This isn’t about race; it’s about welcoming unassimilable fraudsters
The multibillion-dollar Somali welfare scandal in Minnesota continues to grow, even as Democrats do their best to tamp it down.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents the Twin Cities area and is a naturalized citizen from Somalia, lamented the fraud but said the focus on Somalis was because of bigotry. She wrote a column for The New York Times accusing President Trump of “hate speech” and “racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and division.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who was sworn into office on a Quran instead of a Bible, called the Trump administration’s recent order to end temporary protected status for Somali nationals an example of “racism.”
Wearing a hijab, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (aka “al-Flanagan”) told a crowd at a Somali market, “We have your back.” Somalis now number more than 107,000 in Minnesota, mostly in the Democratic-run area of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The scandal may involve as much as $9 billion stolen, according to the lead federal prosecutor in Minnesota.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is posing as a fraud-exposing superhero instead of what he really is: a crook or clueless political hack.
Remember, Mr. Walz is the guy who said he was placed on the Kamala Harris ticket in 2024 as the vice presidential nominee “because I could code-talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that. I could put them at ease.”