Ben Stiller's Attempt to Defend Somalis from Trump Backfires as Social Media Users Offer a Suggestion
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Hollywood waded into a very real national debate this week, and it did not go the way one actor hoped.
For years, authorities in multiple states have uncovered astounding levels of fraud in welfare, housing, health care, food assistance, COVID relief, and other taxpayer-funded programs.
Much of it has involved members of the Somali community.
The numbers are staggering. The fraud has been so pervasive in Tim Walz's Minnesota that even The New York Times -- rarely eager to highlight failures tied to favored demographics -- was forced to acknowledge it.
“Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided,” the liberal news outlet reported.
The paper even acknowledged that the behavior did not materialize out of nowhere.
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