President Trump has said he intends to terminate Temporary Protected Status for many Somalis living in Minnesota. That threat comes after the Somali immigrants there have been found guilty in court of scamming taxpayers out of billions of dollars in public funds and even funneled the money to Al-Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia.
Despite being welcomed into the U.S. as refugees, hundreds of Minnesota-based Somalis colluded to steal tens of millions from a nonprofit feeding program, to defraud to a housing program, and even fake autism in children, according to state and federal prosecutors.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a whopping 56 defendants have pleaded guilty so far to participating in just one uncovered scheme: a massive, years-long fraud involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future meal program. A program that claimed it was feeding thousands of children a day was, in reality, laundering an eye-popping $250 million dollars from 2018 to 2021.
The number of people charged in the Feeding Our Future scam has climbed to 78 individuals by the end of November.
The DOJ announced one defendant, Asha Farhan Hassan, 28, is charged with participating in the Feed Our Future scandal as well as the autism fraud scheme, which gave a kickback to parents who signed their child up for the autism services through the Minnesota Health Care Program.
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, tells AFN the public should expect numerous legal challenges if the Trump administration pushes for deportations. He predicts that fight will be led by Minnesota’s Democrat governor, Tim Walz.
“He's going to be fighting to keep the Somalis there,” Spencer says of the former vice presidential nominee.
Walz, who is best known by many as Kamala Harris’ running mate, has in fact defended the Somalis. Reacting to public uproar, he complained that people want to “demonize an entire community on the actions of a few.”
The irony of Walz defending the Somalis is the former governor is neck deep in the scandal itself. A candid statement posted online from the Minnesota Department of Human Services accuses Gov. Walz of ignoring state employees who discovered the fraud and even punishing whistleblowers who tried to stop the fraud.
“Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports,” the statement reads in part.
According to Spencer, Gov. Walz represents a “traitor class” that holds political power in the U.S. and isn’t interested in what is best for our communities and country.
“Consequently, when you've got this traitor class in place,” he warns, “then the common-sense measures that need to be taken to protect Americans all too often are not taken.”
Speaking recently on American Family Radio, former Muslim Shahram Hadian said the West is naive about Islam and its followers. The truth is it's a political system guided by religion, he said.
"I believe where we have failed in the West, and particularly in America," he said, "is when we've labeled Islam as a religion because Islam became political. Now it seems to impose its own law."
Hadian, who is now a Christian, says any devout Muslim believes Islam and Sharia law should be imposed.
