>>1459319
They have also been met with some resistance in the predominantly white and Christian Midwest state of 5.7 million people – including everything from violent threats and vandalism to general racial and religious tensions. Somali immigrants have been the focus of local efforts to stop refugee resettlement and have feared targeting by local police. The community's most high-profile elected official – U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. – has been a frequent target of anti-Muslim threats and rumors, including from Trump himself.

Still, most Minnesotans have been welcoming, according to around a dozen Minnesota Somali community members, leaders and allies who spoke with USA TODAY, and generous state policies for refugee resettlement, most recently championed by Gov. Tim Walz, has made the state a popular destination for East Africans fleeing dangerous conditions back home.

Walz, who ran for vice president with Kamala Harris against Trump and Vice President JD Vance, expanded existing policies aimed at welcoming Somali immigrants. When Trump as president signed an executive order in 2019 allowing state and local governments more power to reject incoming refugees, Walz approved continued resettlements. Later, Walz approved programs providing drivers licenses, free college tuition and health insurance to undocumented immigrants.

>finished

>>1459319
>"Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing,"
No they're fucking not you lying sack of shit.

I'm pretty sure any Somali is gonna have a slamdunk refugee status claim even if they don't get temporary protected status. If Somalis aren't refugees, refugees aren't a thing that exists. Honestly, Trump is just clogging up the immigration courts which helps out other immigrants, so I am okay with this.

>>1459321
Fun story: they actually are.
>https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab
tl;dr Somalis were gaming the Autism Services department, getting cash, and paying the doctors to do shit like draft fake medical records.
>In a press release announcing the indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office made clear that the alleged autism fraud scheme extended to a wide network of people. “To drive up enrollment, Hassan and her partners paid monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled,” the release reads. “These kickback payments ranged from approximately $300 to $1500 per month, per child. The amount of these payments was contingent on the services DHS authorized a child to receive—the higher the authorization amount, the higher the kickback. Often, parents threatened to leave . . . and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks.”
>Much like with the HSS program, autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years—from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023. Meantime, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers, citing the need for “culturally appropriate programming.” By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism—a rate more than triple the state average.
it later goes on to say they were sending the money back to Somali, which eventually ended up in the hands of actual terrorists.

>>1459324
>According to the Trump admin

>>1459325
This has been happening before the Trump admin anon.

>>1459324
Trump and Stephen Miller are replacing DOJ immigration judges with hand picked military judges and Federalist society rejects with anti-immigrant views so asylum seekers and refugees from most countries (except white south africans) get denied and deported before they can officially apply.
>>1455336

>>1459328
You do realize that we could have universal healthcare if we got rid of all the migrants doing this shit, right

>>1459324
1. Welfare fraud and gang activity aren't the same thing
2. The government line is Al-Shabaab gets a cut of all money sent back to Somalia by anyone through any network for any reason, which is complete nonsense, drastically overestimates Al-Shabaab's reach, and dramatically simplifies Somali society. And I have direct quotes to that effect if you need them. This shit's literally just the feds trying to paint immigrants sending money back home as terrorists. Next you'll have the administration calling all Mexican immigrants narco-terrorists for sending money to their families.

>>1459329
Stop fucking lying.

>>1459329
>You do realize that we could have universal healthcare if we got rid of all the migrants doing this shit
The only way we're getting universal healthcare is if a mass execution of the Republicans in Congress took place. Shit's never happening.

Also, you're literally doing the "Careful mate, that foreigner wants your cookie" meme.

>>1459324
>Kerns then investigated the hawalas in Somalia that were receiving the money transfers. He determined, primarily through human sources, that significant funds were being sent from America to Al-Shabaab networks in Somalia. Whether the money was intended for Al-Shabaab or not, Kerns said, they were taking a cut.

>“Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,” the former official said. “For every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, Al-Shabaab is . . . taking a cut of it.”

Smells like bullshit.

>>1459333
Correction: Smells like racist bullshit.

>>1459331
>Also, you're literally doing the "Careful mate, that foreigner wants your cookie" meme.
Why the fuck would anybody want immigrants leeching aide to fund terrorist orgs.

>>1459326
source other than the Trump admin?

>>1459335
Immigrants aren't why we don't have universal healthcare.
Immigrants aren't funding terrorist organizations.
Somali gangs aren't terrorizing Minnesota.
Stop fucking lying.

>>1459337
You do realize that I would stop lying if we got rid of all the migrants, right

>>1459337
>fraud isn't occurring
>terrorism isn't occurring
>everything is a racist conspiracy theory

>>1459335
>Why the fuck would anybody want immigrants leeching aide to fund terrorist orgs.
You realize "We need to cut off all money going to Somalia to protect Somalis from the terrorists terrorizing them stealing some of it" is a dumbfuck argument, right?

Obviously nobody arguing for all money going to Somalia being cut off, a thing which would absolutely hurt Somalis more than the fucking terrorists, gives 2 shits about Somalis in the first place, so you're literally just using terrorists as a pretext to victimize one of the worst off communities on earth.

The outcomes of what you are proposing are shit, and the stated reasoning for your proposal is transparently pretextual. Nobody with a functioning brain cell is going to listen to you. This is fucking embarrassing to read.

>>1459341
>is a dumbfuck argument, right?
They're defrauding the American public, sending that money back home and funding terrorist organizations that behead christians in foreign nations. And the only refutation of these facts is the insinuation that the federal government is lying.

It's not like we've seen this sort of thing happening in the UK already. But do go off.

>>1459341
I would prefer if we don't syphon money out of our economy and inject it into someone else's economy.

I don't care about Somalia. At all. They could become Wakanda or they could all die in a horrific chemical fire. I literally do not care either way.

>>1459340
not everything just the shit you post here