According to reporting from investigative journalists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Ruffo, the largest funder of the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.
The pair has uncovered financial fraud on an unbelievably massive scale, and Gary Bauer of American Values says Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis area are driving the grift.
"Who could have guessed if you import people from a corrupt country, they bring their corruption with them?" he comments.
Thorpe and Ruffo explain that in many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizeable Somali community; Somali leaders enlist families to enroll in the Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, which bills the government hundreds of millions of dollars that are sent back to Somalia and into the coffers of Al-Shabaab.
"This ought to be on the front page of every newspaper," Bauer submits, "but of course it undermines virtually every major progressive socialist talking point, and so it's still not getting the attention that it deserves."
He says this is all happening right under the noses of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (pictured above), Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
"They're either complicit in it, or they're clueless," Bauer figures.
The journalists point out that the first step to solving the problem is acknowledging it, which in this case means recognizing the problem's true source. But Minnesota's governing class and media establishment have so far failed to take that basic step.
Bauer calls it the fruit of the unholy alliance of radical Islam and fanatic socialists that are being put into public office in Minnesota and major cities across America.
"Diversity is not our strength; diversity, as demonstrated by this, is going to be our undoing," he warns. "If we wake up one morning two years from now and every major American city is in the hands of socialists or Marxists, that can't possibly be good for middle America."
Welfare fraud is expected to become a major issue in The North Star State's 2026 elections, when Gov. Walz is seeking a third term. He faces Republican Kristin Robbins, who has made fraud prevention central to her campaign.
