses family.  A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said.  Mohammad Abdul, 40, survived a knife attack by his Muslim relatives on the outskirts of Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia's Lower Juba region, on May 5 after converting to Christianity on March 20.  The relatives took his wife and children while he was recovering at a medical clinic, said a source whose name is withheld for security reasons.

Vigil for man killed by Somali Muslims is attacked by Somali Muslims.  A vigil for a man who died during a brawl in Kennedy Park over the summer turned violent in Lewiston Thursday night [1/3/2019].  A vigil for Donald Giusti turned into a brawl on Knox Street, right across from Kennedy Park and the Lewiston Police Department, according to Lewiston police.  Giusti's family said they were just trying to celebrate what would have been his 39th birthday, when things took a violent turn.

Could Someone Please Inform the Judiciary That Jihadists Are Muslim?  [E]ven a cursory look at the six countries included in Trump's temporary travel ban exposes the court's legal, intellectual, and moral bankruptcy:  Syria not only contains the capital of ISIS's caliphate, it's also home to thousands of al-Qaeda-affiliated and other jihadist terrorists, and its government is a Hezbollah-, Iran-, and Russia-supported genocidal regime that is largely responsible for the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century.  Iran is a sworn enemy of the United States, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, and is likely the world's foremost terror-exporting nation-state.  Yemen is the home of one of al-Qaeda's most potent remaining branches, is torn apart by civil war, and does not have a functioning government by any reasonable standard.  Libya is split between warring jihadist militias and nominal American allies.  ISIS attempted to establish a fallback stronghold in the city of Sirte, and it has been torn apart by civil war.  Somalia is a failed state.  Its own jihadist army, al-Shabaab, has exported terror beyond its borders, and Somalian immigrants have not only conducted terror attacks in the United States, they've sought to join with ISIS to carry out terror attacks at home and abroad.  Sudan long ago harbored Osama bin Laden, but in more recent years has launched its own jihadist genocide, killing tens of thousands (or, more likely, hundreds of thousands) of innocent men, women, and children.  But to a federal judge in Hawaii, all this is largely irrelevant.

Rep. Peter King: 'Up to 40 Somali Americans' Have Become 'ISIS Terrorists'.  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said Monday's attack at the Ohio State University "has all the indicators of terrorism," including a Somali refugee as the suspect and the use of a knife and a vehicle to harm people, as ISIS has encouraged its followers to do.  "There's been a real problem with the (American) Somali community as far as having a large number of Al-Shabaab supporters," King told Fox News's Megyn Kelly Monday night.  As CNSNews.com reported on Tuesday [11/29/2016], nearly 100,000 Somali refugees have been admitted into the United States since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including 9,020 during fiscal year 2016 and 1,352 last month alone.

Somali Migrants in Minnesota are a Terror Threat to the Mall of America.  The media is widely reporting a terror threat against the Mall of America by Al-Shabaab, a Somali Muslim terror group.  None of them are reporting why the Mall of America in particular would be a target.  Minnesota has its own Little Mogadishu which, aside from the usual welfare fraud and crime, also hosts supporters of Al-Shabaab. [...] The Mall of America is a target only because of the large Somali population in the state.  If the US continues importing more Somalis, it will only be importing more Islamic terror threats.

Minneapolis:  Muslims riot, throw rocks at police in rage over HBO series on jihad recruitment.  "On Saturday, Ibrahim donned a purple scarf and grabbed a bullhorn to describe to the crowd what she anticipated from the cable TV show.  'It's going to be talking about how the Somali kids in Cedar are terrorists!' she cried."  And so to prove that Somali kids in Cedar are not terrorists, they threw a glass bottle, rocks and a chair at police officers.  "A Metro Transit police officer was hit in the head with an unknown object."

Minnesota: Mohamed is Top 5 Baby Name of 2016 at St. Cloud Hospital.  If there are other variations of the spelling then "Mohamed" could rank even higher.  And that's just one hospital in the Somali Muslim occupied territory.

In This War Minnesota's Twin Cities Are Lost.  Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in America.  It is estimated that over 125,000 Somalis live there, most of whom are in the Minneapolis area.  This community sent at least 22 Islamic jihadi fighters overseas to fight for the terrorist group Al Shabaab, although some estimate the number is closer to four dozen.  The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is also called "Little Mogadishu" in reference to Somalia's capital.  Some Minneapolis residents feel parts of their city have become like a third world nation.  Inside a 10 mile radius of Minneapolis city-center, there are at least 29 Islamic Centers/mosques, and an unknown number of home-mosques.  The Twin Cities area is home to Hamas organizations including CAIR and Islamic Associations.  The Muslim Brotherhood's Muslim Students Associations (MSAs) are on at least 21 Minnesota college and university campuses.

7 Shocking Facts About Islamic Immigration.  [#6] The U.S. Hosts the Largest Share of Refugees from High Risk Countries:  America has admitted 135,545 refugees from Iraq alone since FY 2007.  After admitting over 100,000 Somali refugees from 1993-2013, we are still bringing in up to 10,000 more each year.  Of the 15,470 Somali refugees brought in since fiscal year 2014, 99.7% have been Muslim.  Obama plans to bring in 15,000 more refugees from East Africa, despite the security problems we've been having with a segment of the Somali refugee population.  [#7] Sentiments of American Muslims:  According to a poll commissioned by the Center for Security Policy, 51% of Muslims living in America believe "Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to sharia."  Twenty-nine percent agree that violence against those who insult Mohammad is acceptable and 25% agree that violence against America can be justified as part of Global Jihad.

Somali Muslim gangs videotape attacks on infidels in Minnesota.  More attacks by Somali Muslims, including on very young children and older people.  As can be expected — you haven't heard a peep from cowards like Holder or Ellison, or thugs like Obama, CAIR, and the ACLU.  We just posted on this same Somali Muslim street jihad happening in Maine — Muslims beat, rob, and steal from infidels — for the thrill of it.  [Video clip]

Suspected Terrorist [is the] Brother of No-Fly-List Man.  The FBI on Thursday [1/29/2015] added a former taxi driver from northern Virginia to its list of most-wanted terrorists, saying he was a recruiter for the al-Shabab terror group in Somalia.

Rampant Muslim inbreeding has caused one out of every three Somalis to be mentally ill.  And thanks to Barack Obama's Muslim Outreach, at least one out of every three Muslims being imported to this country, at U.S. taxpayer expense, are Somalis!  A Somali mental hospital director believes the rise in mental illness is caused by violence in Somalia.  It must be the violence caused by the deranged offspring of first cousins marrying each other.

My day with Snopes.  In June 2019 I obtained the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board's investigative file on Ilhan Omar's infractions in her 2016 race for a seat in the state House of Representatives.  Inside the file was a trove of documents bearing on Omar's marriage to her brother and my own role in exposing it in August 2016.  I wrote about the documents in a series I called "From the mixed-up files of Rep. Ilhan Omar."  I hoped the series might embarrass the Star Tribune into covering the documents.  I won't claim credit for the story by reporters Patrick Coolican and Stephen Montemayor, but they got around to it in "New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history" ("Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened").  It was the Star Tribune's most read 2019 story and it's a good one.  Omar herself refused to answer any of the reporters' questions.

Is Ilhan Omar really an American?  Disturbing new questions about her citizenship swirl.  No politician is more of an enigma than Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.  For years she has been rumored to have married her brother — allegations she has called 'absurd and offensive'.  Her family fortunes, steered by her white, American husband, have curiously skyrocketed to $30 million.  And more recently, her Minneapolis community has been mired in shocking fraud allegations.  But even more disconcerting is the question about her citizenship.  Is Ilhan Omar really an American?  Under the Constitution, members of the House of Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a US citizen for at least seven years, and a resident of the state they represent when elected.  However, eligibility is typically self-certified and there is no routine requirement for candidates to publicly prove their citizenship unless formally challenged by Congress itself.

Ilhan Omar is under investigation for her skyrocketing wealth.  A House Republican investigation into Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has been launched after newly filed financial disclosures showed her family's reported wealth exploding to more than $30 million in a single year.  The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, is examining how the 'Squad' lawmaker and her husband rapidly amassed millions[,] at a time that a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal also exploded in her state.  Investigators are openly weighing subpoenas as they probe whether politically connected businesses tied to Omar's family warrant deeper scrutiny, House Republicans said.  The investigation follows federal prosecutors opening a broader investigation into alleged industrial-scale fraud involving billions of dollars in social service funds in Minnesota.  Republicans say that scandal alone makes Omar's apparent financial windfall impossible to ignore.

How Did Ilhan Omar's Husband's Wealth Go From 50k Dollars To 30 Million In One Year?  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing renewed public attention following the release of financial disclosure documents that show a dramatic increase in her household's reported wealth, despite her earlier insistence that she was not a millionaire.  According to the most recent congressional filings, Omar's husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, reported business interests that surged in value from tens of thousands of dollars in 2023 to a combined valuation reaching as high as $30 million one year later.  The change represents a striking jump from a previously modest financial profile and has fueled debate over transparency, valuation practices, and political accountability.  [Video clip]

Congress Signals Investigation Over Ilhan Omar's Sudden Wealth.  It's a common enough conundrum to ponder:  How do so many politicians grow so rich on what is honestly a fairly modest Congressional salary?  Before we feign too much amazement, well, we all know that there are all too often some kind of shady dealings going on.  Which brings me to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05).  In 2025, we explored some of Rep. Omar and her husband's meteoric rise to wealth, all the more amazing to behold, since Omar arrived in these United States as a refugee with barely a nickel to her name. [...] We should note that it's the Congresswoman's husband, Tim Mynett, who has officially made most of this money.  But from where?  Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.  "There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years," Comer said.  "It's not possible.  It's not.  I'm a money guy.  It's not possible."  It's not possible, that is, legally.

House, feds probe to unravel mystery of 'Squad' Rep. Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing wealth: 'It's not possible.  The House Oversight Committee is probing "Squad" Rep. Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing family wealth after a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district, The [New York] Post has learned.  Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar's spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.  "We're going to get answers, whether it's through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two," he told The Post.  Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.

Real Birth certificates Are Important.  [Scroll down]  Unvetted illegals were brought in by the Democrat government under President Obama and President Biden and inserted into conservative neighborhoods around the country because they made convenient Democrat voters which flipped the voting block at all levels of government to Democrat.  The most glaring and recent example of theft on a large scale is the grand financial fraud in Minnesota of the Somali community which elected Ilhan Omar U.S. Representative, a none too grateful woman who constantly criticizes and trashes America who has been so generous to her.  The Somali stronghold stole billions of dollars with fake day care facilities for children and adults.  None of these have any children enrolled.  Millions of dollars are alleged to have poured out of the Minneapolis airport each day for two years, sent directly to Somalia and none of it has raised eyebrows.  It has been alleged that Ilhan Omar has changed her official birthdate to coincide with the story she told previously about her becoming a U.S. citizen, making the point that original birth certificates are important.  (Daily Mail, Jan 13, 2026)  Fake birth certificates have allowed Manchurian candidates to gain access to positions of power that they were not entitled to and others to inherit fortunes that were not theirs.  Other issues involved countries where people did not register their children's births or waited too long to do so.  War criminals, who lived the lives of good citizens after wars, were eventually caught when their "lost" birth certificates or other documents have resurfaced.

When the Questions Finally Arrive for Ilhan Omar.  In the United States, each town keeps an emergency alarm in a very public place to warn of impending danger.  In certain towns, years pass without incident, and the paint fades, and the town folks stop noticing.  Then, one day, the siren comes to life, cutting through the air like an arrow, and nobody needs to wonder anymore if the siren still works, and asks what's going on.  That's the current situation surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).  Authorities will be reviewing allegations of financial improprieties connected to Somali aid programs.  It's a review, not a judgment or a prediction of charges, and it does something simpler and more necessary, asking whether Omar's conduct was aligned with the law.  For such a public figure, long surrounded by controversy yet rarely subject to formal oversight, this action alone marks a shift.

Republicans weigh making foreign-born public fraudsters deportable, subject to denaturalization.  Amid ongoing investigations into public fraud in Minnesota, Republicans are preparing a bill to make such schemes deportable offenses and appear willing to even explore denaturalization of convicted citizens.  Minnesota, specifically, has become a hot-spot for immigration enforcement amid revelations of widespread public fraud linked to the Somali expat community in Minneapolis.  Viral reporting from independent journalist Nick Shirley and others highlighted the prominence of allegedly fake day care centers in the city that received public funds.  Those revelations, and other fraud schemes, prompted a crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the area that has led to clashes with the local community.

The Same Leftists Outraged Over Renee Good, Didn't Care About Justine Damond.  Long before Renee Good drove her 4,000 lb SUV at an armed law enforcement officer, Minneapolis made headlines nationwide for the shooting of another woman by a 'law enforcement officer.'  Justine Damond was shot and killed by Mohammed Noor, a Somali acting as a Minneapolis police officer, Damond had called to report a woman being assaulted.  When she approached the police vehicle, the armed Somali opened fire on the unarmed woman.  Noor claimed that he felt threatened by Damond, who was on foot and just trying to tell the officers what she saw.  The Minneapolis police department tried to cover up the murder by Mohammed Noor, claiming that she had slapped the back of the police car.  Not only was it never explained how this was a threat, but her fingerprints were not found on the vehicle.  After the killing, then Mayor Betsy Hodges issued a statement, not to the murdered woman's family, but to the "Somali community".  "To the Somali community:  I want you to know that you are a valued and appreciated part of Minneapolis.  I stand with you and support you.  The strength and beauty of the Somali and East African communities are a vital part of what makes Minneapolis so strong and beautiful.  I am grateful to be your neighbor.["]

Ethics Alarm Bells Are Ringing Over Ilhan Omar's Skyrocketing Net Worth:  James Comer.  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said there are unresolved questions surrounding Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's personal finances, suggesting the matter warrants review by the House Ethics Committee due to what he described as a sharp and unexplained increase in her net worth.  [Advertisement]  Comer made the remarks during an exchange with journalist Catherine Herridge, where he was asked to elaborate on comments he made earlier in the week regarding Omar's financial disclosures.  Herridge opened the discussion by referencing Comer's previous statement.  "You said this week that Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was quote at the top of the suspect list.  Can you elaborate?"  Herridge asked.  [Two more advertisements]  Comer responded by pointing to the mandatory financial disclosures required of members of Congress and contrasted his own financial situation with Omar's.  He emphasized that congressional salaries have remained unchanged during his time in office.  "Well, there we have to disclose annually our financial statements.  And, you know, I think it's public knowledge what the what the salary is for Congress, and it's been the same.  I've been here nine years.  It's been the exact same 174,000 for nine years," Comer said.

Ilhan Omar [was] Caught Trying to Funnel $1M to a "Substance Abuse Clinic" Operating Out of a Restaurant Run by Three People at the Same Address.  Another Minnesota money pipeline just got shut down, and this one leads straight back to Rep. Ilhan Omar.  The funding, which was tucked into a federal spending bill, was purportedly destined for a "substance abuse clinic" in Omar's home state of Minnesota.  However, a shocking investigation led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed that the "clinic" was anything but legitimate.  During an interview on Fox Business, Senator Ernst detailed the absolute absurdity of the proposal, describing a trail of red flags that would make any honest taxpayer's blood boil.

Ilhan Omar Caught Sneaking Carveout for Somali-Led Group in Spending Package.  House appropriators plan to strike Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's $1 million earmark for a Somali-led organization from the lower chamber's funding package Wednesday, as the presence of the carveout threatened to tank the shutdown-preventing bill.  Omar's earmark was for Generation Hope's "Justice Empowerment Initiative" in her district and was tucked into the Commerce, Science, and Justice minibus, which will provide funding for the Commerce, Energy, Interior, and Justice departments, in addition to other related agencies.  Republican Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, who chairs the Appropriations Committee, told reporters he cannot allow one member's project to derail a carefully negotiated full-year funding bill with the Jan. 30 funding deadline fast approaching.  "I can't afford to have a million dollar project jeopardize a $184 billion package of bills," Cole said Wednesday.  "If we have an individual project that can pose a political problem, I've had these in the past from our side before, where we had to tell a member, 'Look, there might be a way to do this, but our advice to you is to withdraw this.'"

Minneapolis Somalis Sent $350M in Cash Out of the US Annually.  With the help of the TSA, Just the News was able to ascertain that Somalis in Minneapolis were sending $350 million in cash out of Minneapolis airport each year, a million dollars a day.  It went to Amsterdam and then to Dubai.  Somali couriers declared it.  After Dubai, the US stopped tracking it.  It was the largest cash exodus of any other airport in the United States, more than 90% larger than JFK Airport, one of the largest airports.  It went out in luggage, $700 million in two years.

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Just for comparison, how much money is sent from the U.S. to Mexico and Central America?

Ilhan Omar condemns Somaliland independence while pushing for a Palestinian state that rewards terror.  Representative Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia.  As a child, she escaped the horrific conditions in her homeland with her family and eventually settled in the United States.  She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 and won her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016.  Instead of showing gratitude to the United States for giving her the privilege of U.S. citizenship and vast opportunities in her adopted land, she claimed that the U.S. is turning into "one of the worst countries."  Referring to the Trump administration's military parade, which celebrated the U.S. Army's 250-year anniversary on June 14, 2025, Rep. Omar said, "I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don't even remember ever witnessing anything like that."  While Ilhan Omar was growing up in Somalia, her own father served as a senior officer in the dictatorship's military, which killed tens of thousands of people living in the northern part of Somalia known as Somaliland.  Whether or not little Ilhan personally witnessed the military's genocidal campaign to stamp out the Somaliland people's aspirations to restore their independence, it happened and is a matter of historical record.  Still to this day, she refuses to acknowledge the genocide, much less any role that her father may have played in it as a senior officer.

Rep. Omar is center stage in massive Minnesota fraud scandal for her support of abused programs.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was at the forefront of expanding federal funding for pandemic-era food and childcare programs.  Those programs are now at the center of fraud allegations among the Somali immigrant community in her home state.  Omar, who represents a congressional district with a sizable Somali population in Minneapolis, championed the MEALS Act in 2020 at the height of the pandemic and offered an amendment that would allow the federal government the ability to grant waivers to state governments for increased costs.  Omar introduced the Act with the goal of removing oversight barriers to the expansion of federally funded state meals programs amid the school closures of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The legislation allowed the Department of Agriculture to waive requirements, including for increased federal costs.

Fraud claims, wine money, Sharia: Ethical storms around Ilhan Omar's husband.  A fresh wave of legal challenges facing Tim Mynett, the husband of US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), has brought renewed scrutiny to the couple.  This attention focuses not only on business ethics but also on the apparent contradictions between Mynett's commercial interests and the religious identity central to Omar's public persona.  Mynett, a political consultant turned venture capitalist, is currently the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract in connection with "eStCru," a California-based wine business in which he is a partner.  The lawsuit, filed in Washington, DC, claims that Mynett and his business partner, Will Hailer, defrauded investor Naeem Mohd.  According to court documents, Mohd alleges he was persuaded to invest $300,000 based on a guarantee of a 200% return within 18 months, but the plaintiff's promises were never fulfilled.  [Video clip]

Investigating Ilhan:  Watchdog 'Certainly Looking' Into Omar After Rapid Net-Worth Spike Amid MN Fraud Bombshell.  A conservative watchdog says it's taking a hard look at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as outrage grows over the massive fraud scandal engulfing the state — and questions about her rapid wealth gains.  Peter Flaherty, who chairs the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), told The [New York] Post his team is "certainly looking" at Omar.  The move comes days after The Post reported that her husband's venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details online amid questions about her sudden surge in wealth.  Within about a year, Omar's net worth mysteriously shot up to $30 million, a roughly 3,500% increase relative to 2023, according to her financial disclosures.  The gains largely came from her husband Tim Mynett's businesses, including a California winery and his venture capital management firm Rose Lake Capital, headquartered in Washington, DC.  Rose Lake Capital's value jumped from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, The Post previously reported.

Ilhan Omar's Husband's Venture Capital Firm Removes Names From Website Under Scrutiny.  A venture capital firm run by Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) husband quietly scrubbed important names from its website, as the Minnesota congresswoman faces mounting questions on her sudden wealth amid a multi-billion Somali welfare fraud scheme in her district.  [Advertisement]  Rose Lake Capital, the $60 million dollar firm managed by Omar's husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, deleted key officers from its website, including former Obama Administration officials, reported the New York Post in an exclusive.  The news comes as Somali communities across multiple states are currently facing scrutiny over dozens of similarly fraudulent schemes that have seen billions of taxpayer dollars flowing overseas, with some even going to jihadist terrorist groups in Somalia.  Nine billion dollars from Minnesota's social services programs were illegally pocketed via scams mostly perpetrated by local members of the Somali community in Omar's congressional district, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Ilhan Omar's Husband Dumps Advisors As Questions Swirl.  Isn't it amazing how many people come to Congress having only modest means, and suddenly, once elected, grow rich?  Case in point:  Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05), whose district encompasses a good slice of Minneapolis, that Mogadishu of the Midwest.  She came to the office, reports have it, nearly broke.  Today, she reportedly has a net worth of over $30 million.  And her husband's venture capital firm has seen a sudden skyrocket to success.  [Advertisement]  Now, though, as attention is focusing on this mysterious success, it seems that Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, and his company, Rose Lake Capital, are under scrutiny — and they are hurrying to scrub their books.

Ilhan Omar faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud.  Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband's venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family's skyrocketing wealth, The Post has learned.  Omar (D-MN) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in Minnesota.  Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty Squad member, though she has not been charged.  It was Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.  The Jimmy Choo wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government sponsored children's meals programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.

'Lot of strange things going on': Ilhan Omar's hubby's $30M firm quietly scrubs website.  "Strange things" are happening around embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and her family's soaring wealth.  The New York Post reported new details on Saturday, including claims that the venture capital firm owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, "quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family's skyrocketing wealth."  Omar's wealth has come under scrutiny recently amid reports of fraud within the Somali community that occurred under the noses of all elected officials, including Governor Tim Walz.  Many find it hard to believe that such a massive scheme went unnoticed by the political class and are looking to see if any official may have benefited from the corruption.  In 2022, Mynett created Rose Lake Capital, a capital investment firm, which saw a shocking wave of success in a short time.

Just Call It Islam.  [T]he last two decades have shown us a four-step process emanating from Islamic ideology vis-a-vis the West:  First, they migrate.  Second, they populate.  Third, they agitate.  And fourth, they dominate.  By step four, we suffer all manner of trouble, up to and including horrific acts of violence.  A prime example of this process is evident in Minnesota, albeit with a bloodless (so far) outcome:  A Trump-hating corruptocrat who has openly declared her primary loyalty to Somalia is elected to Congress, and her constituents have stolen billions of taxpayer dollars through blatant fraud.  Whether any of that ill-gotten gain ended up funding Islamic terrorists in East Africa is anyone's guess, but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.

Acting ICE Director Denies Ilhan Omar's Claims that Agents Pulled Over Her Son: 'Zero Record'.  Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons has rejected the viral claims made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) alleging that ICE agents pulled over her son after he went to Target.  [Advertisement]  Omar alleged in an interview that her son got pulled over by ICE agents, asserting that he was allowed to leave once he produced his passport.  [Advertisement]  "He did get pulled over by ICE agents and once he was able to produce his passport ID they did let him go," she claimed.  "So your son went to Target last night with his passport," the WCCO interviewer asked.  "He always carries it with him," Omar said.  "In case he gets pulled over," the interviewer said, adding, "which he did by ICE."  [The second advertisement again.]  "Yes," Omar agreed.  [Tweet]  Lyons said Omar has not produced proof this happened.

ICE disputes Ilhan Omar's claim that her son was targeted racially — or at all!  Federal authorities are disputing Ilhan Omar's claim that her son was targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a traffic stop.  She had claimed that ICE agents pulled her son, who was on a trip to Target, over, but then allowed him to leave "after he showed proof of citizenship."  Tensions inside and regarding the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota have been at fever pitch since an independent investigation revealed probable fraud there costing state taxpayers a billion dollars or more.  [Advertisement]  In an interview, Omar accused ICE of pulling over her 20-hear-old son.  ICE said the evidence contradicted the congresswoman's claims.  [Promo]  [Tweet]  A report at RedState said Omar made the claim "without evidence," and explained:  "Two problems here.  Walz's claim that Omar's son was simply 'following the law' is belied by reports that he had actually been pulled over for a traffic violation, which, by its nature, is not following the law.  Furthermore, ICE officials tell Newsmax Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen that they have no record of the interaction with their agents.  One could say it was ... undocumented."

The New Crooked Congressional Black Caucus.  In the last decade, every single House Democrat sent to prison for financial crimes was a Congressional Black Caucus member.  In the last twenty years, it's been over 80%.  After the midterms, the CBC has grown past a record 50 members.  But that doesn't mean it's getting better.  Power makes it worse.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is the most famous freshman member of the CBC in the 116th Congress.  The CBC's PAC boasted that she is "the first Somali-American and first Muslim woman elected to Congress".  She's also the first member of Congress who had to deny being married to her brother.  As historical "firsts" go, alleged incest in the House is far more historic than being an immigrant from a failed state and then crawling into Congress on the strength of the Ellison voters in Little Mogadishu.  Omar has denied being married to her brother, even though evidence suggests that she was.  A complaint was even filed accusing Omar of abusing taxpayer money to divorce her own brother.

Why Did Obama Import a Somali Muslim Congressional District for Ilhan Omar to Represent?  The plan is clear.  It applies wherever leftist globalists wield power.  Use arguments of "compassion" as needed to get the Muslims across the border and safely resettled.  Then use their presence in Italian schools to demand that the classrooms take down their crucifixes.  Use their presence in Britain to suppress criticism of Islam as a potential "breach of the peace."  Weaponize them as reliable voters for the radical left.  Never mind how they differ on issues of sexual politics.  What matters is liquidating the old, common Christian culture.  The trans activists, the gay libertines, and the Islamists will settle their differences later.  For now they're united by a common goal, as the U.S. and the Soviets were up through 1945.  The thing is, it's actually un-American for us to try to silence Muslims, however radical, once they're here.  They deserve religious liberty, under the First Amendment.  But that Amendment wasn't written with them in mind.  It didn't envision millions of people whose creed demands intolerance.  Whose native cultures often include polygamy, female genital mutilation, and honor killing.

Ilhan Omar says ICE pulled her son over at Target.  ICE says it didn't happen.  I guess Ilhan Omar wanted some more attention, because she's out here claiming her kid got pulled over by ICE.  [Tweet with video clip]  ICE, however, says it never happened. [...] Omar's office doubled down, though.  Don't pay attention to how she's connected to all the fraud money being sent to Somalian warlords (your tax dollars and migrant remittances are supporting up to HALF of Somalia's economy).  Pay attention instead to random claims about how mean U.S. federal agents are when they try to enforce the law!

Ilhan Omar lied about becoming citizen as a minor through her father — she was 18: report.  A former Congressional candidate in Minnesota has raised concerns about Rep Ilhan Omar's naturalization to the US, saying that the Democrat lawmaker lied about her birth year.  Speaking with Alpha News' Liz Collin, AJ Kern said that in 2019, "I was looking at something about Ilhan Omar on the internet, and it occurred to me to look at her birth year.  I don't know why, or birthday, and so I used an age calculator and found out that she was actually 18 in the year 2000 when her father became eligible to apply for citizenship.  She claimed that she became a citizen at the age of 17.  [Tweet with video clip]

Ilhan Omar lashes out at 'sick' Republicans for investigating her alleged marriage to brother.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called those concerned about whether she married her brother "sick" after the far-left lawmaker was approached by Fox News Digital about border czar Tom Homan, signaling that federal officials have started digging into records pertaining to the matter.  Homan said last week that records and files related to Omar's potential immigration fraud were being pulled and looked at after President Donald Trump revived the years-old scandal amid an ongoing debate over the Somali Medicaid fraud scandal taking place in Omar's state of Minnesota.  [Advertisement]  While Homan suggested that fraud likely took place, he also signaled that the crime's statute of limitations could present a problem when it comes to prosecuting Omar for any potential violations.  "Any response to what [Homan] is saying?  And the public?"  Fox News Digital asked Omar as she was walking through the halls of Congress.  "I have no response because I don't know what they'll be investigating," Omar shot back.

From Refugee to Scandal Magnet.  It seems like not a day goes by without another Democrat crime, scandal, or faux pas.  Leading the charge in the Left's race to the bottom is Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  This character's name is repeatedly in the news for allegations of immigration fraud, financial misconduct, inflammatory rhetoric, and a seeming disdain for the nation that granted her refuge.  These issues have lately escalated from whispers to potential grounds for deportation.  Her conduct raises profound questions about her integrity, loyalty, and judgment, rendering her profoundly unfit for public office.  At the core of Omar's troubles lies a persistent allegation that she married her brother, Ahmed Elmi, in 2009 to secure his U.S. immigration status.  First surfacing in 2016 on Somali community forums, this rumor gained traction through eyewitness accounts and timeline discrepancies.  Abdihakim Osman, a Minneapolis-based Somali leader, told the Daily Mail that Omar confided in him about the union, aimed at helping her brother from London obtain papers while she was still involved with her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi.

Ilhan Omar, Like Nearly Every High-Level Socialist, Is a Fraud and a Successful Crony Capitalist.  [Video clip only.]

Homan: HSI Investigator Says There's 'No Doubt' Ilhan Omar Committed Immigration Fraud.  Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar' (D-Minn.) married her brother, presumably to help him obtain US citizenship through the fraudulent marriage.  "We're pulling the records, we're pulling the files!  We're looking at it," Homan told Newsmax host Rob Schmitt.  "I'm running that down this week."  The allegations were first reported by Minnesota-based investigative journalist David Steinberg in PJ Media in 2018.  As the story goes, about 35 years ago, eight-year-old Ilhan and her family fled war-torn Somalia to Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps, where she lived from 1991 until 1995.  Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then helped 12-year-old Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the United States along with thousands of other Somalis.

Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.  President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic.  Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly comments on Minnesota fifth district Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.).  "She comes in, does nothing but [gripe], she's always complaining," the president told a crowd in Mount Pocono, Penn., on Tuesday.  "We oughta get her the [heck] out.  She married her brother in order to get in, right?  She married her brother.  Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?"  Omar is Somali fraud Exhibit A, and her district was the center of gravity in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case that I wrote about in the Washington Free Beacon in March.  Despite what you may think, Omar has made a valuable contribution to our history.  She goes to show that there is such a thing as a new kind of political scandal.

Ilhan Omar's flamboyant 'dirty dandy' second husband surfaces in S. Africa as Trump accuses duo of being siblings.  Ilhan Omar's second husband calls himself a "dirty dandy" on social media and has run off to South Africa, dodging President Trump's accusations that he is her brother.  Mystery has long swirled about the embattled Minnesota congresswoman's marriage to Ahmed Elmi, to whom she was wed between 2009 and 2017, which various politicians on the right have called a sham.  Elmi, 40, left the US long before he officially divorced Omar and seemingly disappeared.  However, The [New York] Post can now reveal he's been studying in the UK and South Africa.

Minnesota Rep. Omar Invokes 'Nazi' As Fox News Probes Her Ties To $250M Fraud Scandal.  Tensions over a massive pandemic relief fraud scheme in Minnesota boiled over this week, igniting a fierce rhetorical battle between Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Trump administration officials.  The dispute centers on the scrutiny of the “Feeding Our Future” scandal, a fraud case involving the theft of an estimated $250 million intended for child nutrition programs.  Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin reported Monday on the growing questions surrounding Rep. Omar's connections to the controversy.  While the Congresswoman has strongly condemned the fraud, arguing that her constituents are victims who lost out on vital resources, critics are pointing to her past interactions with key figures in the scandal.

Ilhan Omar Has Ominous Words for Those Who Are 'Collaborating with the Authoritarian Regime'.  In a video that began gaining wide circulation on Thursday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) issued a call to action to her unhinged leftist following, and every patriot should be aware of what she said:  "As much as Trump and his cronies want to act like we have no power to respond, the truth is we are more powerful than we think we are."  And clearly, she wants her leftist minions to use that power.  [Advertisement]  Betraying her imperfect command of the English language, Omar continued:  "And I want to underscore the importance of using every single leverage that we have at our — at, at our arsenal, because we do have a lot of leverage.  We need to make sure that those who are collaborating with the authoritarian regime pay a costly price."  [Tweet with video clip]

Democrat Rule, by Any Means Necessary.  Democrats really have no limits.  They happily accepted USAID money laundered through foreign agents.  They yelled, but weren't all that unhappy when USAID was eliminated.  It was just one pathway to taxpayer money.  They had Somali agents in Minnesota diverting billions (with a B) to terrorist organizations, most likely with a bit of backsheesh diverted to support local Democrat operations.  It was so obvious and outrageous that even the New York Times has reported on it.  And now several outlets are reporting that current Minnesota governor and former would-be V.P. Walz was in on the grift.  At the same time, ordinary Americans have simply been working hard, trying to make ends meet, with no spare time to be concerned with this sort of corruption.  After all, we have various law enforcement agencies to prosecute wrongdoers, and they will prevent this from getting out of hand.  Wrong!

Ilhan Omar Claims Trump Demonizing Ethnic Group — Warns Danger of Violence from His Followers.  Wednesday on CNN's "The Lead," Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said President Donald Trump's comments about Somalians were creating a dangerous situation because his followers have "exhibited violence."  Today at the White House, Trump said, "These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.  They've taken billions and billions of dollars.  They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother.  She should be thrown the hell out of our country.  And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota."  [Advertisement]  Host Jake Tapper said, "What is the practical impact when a President of the United States demonizes an entire group of people based on ethnicity?  And again, you can point to any ethnic group and find dozens of people in that ethnic group who are committing a particular crime.  The Mafia comes to mind, right?  But no one you don't hear people saying that about Italians.  They did 100 years ago, but they don't do it today.  What is the practical effect on the Somali community when the president says things like that?"

Rep. Ilhan Omar's Links to Massive $1 Billion Somali Fraud Scheme Revealed.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has glaring ties to the $1 billion Somali food fraud scam in Minnesota, a report has revealed.  As The Gateway Pundit reported, 70 members of the Somali community in Minnesota were involved in stealing $250 million in COVID funds that were intended to feed children.  Millions of dollars were stolen from American taxpayers and sent overseas to Somalia, and 80% of the money has not been recovered.  Seven defendants were tried in connection with the scheme on charges related to stealing more than $40 million in taxpayer funds, and five were found guilty.  However, the FBI is still investigating an attempt by a Somali woman to bribe one of the jurors with $120,000 in cash.  However, the fraud extends deeper, with multiple schemes of this nature occurring over the last five years.

Trump's Description of Ilhan Omar Is Blistering, and 100 Percent Accurate.  On Friday, President Donald Trump offered yet another devastating characterization of one of the Democrats' legion of America-Last, far-left politicians.  All of Trump's rhetorical cylinders were firing as he gave us this:  ["]The worst 'Congressman/woman' in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how 'badly' she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc.["]  The "swaddling hijab" business is a nice little nod to the Christmas season, and while this is Trump at his most acidic, there is no denying any of it.  In fact, Ilhan Omar herself has made it clear more than once that she has little but contempt for the land that welcomed her and her family and gave them refuge from her violent, anarchic, war-torn homeland.

Rep. Ilhan Omar tells Trump to go ahead and deport her — she can live anywhere.  Rep. Ilhan Omar got told to move someplace else by President Trump after she declared herself and her supporters Somalis first, and the retort she gave reeked of entitlement and hypocrisy:  [Tweet] [...] Actually, she could probably go to live in many places if they'd take her.  Unlike your basic illegal migrant, she's rich.  She's done very well for herself after doing a few terms in Congress and somehow ending up with a lot more net worth than her $184,000 annual salary would suggest.  Reportedly, she's worth somewhere between $6 million and $30 million.  Her glib response highlights that money is mobile, and the rich can move anywhere, (as New York City is about to learn).  Like retiring House Speaker and now-congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Omar's cash ostensibly comes from her husband but coincides with her own term in the House.  That's her third husband, one of previous ones reportedly was to her brother for immigration purposes.  She's adept at using the system.  It was an odd reply, though, given that she didn't express umbrage at not being considered American, nor say that America is the country she loves most, nor did she make aany expression of patriotism.  She's not about patriotism — she's here to bilk the system, taking advantage of its uses and remaining Somali first.  She's made her pile and can go anywhere.

Report: Ilhan Omar 'in Collection Proceedings' for Her Student Loans, Is Seeking to 'Bully' Her Way Out of Payments.  For most Americans, a U.S. lawmaker with onerous student loan debt pushing for debt forgiveness would be viewed as a conflict of interest.  For at least one U.S. representative, it's apparently a non-issue — and the American Accountability Foundation is livid about it.  According to the Daily Wire, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has been accused by the watchdog group over a number of issues.  [Advertisement]  In a scathing letter sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson, American Accountability Foundation President Thomas Jones outed Omar's dubious finances — and "bully" reputation.  "We are writing today to share serious concerns about abuse of office and abuse of government loans by a member of the House of Representatives, Representative Ilhan Omar," Jones said.

The Congresswoman Who Forgot Which Flag She Serves.  Representative Ilhan Omar didn't misspeak when she recently took the stage in Minneapolis and called Somalia "our home" and its president "our president."  Omar again revealed what many Americans have long suspected:  Her allegiance lies elsewhere.  Her unguarded confession was no mere slip of the tongue.  What else would make President Donald Trump waste no time in his Truth Social response:  "She should go back!"  As if on cue, the same pundits who've spent years gaslighting the public over open borders and identity politics clutched their pearls because of the vapors they caught.  The larger point is that Trump's typical bluntness hit a nerve because it wasn't just political; it was moral.  He said out loud what millions had been thinking.

Pledging Allegiance to Somalia Is Becoming Common Among Democratic Candidates in Some Blue Cities.  I have met quite a few nice Somalis.  But, beyond doubt, I believe that the admission of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees has been a terrible mistake.   [Advertisement]  There is no definitive count on the precise number of Somali refugees there are here, which in itself is troubling, but living in a Blue city where they make up a significant voting bloc I can tell you that their influence on our politics has been poisonous.  [Tweet with video clip]  All those fraud scandals you have been hearing about in Minnesota?  Somalis.  Ilhan Omar?  Somali.  There is a decent chance that the next Mayor of Minneapolis will be Somali, although there is a significant backlash coalition working to defeat him and re-elect Mayor Frey, who himself is running ads in Somali.  [Tweet with video clip]

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Fundraises for Self-Described 'Jew Hater' Who Assaulted Jewish Counter-Protesters.  The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) this week shared defenses of and fundraisers for a Hamas-supporting thug who pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge and another rioter charged with setting police vehicles on fire.  Isra Hirsi, who graduated from Barnard College earlier this year, posted two Instagram stories in support of Tarek Bazrouk — a self-described "Jew hater" responsible for a string of assaults against pro-Israel counter-protesters in New York City since 2024 — and pro-Hamas activist Jakhi McCray, who allegedly caused $800,000 in damage through torching cop cars.

From Clan to Congress:  Why Ilhan Omar Betrays the Meaning of Citizenship.  Ilhan Omar's foundation rests on three pillars:  clan, Islamism, and leftism.  Each demands loyalty not to principle but to faction.  Each reduces life to a struggle for dominance.  I know Omar's world.  It is a place without law, where men with swords and guns decide the fate of neighbors, where girls are cut to mark them as pure, where bribes stand in for justice.  These are not random misfortunes, but the dynamics of the system Omar embodies.  It incentivizes and rewards absolute and unchecked power — even at the expense of life, limb, and property.  The foundation of Omar's world is the clan.  From birth, children are taught to display unquestioning loyalty to their group, to obey a rigid code of honor and shame without question.  Loyalty to kin is praised above all else.  The cost of such loyalty, however, is naked, irrational hostility to all outsiders.  Distrust, concealment, and perceived persecution feed collective paranoia, and zero-sum thinking rules daily life.  Lying and cheating are not sins if they serve the group.  Layered on that is Islamism.  The headscarf Omar wears is not a symbol of modesty but a political marker.  Her rhetoric on Jews and Israel follows the Muslim Brotherhood script: condemn Israel at every turn, blame Jews for every setback, and treat unbelievers as entirely expendable.  There is no depth, only disdain.

Vast fraud of Somali migrants, starting with Ilhan Omar, finally being exposed.  This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement:  Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud.  The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marriages, fake death certificates and "other bizarre schemes," as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.  But the revelation was no great surprise to those of us who have followed the settlement of some 100,000 Somali immigrants in Minnesota over the past three decades.

Nancy Pelosi 2.0? Ilhan Omar Gained Millions In Power.  Ilhan Omar has built a reputation as one of the most controversial members of Congress.  But while her political career has grabbed headlines, the story of her husband, Tim Mynett, deserves far more attention.  Since marrying Omar in 2020, Mynett has seen his career and wealth skyrocket in ways that look eerily familiar to the questionable financial gains of other powerful Democrats, most notably Nancy Pelosi's husband.  [Video clip]

Phil Mickelson condemns Rep. Ilhan Omar for Charlie Kirk insults: 'hopefully she'll be sent back to Somalia'.  Golf legend Phil Mickelson took aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Saturday after the controversial congresswoman insulted Charlie Kirk and his legacy.  During an interview on CNN, Omar addressed her recent social media posts in which she called Kirk "Dr. Frankenstein," doubling down on those comments and saying his legacy should be left in the "dustbin of history."  "What I find jarring is that there's so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with that, that they're willing to have monuments for him, that they want to create a day to honor him, and that they want to produce resolutions in the house of Congress honoring his life and legacy," Omar said.

Trump Slams 'Scum' Ilhan Omar After Failed Censure Vote, Has a Better Idea for Her Punishment.  President Trump on Thursday heavily criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after four House Republicans joined Democrats to help defeat a censure vote over her reprehensible comments following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.  [Advertisement]  "I think she's terrible," Trump said during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.  "I think she should be impeached.  I think she's terrible."  While congressional members are often removed from their positions through the process of expulsion, rather than impeachment, the President's words indicate he is incredibly disappointed with the GOP members who let her slide without so much as a reprimand.  As he should be.  The feckless four Republicans — Reps.  Mike Flood (NE), Jeff Hurd (CO), Cory Mills (FL), and Tom McClintock (CA) — exposed themselves as spineless in aiding Omar, who had mocked Kirk, mocked his supporters as "full of s***," and shared a video which referred to the slain conservative icon as a "stochastic terrorist" and a "reprehensible human being."  Trump went on to point out that Somalia, from which she and her family fled during a civil war, is a veritable hellhole and wondered why she thinks she can come from such a wasteland and tell America how it should operate.

Ilhan Omar Criticizes Those Championing Late Charlie Kirk.  US Representative Ilhan Omar doubled down on her critique of Charlie Kirk and his camp at a town hall meeting in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, on Saturday, September 13, footage shows.  More than 100 filed into the Elim Lutheran Church for the gathering, where bag checks and metal detectors were implemented as part of a heightened security effort amid the wave of recent political violence in Minnesota and the US.  Almost an hour into the meeting, a man criticized Omar for comments she made on Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo News regarding various right-leaning figures.

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Here Are the Feckless, Spineless Republicans Who Somehow Couldn't Bring Themselves to Censure Ilhan Omar.  Democrats, the resistance party that helped usher in an era of incivility by portraying every American with even the slightest differences in thought and opinion by labeling them alternately as "fascists" or "Nazis," — the kind of rhetoric that one can draw a straight line from to the bullet casings found at the crime scene in Utah last week — will march in lockstep on any and every vote.  And yet Republicans, finally handed an opportunity to reprimand an official for vile, hateful, incendiary rhetoric, in an era of "assassination culture" on the left, just can't muster up the intestinal fortitude to send a message.  A resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and remove her from key House committees failed Wednesday in a narrow 214-213 vote.  Four Republicans joined Democrats to table the measure over Omar's comments following Charlie Kirk's assassination.  [Tweet]

Nancy Mace calls on Congress to strip Ilhan Omar of her committees over outrageous insult to Charlie Kirk.  Outrage over comments about Charlie Kirk in a video shared by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota may lead to her being stripped of her congressional committee assignments.  The video criticized the conservative response to Kirk's death and blamed the rhetoric on the right for creating the circumstances that led to his assassination.  Omar reposted the video from her account on the X social media platform, according to screenshots captured online.  "Kirk was a reprehensible human being ... a stochastic terrorist," said the commentator on the video.  "With his last dying words, he was spewing racist dog whistles.  Charlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein, and his monster shot him through the neck."  In response, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said she would file a motion to punish Omar.

Nancy Mace moves to censure Ilhan Omar for 'vile comments' about Charlie Kirk: 'All but blamed him for his own assassination'.  Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a resolution Monday to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and strip the "Squad" lawmaker of all her committee assignments over "vile comments mocking the assassination" of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  "Ilhan Omar has shown us exactly who she is:  someone who defends political violence and refuses to condemn the loss of innocent lives when it doesn't suit her agenda, even the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk," Mace said in a statement.  "If you mock a political assassination and celebrate murder, you don't get to keep your committee seat, you get consequences," the congresswoman added.

Former Ilhan Omar Associate Pleads Guilty in $2.9 Million Fraud Scheme.  A former campaign associate of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has pleaded guilty to participating in a multi-million-dollar pandemic food fraud conspiracy, adding another chapter to the growing list of controversies surrounding the progressive lawmaker's political orbit.  Federal prosecutors announced that 49-year-old Guhaad Hashi Said — described by Alpha News as an "enforcer" for Omar's campaign — admitted in court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.  The charges stem from a wide-ranging fraud targeting a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.  "The conviction of the 52nd defendant in the Feeding Our Future case is yet another reminder of the vast reach of this fraud and the scale of the crisis we face in Minnesota," Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said in a statement.  "These crimes are not isolated events.  They are part of a web of schemes targeting programs that are intended to lift up Minnesotans and bleeding them dry.  From where I sit, the scale of the fraud in Minnesota is staggering, and every rock we turn over reveals more.  We must be honest and clear-eyed about the scope of this problem, because ending it will take an unyielding, all-hands-on-deck effort from all of us."

Ilhan Omar Net Worth Soars to $30M Backed by $60B in Assets, and Ex-Qatari Lobbyist.  To recap the incredible adventures of Rep. Ilhan Omar, she allegedly cheated on her husband (this is not her brother, but her actual husband, I know it's confusing because at one point she also seems to have married her brother) with her campaign guy (causing her dying father to disavow her), married the white campaign guy who seemingly converted to Islam.  Now that you're caught up, her new husband, the white campaign guy, the Free Beacon reports, has a pretty good racket going on. [...] Going from thousands to millions is [quite] an 'investment'.  But there's an obvious irony about a prominent Muslim congresswoman cashing in on a winery. [...] The claim that a company connected to a congresswoman can structure legislation is "interesting". Prison cell, interesting.  So, the claim suddenly 'disappeared'.  Much like Omar's brother.  As Peter Schweitzer notes, one of the players here was a former Qatari lobbyist.  Everything about this raises red flags.

Ilhan Omar's husband became a multi-millionaire overnight.  It now appears that Ilhan Omar has read the Joe Biden playbook, since her husband went from rags to riches overnight once he married her.  One of the regular attacks conservatives have made on Ilhan Omar is that she's amassed phenomenal wealth since entering politics.  The usual dollar amounts bandied about, according to internet rumor, vary from $83 million to several billion.  These amounts varied spectacularly from Omar's actual reported wealth. [...] Thus, part of Omar's street cred as a leftist politician has always been that she's poor.  Really poor.  Poor like everyone in Somalia poor.  That's how poor she is.  However, all may not have been as it seemed, since Omar's financial reporting was a little bit strange.

Rep. Ilhan Omar's net worth skyrockets to as much as $30 million — months after denying she was a millionaire.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) reported a net worth of up to $30 million in her latest financial disclosure — a document filed just months after the congresswoman dismissed claims she was a millionaire as "ridiculous" and "categorically false."  The disclosure, filed in May, shows the far-left "Squad" lawmaker and her husband, Tim Mynett, experienced a roughly 3,500% increase in net worth last year, compared to 2023.  The surge in the couple's wealth was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.  The financial gains came from Mynett's two businesses, a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based winery and a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, DC.

Omar's Net Worth Skyrockets 3,500% After Denying She's Wealthy.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed earlier this year that it was "ridiculous" and "categorically false" to say she was worth millions.  Yet her latest financial disclosure paints a very different picture.  Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, now report a net worth of between $6 million and $30 million, a jaw-dropping increase of at least 3,500% in just one year. [...] Omar publicly dismissed accusations of wealth while her disclosures show she and her husband engineered a stunning financial turnaround.  The question now isn't whether she lied — it's how this windfall was achieved while serving in Congress.

Ilhan Omar's Net Worth Just Reached Up to $30 Million, an Increase of at Least 3,500 Percent in One Year.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's personal fortune exploded to upwards of $30 million in 2024, the Minnesota Democrat disclosed just months after telling the press it is "ridiculous" and "categorically false" to say she is worth millions of dollars.  Omar reported in her latest financial disclosure that she and her husband, former political consultant Tim Mynett, accumulated a net worth at the end of 2024 ranging from at least $6 million to $30 million.  Their wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Mynett's ownership stake in his two companies that, together, were worth no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023. The exact value of Omar's personal fortune at the end of 2024 is unclear — lawmakers disclose the value of their holdings and debts in ranges.  Still, the figures in Omar's latest disclosures show that her and her husband's net worth skyrocketed by at least 3,500 percent in just one year.  Omar's extraordinary accumulation of wealth in 2024 could raise uncomfortable questions for the Minnesota Democrat, who in February told Business Insider that she has been the subject of a "coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign" that falsely claims she's worth millions of dollars.

Ilhan Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett [are] worth at least $6 million and [possibly] as much as $30 million.  Not bad for a "refugee" from Somalia who hates this country so much she married her brother to commit immigration fraud[.]  Now Ilhan Omar is married to some little soy boy white liberal Tim Mynett (mise-well be Tampon Tim in Minnesota)[.]  And just like that, after coming here with nothing, Ilhan Omar is magically worth between $6 [million and $]30 million after being in Congress for just under seven years.  [Tweet]

The years of living fraudulently.  Daily journalism is an ephemeral commodity.  Occasionally, we need reminders to address an enduring issue.  Such is Ilhan Omar and this is a reminder.  Omar has managed the seemingly impossible task of paving new ground in congressional scandal.  In four intensely reported investigative columns for PJ Media, David Steinberg explored the evidence making out Omar's fraudulent 2009 marriage to her brother.  The 2019 post below represented the culmination of David's research in significant respects.  He titled it "Meet Leila Elmi:  The Missing Link Showing Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother."  We titled it "Tying up loose thread in the curious case."  Drawing on his research, interviews, and social media evidence, David made the case that Omar has engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities and willful misrepresentations related to her marital arrangements.  The statute of limitations on her criminal misconduct may have run, but the scandalous facts remain.

When It Comes To Islam, Are We In The West Too Stupid To Survive?  I question whether we will survive as a nation or are even worth saving.  If nothing else, our refusal to recognize Islam for what it is seems to presage our demise.  Putting aside the damage leftism does to American culture, we are also at risk from Islam, about which we still remain appallingly ignorant 24 years after 9/11.  Instead, we have adopted the myth of "Moderate Muslims." [...] Moderate Muslims adopt a cafeteria approach to Islam, ignoring those they dislike or that play badly in the West, all while clinging to the core message:  A worldwide caliphate, free of all other faiths, except those that are useful to their Islamic overlords.  The current image of a Moderate Muslim is Ilhan Omar.  That begins with how she dresses.  Although Muslim women are required to be completely covered, except "the eyes or one eye to see the way," Omar wears Western clothing, often with a turban. [...] Her speech and lifestyle also deviate from Islam.  She has used obscenities to refer to colleagues. [...] Muhammad also disliked women in politics because they are deficient in intelligence.

Ilhan Omar Hates America, So why is she here?  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is deeply disappointed in her adopted country, and of course it is all the fault of none other than Donald J. Trump.  While virtually all leftists hate Trump with hysterical, lunatic intensity, Omar goes them all one better, and she is in the process of transforming Trump-hatred into a veritable new art form.  Watch for her to get an NEA grant any minute now.  Omar has gone all the other Trump-haters one better by claiming that Orange Man Bad is not just a new Hitler who is destroying "our democracy" (the term leftists like to use to refer to their own hegemony), but that he is destroying the country itself, and reducing it to the level of a third-world hellhole.  This is ironic for numerous reasons, not least of which is the fact that it was the Biden regime that Omar favored, not the Trump administration that Omar hates, that opened the southern border and brought in millions of migrants.  Many of those migrants immediately became a drain on the economy.  Others committed various crimes, some of which involved unspeakable atrocities.  Meanwhile, their presence further weakened national unity and social cohesion.  It was Omar's friends and colleagues, her fellow leftist apparatchiks, who did far more to reduce the U.S. to third-world status than Trump ever did.

'One of the worst countries': Congresswoman insults America.  In a recent interview with the left-wing media outlet Democracy Now!, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., put the United State of America near the bottom of the list of 200 or so nations in the world.  Her remarks were in response to recent immigration enforcement by ICE officers around the country.  [Video clip]

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If the U.S. is that bad, go back to Somalia.

DOGE Has Discovered That Ilhan Omar's Brother Whom She Married Got 18 Million Dollar In Gov Grants.  Ilhan Omar's brother/husband received $18 million in government grants between 2021 and 2024.  According to FOIA, Yosef Barron Omar received the grants without applying for them, and with no expectation that he'd use the money for any specific thing.  In other words, he was likely paid off by the Biden Administration for keeping the fact that the couple shares a parent a secret.  [Video clip]

Dem Strategist James Carville Goes Nuclear on Ilhan Omar:  'Lady, Get Out the Democrat Party'.  Democratic strategist James Carville lived up to every part of his "Ragin' Cajun" nickname, taking multiple swipes at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after an old video resurfaced of her disparaging white men as the leading cause of deaths in America.  [Advertisement]  The video of Omar shows her interviewing as a congressional candidate with Al Jazeera in 2018, in which she describes white men as a bigger terror threat than radical Islamists.  It also marks a cautionary tale for those who follow so-called influencers on social media.  There is an ongoing trend in which they post old videos with little context, making them seem as if they are new when, in reality, the clips are not recent.  This was one such case.  Having had a few days for this newly posted clip to circulate online, it's unclear if Carville was aware of its origin, or if he simply didn't care because Omar's message is deplorable regardless of when she made the comments.

Democrat Ilhan Omar Proposes A Government Database To Track White Men, Citing Them As A Threat.  Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar proposes a government database to track White men, citing them as a rising threat.  She claims White men cause more deaths in the U.S. than foreign terrorist organizations.  [Video clip]

Why Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar must now be arrested, imprisoned, and then deported back to Somalia.  Finally, several pieces of evidence have been uncovered that confirm Somali Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) actually did illegally marry her own brother for the purpose of granting him legal status in the U.S.  [Tweet with video clip]

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Promotes Fundraiser For Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody.  Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), championed a fundraiser supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national facing deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Hamas campus organizing.  The online fundraiser was launched after ICE took Khalil into custody Saturday night after the State Department revoked his visa and green card.  By Wednesday afternoon, the fundraiser had raised nearly $270,000, surpassing its $250,000 goal and prompting administrators to set a new target of $500,000.  Hirsi, a far-left activist, anti-Israel agitator, and Barnard College senior, posted a screenshot of the fundraiser with a link to the webpage on her Instagram story Tuesday afternoon, which at the time had raised about $115,000.

Nasty Enemy Of The State, Ilhan Omar Calls Americans Stupid.  She does have a point, stupid Americans let this America-hating POS into our country from her terror-infested shithole and then elected her to destroy the country that welcomed her.  She even married her own brother and lied to keep him in the country as well and they both haven't been deported yet.  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar Goes on Wild Rant, Calls Americans 'Idiots' Who Shouldn't Be 'Allowed' to Have Views.  Amid already crushing approval ratings for the Democratic Party, Rep. Ilhan Omar joined terror sympathizer Mehdi Hasan on Sunday to fret that Americans are "idiots" who are too "stupid" to be "allowed" to hold their political views.  As RedState reported, Omar's beleaguered political party recently hit an all-time low in approval, with just 31 percent of voters viewing Democrats in a favorable light.  So yeah, I'm sure what you're about to watch is going to do wonders to bring normal people back into the fold.  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar Is A Walking Case For Higher U.S. Citizenship Standards.  After America-hating Congresswoman Ilhan Omar hosted workshops advising illegal immigrants on how to avoid being deported, Rep. Brandon Gill said what a lot of America-loving Americans were thinking. "America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia," Gill, a first-term Texas Republican, wrote on X.  Omar, a Minnesota leftist and member of the House's America Last "Squad," fired back, calling Gill "stupid" for thinking "a member of Congress can be deported."  "I had to crawl my way into Congress, and I think these idiots who buy their seats have no idea what a privilege it is to be a member of Congress and what it takes," Omar told Politico.  Taxpayer-subsidized Politico joined the chorus of corporate media outlets jumping to the Somalia native's defense, helping to spread the lie that Gill's post "called for the deportation" of the congresswoman.

Ilhan Omar revisited.  For some reason RCI has posted Martin Gould's Daily Mail story "Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him 'papers' to keep him in U.S.,' reveals Somali community leader."  It should be noted that Gould's story is dated February 20, 2020, nearly five years ago. [...] Omar is apparently untouchable, but she is a world-class faker and fraud.

Enemy Of The State, Ilhan Omar Calls The Somali President 'Our President' During A Rally In Minneapolis.  Ilhan Omar calls the President of Somalia "our president" at a rally in Minneapolis.  "Somalia is our home.  It is our heart.  We always think about Somalia."  [Video clip]

Vote Every Muslim Out of Office.  First and foremost:  I'm fed up with everything from math to street signs being branded as racism.  Too many of these accusers are themselves racists and bigots to the core, i.e., U.S. Reps.  Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.  Neither of them should be serving in our Congress.  Both belong to the political party, Muslim, not the Democrat Communist Party USA.  Ilhan the Trojan Horse:  Part One, Feb. 4, 2024 — "Recently, Ilhan Omar gave two speeches in Minneapolis and another in Somalia which went viral.  In them, she says publicly that she is Somalia First, not America First, that Somalia is ONLY for those of pure Somali-Muslim heritage (no diversity allowed) — that the President of Somalia is HER President and that the Obama-Biden regime will do whatever she wants them to do!"

Flashback: Ilhan Omar's Father was Top Propaganda Official in Genocidal Somalian Barre Regime.  Far Left Communist Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar's father and other Somalian war crimes perpetrators are currently living illegally in the United States.  The Gateway Pundit obtained information that is [bad] for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.  Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre.  Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally.

Yet Another Video Surfaces, Making Ilhan Omar's Real Allegiance Even Clearer.  Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) recently raised some eyebrows even more than she usually does, when she delivered a speech to Somalis in Minneapolis in which she more than once gave the impression that her loyalty was not to the government in Washington, but to the one in Mogadishu.  Her friends and supporters among the far-left cognoscenti, however, rushed to dismiss any concerns about her dual loyalty (or her single loyalty to Somalia) by claiming that she was simply talking about serving her constituents in Minnesota.  Sure.  A new video, however, came to light Friday, that will be harder for Omar and her minions to wave away.  Dr. Salman Caaro [...] has found footage of Omar from 2022, once again speaking in Somali to a Somali audience as she was in the video that began the present controversy (which is, of course, all on the right). She begins by saying: "We must fix our roads."  Nothing wrong with that, except that she isn't talking about the roads in her congressional district.  She is talking about roads in Somalia.

MTG Introduces Resolution To Censure Ilhan Omar For 'Working As A Foreign Agent'.  Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a resolution Thursday to censure Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for "admitting she's working as a foreign agent for a foreign country."  The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the resolution, which comes after Omar gave a speech saying her primary job in Congress is to protect Somali interests.  Omar has faced criticism from Republicans in Congress after her Jan. 27 speech to Somalian leaders in Minnesota went viral.  Omar was speaking in Somali and allegedly did not mention her support for the U.S., according to a translation of her speech shared on Twitter by Ambassador Rhoda J. Elmi, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Somaliland.  Omar appeared to say she was "Somalian first, Muslim second" and that she was "here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system," according to the translation.

Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader "Our President".  A video from 2022 of Somali refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaking in the Somali language to a gathering of Somali-Americans in Minneapolis and, according to posted translations, repeatedly calling the visiting President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, "our president," and saying "Somalia is our home," is raising new questions about her loyalty to the United States.  Omar added she has a "special relationship" with Mohamud.  In a visit a week later to Somalia, Omar again called it "our country" while addressing Somali government leaders.

If you like Somalia so much, go there.
Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America's Immigration System.  There's a clip going around of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar talking to a group of Somalians about her allegiances and priorities as a U.S. congresswoman.  What Omar says is instructive, not just about her general worldview but mostly (and more importantly) about how backward and destructive our immigration system is.  Omar is a woman of the left, but her speech over the weekend was pure blood-and-soil nationalism — for Somalia, not America.  She tells them she's a Somalian first and a Muslim second.  She doesn't even mention the United States or her citizenship here.  She promises to use her power and influence in Congress to protect her nation's interests.  (Again, that nation being Somalia, not America.)  Speaking in Somali, Omar tells the cheering crowd that her "top priority" is to expand Somalia's territory.  "As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories," she says, referencing disputed regions in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Ilhan Omar Speech on Representing Somalia in Congress Goes Viral With Calls to Expel Her From the House.  Somalian refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave a speech to the Somali community in Minnesota on Saturday that has gone viral thanks to English translation subtitles.  The translations have Omar saying she and her fellow Somalis are Somali first and Muslim second — with no mention of being American.  Omar also said she represents Somalia in Congress and told the audience that they control the U.S. government's Somalia policy.  Outraged Americans called for Omar's expulsion from the House of Representatives.

Ilhan Omar Backtracks on Accusing Israel of Hospital Strike in Gaza, Blames AP Report.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) backtracked on her blame of Israel for a hospital strike in Gaza, after further evidence suggested that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had nothing to do with the explosion, and it was caused by a misfired rocket fired from a Palestinian militant group.  Omar had initially accused the IDF of war crimes, posting on X, "Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes.  The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific."

Rep. Ilhan Omar Retweets False Photo Of Palestinian Children Killed By Israeli Forces.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has long been a leading voice among Democrats calling for censorship and speech controls in the name of combatting disinformation.  She is now accused of precisely the same conduct after posting a picture purportedly showing children killed by Israeli forces.  In reality, it was a picture of victims of a 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria.  The incident should, but is unlikely to, prompt Omar and fellow Democrats to reconsider their push for censorship and other anti-free speech measures.  Such false imagery was quickly and effectively addressed in this incident without the need for bans and speech regulation.  Omar has denounced social media companies for their failure to take "information down and discontinuing the accounts of people who practice disinformation."

Ilhan Omar Promotes Photo Falsely Showing Dead Palestinian Children.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) promoted propaganda over the weekend that falsely portrayed children as having died from Israeli military operations when, in reality, they died a decade ago from fighting in Syria.  The false claim that Omar promoted on her X account originated from self-described "investigative journalist" Sulaiman Ahmed.  "CHILD GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE," the post, which included a photo of dead children, claimed. "614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IOF Forces."  Omar then shared the false claim to her nearly three million followers on X.  The reality is that the photo is from an August 2013 article in National Geographic and it shows children in Damascus, Syria, "shortly after they succumbed to chemical weapon poisoning."

A handful of Republicans may save Ilhan Omar's committee seat.  A handful of Republicans could save Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to fulfill his promise to eject her over what he described as antisemitic remarks.  McCarthy is meeting with holdouts Monday in an effort to persuade them to vote for his resolution to give Omar the boot over her repeated comments against Israel that she has since apologized for.  Last week, McCarthy unilaterally removed Reps.  Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from the House Intelligence Committee, a select committee, citing national security concerns.  However, the Foreign Affairs Committee is a standing committee, meaning a full House vote is needed for McCarthy's resolution to remove Omar.

Ilhan Omar does not belong on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  "I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar.  She's an anti-Semite.  She's a bigot.  She's a racist.  She's a socialist."  In saying this, Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) is absolutely correct.  Where she errs is in calling Rep. Omar's removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee "cancel culture."  The work of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is to consider legislation that affects the diplomatic community, which includes the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Peace Corps, and the United Nations, and enforcing the Arms Export Control Act.  The HFAC takes on seriously weighty issues critical to our national peace, affluence, and security.  The members tackle subjects of importance to every region and country in the world.  Tough work.  The kind of work that requires dispassionate, serious, well-rounded, thoughtful, honest people dedicated to advancing America's priorities and ensuring that American citizens can enjoy life, dwell in liberty, pursue happiness, and freely exercise all their inherent rights.

The Republican Party Remains a Useless, Spineless Husk.  Though House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has kept his promise to kick Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Adam Schiff off the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, things are a bit more complicated when it comes to Rep. Ilhan Omar.  That's because the Speaker doesn't have unilateral authority over non-select committees, meaning any removal will take a full vote of the House.  Omar, a notorious anti-Semite who has continuously supported policies that empower terrorist regimes, served on the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee under the last congress.  That she was placed there at all despite her lack of experience was already unusual, and Omar's radicalism only made the appointment all the worse.  Still, Republicans weren't of the mind to remove Omar until Rep. Nancy Pelosi, joined by other Democrats, kicked two Republicans off their committees for supposed inflammatory comments.  Obviously, that set the precedent that the majority party could punish bad actors from the minority party for the things they say.  Omar fits that bill perfectly given her history of antisemitism.

Ilhan Omar's Very Foreign Policy.  Ever since her election to Congress in 2018, Ilhan Omar been conducting her very own foreign policy, not just against Israel, that in her view can do no right, and for the Palestinians, who can do no wrong, but also to help Somalia attract more investment from Turkey, to support President Erdogan's rejection of the charge of an Armenian "genocide"; to make the case for the jihadists in Kashmir who want to force Indian troops out of the area; and, of course, to promote the agenda of CAIR, that rewards her handsomely as one of their favorite speakers.  Omar apparently has no qualms about being so closely associated with CAIR, even though the group was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for terrorist financing.

Here's a Democrat who doesn't want more publicity:
Ilhan Omar: Trump, Republicans Mentioning My Name Causes Uptick of Death Threats — 'They Have to Be Held Accountable'.  Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Friday [10/28/2022] on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight" that when former President Donald Trump or other Republicans mention her name, she receives a direct uptick in death threats.  During a discussion on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, being attacked in his San Francisco Home early Friday morning, Wagner said, "Marjorie Taylor Greene, she has previously said that speaker Pelosi is a traitor to our country.  She is guilty of treason.  She gives aid and comfort to our enemies."  Omar said, "We should not live in fear just because we have decided to serve our country, our constituents, and want the ability to shape the way in which our country is governed. [...]"

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Regarding that last sentence, Ms. Omar hasn't (as far as I know) denounced or repudiated the death threats against the Supreme Court justices a few months ago.  Also her claims of (multiple) death threats are hard to believe, because approximately 100 percent of the political violence in this country comes from the left.

If you think Somalia is so much better, go there.
Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar says Minneapolis is more violent than the Somali refugee camps she fled to as a youth.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said that her arrival in Minnesota exposed her to more gun violence than living in an east African refugee camp did.  Speaking at the Gun Violence Community Conversation at North High in Minneapolis on Thursday, Omar said:  'For six years, I had the privilege of not seeing any violence, until I moved to Minnesota.'  Omar continued:  'My first year in Minnesota I both saw a person shot at Peavey Park, dead on the floor, three weeks after my father and I arrived in Minneapolis.  Six months later I watched the Minneapolis police put 38 bullets into the body of a mentally disabled Somali immigrant who didn't speak English.'

Omar leads calls for court-packing after draft opinion in abortion case leaks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is leading calls to expand the Supreme Court after a draft opinion leaked on Monday signaled the high court will undo the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case.  Omar is a frequent advocate of congressional legislation allowing for court-packing.  Her latest call to expand the court of nine justices comes amid the revelation of a document authored by Justice Samuel Alito for the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, ruling that "the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives."

Ilhan Omar demands more Supreme Court justices.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding the Supreme Court add more justices to override its conservative majority while other Democrats are renewing their calls to nix the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion after a leaked preliminary opinion revealed the court is looking to overturn Roe v. Wade.  'Overturning Roe would put the lives of women across the country at risk.  It would fly in the face of decades of precedent and the overwhelming majority of public opinion.  And they will not stop here.  Expand the court,' the Minnesota Democrat said on Twitter.  'Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW.  And if there aren't 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes,' Sen Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote on Twitter.

Ilhan Omar Finds a New Way to Attack Freedom of Speech.  War in Ukraine, an essentially nonexistent Southern border, out-of-control inflation, rising crime, deep societal divisions, and what does the de facto leader of the Democrat Party, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Islamabad), who can always be counted on to have her finger on the pulse of the American people, decide to tackle?  Why, "Islamophobia," of course.  Come on, man!  Is there something more important that she could be focusing on?  "Islamophobia" is, after all, a free speech issue.  The only problem is that Omar is on the wrong side.  During Omar's recent visit to Pakistan, she made sure to visit Pakistan's just-replaced former prime minister Imran Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party proudly tweeted Wednesday:  "US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) called on @ImranKhanPTI in Bani Gala.  They discussed Islamophobia & related issues.  Ilhan Omar expressed her admiration for Imran Khan and his work for Muslims globally."  That was significant in light of the kind of work Imran Khan has been doing for Muslims globally.

Muslim military veteran hopes to unseat Ilhan Omar, blasts 'Squad' lawmaker for neglecting her district.  A Somali-born U.S. Army veteran has joined the Republican field seeking to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calling out her lack of attention to the needs of her constituents as violent crime surges in Minneapolis.  "Minneapolis just saw one of the most violent years on record, falling just one homicide short from the all-time record.  The city at that time was coined 'Murder-apolis,'" the 5th Congressional District candidate Shukri Abdirahman told Fox News Digital.  Abdirahman, a Muslim military veteran and mother of three, announced her campaign Monday.

In Free Lunch Fraud, The Friends Of Ilhan Omar.  We are in the early stages of the apparent USDA free lunch food fraud committed under the auspices of the Minnesota nonprofits including Feeding Our Future.  So far, the FBI has unsealed three search warrants that have now been executed.  The warrants and supporting affidavits lay out the (huge) underlying investigation along with the alleged facts of the case.  The Center of the American Experiment's Bill Glahn has posted a handy summary with links to the local coverage of the story in "$455 million in taxpayer money to MN nonprofits named in FBI search warrants".  Bill notes that, although the dollar amounts involved range into the hundreds of millions, the FBI mentions only tens of millions as allegedly missing.

FEC rejects campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar.  The Federal Election Commission has tossed out a 2019 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar from a conservative group alleging the Minnesota Democrat illegally spent campaign funds on her now-husband's political consulting firm.  "The FEC's unanimous 6-0 ruling confirms what we've said from the beginning:  This was a baseless effort by a right-wing group to smear the congresswoman," Omar campaign spokesman Isi Baehr-Breen said in a text message.  "We're glad people now have a better idea of the kind of tactics the right wing is willing to use to try to smear and silence Rep. Omar.  Good riddance."  The complaint from the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center questioned whether Omar's campaign paid Tim Mynett's E Street Group for personal travel expenses.  The complaint covers a period from August 2018 to September 2019, when Omar's campaign paid more than $369,000 to E Street, according to campaign finance records.

As homicides surge in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar denies her district has a crime problem.  The only strategy that supporters of defunding the police have amid the surge in crimes and homicides is to ignore reality.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is committed to this.  Her constituents are living through one of the most violent years they have seen, and she has to pretend none of it is real.  Omar responded to a Twitter user who said her district is "being overrun with violent crime" by definitively asserting that it is not.  But that would be news to residents of Minneapolis, who sit in Omar's district and have witnessed a staggering number of homicides over the last two years.

Ilhan Omar's Bill to Combat 'Islamophobia' Passes the House.  Ilhan Omar's bill requiring the State Department to combat "Islamophobia" has passed.  Omar would like us to believe that "Islamophobia" is as much a threat around the world as antisemitism, and she wants the federal government to monitor, to report on, and to fight the spread of this "hatred." [...] Ilhan Omar has persuaded — some might say inveigled — a Jewish Congresswoman to join her in co-sponsoring the bill.  This is her standard technique for avoiding charges of antisemitism, to "reach out" to liberal Jews who are insufficiently wary of her wiles and guiles, to join her in whatever mischief she is up to.  Her latest effort is to make Congress believe that "Islamophobia" — so often invoked, so rarely defined — really is such a major problem worldwide that it needs a special office in the federal government to monitor it.  Etymologically, "Islamophobia" means the "irrational fear or hatred of Islam."  But "Islamophobia" is a word that was invented not to describe that "irrational fear or hatred of Islam and of Muslims," but in order to shut down any criticism of Islam, no matter how justified.  The word is now affixed to anyone who dares to suggest that the large-scale presence of Muslims in non-Muslim lands, given the refusal of many Muslims to integrate into the larger society, and instead remain hostilely aloof from it, is worrisome.

Lauren Boebertt calls Ilhan Omar a 'jihad-squad member'.  Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert accused Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a "jihad-squad member" during a contentious censure vote.  The House of Representatives was deliberating over a censure vote against Republican Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar for a controversial tweet he sent showing an anime clip that Democrats argue promotes violence.  Following deliberations, the House voted 223-207 to censure him and remove him from his committee assignments.  "The jihad-squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds," she said.  "This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists."

Ilhan Omar blames 'dysfunctional' police for Minneapolis violent crime spike.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blamed police for the recent rise in crime in Minneapolis, accusing the city's officers of not fulfilling their oath of office.  "What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things," Omar said during a town hall event Saturday in Minneapolis.  One of them, she said, is that "the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve."  The lawmaker's comments come as violent crime has surged in Minnesota over the last year, rising 17% in total while setting records for murders.  Omar's approach to crime includes backing a Nov. 2 ballot measure to replace the entire Minneapolis police department with a "Department of Public Safety."  The measure would remove the requirement that the city have a minimum number of officers based on the city's population.

Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill to Create Special Envoy to Monitor "Islamophobia" Around the World.  Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) on Thursday [10/21/2021] introduced legislation to create a special envoy that would "monitor and combat Islamophobia" around the globe.  "The bill requires the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, and include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity in the Department's annual human rights reports," Omar said in a press release.  Through the "Combating International Islamophobia Act," Ilhan Omar wants the US to police the world and silence political discourse and truth about Islamic terrorism.

The Editor says...
[#1] The U.S. is not the world's hall monitor or thought police.  [#2] If there is any Islamophobia, it is well deserved.

Omar calls on Schumer, White House to 'ignore' Senate parliamentarian on path to citizenship.  The Senate parliamentarian determined that lawmakers cannot include a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in a budget reconciliation package, but Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is pushing the Senate and the Biden administration to do it anyway.  Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough determined Sunday night [9/19/2021] that the provision fell outside the scope of what is allowed in a reconciliation bill[,] which cannot be filibustered, thus requiring the support of only a simple majority in the Senate.  "This ruling by the parliamentarian, is only a recommendation.  @SenSchumer and the @WhiteHouse can and should ignore it," Omar said.  "We can't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to do the right thing."

The Editor says...
If you're trying "to do the right thing," maybe you should play by the rules.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Brother, Supporting Terrorism.  Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday [9/18/2021] accused Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar of marriage fraud and supporting terrorism.  Greene's accusations followed Omar's Friday tweet accusing Greene of hypocrisy for wearing a mask on a flight despite publicly opposing mask mandates.  Omar's tweet was in response to another person's tweet accusing Greene of using taxpayer funds to fly first class on Delta airlines.

Bringing Somalia to Minnesota.  [Scroll down]  When voters head to the polls, they will decide whether to eliminate the Minneapolis charter requirement of police department, and replace it with a public safety department that "employs a public health approach."  As [Ilhan] Omar weighs in on this topic, she brings her considerable inexperience to the world of law enforcement.  Once again weaponizing the power provided to her by Minneapolis voters and a sycophantic media, she accelerates as the bus careens off the cliff.  Firmly protected by the shields of others, Omar seems to enjoy a perverse pleasure in tarnishing precinct shields across her district and beyond.  Why the people in Minnesota's fifth district elected this woman remains a mystery, but the majority of citizens in her district evidently approve of her rhetoric, behavior, and agenda.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., railed against a judge's decision to block a Minneapolis ballot measure that would replace the city's police department with a new department of public safety.  During an in-person town hall meeting Tuesday evening [9/14/2021] in Minneapolis, Omar blamed big money for thwarting a progressive measure that she argued would have given the city "flexibility" on how to better police the city.

Ilhan Omar Possibly Committed A Felony By Concealing Her Finances In Required Disclosure Form, Watchdog Group Alleges.  Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar possibly committed a felony by failing to properly report her assets and income in her financial disclosure reports to the House of Representatives, a conservative-leaning watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday [8/31/2021].  The group, National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), demanded the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) investigate why Omar's financial disclosures make no reference to the income she may have received from her memoir published in May 2020, as well as the Democratic lawmaker's apparently gross undervaluation of her new husband's consulting firm, which raked in nearly $3 million from Omar's political campaign from 2018 through 2020, campaign finance records show.  "Representative Omar's apparent disclosure omissions and misreporting violate House ethics rules, the Ethics in Government act, and possibly 18 U.S.C. 1001, a felony with penalties up to five years in prison for making false statements in a matter before the legislative branch," NLPC wrote in its complaint.  "There is clearly more than 'reasonable cause to believe' that disclosure violations may have occurred."

Rep. Ilhan Omar Continues to Evade Financial Disclosure of Reportedly Lucrative Book Deal.  Multiple watchdog groups said Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure report filed on Friday [8/13/2021].  Omar, D-Minn., reportedly signed a deal worth up to $250,000 for her memoir "This Is What America Looks Like" in January 2019, around the same time she was sworn into Congress.  Omar's communications director said the House Ethics Committee approved the book deal, but the Democratic lawmaker's financial disclosures covering the calendar years 2018 and 2019 contain no mention of the book or any advance income received upon signing a deal.  The book was published in May 2020 to rave reviews by the press and Omar's Democratic colleagues.  The Atlantic dubbed it one of the best political books of the year, and numerous high-profile Democrats — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — praised the book.

FBI dodged Ilhan Omar-'bro' wed probe.  Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him.  The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories.  But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday.  His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was taken down Wednesday.  Lazarro and a group of conservative donors had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on three continents hiring private investigators to track down Elmi Omar's ex-husband in the UK and procure his DNA from a drinking straw.  Omar's DNA, Lazarro's website claimed, was extracted from saliva on a cigarette butt she was photographed smoking.

Ilhan Omar's career in the Minnesota Senate proves she supports terrorists.  As soon as Omar was elected in November 2016, before she actually took office as a state senator, Omar wrote a letter to Judge Michael Brown asking for leniency for 9 nine Somali men facing sentencing for trying to join ISIS.  In her letter, Omar wrote that the men do not deserve long sentences in prison, as this would destroy their lives.  She suggested instead a rehabilitation program, saying "the desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequence for alienation."  However, Judge Brown had already tried a deradicalization program for at least one of the men, placing him in a halfway house.  He violated the terms of parole and was sent back to prison.  Either Omar was not aware of this — which is unlikely, since the Somali community in Minnesota is tight-knit — or she tried to use her influence to release nine men who intended to join ISIS.

Report — DNA Testing Confirms Ilhan Omar Married Her Biological Brother.  A new report alleges DNA testing confirms Ilhan Omar was married to her biological brother Ahmed Elmi.  The two were allegedly married to bypass immigration laws.  Omar has never been indicted on this crime.  The test results were originally posted on GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro's Facebook page.  He was arrested hours later by the feds on sex trafficking charges.

Ilhan Omar's latest socialist proposal would trap us in welfare state stagnation.  Rep. Ilhan Omar wants to spend billions more in taxpayer money.  The far-left Minnesota Democrat's latest socialist scheme is a quasi-universal basic income program.  She just introduced legislation that would pave the way for the first national "UBI" program in the United States.  Omar's legislation, the SUPPORT Act, would create a new office in the Treasury Department and fund a $2.5 billion grant program for local pilot experiments with UBI.  Then, over the next decade, it would establish a taxpayer-funded "basic income" of $1,200 per month for all U.S. adults who earn $75,000 or less annually with an additional $600 per month for each child in a household.  The income "phase out" would begin at $150,000 annual incomes for two-adult households.  This all equates to a "basic income" of $14,400 per adult.  And, in the congresswoman's telling, this bill could eliminate poverty simply by raining cash down to the masses.

Ilhan Omar leads congressional call for U.S. special envoy to combat Islamophobia.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is leading House lawmakers in demanding that the Biden administration create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia, citing a rise in anti-Muslim incidents across the globe.  In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the lawmakers said the U.S. must take the lead in combatting the phenomenon.  "As part of our commitment to international religious freedom and human rights, we must recognize Islamophobia as a pattern that is repeating in nearly every corner of the globe," the lawmakers wrote.

Pelosi refuses to answer question about Ilhan Omar's latest inflammatory statements this week.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to answer a question about "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., most recent inflammatory statements about Israel and her Jewish Democratic colleagues.  During her weekly press conference Thursday [7/1/2021], a reporter asked Pelosi a question regarding Omar's comments this week during an interview, in which Omar stood by her comparison of the U.S. and Israel to internationally recognized terror groups Hamas and the Taliban, and blamed her Jewish colleagues for forcing her to walk back the comments.  Pelosi interrupted the reporter during and waved off the question, saying, "let's stay with this" and that she would "answer that afterward."

Ilhan Omar Knows What She's Doing.  The Jews can never seem to live up to Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) exacting standards.  The Minnesota congresswoman's latest broadside came Tuesday afternoon, when she told CNN's Jake Tapper that her Jewish Democratic colleagues "haven't been partners in justice" and have yet to apologize for their allegedly Islamophobic comments.  Omar's statement came after Tapper asked whether she regrets her comments last month comparing the United States and Israel with terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban.  Her answer was unequivocal:  "I don't."  That's funny, because Omar at the time "clarified" that statement, which elicited a rebuke from Democratic leaders and a dozen Jewish Democrats, saying that she did not say what in fact she said:  "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries."  To be clear, she also believes Israel is a terrorist nation.

Omar blasted for remarks about Jews in Congress: 'This is what a modern day Muslim Supremacist looks like'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest remarks about Israel and Jewish members of Congress have sparked backlash, as the Minnesota Democrat expressed zero regret for comparing Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.  In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Omar said she does not regret her tweet from earlier this month in which she lumped Israel, the U.S., Hamas, and the Taliban together.  When asked if she knows why fellow Democrats — particularly Jews — found previous comments of hers about Israel to be anti-Semitic, Omar accused them of not being "partners in justice" while claiming that she herself "knows what it feels like to experience injustice in ways that many of my colleagues don't."

Ilhan Omar Blames GOP for 'False Narratives' Surrounding Critical Race Theory, Denies its Existence in Schools.  As Republicans across the country look to ban critical race theory, a controversial doctrine that highlights systemic racism as defining framework of U.S. history, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) rejected the idea that it is even being taught to public school students.  [Tweet]  Omar's comments on Saturday follows Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman (R) introducing legislation that would prevent public schools in Washington, D.C. from being permitted to teach critical race theory.  His bill is the latest effort by Republicans to put an end to critical race theory in schools.  Grothman said in a press release Friday [6/18/2021] that critical race theory teaches students "to hate each other and hate their country."

Omar Falsely Claims Critical Race Theory Is Not Being Taught in Schools.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar has denied Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in public schools, despite a backlash from parents for the doctrine being pushed on their children. [...] Omar's comments come just a day after a bill was introduced by Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman to ban Washington, D.C. public schools from teaching CRT.  The bill was the latest in a series of legislative pushes to ban Critical Race Theory.

Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban," Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted last week to her 1.2 million followers.  They responded with warm support.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cooler.  Although the speaker lives in San Francisco's progressive echo chamber, she heads a national party and understands that most voters do not think our country is similar to the Taliban or Hamas.  They have noticed a few small differences.  Nor do they see a moral equivalence between Israel, which tries to avoid civilian casualties, and terrorist organizations, which use human shields and bomb pizza parlors.  They wonder if a representative who thinks America is so evil should sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as Omar does.  Pelosi pressed Rep. Omar for a "clarification" and received a half-hearted one.  That was good enough for the speaker, who stressed that she was not rebuking Omar, whom she called a "valued member of our caucus."

Ilhan, If You Don't Like It Here...  House Democrats released a statement on Wednesday night [6/9/2021] condemning Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-NY) for comparing the United States and Israel to an Islamic terrorist organization.  Only 12 Democrats condemned Omar, which is less than 6% of the total number of Democrats in the House of Representatives.  "We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity," Omar wrote on Twitter earlier this week.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban."  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar says America, like Hamas and the Taliban, has committed 'unthinkable atrocities'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Monday [6/7/2021] appeared to place America in the same category as the Taliban and Hamas, saying the U.S., Israel and the terrorist groups have all committed "unthinkable atrocities."  Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad," posted a tweet that said that the U.S. needs to "have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity."  The Minnesota Democrat then claimed America and Israel have committed "unthinkable atrocities" like those committed by the terrorist groups.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban," wrote Omar.  "I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice."

Mayor Vowed To Take "Illegal Guns Off The Street". Police Just Found One In Her Home.  Rochester, New York Mayor Lovely Warren is a typical Democrat politician when it comes to gun control.  She's complained about the number of "illegal guns on the streets" of the city, supported the state's draconian gun control laws, and even announced a gun "buyback" earlier this week, claiming once again that "getting guns off our streets must be a priority."

Rochester mayor's husband part of 'mid-level' drug ring, officials say.  The husband of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren was allegedly peddling cocaine as part of a "mid-level" drug ring in the city, officials said Thursday [5/20/2021].  New York State Police took Timothy Granison into custody Wednesday evening after executing a search warrant at a home on Woodman Park that the 42-year-old shares with Warren and their daughter.  Granison pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to two counts of felony drug possession charges, including intent to sell, and a felony count of gun possession, the Rochester City Newspaper reported.

Ilhan Omar Throws a Hissy Fit Over Being Criticized for Israel Remarks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is miffed.  Apparently, Facebook has taken a rare departure from ensuring that only the most complimentary of ads regarding Democrats are displayed on its platform and allowed an organization to criticize the lawmaker for her stance on the hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians.  Omar's office demanded that the social media giant remove an ad posted on its platform by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that features the lawmaker's face on Hamas rockets and says, "When Israel Targets Hamas Rep. Omar calls it an 'act of terrorism.'"  Last week, Omar tweeted:  "Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism."

Ted Cruz:  Ilhan Omar Is 'Acting as Press Secretary for Hamas'.  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is "acting as the press secretary for Hamas," the Palestinian terror organization, after she tweeted false information about recent clashes in Gaza.  Omar, who is staunchly anti-Israel, and has a history of antisemitic rhetoric, tweeted Monday:  [Tweet]  Omar was responding to claims by Palestinians that 20 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli airstrikes, including 9 children.  What the report did not mention was that Israel claimed it had targeted and killed 11 Hamas fighters who had fired rockets at Israeli civilians.  The Hamas attack was aimed at Jerusalem, where Palestinians have rioted in recent days, at the instigation of Palestinian terror groups and political leaders.

Rep. Ilhan Omar to Reintroduce Bill Creating Federal Board to Investigate 'Brutality' and Potentially Defund Police.  Far-left extremist Rep. Ilhan Omar is planning to reintroduce legislation this week that would create a federal board to investigate "police brutality."  Rep. Omar's bill, the National Police Misuse of Force Investigation Board Act, would create an eight person board appointed by Joe Biden to investigate police use of force and issue determinations of responsibility.  Departments that do not follow orders from the board would have their federal funding cut.  The findings of the investigation and recommendations issued by this board would be admissible in criminal and civil court proceedings against the law enforcement officer, Fox News notes.

Ilhan Omar Is Her New Husband's Biggest Client, Public Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and new husband Tim Mynett — who is also her campaign consultant — are downplaying the campaign cash the freshman lawmaker funneled to his consulting firm.  But campaign records show that Omar's campaign has been by far the firm's biggest client, funneling more than half-a-million dollars to the group in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, almost half of all the money the company took in from federal candidates.  Omar and Mynett announced their marriage last Wednesday after vigorously denying they were engaged in a romantic relationship.  Now Omar's campaign and Mynett's firm, the E Street Group, a campaign consultancy for progressives, are defending their professional relationship from critics who have charged that Omar broke the law by improperly using campaign money for personal travel — in particular, to reimburse Mynett's travel from California to Washington, D.C., to visit Omar.

Rep. Omar introduces Agenda 21.  Without respect to the fact that states have the authority to regulate housing contracts, Ilhan Omar uses a viral smokescreen to begin implementing some of the worst features of Agenda 21, the leftist promise that the government will provide affordable housing for everyone.  On March 11, she introduced H.R. 1847, a bill "To suspend obligations of residential renters and mortgagors to make payments during the COVID-19 emergency, and for other purposes."  So far only a draft of the text is available.  Essentially, the bill says that real property tenants can stop paying their landlords.  Our country was not founded on the moral code that one is not responsible for one's obligations and debts.  However, these socialists would make it so.  Unsurprisingly, this bill is full of problems.  It provides for a COVID suspension period ending April 2022 (Sec. 8(3)), but the landlord relief fund runs for five years (Sec. 5 (c)(1)).  It seems as if it's planning to extend for up to five years a tenant's freedom from rent obligations, should the bill become law.

Rabbis: Ilhan Omar's Promotion Shows 'Antisemitism Now Accepted in Congress'.  The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, declared Monday that the promotion of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to a senior committee position shows that Congress accepts antisemitism.  As Breitbart News reported Sunday, Omar was promoted to the position of Vice Chair on the Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights subcommittee within the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rep. Ilhan Omar takes leadership post in House Foreign Affairs.  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is rising on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as she steps into the role of vice chairwoman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Africa and global human rights issues.  Omar's office said her new position was being announced Thursday in Washington.  The panel's full name is the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

GOP Lawmakers Introduce OMAR Act to Prevent Federal Candidates from Putting Relatives on Campaign Payroll.  Republican lawmakers in the House introduced legislation last week dubbed the OMAR Act to address the circumstances surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) paying her husband's consulting firm $2.8 million during her campaign for a House seat.  Conservative congressmembers filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and now hope to prohibit enriching relatives through the campaigning process.  "For too long, lawmakers of both political parties have engaged in the ethically dubious practice of pocketing campaign funds by 'hiring' their spouses and laundering the money as campaign-related expenses," Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said in a statement.

Cut Off from Campaign Cash, Omar's Husband Turns to Booze Biz.  After Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) announced that she was cutting ties with husband Tim Mynett's political consulting firm, Mynett turned his attention to a new mission: advising wine and beverage companies.  Mynett and his business partner, Will Hailer, quietly registered a second venture in October 2019. But it wasn't until Omar said she would terminate her contract with their political consulting firm that they really turned their attention to the new business.  Omar's campaign paid Mynett's firm, E Street Group, $2.9 million during the 2020 election cycle — nearly 80 percent of what the firm took in from federal committees.  Documents filed with D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs show that E Street Group LLC registered the trade name eStreet.co in October 2019.  The newer group carries a website address identical to its name, which is separate from that of Mynett's political consulting site.

Federal filings show Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2020 campaign made up nearly 80% of payments to her husband's consulting firm.  Federal Election Commission filings reveal payments from Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign made up the vast majority of money her husband's consulting firm earned during the 2020 election cycle.  E Street Group, which is partially owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, drew in $2.9 million from Rep. Omar's 2020 campaign and $3.7 million in total political spending from other candidates.  Between January 2019 and November 2020, Omar's campaign contributed 78 percent of the total campaign funds received by the E Street Group.

House Republicans Begin Effort To Remove Democrat Ilhan Omar From Committees.  Several House Republicans are moving to remove far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments this week after Democrats announced recently that they are pushing to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a conspiracy theorist, from her committee assignments.  "The House is set to consider a measure this week that calls for Taylor Greene, a controversial first-term lawmaker known for his support of the QAnon conspiracy theory, from her assignment on the Education and Labor Committee," Fox News reported.  "A proposed GOP-backed amendment to that measure calls for Omar, frequently identified as a member of the 'Squad' of progressive Democrats, to be removed from her committee assignments."

Rep. Omar Melts Down; Will Draw Up Articles Of Impeachment In Attempt To Remove Trump.  In light of the protests in Washington DC, Rep Omar and the Democrats are drawing up a plan to try to remove President Trump from office as soon as possible.  Although the protest was overwhelmingly peaceful despite a few exceptions, Rep. Omar is blaming Trump for the chaos occurring at the Capitol.  "I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.  Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.  We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath," she tweeted.  Sadly, the tweet has received over 600k tweets.  The left is going to try to overthrow President Trump.

Rep. Ilhan Omar says she's drawing up articles of impeachment against Trump.  Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent critic and frequent target of President Donald Trump, announced she was drawing up articles of impeachment against the president following supporters infiltrating the Capitol Wednesday.  "I am drawing up articles of impeachment," she tweeted.  "Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.  We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath."

Rep. Omar:  It's Trump's Fault That Democrats Killed My Father.  Rep. Omar asked for privacy when her father died over the summer.  And that seemed fair enough since she didn't politicize his death beyond a brief Islamic social media tribute.  But Omar can't stop being her own usual horrible self for very long and so she decided to blame President Trump for her father's death. [...] Minneapolis is run by Democrats.  President Trump allowed local areas to set their own coronavirus policies.  Omar's father lived and died by whatever policies were set in Minneapolis and MN. Omar hasn't bothered to explain what exactly she blames President Trump for.  If anyone killed her father, it was her fellow Democrats.  Finally, Somalis in Europe appeared to be especially vulnerable to the virus, dying at higher rates than the native population.  There hasn't been a clear explanation for the causes of this, but some possibilities have included a genetic predisposition.  That and unsafe behavior.

James Woods Dunks On Ilhan Omar After She Calls For the Abolishment of Death Penalty, Electoral College & ICE.  On Thursday, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar called for the abolishment of the death penalty, the Electoral College, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  "Abolish the death penalty.  Abolish the electoral college.  Abolish ICE," Omar said in a tweet.  Conservative Actor James Woods dunked on Omar the next day by bringing up her past:  "Abolish bigamy," Woods said.  Woods was referring to the allegations Omar is facing regarding her relationship with multiple men at the same time.

How Did Omar's Husband Get $634,000 in Pandemic Bailout Cash?  PPP loans were meant to help organizations keep paying their employees.  Economic Injury Disaster loans, the bulk of the E Street Group cash, was meant for organizations experiencing, in the SBA's words, a "downturn in revenue".  Specifically, they had to have, "suffered working capital losses due to the coronavirus pandemic, not due to a downturn in the economy or other reasons".  The Free Beacon report appears to document a thriving business swimming in cash from Rep. Omar and other lefties.  Beyond that, a baseline question is how exactly a political consultancy would have suffered a downturn in revenue during an election year.  Conventional non-profits who live and die by donations might have, but there's no sign that the cash ever stopped flying to Omar or to E Street Group.

Ilhan Omar's husband received $635k in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm.  Ilhan Omar's husband received $635,000 in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm, despite the congresswoman paying his company nearly $2.25 million this year, according to a new report.  Tim Mynett's E Street Group was given $134,800 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and an additional $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans (EIDL) in April, records show.  Mynett co-owns the Washington D.C. firm, which has also been paid $2,256,700 since the start of 2020 from Omar's campaign for services that include digital advertising, fundraising consulting and website production, campaign records show.

Ilhan Omar's husband's firm got $500K in pandemic relief as he raked in $$$ advising her.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign paid millions to her husband's media firm for consultations.  The campaign gave him an additional $138,000 right before she severed ties.  This followed her successful re-election, federal campaign finance filings show.  Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, raked in millions during the 2020 campaign season from Omar's campaign through his firm, the E Street Group LLC.  This is an addition to the nearly $2.8 million her campaign had already paid Mynett's firm.  About severing ties, she said it might not look good.

Ilhan Omar Cuts Ties With Husband's Consulting Firm After Nearly $3 Million In Campaign Payments.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota announced Sunday that she had severed financial ties with her husband's consulting firm after her campaign had divvied out nearly $3 million to the company.  Omar's campaign was the largest known client of Tim Mynett's firm, E Street Group, having paid the firm $2.78 million since July 2019, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.  Mynett co-owns the firm with Will Hailer, a former staffer for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.  E Street Group's second-largest client that reports to the FEC was the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which has reported payments of $128,000 to the firm.  Omar said in an email Sunday to her supporters that she did not cut ties with her husband's firm sooner because of the spending her primary and general election opponents put up against her.

Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls President Trump's Campaign Rallies "Klan Rallies".  Radical Muslima Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday called President Trump's campaign rallies "Klan rallies."  Ilhan Omar's lies and dehumanization of Trump supporters is precisely why there was violence against men and women who attended the million MAGA march for Trump in DC over the weekend.  According documents and sources previously reported by investigative journalist David Steinberg, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to defraud US immigration.  In fact, evidence is mounting that Ilhan Omar isn't even her real name.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has paid her husband's consultancy firm $2.8 million since the start of 2019.  Ilhan Omar paid her husband's political consultancy firm $2.8 million during the 2019-2020 election cycle, campaign finance records show.  The Democrat congresswoman handed husband Tim Mynett's eStreet Group $1.6 million between 2019 and July 22 this year, another $1.1million between July 22 and the end of September and paid an additional $27,000 since then.  The majority of the money has been spent on digital advertising, FEC records show, but charges also include consultancy fees and more than $2,700 in travel expenses.

Omar Says Supreme Court Has Lowest Approval Rating 'At 10%' — But It's Really 58%.  The problem with Democrats is that they literally make things up to avoid telling the truth.  For example, men cannot give birth — but they'll tell you they can.  Accordingly, Congress, has the lowest approval rating of the three executive branches of government — not the Supreme Court.  But if you're a follower of Ilhan Omar (MN), you wouldn't know it.  She lives to lie.

Ilhan Omar Funnels 70 Percent of Campaign Expenditures to Husband's Company.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $1.1 million to her husband's company, bringing her total payments to the firm to $2.7 million for the election cycle, new filings show.  Omar's campaign filings, released Thursday, show that she sent $1.1 million more to the E Street Group, a political consulting firm owned by her husband, Tim Mynett.  The payments account for nearly 70 percent of the $1.6 million Omar's campaign has disbursed between July 23 and the end of September.  They have helped cover advertisements, consulting, travel expenses, and production costs.  Omar has faced criticism on a number of issues since she entered Congress in 2018.

Book Her, Danno.  Reporting on Minnesota's ethically challenged Rep. Ilhan Omar over the past four years, I came to the conclusion that she is heedless of the laws and rules that apply to mere mortals.  She views herself as immune from them and so far she has proven right.  In December 2019 Omar reportedly received a substantial cash advance — Forbes pegged it in a range from $100,00 to $250,000, although I was told it was $300,000 — for a book written on her behalf.  (The book was published earlier this year.)  Forbes picked up the Publishers Marketplace notice of Omar's book deal in a report dated January 16, 2019.  I noted the advance in "Divorce, Minnesota style."  The Washington Free Beacon wondered in a staff report whether Omar had complied with the applicable House ethics rule.  Under House Rule 25, among other things, a member (1) is prohibited from receiving royalties unless the book contract is first approved by the Ethics Committee and (2) is prohibited from receiving an advance against royalties.

Minnesota Supporters Chant 'Lock Her Up' as Trump Mentions Ilhan Omar.  Supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday chanted, "lock her up," when the president referred to recent reporting exposing an organized ballot harvesting scheme in Minneapolis connected to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  "I've been reading reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is," Trump said at a campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota.  The crowd repeatedly chanted, "lock her up," after Trump mentioned Ilhan Omar.  "What about Ohmar where she gets caught harvesting," Trump said.  "What [...] is going on!  I hope the U.S. attorney gets involved."

Project Veritas Exposes Naked Corruption by Ilan Omar Supporters Paying Voters for Blank Ballots in Minneapolis.  As more details come to light regarding the undercover operation by Project Veritas, assisted by a Somali Community "whistleblower" in Minneapolis — Omar Jamal, a community activist — the entire country is given an up-close look at how a sophisticated operation can literally create thousands of fraudulent ballots in an unsecured and unregulated "vote-by-mail" free for all. [...] Democrat Party interest groups across the country have, for months, been demanding increased availability and use of mail-in ballots due to health concerns involving the COVID 19 pandemic.  There are a host of questions with respect to issues of security in dealing with a massive volume of mailed ballots, most of which, to this point, have focused on the secure and timely transmission and receipt of those ballots to local election officials by the US Postal Service, which has never been tasked to deliver millions and millions of mailed ballot envelopes on a specific day.  But what the PV investigation has revealed is that the "security" of such a process is inherently compromised long before the ballots enter the mailing system on the return trip to election officials.

After Ilhan Omar's Fiasco, Biden's Texas Political Director Was Formally Accused Of Illegal Ballot Harvesting With Video As Evidence.  [Scroll down]  But it seems that the Dems are exposed even more as witnesses allege Texas Sen. Boris Miles and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis were orchestrating a ballot harvesting scheme with help from Biden campaign official Dallas Jones.  According to a lawsuit filed with the Texas Supreme Court Monday [9/28/2020], Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden's political director in Texas has been accused of ballot harvesting in Harris County.  Harris County is Texas' most populous county; Houston is its and the state's largest city.  According to the lawsuit, which was filed by conservative activist Dr. Steven Hotze and several others, two investigators accuse Dallas Jones and several prominent Democrat officeholders of organizing a ballot harvesting scheme.  Jones was named Joe Biden's political director in Texas in late August with stories appearing in media earlier in September.

Minneapolis police probing alleged ballot harvesting plot helping Rep. Omar.  A police investigation has been launched into the alleged ballot harvesting plot helping progressive "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar.  "Allegations of voter fraud being evaluated," the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced on Twitter Monday [9/28/2020], hours after President Trump called for an investigation into the "misdeeds."  "The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting.  We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements," the department said.  The force added that "no further information is available at this time," including whether the Democratic congresswoman would be involved in the initial investigation.

Follow-up: Project Veritas Shows Cash Exchanges for Voter Ballots Organized by Representative Ilhan Omar.  In part two of an explosive exposé, a Minnesota-based source tells Project Veritas that the mastermind behind the rampant voter fraud scheme is Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) herself and her extensive political machine.  "Nobody would say that Ilhan Omar isn't part of this," said Omar Jamal, a Somali community Insider and the Chairman of the Somali Watchdog group.  "Unless you're from a different planet, but if you live in this universe, I think everybody knows it."  Jamal said Ali Isse Gainey, a senior Ilhan Omar staffer, is at the center of the vote-buying scheme.

Flashback: Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Uncovered Minneapolis Ballot Harvesting Scheme in 2018.  Last night, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas released a bombshell video indicating that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) may be leading an illicit ballot harvesting scheme intended to influence the results of the upcoming elections in November. [...] The report from O'Keefe echoes the work of investigative journalist turned Congressional candidate, Laura Loomer.  Loomer used to work for Project Veritas before she would go on to become the most banned journalist in history, with Big Tech conspiring to remove her from their monopoly platforms.  City Pages covered Loomer's investigative work in the most snarky way imaginable at the time, laughing off all concerns about ballot harvesting by Democrats in Minneapolis.  "Many people telling me they saw Somalis being bussed in to vote in Minneapolis," Loomer wrote in a tweet that has since been wiped from the internet.  "I'm investigating."  The fake news media made light of her concerns.

Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Linked To Ilhan Omar Supporters, Says Project Veritas.  Project Veritas — the investigative journalism outfit led by conservative activist James O'Keefe — released a new video Sunday night, appearing to expose a massive ballot harvesting scheme, with those involved asserting their fealty to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D). [...] The investigation showed three locations inside Ward 6 — what they calls [sic] "a ballot harvesting triangle" — where the scheme operates: the Riverside Plaza apartments, the senior citizen community at Horn Towers and the Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services office at 980 E. Hennepin Ave., which they say functions as a voting location and ballot drop-off site.

Project Veritas Exposes Ballot Harvesting Scheme With Alleged Ties to Ilhan Omar.  A new investigative report was put out by Project Veritas on Sunday exposing what appears to be a ballot harvesting scheme in Minnesota perpetrated by a group with alleged ties to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  The video includes footage of a ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, speaking in both English and Somali as he drives around collecting ballots from senior citizens.  According to Omar Jamal, chair of the Somali Watchdog Group, people like Liban Mohamed are paid to collect absentee ballots from senior citizens and the immigrant community.  Jamal outlines a ballot harvesting scheme conducted on behalf of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, in which Rep. Omar has become a major power broker.  One source in the report linked Ilhan Omar's campaign manager, Ali Isse Gainey, to the harvesting scheme.  "It's an open secret," Jamal said.  "She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that."

New Project Veritas Video:  Voter Fraud in Ilhan Omar's District.  A "ballot broker" boasts about keeping hundreds of absentee ballots in his car trunk.  He brags about them being filled in by people other than the voters.  Often, money changes hands.  Witnesses tie the rampant fraud to the campaign chairman of a prominent member of the radical "squad" in the U.S. House.  Loose election laws allow people to come from out of state, vote, and then leave again.  This activity is really happening in America in 2020, and it's been captured on video by guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe.  Some of it could be coming to swing states near you if something isn't done.

Project Veritas uncovers 'ballot harvesting fraud' in Minnesota.  A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.  One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard.  "Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman," says Mohamed, aka KingLiban1, in the video.  "I have 300 ballots in my car right now ... "Numbers don't lie.  You can see my car is full.  All these here are absentee ballots. ... Look, all these are for Jamal Osman," he says, displaying the white envelopes.

Ilhan Omar Connected Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Corrupts Elections.  Project Veritas investigators revealed a ballot harvesting scheme here involving clan and political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) in the first of a series of reports.  "Numbers don't lie.  Numbers don't lie.  You can see my car is full.  All these here are absentees' ballots.  Can't you see?  Look at all these, my car is full.  All these are for Jamal Osman... We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only," said Liban Mohamed in a series of Snapchat videos posted July 1 and July 2 on his own Snapchat profile.  Mohamed said he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city's Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race — which was held the same day as the primary for Omar's MN-05 congressional seat.  Ward 6 is the heart of the city's Somali community and the Omar's political base.

Trump calls for investigation into Rep. Omar over 'ballot harvesting' claims.  President Trump has called for an investigation into Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for alleged "ballot harvesting" in Minnesota. [...] The president was referring to a report from Project Veritas that implicates progressive "Squad" member Omar in an alleged cash-for-ballots scheme to gather absentee ballots illegally from Somali immigrants.  In a video posted by Project Veritas late Sunday [9/27/2020], Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown with ballots filling his car's dashboard.

Project Veritas Outlines Ballot Harvesting Fraud in Ilhan Omar Minnesota District.  Project Veritas investigators revealed a ballot harvesting scheme here involving clan and political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) in the first of a series of reports.  Central to the Project Veritas investigation was Omar Jamal, a political insider active in the city's Somali community.  Jamal works with the Ramsey County Sheriff Department and is the chairman of the Somali Watchdog Group.  "I have been involved in the community for the last 20 years."

His name is David Steinberg.  Speaking at his rally in Bemidji last night, President Trump paid tribute to the journalism of David Steinberg on Ilhan Omar. [...] Trump got it right:  David deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work exposing Omar.  When I met with President Trump about my own work on Omar just before he took the stage at his Minneapolis rally the following October, he expressed puzzlement over why she has proved immune from prosecution.  The same thought was clearly on Trump's mind last night [9/18/2020].  In the course of my own work, I have discovered that Omar was in fact under investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August 2016 following the publication of my original post "ILhan Omar:  Her back pages" — precisely as FOX 9's Tom Lyden reported later that month.

Nancy Pelosi Stands with Anti-Semites.  Last Wednesday [7/29/2020], Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Rep. Rashida Tlaib in her August 4 Michigan Democratic primary rematch with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones, whom Tlaib narrowly defeated in 2018.  Similarly, for the August 11 Minnesota primary, Pelosi endorsed another of Congress' three Israel-boycotters, Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been enthusiastically praised by David Duke, and was voted 2019 Antisemite of the Year in a poll by stopantisemitism.org.  What is Pelosi's motivation in supporting them?  Is it identity politics?  In Omar's race, Pelosi had the option of endorsing her progressive African-American opponent, who opposes the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) campaign to isolate and destroy Israel.  In Tlaib's race, where opponent Brenda Jones is a staunch ally of Rev. Louis Farrakhan, Pelosi had the option of staying neutral.

'Squad' Member Ilhan Omar Pays Husband's Firm Another $600,000, Bringing Total To More Than $1.6 Million:  Report.  Despite an ongoing federal complaint against her, Rep. Ilhan Omar's re-election campaign reportedly paid her new husband's consulting firm more than $600,000 in the first three weeks of July, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.  The Minnesota Democrat's campaign has now paid E Street Group, the firm led by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, more than $1.6 million since August 2018, according to FEC records.  The most recent payments were first reported by The Washington Free Beacon.  "The money accounted for 77 percent of the campaign's disbursements during that time," the Beacon reported.

Ilhan Omar Paid Her Husband's Firm $600,000 in Three Weeks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $606,000 to her husband's firm in the first three weeks of July alone, according to new campaign filings.  Federal Election Commission records released Thursday [7/30/2020] show that over the first three weeks of July, Omar's campaign sent $606,000 to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by Tim Mynett, Omar's husband.  The money accounted for 77 percent of the campaign's disbursements during that time.  Omar has sent massive sums to her husband's firm even as her Democratic opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, significantly outraised her ahead of the primary.  The challenger drew national attention with a $3.2 million fundraising haul over the past quarter, six times the amount Omar's campaign pulled in over the same period despite paying Mynett's firm large sums for fundraising assistance.

Ilhan Omar's Opponent Massively Outraises Her, Signals Trouble for Her Re-Election Campaign.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a tough primary challenge from her opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux.  That's something she likely wasn't expecting as she basked in the national spotlight over the last two years.  Is her radical district getting tired of her antics and penchant for getting nothing done but cable news hits and Twitter dunks?  Signs say maybe so.

Upset brewing in MN-05 primary?  Omar opponent raised millions in Q2.  Has Ilhan Omar grown too radical even for the heart of Minneapolis?  New FEC filings in the DFL primary for her seat in Congress show Omar in serious trouble.  The Star Tribune reported yesterday that challenger Antone Melton-Meaux raised seven times as much money as Omar, scoring $3.2 million against Omar's $471K.  Melton-Meaux now has twice as much cash on hand ahead of the August 11 primary.

Ilhan Omar's Payments to Husband's Firm Hit $1 Million in 2020 Cycle.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to dish out six-figure payments to her husband's firm, which has now received more than $1 million from her campaign this cycle.  Federal Election Commission records released Tuesday afternoon [7/14/2020] show that Omar's campaign funneled $228,384.93 last quarter to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by the congresswoman's husband, Tim Mynett.  The payments, predominantly for digital and fundraising services, bring the total that Omar's campaign has sent to Mynett's firm to just over $1 million for the 2020 cycle.

'Threat To Our Democracy': GOP Senator Demands Ilhan Omar Resignation.  Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to resign after calling for the "dismantling" of the U.S. political and economic systems Tuesday [7/7/2020].  During a speech to members of the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous Caucus in her home state, Omar said, "As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality.  We cannot stop at criminal justice system.  We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it."  [Video clip]  The clip, which went viral on social media, prompted condemnation from Blackburn, who tweeted, "Ilhan Omar took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, not shred it.  Omar and her Marxist comrades are a threat to our Democracy.  Omar should resign."

Don't Forget To Pack A Lunch.  Note to all those who still don't believe that the left, along with their seemingly endless stream of useful idiots, is intent on a path to dismantle America as it was founded: you are dangerously wrong. [...] Presumably the great dismantling begins by shredding the Constitution that Omar swore (on a Koran, so technically it doesn't count) to uphold and defend.  One can only imagine where the great dismantling ends.

Muslim Congresswoman Omar Calls for 'Dismantling' of the United States.  On Tuesday [6/7/2020], Muslim Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for the "dismantling" of the entire American way of life as a way to mollify the radical Black Lives Matter movement.  Speaking in Washington D.C., the Minnesota Rep. said that defunding the police was not enough and that every part of America had to be torn down to suit her dangerous anti-Americanism.  "As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality," Omar said.  "We cannot stop at criminal justice system.  We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it."

Omar Faces Ethics Outcry Over Payments To Husband After Decrying Those Who Profit Under Our "System Of Oppression".  Rep. Iihan Omar has been much in the news for her extreme positions on defunding police departments and yesterday calling for the dismantling of not just the American economy but the political system.  In declaring her support for sweeping legislation yesterday, Omar railed against the American economic and political systems as a "system of oppression" and insisted that we cannot allow people to "prioritize profit without considering who is profiting."  That question however is now being raised in growing ethical concerns over Omar giving her husband's company a massive amount of her campaign funds.  This has been an issue that I have written about for over two decades as a legal but corrupt practice.  The two stories show once again that the only defining element in Washington greater than irony is hypocrisy in both of our political parties.

Ungrateful Omar seeks 'dismantling' of U.S. political and economic system.  Mogadishu-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has found something new to be ungrateful for: the entire U.S. political and economic system, which she now calls upon to be canceled. [...] So abolishing the police is not enough — although it certainly looks as though she's got some impressive bodyguard police protection herself.  Rather, the entire economic and political system of her adopted country has got to go, too, in the country that embraced her as a supposedly pitiful Somali refugee who grew up in part in a Kenyan refugee camp.  Instead of look on the United States in awe, as normal immigrants do, she stands in judgment, and the U.S. is just not good enough.

Ilhan Omar Calls for 'Dismantling' of America's 'Economy and Political Systems'.  Tuesday at a news conference on systemic racism with Minnesota leaders, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for dismantling systems of oppression, including America's "economy and political systems."  Omar said, "Right now in Congress the Senate is sitting on a comprehensive bill to transform criminal justice and the policing system.  All along with the Congressional Black Caucus, I helped led the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.  And because of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, it is being ignored.  I guess the president would rather attack the people who are protesting than actually address the issues people are out here protesting for."

Ilhan Omar has paid new husband's consulting firm $878,000, filings show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has continued quietly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to her new husband's consulting film, including a $189,000 windfall in March — just weeks after they announced they had tied the knot, campaign data shows.  The payments between the Minneapolis Democratic congresswoman and Tim Mynett prompted at least one ethics complaint in 2019 after The Post first revealed allegations — made by Mynett's then-wife in her divorce filing — that Omar was having an affair with the member of her political consulting team, who was at the time married to another woman.  Omar was married to her second husband at the time.  But that doesn't appear to have stopped the now-married couple, with Mynett's E Street Group collecting $292,814.99 from his wife's campaign this year for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and research services, according to the Federal Election Commission filings.

Dem Rep. Omar vows 'whole system' of U.S. economy must be gutted due to 'oppression'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar says America is a giant "system of oppression" needing an immediate "dismantling" far beyond current calls for criminal justice reform.  The Minnesota Democrat told constituents Tuesday [7/7/2020] that most national conversations about the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic fail to realize the size and scope of change she envisions.  "We can't stop at criminal justice reform or policing reform," she said during an outdoor press conference.  "We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system.  We are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing, in education, in health care, in employment, [and] in the air we breathe."

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Wow.  There's a system of oppression in the air we breathe, she says.  What a miserable person she must be.

Communities will still be 'safe' without cops, says Ilhan Omar - but fails to explain how Americans will be protected or crimes investigated without law enforcement.  Ilhan Omar said Sunday that American communities will still be 'safe' even without law enforcement and the dismantlement of police departments, claiming that they would be replaced with something else — but she did not specify what that would be.  'I think that's really where the conversation is going wrong, because no one is saying that the community is not going to be kept safe,' Omar told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning [6/14/2020].  The progressive Minnesota representative asserted that crimes would still be investigated and there would still be a 'proper response when community members are in danger.'

Democrat Ilhan Omar:  Defund Minneapolis Police, They're 'Cancer'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for defunding the Minneapolis Police Department on Sunday [6/7/2020], saying that they were a "cancer" and that the department was "rotten to the root."  "Well, we've had a black president, we've had a Congressional Black Caucus, we've had black mayors, we've had black governors, and we've had black city councilmembers, we've had black police chiefs, yet we are still getting killed, brutalized, surveilled, massley [sic] incarcerated, and we are still having conversations with our children on how to have a conversation with the people that are supposed to protect and serve them so that those people don't in return kill them," Omar said during a rally.

Ilhan Omar and Her Daughter Encourage Chaos and Mayhem in the Minnesota Streets.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her daughter are pushing for the chaos and mayhem in the streets of Minneapolis, Minn. that has turned the streets into a Somali-style war zone.  Omar has written tweets expressing sympathy for the terrorists in the streets burning down their city due to supposed concerns about police brutality.

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Of course Omar's daughter is immune to criticism.

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Retweets List of Supplies For "Comrades" Who Are Rioting in Minneapolis.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi, retweeted a list of supplies for "comrades" who are rioting in Minneapolis.  Isra Hirsi is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and her Twitter bio says she 'hates capitalism.'  Isra Hirsi retweeted a post from Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists of America): [...]

Ilhan Omar:  I Believe Tara Reade, But I'm Still Voting For Biden.  Tara Reade has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her back in the 1990s when he was the Senator for Delaware.  Unlike when President Donald Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh were accused, many on the left have decided to not #BelieveAllWomen this time around, and have dismissed her claims.  This was to be expected, as the left often claim any accusations of wrongdoing by people on "their side" are false, because leftists are nice people!  However, some on the Democrat side of the argument have seemed to go one step further than this, claiming that they believe the allegations put forward by Reade are true, but that they simply do not care.

Crooked Ilhan Omar Just Got Caught Raising Money for a Minnesota Food Store and Pocketing the Cash.  Ilhan Omar has only been in Congress for one term and already this woman has been caught in numerous scandals including immigration fraud, marrying her brother and funneling money into her lover's consulting firm!  Now we can add one more crime to the list.

COVID-19 is no good reason to cancel rents or mortgages.  As the housing market collapsed in 2008 and 2009, millions of people stopped paying their mortgages.  The ensuing disaster — the secondary mortgage market imploded — is something no rational person should want to repeat.  It is thus astonishing that some members of Congress want a reprise.  In their ignorance of how the world works and their desire to pander to voters, they advocate compounding the economic disaster brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic.  This began when Rep. Ilhan Omar, in her typically short-sighted and economically illiterate way, called for "canceling" rent payments during the plague.  This would be as disastrous now as it was a decade ago.

Omar still flushing campaign cash into husband's firm.  Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's husband is still making headlines, but not of the best variety. (To be clear, we're talking about her latest husband here, not the previous one who may or may not have been her brother.) As you may recall, Tim Mynett is the owner and CEO of the E Street Group political consulting firm.  He's been the primary beneficiary of the Omar campaign's largesse, receiving the lion's share of all the campaign contributions that Omar has taken in.  Even after this fact was brought to light previously, Omar didn't slow down the cash flow a bit.  FEC records indicate the Mynett was the recipient of well over a quarter-million dollars in the last quarter.

Omar Funnels Nearly $300,000 More to Her Husband's Firm.  Democratic representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to push cash from her campaign committee to her now-husband's consulting firm.  Omar's new committee filings, posted Wednesday afternoon, show that during the first three months of the year, the campaign paid $292,905 to the E Street Group.  E Street is a political consulting firm owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett.  The cash, which reportedly went toward an array of services that included fundraising and advertisements, accounted for over 40 percent of the campaign's $674,892 in disbursements.  Omar raised $456,374 during the quarter.

Ilhan Omar is on track to pay her new husband's consulting company $1.16M, new figures show.  Radical congresswoman Ilhan Omar is on track to pay her new husband's company nearly double the half million dollars she funneled his way last year, new figures obtained by DailyMail.com show.  In the first three months of this year Omar paid more than $290,000 to the E Street Group, a fundraising and consulting group run by Tim Mynett, who she married last month.  If she continues at this rate it will mean the company would get a whopping $1.16 million from Omar's campaign in 2020.  It received a total of $523,000 for the whole of last year.

Ilhan Omar Is Using The Wuhan Virus To Shill For Iran.  In the face of a global pandemic, one might think a U.S. representative's sole focus would be on the well-being of her constituents.  But in the case of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, one would be incorrect.  She is using the Wuhan coronavirus to bash America to the benefit of the Iranian regime.  On March 13, Omar, the subject of my new book "American Ingrate," retweeted a thread blaming a medical supplies shortage in Iran on U.S. sanctions, writing, "We need to suspend these sanctions before more lives are lost."  She tweeted this in spite of the fact that it is the U.S. government's long-standing policy, including during this pandemic, to permit the sale of "agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran."

Man who spilled Ilhan Omar's secret about marrying her brother now 'fears for his life'.  The Somali immigrant who spilled Rep. Ilhan Omar's secret, that the Minnesota Democrat had married her brother, says he now fears for his life.  Omar, who has had more scandal in her first term than many members of Congress experience in a career, told friends years ago that the man who became her second husband was her brother, according to Abdihakim Osman, DailyMail.com previously reported.  According to Osman, Omar, while married to Ahmed Hirsi, said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States.  But few realized that meant marrying him.  "No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later," Osman told DailyMail.com.

Omar's new husband made more than half a million off her campaigns.  On Thursday [3/12/2020], John wrote about the recently announced nuptials of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her then-campaign consultant Tim Mynett, the head of E Street Group.  While Omar's marital history still raises many questions, [...] the current media scrutiny about this event has more to do with questions of potential campaign finance impropriety.  At the WaPo, Michelle Ye Hee Lee looks back at the new groom's involvement with Omar's campaigns and the financial windfall it brought him and his firm.

Ilhan Omar Secretly Marries Democrat Operative Tim Mynett, Previously Denied Alleged Affair.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) revealed Wednesday evening that she secretly wedded her alleged lover, Democrat political consultant Tim Mynett. [...] Reports of Omar's relationship with Mynett, a Washington, D.C., consultant who specializes in fundraising for Democrat lawmakers, first made the rounds after Mynett's now-ex-wife alleged in August divorce filings that her then-husband engaged in an extramarital affair with Omar. [...] FEC campaign filings show that Omar's campaign has paid Mynett's firm, E Street Group, $215,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total money paid to the firm to $525,000.  The payments could land the freshman congresswoman in hot water.

Balkanization of America Accelerating Faster Than Expected.  The Somalian immigrant and House member Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a democrat and a devout Muslim intent on installing Sharia Law in America, said, "I want all Muslims in America to make all Americans uncomfortable."  Indeed, they have made us uncomfortable with 9/11, Fort Hood murders, Fort Dix attack, NYC car bomber, San Bernardino Christmas killings, Garland Texas killings, Fort Lauderdale massacre of 50 at a gay nightclub, Denver bomber, an average of 23 to 27 honor killings in our country annually, and female genital mutilation cases now numbering 500,000 in our first world country where women maintain equal rights, but not in their religion.

Ilhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders flops in Minnesota.  Since last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders has held deafening rallies with surrogate Rep. Ilhan Omar in tow, bringing her to St. Paul the night before the state primary in a bid to win Sen. Amy Klobuchar's home state of Minnesota.  But months of campaigning with the bombastic Minneapolis representative not only couldn't lock down the state, but it didn't even help deliver Omar's congressional district.  Instead, Sanders lost by more than 60,000 votes in a state he won in 2016.  What's more, he didn't lose to native Klobuchar (which could have been expected), but to Joe Biden, who didn't contest the state but surged overnight after Klobuchar bowed out of the race and backed him.

Ilhan Omar: 'I Am Hijabi, Muslim, Black ...' Fails to Mention American.  Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was at the epicenter of criticism his week when she tweeted her laundry list of identity markers — but failed to include the fact that she is "American." [...] Senator Ted Cruz was quick to the draw, calling out Ilhan Omar on the omission of her "American" identity.

Ilhan Omar is getting so obnoxious, she could swing Minnesota red in November.  The Democrats' poster girl for America-hating could swing Minnesota's ten electoral votes to President Trump in November.  Representative Ilhan Omar now obviously enjoys trolling Republicans, perhaps lulled into complacency by the MSM's general leftism and Minnesota media's complicity in suppressing news of her apparent immigration fraud by marrying her brother.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother & may Have Committed the 'Worst crime spree in Congressional history'.  The Ilhan Omar saga just keeps getting better and better.  While Ilhan accuses Trump of every evil under the sun, The Daily Mail is confirming that Ilhan DID marry her brother. [...] Omar demanded in the past that President Trump release his taxes, while Omar kept her own hidden.  Now why would she do that?  Because Omar committed tax fraud, not once, but multiple times.  She also accepted illegal payments from institutions she spoke at that she as part of her congressional duties helped to oversee.

Omar Pal Says Congresswoman Married Her Brother.  A Somali community leader who claims to have known Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for an extensive period of time said she married her brother to help him stay in the United States.  The Daily Mail reported that Abdihakim Osman alleged that Omar told friends the second man she married was her brother, and that she married him for immigration purposes:

Omar's reign of terror.  As of this morning, I can't find a story in the Minnesota media that follows up on the Daily Mail's report that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother in 2009 for fraudulent purposes.  It's not breaking news.  We — Preya Samsundar, David Steinberg, and I — have been telling the story over the past three and a half years.  The underlying story is Omar's reign of terror seeking to suppress the story.  The reign of terror extended beyond the Somali community to scoop up David Steinberg in Omar enforcer Guhaad Hashi's terroristic threats last month.  I reported on those threats [elsew]here.  My original Somali source was Abdi Nur.  He now speaks in the Daily Mail story by Martin Gould.  Abdi has a widely followed Facebook page for his videos and comments.  He posts under the name Xerta Shekh.

New confirmation that Ilhan Omar married her brother in immigration fraud plan.  From the moment Ilhan Omar emerged on the national political scene, rumors followed that she had married her own brother as part of a fraudulent immigration and education scheme.  Eventually, intrepid bloggers tracked down enough documentary evidence to justify an FBI investigation.  And now, at long last, a witness has emerged from the shadows to flesh out the story.  Scott Johnson, at PowerLine, and David Steinberg, writing at both PJ Media and The Blaze, have relentlessly teased out the facts behind Omar's complicated marriage and family life.  While Steinberg has been on the trail of documents, Johnson, a Minneapolis resident, met people in the Minneapolis Somali community.  Steinberg found enough documentary evidence of marital and immigration fraud to set the FBI on Omar.

Friend Of Ilhan Omar Claims Omar Married Her Brother To Get Him Into School.  A member of the Somali community in Minneapolis who says they are a friend of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has gone on the record to claim that Omar married her brother to get him the papers he needed to go to school in the U.S. "Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi," The Daily Mail reported.  "People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy [Ahmed Elmi],' Osman said.  "He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer.  People started whispering about him."

Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.'.  'Squad' congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm.  And now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.  Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.  But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.

What Really Makes Democrats and Republicans Different.  The Democratic Party today embraces sharia-compliant females — à la Brooklyn's Linda Sarsour and Minnesota's Ihlan Omar — along with hyper-feminists and LBGT constituencies.  The Democrats also embrace expansive abortion rights and seem to be moving to the point of legalizing abortion up to the minute of birth.  New York State has legalized such a broad definition.  Ironically, Islamic countries and culture are notoriously restrictive with abortion and lethal to any LBGTs who fall into their hands.  So why would practicing Muslims, such as Mmes.  Sarsour and Omar, attach themselves to the Democratic Party?  How do the two of them reconcile Islamic culture's honor killing, repression of sexuality, and mutilation of women with the Democratic Party's acceptance of sexual deviance?  Likewise, how does the Democratic Party reconcile these ladies' embrace of a retrograde creed?

Ilhan Omar Bill Would Let Congress Restrict President's Power on Sanctions, National Emergencies.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has introduced a series of sweeping foreign policy bills, including one that would let Congress limit the president's power to place international sanctions and declare national emergencies.  Omar describes the legislative package, titled "Pathway to PEACE (Progressive, Equitable, and Constructive Engagement)," as "a bold progressive vision to rethink the country's approach to foreign policy by centering human rights, justice and peace as the pillars of America's engagement in the world, and making military action a last resort" in a press release. [...] Omar has telegraphed her practical aims for this particular policy.  In the past year, the freshman congresswoman has bucked bipartisan majorities to call for the end of sanctions on despotic regimes such as Iran and Venezuela.

Omar on Refugees: 'We Don't Ever Pause to Think, What American Policy Made Them Come Over Here?'.  As she prepares to launch her vision of what a "progressive" foreign policy looks like, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has suggested that U.S. policies are to blame for driving refugees to leave their home countries and for climate "catastrophes" abroad.  On Wednesday, Omar is scheduled to hold a briefing on Capitol Hill to launch her "Pathway to Peace" vision.  According to a blurb on her Facebook page, it "centers on human rights, justice and peace as the pillars of America's engagement in the world, and makes military action a last resort."

Ilhan Omar Hates America.  On Friday [2/7/2020], Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib participated in a "radical democracy" event at Howard University in Washington.  The YouTube video below shows Omar's four-minute riff on the theme that everything that goes wrong in the world is America's fault.  Thanks to the Washington Free Beacon for bringing it to light.  Omar's blame-America-first ideology is comprehensive.  Are there refugees in the world?  It's because of American foreign policy!  Are we raising money to help victims of floods abroad?  Floods are our fault because climate change!  Is it bad when American manufacturing jobs go overseas?  Yes, but only because foreign workers are subjected to the horrors of American capitalism!  You really have to see it to believe it.  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar:  I Was Disappointed When I First Came to America.  Speaking at a campaign rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ilhan Omar told a story of her first impressions upon arriving in America, expressing her disappointment at what she saw.  Omar was making a point of trashing America for homelessness, a cause dear to her heart as she pushes her 'Homes For All Act,' legislation allegedly designed to make housing 'a human right.'  "When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York," the Minnesota Democrat recalled.  "And I remember turning to my father and saying, 'This doesn't look like the America you promised.'"

FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The [New York] Post has learned.  Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said.  At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said.

Ilhan Omar in Service of Islamist Agendas.  Freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is often presented in the press as the quintessential Muslim American, representing the values of an increasingly politically active class of voters who cling to their religious convictions while embracing progressive activism.  She has unilaterally established the boundaries of appropriate discussion among Muslims, labeling any topic "Islamophobic" that infringes upon her carefully curated image as a champion of the oppressed.  Yet, when it comes to Omar's flirtations with Islamist dictators such as Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, her agenda could not be more at odds with the Muslim Americans she claims to represent.  While serving as a Minnesota state legislator in September 2017, Omar met Erdoğan in a closed-door meeting.  She gleefully tweeted about her experience in her native Somali, and it was covered in official Turkish media.  The only U.S.-based coverage of the exchange came from a Somali-language newspaper article that explained how Erdoğan concluded the meeting by asking Omar to pledge support for Turkey, before inexplicably being deleted.

Why Criminal Prosecution Might Be The Least Of Ilhan Omar's Legal Concerns.  [Scroll down]  Here is where it gets really complicated.  The requirements for automatic acquisition have changed several times throughout the last century.  The marital status of Omar's parents would determine whether she could have acquired citizenship.  I have no details about their marital status to be able to determine if these legal requirements were fulfilled.  However, if Omar did not have to apply for naturalization, it could eliminate one possible crime that she could be charged with:  knowingly giving false information in furtherance of an application for citizenship.  A conviction for this crime would lead to her denaturalization, resulting in the loss of citizenship, and the institution of removal proceedings to deport her.

Final Days for Ilhan Omar?  Don't expect the national media to report this, but Representative Ilhan Omar is attracting more credible opponents than any sitting member of Congress.  Like angry hornets, a swarm is gathering and buzzing around her.  Her days as a Congresswoman may be numbered.  It could be a finite number.  She faces at least three opponents on the Democratic side.  Splitting the opposition may actually help her survive the primary.  The Squad, the fawning media and the Hollywood Left will rally around her.  But, the primary fight will likely leave its mark going into the November general election.

Ilhan Omar is finally getting the scrutiny she deserves for possible illegal acts.  [Scroll down]  She also entered Congress at the same time as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.  All young, all leftist, all arrogant, the four women were dubbed "the squad" and proceeded to act as if they owned Congress.  While Ocasio-Cortez burbled Leftist nonsense, Tlaib and Omar got down to the business of denigrating America, Israel, and Jews.  They disliked the American military and mourned Soleimani's death.  Despite their puritanical faith, they pushed on America every possible Progressive policy.  The mainstream media were in love with the Squad, especially the exotic Omar.  Conservatives had problems, serious problems, with her politics.  And a small cadre of dogged conservative journalists, most notably at PJ Media and Power Line, found particularly dismaying Omar's probable marital and immigration fraud.

Cops call for arrest of Rep. Omar after armed Iranian national captured at Mar-a-Lago.  In Palm Beach, FL Friday morning [1/10/2020], an Iranian national was arrested about four miles from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago presidential retreat.  The man, identified as Masoud Yareioeill Zoleh on his passport, was armed with several knives, a machete and a pickax.  Zoleh was arrested at Bradley Park, which is on the east end of the Flagler Memorial Bridge, according to Palm Beach police spokesman Michal Ogrodnick.  Police responded to a call at around 9:30 a.m. and found Zoleh, who also had $22,000 on him and had a car parked at the Palm Beach International Airport.  What might be most troubling about the entire thing is that just days ago, "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar called for Iran to go after Trump properties.

'Evidence is Overwhelming' Ilhan Omar DID Commit Fraud, Marry Her Brother.  Keeping track of openly anti-Semitic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's convoluted marital history is almost as hard as keeping up with the players in the "Trump/Russia" investigation.  And now, in what appears to be a case of marriage/immigration/loan fraud and perjury, it's gotten even more complicated, just as critics zero in on the question of whether or not she married her own biological brother.  Rep. Omar has reportedly just split from her on-again, off-again husband (and non-brother) Ahmed Hirsi.  She first married Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002 and divorced him in 2008.  Now she lives husband-free in a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis' trendiest neighborhoods.

Ilhan Omar Laughs While Colleague Talks About U.S. Casualties In Iraq.  Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) laughed and giggled during a press conference on Wednesday while her colleague, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), discussed U.S. casualties from the Iraq war.  "I'm very glad to say that I was part of the 132 and also the vote for Barbara Lee's amendment, but I think that the point of that is that that is the same war that we're dealing with today," Lee said.  "We never solved any problems with AUMF, we left four thousand plus, maybe even forty four hundred dead, and over sixty thousand who came back injured in some form and the war never ended."  As Lee spoke, Omar could be seen standing behind her laughing while talking to her Democrat colleagues.

Treason? Ilhan Omar Gives Iran Military Advice, Suggests It Could Target Trump Hotels.  Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted Monday [1/6/2020] offering some unsolicited military advice to the Islamic Republic of Iran: [...] Omar's warning that Trump's "business interests should not be driving military decisions" makes no sense, because clearly the fact that Trump owns hotels that Iran could target didn't stop him from going after Qasem Soleimani.  But as far as Omar and her ideological allies are concerned, it doesn't matter how much they have to twist their logic into pretzels to get Trump, as long as they make the president look bad.  That imperative has now driven Omar even to give a military suggestion to a hostile foreign power.  The mullahs and their henchmen haven't said anything about targeting Trump hotels, so here is a United States congresswoman to give them a marvelous new idea about how they could murder Americans and others, and further menace the United States.

Ilhan Omar Named 2019 Anti-Semite of the Year.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) was named the 2019 anti-Semite of the year by an organization that seeks to combat the spread of anti-Jewish bias.  The organization StopAntiSemitism.org chose Omar, who has repeatedly spread anti-Israel and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, following a public nomination and voting period.

Top 10 atrocities from the now-vaunted Soleimani.  As creeps like Rep. Ilhan Omar denounce the rubout of Iranian terrorist kingpin Qassem Soleimani as the killing of a "foreign official," the press calls him "a farm boy" or "icon," and stupid Hollywood celebrities send their condolences to "the Iranian people," (who are celebrating, actually) the ugly hard reality remains that Qassem Soleimani, leader of the terrorist Quds force, was a monster, a stone-cold killer of innocents, the driving force behind Iran as a state sponsor of terror.

Ilhan Omar 'Outraged' Over Soleimani Killing, About 9/11 Not So Much.  The traitor class has been particularly vocal ever since Qasem Soleimani was killed.  The ever-winsome Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday [1/3/2020]:  "We are outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official, possibly setting off another war without Congressional authorization and has zero plan to deal with the consequences."  Wait, what?  Soleimani was a "foreign official"?  Isn't Ilhan Omar aware that Soleimani was no staid and stolid Iranian "official" sitting bored behind a desk somewhere in Tehran, but was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq?  Yes, she does know, and clearly she doesn't care.

Ilhan Omar is Pretty Upset We Just Killed the World's Leading Islamic Terrorist.  Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is incensed the United States has killed the world's leading Islamic terrorist, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. [...] On her Twitter feed, Omar condemns President Trump for approving the drone strike but doesn't condemn Soleimani or any of his actions.  Soleimani is responsible for the murder and maiming of thousands of Americans.  Omar has a history of sympathizing with terrorists.  She's refused to condemn Hamas, a terrorist organization funded by Iran, Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran and asked a judge to give leniency for a Somali man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name.  [Scroll down]  Among other things, the bill includes a first pass at debt relief for Somalia.  The United States is Somalia's biggest creditor ($1.1 billion); the bill reportedly provides $35 million toward the principal.  I am unable to identify what provision of the bill gets this done, but I take it that it does.  Given the interest in debt relief for Somalia among the Twin Cities' Somali community, Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar issued a press release "hailing" the bill. [...] Omar herself proclaimed on Twitter:  "We got this done today!" [...] Here's the funny thing.  Omar opposed the bill.

Rep. Ilhan Omar defended Nation of Islam-influenced group behind kosher market attack in Jersey City.  The New York Times called them "sidewalk ministers" who practice "tough love."  The paper quoted Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of racism and claimed that they were non-violent.  The Washington Post, in its own puff piece on the Black Hebrew Israelites, also falsely described them as non-violent, and concluded that, "Israelite street preaching in parts of D.C., Philadelphia and New York is commonplace, a familiar if odd accent to city life."  The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket.

Watch: Ilhan Omar Wants Trump Dealt With Like Murderous Mob Boss.  Speaking on MSNBC's "The Beat" with leftist host Ari Melber, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) compared President Trump to a mob boss, saying, "I've used examples where you've had mob bosses who have committed atrocity after atrocity, have violated our criminal codes of conduct, and we got them on one narrow case, but they get to serve time."  When Melber gushed that Omar was "artfully making a comparison on the legal precedent to this president and Al Capone," the murderous mobster of the Prohibition Era, Omar answered, "Yes."

Ilhan Omar 'Qatari asset,' Florida court hears.  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota-5th) was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediaries to Iran, a Florida court has been told.  The claims came during testimony by Kuwati-born Canadian businessman Alan Bender, who was giving evidence in the trial of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani.  The Qatari emir's brother stands accused of ordering his American bodyguard to murder two people, and of holding an American citizen hostage.  His deposition, obtained by Al Arabiya English, was authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs, according to the publication.

Omar Celebrates Islamist Electoral Wins with U.S. MB Supporters.  For many members of Congress, weekends are spent returning to their home districts to keep in touch with constituents.  For U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the weekend of Nov. 8 was devoted to embracing some of the country's most prominent and problematic Islamists.  She helped the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) raise money by speaking at its annual fundraising banquet Nov. 9.  The next day, she attended a brunch in the home of Esam Omeish, one of the country's most influential Islamist activists.  Campaign finance data posted by Opensecrets.org shows that nearly 87 percent of Omar's 2020 campaign contributions have come from donors outside of her district.  American Islamists were well represented in her 2018 campaign war chest.

Dogpatch in D.C.  Hunter Biden joins Katie Hill and Ilhan Omar in the annals of disreputable personal lives.  I don't generally care about the private lives of politicians, and it is a hackneyed observation, but still:  can you imagine the press hysteria if the people involved in these stories were Republicans?

Ilhan Omar funneled another $150K to alleged lover's consulting group.  Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to Tim Mynett's political consulting group in the three months after The Post first revealed allegations the pair were romantically involved, records show.  The 37-year-old Minnesota congresswoman's campaign has funneled $146,712.63 to Mynett's E Street Group since The Post in August reported allegations she was having an affair with her paid consultant, records show.  The latest payments to Mynett's group were for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production.

An Ilhan Omar Update.  The Daily Mail has recently published two stories [...] covering the tabloid-friendly aspects of Ilhan Omar's life and career.  These stories directly demonstrate a few of the lies that Omar is living and indirectly illustrate the protective cover provided by the Star Tribune.  The Daily Mail is doing the work that the Star Tribune refuses to do, as I am here on Power Line.  My thing is the incredible frauds in which Omar is enmeshed.  I mean to keep at it until she removes herself from high political office.  She is not the most important political figure in our firmament, but she lives and works in my back yard and I have developed knowledgeable sources as well as an appreciative readership in Minneapolis's Somali community.  Attention is warranted.

Ilhan Omar:  Bernie Sanders 'a President Who Will Fight Against Western Imperialism'.  Antisemitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) campaigned for presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Minneapolis on Sunday night where she said she is "excited for President Bernie Sanders."  "I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world," Omar told the crowd of Sanders supporters.  "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders."

Ilhan Omar, at Bernie Sanders rally, calls for 'mass movement of the working class' amid 'Lock him up' chants.  Amid repeated chants of "Lock him up!" and "Green New Deal," Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., issued a full-throated endorsement of Bernie Sanders at a spirited rally in Minneapolis' Williams Arena on Sunday night, saying a "mass movement of the working class" is needed to take down President Trump and end "Western imperialism," as she put it.  "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders!" Omar thundered at the conclusion of her remarks, as rock music blared throughout the University of Minnesota venue.  At no point did either Omar or Sanders attempt to stop attendees from shouting "Lock him up" whenever Trump was invoked.  Last year, CNBC's John Harwood had predicted that "any serious Democratic candidate will make a point of shutting down" such chants directed at the president.

Ilhan Omar's Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Polemic.  Last week the House voted overwhelmingly (405-11) in favor of formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by Ottoman Turks.  Among those miniscule few to vote "present," thereby abstaining from voting, was Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar. [...] But the main point is this:  if, as Omar contends, "earlier mass slaughters" should be mentioned, surely it should be those that are connected to the one highlighted in the resolution — in this case, ones that may possibly show patterns and precedents concerning the events surrounding the Armenian Genocide.  What's to be learned from a resolution that includes a myriad of unrelated atrocities throughout the millennia other than the sentiment that "all people are equally guilty"?  (Which, of course, is one of Omar's objectives, to relativize Islamic atrocities.)

Rep. Ilhan Omar Refuses To Vote For Bill Recognizing Armenian Genocide.  Yesterday evening [10/29/2019], Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) refused to vote in favor of a resolution that recognizes the 20th-century mass murder of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks as a "genocide."  The freshman representative merely listed herself as "present," releasing a statement later in the evening to CNN attempting to rationalize her choice.  But her explanation was far from satisfactory.

BDS Supporter Ilhan Omar: 'Sanctions Are ... Failed Foreign Policy'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who supports sanctions against Israel, has published an op-ed in Thursday's Washington Post that attacks President Donald Trump's use of sanctions as "part of a failed foreign policy playbook."  Omar came out in support of the anti-Israel "boycott, divestment, sanctions" (BDS) movement shortly after being elected to Congress in 2018 (and after misleading voters during the campaign into believing she did not support BDS).

Daily Mail:  Ilhan Omar and Boyfriend Share Nights at 'Secret' D.C. Apartment.  Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has reportedly been living "on and off" at a "secret" Washington, D.C., apartment with her rumored Democrat consultant boyfriend after denying for months that she and her husband were no longer together. [...] The arrangement prompted the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in which the group alleges the congresswoman illegally used campaign money to help carry on an affair with [her boyfriend].

Omar Funnels 30 Percent of Campaign Cash to Alleged Boyfriend's Firm.  Approximately 30 percent of the money doled out by the campaign of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in the third quarter went to digital fundraising, communications, and advertising services provided by the E Street Group, a firm run by her alleged boyfriend.  Omar's campaign committee, which raised a total of $1,084,098.84 in the third quarter, spent $493,389.80 during this time.  The E Street Group, a firm run by political consultant Tim Mynett, Omar's alleged lover, received more money from the campaign than any other vendor.  The Omar campaign paid the E Street Group $149,812.64 between July 1 and Sept. 30, its filings show.  That accounts for around 30 percent of Omar's total campaign disbursements over the same period.  Her campaign has over $1.5 million cash on hand.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar and Lover Tim Mynett Were Seen at the MN Trump Riots.  Riots of left wing radicals broke out in Minneapolis on Thursday night following President Trump's record-setting rally in the Target Center.  Far-left protesters reportedly made a bonfire with dozens of 'Make America Great Again' hats stolen off the heads of people who attended Thursday night's Trump rally in Minnesota.  Blaze correspondent Elijah Schaffer reported that there were approximately 40 hats stolen and burned.

Minneapolis police officer running against Ilhan Omar calls her 'absentee landlord,' says constituents are not happy.  Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is an "absentee landlord" in her home state and residents aren't happy, Minneapolis police officer and congressional candidate Chris Kelley said Thursday [10/10/2019].  Appearing on [Fox News Channel], Kelley said that from Omar's own Somali community to "just everybody else I come in contact with patrolling the streets every day," Minnesotans have not been satisfied with the job she's done to represent the state since she was elected in 2018.  "She's traveling the world.  She's fighting the president on Twitter.  She's not doing anything in the district.  And, I can say firsthand, the homelessness, the opioid problems, and other issues aren't improving," said Kelley, who announced an independent bid for the seat earlier this year.

Ilhan Omar files for divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi amid affair allegations.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from the father of her three kids, claiming the marriage is "irretrievable" — amid allegations that she had an affair with DC-based political consultant Tim Mynett.  The freshman congresswoman filed to split from husband Ahmed Hirsi on Friday [10/4/2019] in Minnesota, the state she represents, the [New York] Post has learned.  Omar, 38, and Hirsi were married in a religious ceremony in 2002.  The two separated in 2008, then legally remarried in 2018.

30 of The Biggest Lies & Hoaxes Perpetrated on The American People.  [#20] Ilhan Omar Loves This Country:  Nothing could be further from the truth, and it's high time people open their eyes to the reality before it's too late.  This is perhaps one of the most dangerous hoaxes fueled with lie after lie.  But it's not just Omar.  Rashida Tlaib, Linda Sarsour, CAIR, and countless others intertwine into this web.  There has been a long, planned out, infiltration to take over our country.  This would require an entire article all by itself.  A simple search will show you that Muslims themselves state they have long been planning this.  Here is a shocking video of children singing, "we will chop off their heads" for Allah, in the Philadelphia Muslim Society.  And no one can forget the Muslim terrorist camp in New Mexico.  Review this important thread on Omar's connections.

Ilhan Omar Retweets Tweet Saying She Has Been Trump's Biggest Obstacle Since Day One.  Rep. Omar has made headlines before, including for retweeting someone who suggested Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul deserved to be assaulted by his neighbor, as well as retweeting someone that said her comments on Israel were equivalent to calling Jews "hook-nosed."  Omar raised questions last week when she deleted a tweet that revealed her father's name, which seemed to give more credence to the idea that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother — especially when the explanation was met with several contradictions.

The Pagan Summoning Circle Of Ilhan Omar.  Here is my latest problem with Ilhan Omar:  She is a Muslim when it is convenient.  Witchcraft is forbidden (haram) in Islam.  If, and it's a big if, Omar is a real Muslim, and not just a Muslim when convenient, she should know this.  According to Islam Q&A about witchcraft and dealing with its practitioners: [...] But, you cannot criticize Ilhan Omar.  If you do, she pulls out her Islamashield, and the infidels in the media fall.  She doesn't leave home without it.  I may trademark the word "Islamashield", before Omar does it herself.  She uses it a lot.  Criticize Israel: pulls out Islamashield.  Marry brother and commit immigration fraud:  Islamashield.  Campaign fraud:  Islamashield.  Consort with another woman's husband:  Islamashield.

Ilhan Omar's Explanation For Deleting A Tweet That Revealed Her Father's Name Faces Contradictions.  Rep. Ilhan Omar deleted a tweet referring to her father as Nur Said — evidence that bolstered the case that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother.  A spokesperson for the Minnesota Democrat said the name in the tweet was only a nickname, but other details contradict that explanation.  "Happy Father's Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father a ..." the June 2013 tweet, which was deleted early Tuesday morning, said.  In Somalian culture, the father's name becomes part of the son's last name.  Omar's spokesperson said Wednesday [9/18/2019] that Nur Said is actually a nickname.

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Ri-i-i-ight.  I suppose "Barry Soetoro" is just a nickname, too.  So is "Carlos Danger."  So is "Richard Windsor."  So is "Diane Reynolds."  So is "Doodad Pro."  So is "Reinhold Niebuhr."  So is "Pierre Delecto."

Stand By Your Sham: Omar's Squeeze Play.  David Steinberg has done more than any other reporter to expose Ilhan Omar's marriage to her brother and all the related frauds she has perpetrated over the past 10 years.  As I will reiterate in subsequent installments of this series, everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name.  We have seen a plethora of congressional scandals in our history, yet we have never seen scandals like Omar's in Congress.  Here we have something new under the sun.

The walls finally may be closing in on Ilhan Omar.  There is ample reason to suspect that Rep. Ilhan Omar has committed multiple frauds.  Scott Johnson of Powerline, a retired attorney, has been covering the freshman House member ever since her run for the Minnesota state Legislature, and has been among the most active investigators of suspicions that she committed immigration fraud by legally marrying her brother in order to get him into the United States.

This Now Deleted 2013 Tweet Proves That Ilhan Omar Is A Fraud And Should Be Prosecuted & Deported.  Twitter is not allowing me to embed this tweet.  There is a convenient technical problem in doing so. [...] Who is Nur Said you ask?  In addition to being Ilhan Omar's admitted Father, he is a suspected terrorist and there are reports that he is currently living in the US.

Ilhan Omar Deletes 2013 Post That Revealed Her Father's Name.  Rep. Ilhan Omar early Tuesday morning deleted a 2013 post that said her father's name is Nur Said. [...] Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, did not answer questions from the Daily Caller News Foundation about why a congresswoman would try to erase the identity of her father from the internet.  But the name of the man who Omar married under unusual circumstances was Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, adding to evidence that she married her brother.

Ilhan Omar deletes evidence she married brother.  Ilhan Omar says her father's name is Nur Omar Mohamed, but in an old Father's Day tweet that she deleted Tuesday, she said his name is Nur Said.  That would mean not only that her name isn't Ilhan Omar, but that the evidence continues to mount that the man she married named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was her brother.

Ilhan Omar offers odd excuse for deleting tweet that raised new questions about her marriage.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was forced to release a statement about the deletion of a tweet that many said raised more questions about the controversy surrounding her marriages.  The tweet from June 2013 was a simple Father's Day greeting to "Nur Said," who she identifies as her father.

Ilhan Omar Responds to Deleted Tweet with Father's Real Name — Lies to Reporter.  New evidence has emerged that Rep. Ilhan Omar did indeed marry her brother, and that her real name may actually be Ilhan Nur Said.  A resurfaced tweet from 2013 links to a now-deleted Instagram post in which she refers to her father by the name Nur Said.  The tweet was later deleted this morning [9/17/2019] after the news broke!

Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'God Expects Us To Do The Righteous Work' In Politics.  At a "Plight of Black Immigrants" forum, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Muslim, suggested her god expects people to vote in a certain way.  "God expects us to do the righteous work," Omar said.  "And, so, god does not expect you to vote for people who will ultimately hurt you and other humans around you." [...] How likely is it that journalists will follow up on these comments by asking Omar in future interviews how, exactly, she thinks her god Allah influences her votes?

Rep. Ilhan Omar [is] More Treacherous Than "Controversial".  President Donald Trump needn't have to have suggested sending Ilhan Omar back to the country of her birth.  Omar's already in Somalia, if not physically, there in heart and fiery spirit. [...] Today Omar — sworn in to Congress on a copy of her grandfather's Quran — is publicly calling for protection of a Somali company — Hormuud Telecom — that actively funds Al Shabaab in Somalia, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, Omar's updated version of "some people did something" in reference to 9/11.  And still the media, including excellent ones like Judicial Watch, refer to Omar as "controversial", instead of identifying her for what she truly is:  a treacherous, terrorist supporting member of U.S. Congress[.]

Ilhan Omar Celebrates Court Ruling Against Terror Watch Lists.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar joined Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib in celebrating a court ruling against the use of terror watch lists by American law enforcement.  "This is tremendous," Rep. Omar said.  "Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make sure Constitutional rights are extended to all regardless of religion, race or ethnicity!"

Ilhan Omar's Estranged "Cultural" Husband Confirms She Married Her Brother [and] Says He Won't Go To Jail For Her.  For three years, Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar and David Steinburg of PJ Media, have been investigating Ilhan Omar's curious alleged marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, while she was still "culturally" married to her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi.

Omar burns the Star Tribune.  In "Ilhan Omar feels the heat" I noted Ilhan Omar's response to the Star Tribune's inquiry to her for the paper's June 23 page-one story.  When the Star Tribune asked Omar for an interview about the state campaign finance board findings against her, Omar responded with a canned statement raising accusations of bigotry that linked the Star Tribune to Power Line.  Omar to the contrary notwithstanding, however, the Star Tribune has treated Omar almost entirely as a hometown hero.  When it comes to the Star Tribune, Omar is both an ingrate and a liar.

Ilhan Omar Feels the Heat.  Of all the scandals in which Ilhan Omar is enmeshed, one might think the Daily Mail's revelation this past July of her affair with political consultant Tim Mynett would be the least of them.  The news last week of Beth Mynett's divorce filing, however, has begun to disillusion a Somali community that has taken Omar at face value.  Not cool — not cool at all, and it has thrown Omar off her game.  Omar's denial of the affair is a lie that is both obvious and bald-faced.  She has therefore run from the tabloid newspapers and the local media as they have sought to report on the scandal.

Did Ilhan Omar's Husband Spill The Tea?  He Reportedly Told Friends She WAS Married To Brother.  If they ever make a Real Housewives of Capitol Hill, I nominate Rep. Ilhan Omar to be the highly judgmental, weirdly aggressive, holier-than-thou scold who does all the finger pointing to hide the fact that she has a significant number of skeletons hiding in her own closet.  Thanks to some reporting by Powerline — which seems to have been ultimately partially confirmed by The New York Post — that's going to be an easy casting decision.  According to Powerline, Omar's current estranged husband Ahmed Hirsi (who is not related to her by blood), has been telling friends and associates that not only did Omar have an affair with an aide while paying him (Lord have mercy), but that she also, in fact, did marry her brother with intent to defraud.

Protect American Sovereignty:  Send Rep Ilhan Omar Over To The United Nations.  Since her election less than a year ago, "Squad" Sister Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has shown no shame about getting a leg up on gaming the immigration system by reportedly marrying her own biological brother and paying $250,000 to someone media identified as her alleged paramour, whose wife has filed for divorce when he admitted his affair with the Democrat legislator.  So far her transgressions have remained in a largely out-of-the-limelight personal life she insists must be kept private.  But on Tuesday [9/3/2019], Omar made her first open strike against the nation that pays her salary.

Ilhan Omar:  Hating America, flouting our laws, breaking up marriages.  Where do we draw the line on our politicians' personal behavior?  Was it the affair between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton?  Or the actions of Minnesota Senator Al Franken, for which he lost his seat?  Or will it be the alleged marriage wrecker and serial bride, Minnesota Socialist-Democratic representative Ilhan Omar?  Wherever we draw the line, it needs to be drawn.

Why isn't Rep. Ilhan Omar's vida loca getting the same penalties Rep. Duncan Hunter's got?  Rep. Ilhan Omar is living la vida loca these days.  For her, when it's not bouncing back and forth between her husband and brother on the matrimony front, it's jumping into the homewrecker racket, with some woman now claiming Omar stole her husband.  Not exactly the sort of life the Sharia crowd recommends, at least for women, of course, but Omar comes from the elites and Sharia law in places such as her native Somalia, is only for little people, anyway.  Omar's got that one covered.  The real problem with her alley-cat morals is that seems to be a vector to corruption.

Has Rep. Ilhan Omar Committed a Stoning Offense?  The wearing of hijab is a sign of Sharia compliance, and that may mean trouble for the notorious Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  Stoning adulterers is not "extremist"; it is Islamic law.  And Ilhan Omar may be one.

Did Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funds Mostly Go Toward Her Alleged Affair?  Yesterday [8/27/2019] the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett.  The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife.  In July, Omar filed for divorce from her current husband. [...] It turns out Mynett's firm was funneled a boat load of Omar's campaign cash.  He was paid more than $200,000 for consulting and the campaign reimbursed at least $21,000 for his personal travel.  That travel wasn't properly reported or itemized.  An official complaint regarding the large payments to Mynett's firm has already been filed, alleging she broke the law.

You Can't Go Home Again, Ilhan Omar.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's mysterious marital life has been much written about.  Was she a bigamist?  Was she married to her brother?  It's unclear, but not unlikely.  At a minimum, she seems to be playing musical husbands — or is it lovers? [...] I thought Rep. Omar was a devout Muslim.  No wonder she was (or pretended to be) so upset when that unruly crowd of "deplorables" chanted "Send them back!"  Going back to Somalia would definitely spell big trouble for Omar.

Ilhan Omar Illegally Diverted Campaign Funds To Pursue Romantic Affair, Complaint Alleges.  Rep. Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance law by using campaign funds to pursue an affair with married Democratic consultant Tim Mynett, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Wednesday [8/28/2019].  Omar's campaign has disbursed $223,000 to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, from August 2018 through June 2019, mostly for fundraising consulting, FEC records show.  But on April 1, her campaign began making payments to E. Street Group for "travel expenses."  Less than a week later, on April 7, Tim Mynett confessed to his wife that he was "romantically involved with and in love with" Omar, according to a divorce filing Tuesday by Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett.

American Politicians Can't Hide "Private Lives", Ilhan Omar.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar obviously thinks that being a "woman of color" grants her the privilege of keeping her "personal life" off the public radar screen — a status that doesn't exist for American politicians, 'women of color' or not.  Activist politicians of our day work with social media to create and control their own digital image.  In the case of active "Squad" member, Ilhan Omar, the man with whom she is allegedly 'romantically' connected, was paid some $240,000 — in less than one year — to create her phony digital image.

Omar's lies proliferate.  My sources first made me aware of Ilhan Omar's affair with Tim Mynett a month before the Daily Mail got around to reporting it in July.  Today the Star Tribune has finally broken the story in Omar's hometown newspaper and it must come as something of a shock to readers who get their news from the Minnesota media and who take Omar at face value.  Omar continues to play them all for chumps.  The lies she is living are too many to count, beginning with the identity fraud implicit in her claim to be Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.

Latest Developments In Ilhan Omar Soap Opera.  Omar has already been found guilty of improperly using campaign funds to pay her own personal expenses, including legal fees for one of her divorces. [...] If the $230,000 that Omar's campaign has paid to Mynett includes travel costs relating to romance rather than political consulting, or if the fees charged were inflated for the joint personal benefit of Mynett and Omar, it would represent another violation on Omar's part.  An appropriate agency should investigate the appropriateness of the funds paid by Omar's campaign to Mynett.

Nearly one of every three dollars spent on Ilhan Omar's campaign has gone to her alleged lover's firm.  The New York Post reported Tuesday [8/27/2019] on a high-profile divorce.  To be specific, a woman has claimed in court papers that her husband has been cheating on her, carrying on with married Rep. Ilhan Omar.  Omar's alleged paramour, Tim Mynett, has been a fundraising consultant for Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns.  Omar hasn't commented on the accusations, but there's a possible second scandal involving the more than $200,000 that her campaign has spent with Mynett's firm.

Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in "travel expenses" to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.  Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal the Omar campaign began making travel reimbursements to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, on April 1, about a week before Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett said her husband admitted to having an affair with the congresswoman, according to a divorce filing the New York Post first reported on.

Ilhan Omar stonewalls on divorce case allegation of affair with left-wing campaign consultant.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has said she has not left her husband Ahmed Hirsi for a prominent left-wing consultant who worked for her election campaign.  When asked in a Tuesday [8/27/2019] interview with CBS Minnesota if she was separated from her husband or dating anyone[,] the Minnesota Democrat said:  "No, I am not.  As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it."  Omar, 37, also refused to discuss accusations that she married her brother to commit immigration fraud.

Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — who was accused of being "the other woman" in a DC doctor's marriage Tuesday [8/27/2019] — had previously been involved in an intertwined pair of relationships for years.  Records show that the 37-year-old Somali refugee applied for a marriage license to a man named Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002.  She was 19, having immigrated to the States five years earlier.  The duo was never officially married, at least at the time.  Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said.

Alabama GOP adopts resolution pushing for Rep. Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress.  Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from Congress after a series of controversial statements, including remarks about Israel and her support of economic boycotts against that country.  The state GOP passed a resolution last weekend at the party's summer meeting in Auburn calling on its congressional delegation to "proceed with the expulsion process" against the first-term congresswoman.  "Representative Omar has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia," the resolution said.

Ilhan Omar stole my husband, DC mom claims in divorce papers.  A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The [New York] Post.  Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a "shocking declaration of love" for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday [8/27/2019].  The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in "travel expenses" to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.  Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal the Omar campaign began making travel reimbursements to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, on April 1, about a week before Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett said her husband admitted to having an affair with the congresswoman, according to a divorce filing the New York Post first reported on.

Rep. Ilhan Omar accused of affair with a married man: 'Shocking declaration of love'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is caught in a love triangle and accused of being a homewrecker, revealed court filings Tuesday [8/27/2019] in a divorce case.  Washington-area physician Beth Jordan Mynett claimed her husband confessed to an extramarital affair with Ms. Omar and wanted to run off with her, according to the filing submitted in D.C. Superior Court.

Ilhan Omar is accused of having affair with married aide who dumped his wife.  Ilhan Omar has been accused of having a torrid affair with her married campaign strategist in newly-filed divorce papers - confirming DailyMailTV's bombshell exclusive.  We revealed last month how the Minnesota congresswoman, 37, had been enjoying a secret romance with veteran Democratic fundraiser Timothy Mynett.  Both Somali-born US Rep Omar and Mynett, 38, refused to discuss the fling after multiple sources confirmed it to DailyMailTV.  But our exclusive was confirmed in divorce papers filed today by Mynett's high-flying doctor wife Beth, 55, who accuses her estranged husband of dumping her for Omar.

New Divorce Filing:  Ilhan Omar is a Homewrecker.  A Washington D.C. woman has claimed in a divorce filing that her husband left her for Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. [...] In July, Omar filed for divorce from her first and third husband with whom she appears to have committed tax fraud.

25 0f 30 Worst Congressional Districts For Blacks Are Run By Democrats — Ilhan Omar's Is #1 On List.  Today [8/21/2019], it was revealed that Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings' district came in at #22 on the list of the top 30 worst congressional districts for Black Americans.  Democrat presidential candidate Tim Ryan's OH district came in at #23.  But the lawmaker whose district won the top honor for the WORST district in America for Blacks is none other than the anti-Semitic, Somalian immigrant, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  Over 37% of Blacks are unemployed who live in Omar's 5th Congressional District, and less than 20% of Blacks in her district own a home.

Minnesota Lawmakers Submit Paperwork To Have Omar Examined By IRS For Fraud.  Ilhan Omar have a year full of scandals.  But her comments about 9/11 made one brave American to decide to run against her in the 5th congressional district.  Chris Kelley is a man who has collected eleven military medals as a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserves and clocked more than 36,000 hours patrolling the Minnesota streets as a 20-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Force.  But that's not the only news that came from Minnesota this month, that Omar have to worry about it.

Can Ilhan Omar Be Sent Back to Somalia?  In 2013, Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) joined a crowd flooding into the Hotel Ivy in Minneapolis to see former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.  Hotel staff asked police to help clear the lobby and anyone without a hotel room key had to leave.  Most complied, but Omar refused and wound up arrested for trespassing.  In her booking photo, Omar appears sans hijab and rather startled.  Omar then proceeded to rack up a series of traffic violations, 24 in all, including driving without a license.  This has led some to wonder if Omar believes she is bound only by Shariah, the law of Allah, and not by the laws of the United States.  Other pertinent questions involve the freshman congresswoman's reality, and how it squares with U.S. immigration law.

Ilhan Omar and the Door of No Return.  Ilhan Omar, in her "send her back" squabble with the President, wants to play off her African roots and America's guilty psyche over its past sins by implying that she too and her ancestors were victims of the transatlantic slave trade and that "Donald Trump and other white racists" are seeking to continue to victimize her.  This, however, is farcical on two levels.  First, Omar takes pride in presenting herself as a practicing Muslim and yet has nothing to say concerning the massive evils of slavery perpetrated worldwide by Islam over 1400 years.  Instead, she wants to focus on the relatively small evils (by comparison) already admitted by the USA in its retrospective on American history.  While as a nation we have repented of and outlawed slavery and are working to eradicate racism, Islam has made no strides in this direction except what was required of countries for United Nations' membership.

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Omar's Mystery Man Appears.  [Scroll down]  Whenever the Star Tribune gets around to reporting on the developments in Omar's personal life, the paper's readers may be shocked.  Perhaps reporters can provide appropriate "context" to cushion the blow.  Much as I enjoy the revelation of Omar's tangled web, I regret the Daily Mail's treatment of it as tabloid fodder.  The serious scandals lying in plain view have yet to be cracked open and the Daily Mail has the resources to do the cracking.

Ilhan Omar and bespectacled mystery man try to avoid being pictured together.  A brief, grainy video of two people leaving a restaurant could hold the clue as to the reason the marriage of leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar broke down.  The 12-second video, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, shows Omar and her companion leaving a romantic, out-of-the-way Italian restaurant in California the day after she had made controversial remarks blaming 9/11 on 'someone doing something.'

Apparently Omar perjured herself 8 times on a 9-question document.  Mainstream media had this information, but chose to ignore it.  They are still ignoring it.

Rep. Ilhan Omar to face ousting by Iraq war vet, cop outraged over 9/11 remark, gunning for her seat.  The controversial freshman Democrat, one of four radical progressives known as the "squad," just received a serious challenger for her House seat.  Chris Kelley, a celebrated Iraqi war veteran, is set on running for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District seat, replacing Omar, who has been marred in controversy from the beginning, whether it's being rebuked in the House for her anti-Semitic actions, or jousting with President Trump.  Or even persistent reports that she may have committed immigration fraud by marrying her biological brother — with tax fraud potentially being part of the picture.

BDS champ Ilhan Omar powers her website through Israeli company.  Jew-hating Rep. Ilhan Omar has a hypocrisy problem.  She was last seen sponsoring a boycott-divest-sanction (BDS) measure against Israel in Congress to try to free the path for pressure groups to force boycotts of Israeli products onto leftists the next time one of them feels it's necessary to virtue-signal.  Her measure failed miserably, but not on account of supposed logic.  Actually, she's a pretty impressive hypocrite.  Here's what someone, probably in Israel, spotted about her website, according to Breaking Israel News:  ["]Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D, MN), who introduced legislation that seeks to protect those who want to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) Israel, uses an Israeli company to power her own website.["]

Ilhan Omar:  American Congresswoman or threat to America?  Ilhan Omar is either the most admired or vilified member of Congress.  You like her or you don't.  She is totally anti-American or just what America needs.  There is a good reason for the mixed response to the pixieish Somalian.  Those that support the Somali immigrant see her as a fighter and agree with her goal of transforming the US into a socialist country.  To others, Ohmar hates America, white men and people of Jewish heritage.  She is a supporter of Islam and Palestine.  Omar is an anti-semite, proven by her BDS resolution.

Ilhan Omar Splits with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse.  Leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband — the father of her three children — have split and are heading for their second divorce, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.  The bust-up comes just as critics are demanding answers as to whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the United States.

Ilhan Omar Claims White Men 'Cause Most Of The Deaths' In America.  She's Wrong.  Imbecilic bigot Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed in a recently resurfaced interview on Qatari propaganda network Al Jazeera that Americans should be "fearful" of white men who are "causing most of the deaths within this country."  These racist and blatantly false comments came in response to a question about Islamophobia.  The interviewer asked if Islamophobia might be the result of a reasonable fear people have about Islamic terrorism.  Omar could have responded that we shouldn't fear anyone based on race, ethnicity, or religion, and that each person should be judged according to his or her own merits — but instead, she took the opportunity to fear monger about the dreaded white man.

Ilhan Omar's Racism.  There are any number of reasonable ways she could have answered this question posed to her in 2018 on Al Jazeera, during her race for Congress.  She chose to do it by blaming white men.  [Video clip]

Tlaib isn't 'of color'.  The walls are closing in on Ilhan Omar, the most enthusiastically hateful member of Congress.  Evidence of her immigration fraud is overwhelming and will only intensify as more media outlets have to cover the story.  She will be an enormous lingering embarrassment to her party.  The only question is, how will the U.S. attorney in the Twin Cities, Erica McDonald, proceed?  She is definitely plugged into the GOP establishment of that state and is well aware of the need for a grand jury to look into this.  But will she have the guts to follow the law, or just wimp out, in another case of Minnesota nice?

Judicial Watch Files Congressional Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar For Possible Perjury, Immigration Fraud.  Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the House of Representatives' ethics office asking for an investigation into possible crimes committed by Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.  The possible crimes include "perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, and federal student loan fraud," according to the complaint filed Tuesday by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton.  "The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar," Fitton said.

Rep. Omar Berates Questioner for Asking Her to Condemn Female Genital Mutilation.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) became agitated when asked at an event in D.C. this week if she and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) would condemn female genital mutilation.  She decried what she called "assumptions about what our value basis might be because of where we might come from, and who we pray to."  Awkwardly, the question came from Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values and also a featured speaker on the Muslim Caucus Collective for Equitable Democracy event, where the exchange took place.  Zonneveld drew attention to a Detroit judge's ruling last November that a 22-year-old federal law making female genital mutilation (FGM) a crime was unconstitutional.  As a result, charges against nine people accused of subjecting nine young girls to FGM were dismissed.

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In my opinion it is quite reasonable to make "assumptions about what [y]our value basis might be because" your religion, mockingly referred to as the Religion of Peace, treats women like property, flies hijacked airplanes into office buildings, and mutilates little girls so that they won't enjoy sex.  Moreover, the Religion of the Easily Offended intends to replace the United States Constitution with Sharia law, as part of its goal of world-wide domination through violence.  The most alarming aspect of Rashida Tlaib's political career is that there is a sufficient number of people just like her in Michigan to elect her to Congress.

Ilhan Omar Blames America for Illegal Immigration.  Radical Somali-American and left-wing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) argues that U.S. foreign policy is the cause of the global refugee crisis.  Without question, excessive aggression from the United States in Latin America and the Middle East has exacerbated the pre-existing pathologies that pervade their political, social, and economic systems.  Whether America made some unique contribution to these horrors, however, is an open question.

Judicial Watch Files House Ethics Complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar Over Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, and Student Loan Fraud.  Judicial Watch announced today that it hand-delivered ethics complaint to Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics David Skaggs calling for a full investigation into potential crimes tied to allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have married her biological brother.  "The evidence is overwhelming Rep. Omar may have violated the law and House rules.  The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  "We encourage Americans to share their views on Rep. Omar's apparent misconduct with their congressmen."

Ethics Complaint Filed Against Ilhan Omar For Alleged Fraud.  Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday [7/23/2019] that it has filed an ethics complaint against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) with the House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics for potential immigration, marriage, tax, and student loan fraud.  In press release posted Tuesday, the government watchdog announced that it has submitted "a hand-delivered ethics complaint to Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics David Skaggs calling for a full investigation into potential crimes tied to allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have married her biological brother."

Is the 'Baseless Rumor' True?  Why Don't Journalists Do Some Actual Journalism?  The question of whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) married her brother is an interesting question and, earlier this year at CPAC, I covered a press conference by bloggers who said the answer is "yes."  The persistent accusations that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a fraud finally prompted the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to investigate, and they could not rule out the possibility that Elmi is indeed her brother.

Ilhan Omar Marriage Flummoxes Media Fact-Checkers.  Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information.  Trump was asked about the accusation that Omar's husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was also her brother during a scrum with reporters last Wednesday and said he had heard talk that she married her brother but knew "nothing about it."

Omar calls Somalia 'my country' during 'welcome home' party.  Rep. Ilhan Omar slipped and referred to Somalia as "my country" during a welcome home party at the Minneapolis airport this week.  Fans of the anti-Semitic congresswoman greeted her at the airport, and she addressed them with a bullhorn.  During her remarks, she called her native country "my country," before quickly correcting herself to say "the country I came from."

Mogadishu Mon Amour.  The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media's airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem "refugee" was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump.  The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance.  Hard work by independent media, however, has exposed her and her media apologists and the Democrats have little choice:  Condemn her and remove her from her committee assignments or suffer the consequences.

Jewish Fawning of Omar Has Made Her More Aggressive.  Most of the Jewish community has feverishly and piously supported last week's Democrat-sponsored Resolution condemning President Trump's remarks against Ilhan Omar.  Omar, of course, is a notorious, unrepentant anti-Semite and daily demonizer of Israel.  But she has become, for many Jews, a heroine, a civil rights star, a noble cause.  Enjoying such support, Omar rewarded the Jewish community by immediately announcing, after the Resolution's passage, a piece of legislation demanding that Congress vote in favor of BDS against Israel and her Jewish inhabitants.

Mass Fraud by African Refugees Halted Inflow After Ilhan Omar Came to U.S.  A refugee program that allowed foreign relatives of already-arrived foreign refugees to the United States was halted, altogether, more than a decade ago due to mass fraud among applicants.  This week, Powerline blog's David Steinberg suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) entered the U.S. in the mid-1990s as a third-priority, known as P-3, refugee — that is, a refugee who is admitted to the country due to their ties to an already-resettled refugee.

Allegations Regarding Omar's Curious Marriage ARE Credible (That's Why You Haven't Heard Much About Them).  Let me start by saying that credible allegations don't mean proven allegations.  It simply means there's smoke.  And with Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D), the allegations surrounding her first marriage are giving off so much smoke the media has apparently become blind.  When Trump made his statement to reporters Wednesday that Omar may have been married to her brother, he wasn't just throwing bombs with no gunpowder.  Journalists in her home state and PJ Media columnist David Steinberg have been tracking Omar's inconsistencies when it comes to her first marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her campaign finance violations, her tax fraud related to her first and second marriages, etc. for more than a year.

Omar's in charge, tells press:  We will no longer 'allow' you to ask Muslims to condemn terrorism.  Playing the role they have been programmed to play, (victims) the radical progressive "squad" of freshman Democratic lawmakers held a news conference Monday to react to President Donald Trump calling them out for their contempt for America.  And while that spectacle went as you might expect, there was a interesting moment when Rep. Ilham Omar was asked specifically about criticism from Trump that she's pro-al Qaeda.  A simple repudiation of the terrorist group would have dismissed the assertion and moved things along to the next question, but Omar, a Somali refugee and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, refused to do that.

Ilhan Omar Stonewalling Hometown Paper On Marriage Controversy, Editor Says.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has allegedly been uncooperative with her hometown paper's efforts to get to the bottom of accusations that she committed marriage fraud, the paper's political editor said.  Omar's brief congressional career has been dogged by accusations — which she has denied — that she married a male relative, possibly her brother.  Omar and her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns while Omar was married to another man, Ahmed Elmi, Minnesota campaign finance officials said.

Ilhan Omar Happened Because Media Chose to Lie to You.  Three years ago, most American newsrooms picked Ilhan Omar — despite her crawling Jew-hatred and evidence of an extensive criminal past — to be the transcendent face America needed to fight bigotry and federal corruption.  Reporters apparently chose to lie about Omar to help birth a more trusting country.  Perfectly irrational idiocy.  Legacy newsmedia, decayed, perhaps brought itself final ruin by getting exactly what it wanted.  The first Somali-born woman and the first female Muslim to be elected to a U.S. statehouse, Ilhan Omar defeated 44-year incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the Democrat-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 60B in 2016.  A former child refugee from civil war, Omar was perceived as a best-case image for shepherding progressive causes against President Trump.  Ilhan Omar's individual character, however, was openly trending towards worst-case.

The Media Protecting Ilhan Omar's Obviously False Presentation of Family is a Gift To President Trump.  Representative Ilhan Omar's visa manipulation by faux-marriage is a process similar to the visa-fraud process used in the San Bernadino terror case involving Syed/Tashfeen Malik, and faux-marriage Tatiana Farook.  [Same with Orlando Pulse nightclub terror case involving Omar Mateen and Noor Salman.]  The longer the mainstream media tries to run away from the obvious truth behind the Ilhan Omar refugee/visa scam, the more ridiculous they look doing so.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother to cheat immigration system.  The various controversies surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) just won't go away, thanks to some old-fashioned intrepid reporting from some gumshoe journalists.  You may recall that around the time Omar was elected in November to her first congressional term, rumors/reports swirled that she actually married her brother as a way to "skirt immigration laws," according to the Star Tribune newspaper serving Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.

Clueless Ilhan conducts presser in middle of DC street.  In a chaotic moment outside the Capitol, Ilhan Omar — trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters — stopped in the middle of Independence Avenue, shut down two lanes of traffic and gave an impromptu news conference responding to those who chanted at President Trump's rally Wednesday that she should leave the country.  Cars began honking and a Capitol Police officer yelled out that Omar should not block the intersection.

The War Over America's Past Is Really About Its Future.  During a recent speech to students at a Minnesota high school, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) offered a scathing appraisal of her adopted country, which she depicted as a disappointment whose racism and inequality did not meet her expectations as an idealistic refugee.  Omar's family had fled worn-torn Somalia and spent four-years in a Kenyan refugee camp before reaching Minnesota, where Omar received a subsidized education and ended up a congresswoman.

David Steinberg:  Tying up Loose Threads in the Curious Case.  On October 22, 2008, the U.S. State Department stopped accepting applications for the Priority 3/Refugee Family Reunification program — the process by which refugees can apply for asylum if one family member is already a legal U.S. resident.  State halted the program because DNA testing — primarily of Somalis — had concluded that perhaps 87 percent of applicants were fraudulently claiming family relationships.  Despite continuing war, Somalia of 2008 was not comparable to the open hell of the early 1990s, when an eight-year-old Ilhan and her family fled to Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps.  She lived there from 1991 until 1995, aged eight to 12.  Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then helped Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the United States along with thousands of other Somalis.

At 2015 Rally Ilhan Omar Refers to Somalia as "Our Nation Back Home".  David Steinberg released his latest report on controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday at PowerLineblog.com.  According to Steinberg there is credible evidence that Ilhan Omar and her family changed their name to illegally enter the United States back in 1995.  And since that time Ilhan Omar as an adult continued to defy US law.  According to Steinberg Rep. Omar committed at least eight instances of perjury going back to 2009.  The charges could carry up to 40 years of prison time or deportation.

Trump Is Just Saying What Regular Americans Think.  Over the weekend President Trump unleashed a Twitter bomb on Minnesota's Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-5) for her comments criticizing America and Fox News host Tucker Carlson and her participation in a recent progressive mini-revolt against Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  The catalyst for the President's tweet storm was probably Omar's comments at the Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia where she said she is "ashamed" of the United States of America "continuing to live in its hypocrisy."

Omar: End 'Capitalist System.' Guarantee Jobs, Housing, Medicare and Abortion for All.  In the new nation that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota seeks to create, the "capitalist system" will be left behind in pursuit of a "fair and just economy" where the federal government guarantees everybody jobs, housing, health care and free abortions.  How can we know this?  She has declared it in writing. [...] Under Omarcare, no one will pay anything for any health care service.  Her system would "Require no out-of-pocket costs for patients for any services."

Omar to Introduce Resolution Declaring Support for Anti-Israel BDS Movement.  Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel through an international pressure campaign.

Rep. Omar Pro-BDS Bill Compares Israel To Nazi Germany.  Democrats can't stop arguing that any criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a victim any time that she's criticised.  Meanwhiile none of her anti-Semitic antics merit criticism.  Like introducing a pro-BDS bill that compares Israel to Nazi Germany.

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar & Pressley Refuse To Condemn Antifa Attack On ICE Center.  An armed man was shot dead after trying to attack an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center in Tacoma, Washington.  The event took place about six hours after a protest by anti-ICE Resistance people who had been planning another protest today [7/16/2019].  Are the 'Gang of Four' going to take any responsibility for demonizing ICE?

Omar introduces resolution defending boycott of Israel, likens it to boycotts of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union.  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar proposed a resolution this week supporting the right to boycott Israel, likening the boycott of the Jewish state to boycotts of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.  Omar's resolution seeks to push back against U.S. laws banning the boycott of Israel and affirms the right of Americans to organize boycotts of foreign countries if they so wish.  While the resolution doesn't explicitly name Israel or the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, she told media outlets that the resolution concerns the Jewish state.

Omar - her racism means she would not like me very much.  Ilhan Omar does not like white people.  Her dislike, like any other brand of racism, is visceral.  She seems not to understand that white is a color, too.  Based on the photos I have seen of her, she cares as little for generic white women as she does for white people in general.  Do a Google Image search.  In hundreds of photos, she appears with few white women.  Nancy Pelosi.  A few trans women/people in drag.  But not many pictures with women like me.  Middle class, Midwestern-born women.

Omar Refuses To Answer If She's A Communist & Supports Al Qaeda.  Does the truth hurt?  Ilhan Omar tapdances around a question about her support for communism and terrorists.  This was exactly the outcome President Trump wanted.  The "gang of four" is now the public face of the Democratic Party.  Trump has now maneuvered the Democrats into defending these ladies.

The Congresswoman Representing Somalia.  I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the [...] country she came from.  And I want her to stay there.  I spent some time on the Internet looking for even one positive thing that Omar has said about America — but my search was in vain.  Omar hates and despises her adoptive country unequivocally and unconditionally.  She hates everything about America today, and she hates everything about the America of yesterday.

Trump vs. the Radical Squad.  [Ilhan] Omar has recently said she misses the freedom to be herself that she claims to have experienced in the Kenyan refugee camp, as opposed to the constraints on expressing her identity she feels in the United States.  It's fair to ask why Omar has not gone back to her home country of Somalia to try and fix the grave problems of corruption and brutality there, or even to speak out against the horrific conditions in Somalia as vociferously as she has attacked the United States.  Rather than show gratitude for the opportunities afforded her since she arrived in the United States, Omar has turned her anger against her adopted home, which she has accused of racism.

Did Trump really take a political risk in telling Omar to go back to her country?  It's telling that even as Pelosi spars with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Trump took on Ocasio-Cortez's pal, Rep. Ilhan Omar, the only one who comes from a foreign country.  Omar, it turns out, is a massive liability for the Democrats.  Making her the face of the Democrats is a pretty good way of triggering a GOP landslide, not just in the White House, but in the House of Representatives.  Among the working-class voters Democrats must win over to win the presidency, and, for that matter, both houses of Congress, Omar sports an abysmal 9% approval rating along with a 53% recognition rate.  She's the most unpopular of all of them.

Dislike for Ilhan Omar and AOC could tip House to Republicans in 2020: Internal Democratic poll.  An internal Democratic poll that is circulating among party leaders shows Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota might be a liability to their party in the 2020 election.  The poll, whose details were published by Axios on Sunday [7/14/2019], surveyed over 1,000 white voters with two or less years of college education.  It found that 74% of those polled recognized Ocasio-Cortez, while only 22% of them had a positive view of her.  Additionally, 53% of those polled recognized Omar, while only 9% had a favorable view of her.

Tucker Carlson Is Absolutely Right About Ilhan Omar.  Americans are constantly being lectured that good citizenship isn't contingent on skin color, faith, or ethnicity, but a set of beliefs.  Yet whenever anyone is critical of the ugly things someone like Ilhan Omar says, they are immediately battered for being xenophobes and racists.  You can't have it both ways.  I mean, you can try.  Nearly the entire contemporary progressive argument is girded by identity grievances.  So when Fox News's Tucker Carlson gives a monologue, in which he concludes that Omar was "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country," the reaction is predictable.

Ilhan Omar Slams America to 400 High School Students as 'Unjust'.  A recent profile of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said the freshman lawmaker slammed America as unjust in a recent speech to high school students, denigrated America for not meeting her expectations, and even criticized her fellow Democrats in Congress.  According to the profile by the Washington Post, Omar recently addressed 400 high school students in Minnesota about her personal experience in coming to America from a Kenyan refugee camp, and how it was nothing like she expected.

Ilhan Omar Admits Lying to High School Students.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) admitted to flubbing the facts of an anecdote she told a large group of students to illustrate the "racism, cruelty, and injustice" she's seen in America since being accepted as a refugee more than two decades ago.  The freshman representative told 400 high school students she was sent to a Minneapolis courtroom where she witnessed a "sweet, old ... African American lady" who spent the weekend in jail for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her "starving 5-year-old granddaughter," according to the Washington Post. [...] Omar has also been dinged recently by the Post and others for "botched basic facts" during her attempts to "go viral."

America Awash in Lies and Disloyalty.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, tweeting her thoughts about July 4 stated, "Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people.  We are at a tipping point for progress."  This rebuke of our socio-political system contrasted with her joyful dancing at the Somalia Independence Day celebration on July 1.  Her tweet on that occasion included the words, "Somalia hanoolaato," or "Long live Somalia," even though Somalia has been a hotbed of undemocratic rule and civil strife since its independence from Great Britain in 1960.  This is a woman now wagging her finger at America who came here from a refugee camp in Kenya after fleeing Somalia, receiving asylum in the U.S. from her family's radical dislocation.

Ilhan Omar Sends Somber Fourth of July Message Days After Celebrating Somali Independence Day.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on "how much further we have to go," standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior.  "Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people," Omar tweeted July 4.  "We are at a tipping point for progress right now."

Loose threads in the curious case (5).  Thanks to the findings in the Minnesota campaign finance board investigation of her 2016 run for the state legislature, we know that Ilhan Omar filed illegal joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with a man to whom she wasn't married — while she was married to another man.  This is something of a bombshell, graphically illustrating Omar's treatment of her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi as a sham.  Almost unbelievably, Omar is one of the many who have called on President Trump to release his tax returns, yet she has refused even to answer the question — over what period of years did she file illegal joint tax returns?

Reporter Asks Ilhan Omar, 'Did You Marry Your Brother?'.  A reporter for The Rebel confronted Ilhan Omar about her multiple marriages, as Omar stands accused of immigration fraud for allegedly marrying her own brother to get him into the country.

It Only Took Three Years For Mainstream Reporters to Catch Up to Conservative Coverage of Ilhan Omar's Marriage.  I have never worked in crisis communications, but I suspect the worst possible lede sentence to read about a client must be this one:  "New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws."  As Minneapolis' Star Tribune reported on page one over the weekend, the Minnesota Democrat was caught filing joint taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband Ahmed Hirsi, despite the fact that she was legally married at the time to another man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.  And yes, there is a smattering of evidence that Omar and Elmi are possibly siblings.  No one seems to be able to prove that they aren't (all the hard evidence is in war-torn Somalia), and bizarrely enough, Omar is the one keeping the rumor from being definitively debunked.

Hidden Clue On Website Belonging To Ilhan Omar's Sister Adds To Evidence About Marriage History.  Rep. Ilhan Omar swore under oath in a 2017 divorce filing that she hadn't seen her husband Ahmed N. Elmi in six years and didn't know anyone who might be able to locate him — yet he appears to have designed a website for Omar's sister this year, according to data hidden in the source code of that website.  The Democratic Minnesota congresswoman swore that she had not been able to locate the man she married — who the Minneapolis Star Tribune says may or may not be her brother — since 2011.  She swore she didn't know the names of anyone in her husband's family and that the two had no mutual acquaintances who might know how to contact him.

Liberal newspaper finds more proof that Ilhan Omar married her brother!  [T]his story has been spreading in the form of gossip for a while, but there was a lack of real evidence apart from credible sources.  Now we hear from the Star Tribune that there might be real evidence that Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to abuse immigration laws to her advantage.

New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history.  New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.  Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as "baseless rumors" first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House.  But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.

Report: New evidence that Ilhan Omar may have married her brother so she could skirt U.S. immigration law.  [W]hen we first heard that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) 'married her brother' so she could enter the United States, we were extremely skeptical.  But now, a completely 'mainstream' news outlet that skews Left editorially has published new details about that rumor that make it seem much more likely than not.

Question: Did Ilhan Omar commit federal tax fraud?  My column two weeks ago on Ilhan Omar's Marriage Fraud Immunity Card mentioned the Minnesota state investigation of her use of campaign funds for personal expenses related to her divorce, plus other spending for out-of-state travel.  The report was released today on her shady spending practices in response to Minnesota state Rep. Steve Drazkowski's complaints last year.  She has been ordered to pay about $4,000 in reimbursements & fines, plus file amended disclosures.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Ilhan Omar (6).  We continue posting items of interest from the Minnesota campaign finance board investigation of Ilhan Omar's 2016 state legislative campaign.  The board investigation coincidentally revealed that Omar had filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with a man to whom she was not married while legally married to another man.  It is my goal to get some help in pulling on the threads that will unravel the story we have been pursuing since 2016, where Omar's campaign finance wrongdoing began as she sought to deal with coverage of her curious case.  Omar's defrayed the cost of redoing her 2014 and 2015 tax returns with campaign funds.

What is Ilhan Omar hiding about her marriages?  People don't like to discuss their personal lives in public, much less when multiple divorces and children are involved.  Even in public life, there ought to remain a reasonable amount of privacy when it comes to a purely intimate matter.  But red flags about the two or three marriages of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have now produced evidence of lawbreaking.  It's time to start asking questions.  The first question of public interest is whether Omar violated federal tax law.  In 2014 and 2015, she filed her taxes jointly with a man named Ahmed Hirsi.  She was legally married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, at the time.

Ilhan Omar — Traitor?  All currently available evidence reveals Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is conspiring with hostile foreign powers against the United States and its interests to overthrow the U.S. government in violation of federal law and the oath she took to protect and defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."  In addition to Ilhan Omar's 2013 arrest and her marriage to her brother, as well as her public comments revealing her hatred for Jews and indifference about the 9/11/01 attacks on America by Islamic jihadists, Omar's seditious and treasonous actions are what causes the gravest concern to Understanding the Threat (UTT), and should be grave concerns to the American people.  Ilhan Omar works closely with the leader of Hamas in the United States doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — Nihad Awad.  Hamas was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995 by the U.S. government.

Omar Has Agreed to Repay Thousands After Investigation Into Marriages.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will repay thousands after the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found she filed tax returns claiming she was married to one man when she was married to another.  Omar has agreed to repay $3,500 and a $500 fine amid the investigation into allegations she misused campaign funds, CBS Minnesota reports.  "All of Rep. Omar's tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law," a spokesperson for Omar said regarding the tax issue.

AP: Ilhan Omar Ignores Request for Tax Returns, but Demanded Trump's.  The Associated Press (AP) has confirmed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) filed a joint tax return with one man while being legally married to another — and adds that she has ignored requests to release her tax returns.  Omar has joined Democrats in demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns, even claiming — oddly — that he had to do so because it was "required by law."

Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married [her] husband.  Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules.  They also revealed that she had filed joint tax returns with her husband years before they were legally married and at a time when she was married to another man.

Investigation Into Omar's Campaign Finances Reveal Another Issue.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently came under fire for using campaign finances to pay for using campaign money to travel to Florida to accept an honorarium.  She was ordered to repay her campaign $3,500 as well as a $500 civil penalty to the State of Minnesota.  It turns out that investigation also revealed Omar illegally filed joint tax returns with her current husband, despite being married to another man, the Associated Press reported.

Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance rules, investigation finds, as more questions about tax filings arise.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., repeatedly violated state rules when she used campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel as well as help on her tax returns and must reimburse her former campaign committee nearly $3,500, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled Thursday [6/6/2019].  The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 civil penalty for using campaign money to travel to Florida, where she accepted an honorarium.

Official High School Records Support Claim that Democrat Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.  Ten years ago, in February 2009, Democrat Ilhan Omar married her biological brother. [...] Ilhan Omar built a vast coalition of East African voters to defeat the incumbent in Minneapolis.  The liberal media forgot to mention Ilhan was married to her brother.

MN Investigating Ilhan Omar for Possibly Using Campaign Funds for Divorce, Travel.  An investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) misused campaign funds for her personal use is slated to conclude, according to a report.  ABC local affiliate 13 WHAM-TV reported Monday that officials have recently concluded their probe and are will soon reveal the findings of two complaints against the controversial freshman congresswoman.  The pair of complaints, which were reportedly filed as Omar campaigned for the House last year, were brought by State Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R).  In his complaint to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, Drazkowski accused Omar of spending nearly $6,000 in campaign money on a trip to Boston and Estonia and for divorce attorney fees.

The Worst People Ever (This Week).  Ilhan Omar.  The freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota sure hates herself some Jews.  In addition to her pre-Congress history, she's barely decorated her office and has already been forced to apologize for anti-Semitic comments.  The apology was as sincere as any apology forced on someone by Nancy Pelosi.  She walked it back, saying she the way her words "made people feel," not for being a bigot.  To demonstrate how she'd seen the light and rejected her bigoted past, she joked about it not long after and confirmed her past by cannonballing again into the deep end of the racism pool she regularly bathes.  Apologies and denials of hatred ring hallow when they're required to be made regularly.

Ilhan Omar:  We Should Debate Whether To Eliminate All Border And Immigration Enforcement Agencies.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has said almost every terrible thing under the sun.  She's peddled anti-Semitic tropes.  She's rooted against our troops during our intervention in Somalia in the early 1990s.  She's failed miserably to identify that those who committed the 9/11 attacks were radical Muslim terrorists, instead, she trivialized this heinous act as one where "some people did something."  So, when she thinks that we should have open borders, sadly, it's not as shocking as some of the other trash she's spewed [i]n recent months.

Pelosi, Dem leaders condemn Rep. Omar for 'anti-Semitic' language.  In an unprecedented rebuke under the new Congress, House Democratic leaders on Monday roundly condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for statements about supporters of Israel that were widely viewed as anti-Semitic and called on her to apologize.  The statement issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership team followed the latest in a string of controversial comments from the freshman lawmaker — as well as pressure from Republican leaders to speak out.

New Photos Corroborate Perjury Claims Against Rep. Ilhan Omar, as She Deletes Social Media Evidence.  On Tuesday, one-term state Representative Ilhan Omar (D-60B) appears likely to replace the outgoing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) by winning Minnesota's pre-eminent House seat:  CD-5.  In October, however, the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board opened a formal investigation of her after reviewing evidence of several violations.  Omar has also made, and defended, anti-Semitic comments as direct and vicious as any spoken by a U.S. politician in a generation.  Yet those legal and character matters may only be secondary red flags.

Official School Records Support Claims That Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Married Her Brother.  Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-60B) currently leads the race to fill the federal House seat being vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN).  Immediately after being elected to her current seat in 2016, Omar faced allegations — soon backed by a remarkable amount of evidence — that she had married her own brother in 2009, and was still legally his wife.  They officially divorced in December 2017.  The motivation for the marriage remains unclear.  However, the totality of the evidence points to possible immigration fraud and student loan fraud.  Rep. Omar has stated that she did marry "British citizen" Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, though the allegation that he is her brother is "absurd and offensive."

Somali-Born Candidate for Congress Accused of Immigration/Marriage Fraud.  The Democratic candidate for a safe seat in the U.S. House of Representatives stands accused of immigration/marriage fraud and bigamy.  The district is in Minnesota.  More precisely, Somalia-born, now-naturalized Ilhan Omar is accused of marrying her own brother while being married to another, as well as misuse of campaign funds, two probably unrelated maters.  The apparently cosmopolitan Omar, 36, is said to have used $3,000 in campaign funds for personal travel, including a trip to Estonia.  The somewhat jumbled AP account of these events fails to explain why she went to that little country, which seems to be distant from either her background or her political ambitions.

Ilhan Omar makes history, becoming 1st Somali-American elected to U.S. House.  Minnesota's first Somali-American state representative has again made history:  She is now the country's first Somali-American elected to Congress.  State Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, defeated Republican Jennifer Zielinski in the race to represent the state's Fifth District, which spans Minneapolis, Edina, Richfield, Golden Valley and other suburbs.  Omar, 36, is a vocal advocate for single-payer health care, tighter gun restrictions and more expansive immigration policies.