Our Diversity Is Somalia’s Strength, by John Zmirak

Let’s not be unfair to the Democrats: the move to turn Minnesota into a colony of Somalia began with the George W. Bush administration, which concluded from the 9/11 attacks that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and that the problem with states like Minnesota and Maine was their deficit of “diversity.” So that Republican administration massively ramped up immigration from Muslim countries, flying “refugees” from desert dystopias like Somalia over a dozen safe Muslim countries to plant them in snowy American states. How’s that working out? City Journal offers an answer:

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.

In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.” …