December 15, 2025
America Needs to Get Real About its Surging Somali Crisis
By Joseph Ford Cotto
The last stretch of 2025 forced America to confront a reality that had been building quietly for decades.
What unfolded in Minnesota wasn’t a sudden crisis, but the exposure of one long ignored. Courtrooms, federal agencies, and national headlines converged on a single uncomfortable truth. The Somali resettlement experiment in the United States has failed in ways that now directly affect public trust, public safety, political stability, economic prosperity, and the very integrity of the social contract.
On Nov. 25, a Minnesota judge overturned a unanimous jury verdict that had convicted Abdifatah Yusuf of stealing $7.2 million from Medicaid, money prosecutors said funded luxury vehicles and vacations rather than patient care. Per the jury, there was gargantuan billing for services that never existed. The Democrat-appointed judge said she was disturbed by what the jurors found, though obviously not enough to let the conviction stand.
Her decision stunned legal observers and ordinary taxpayers alike. It was not an isolated case. This ruling came amid state investigations showing that hundreds of millions of dollars had already been lost to similar schemes.
By Nov. 29, the scale of the problem became undeniable. Investigators revealed that Somali run organizations in Minnesota had siphoned more than $1 billion from child care programs, food aid, and pandemic relief during the COVID era. President Donald Trump publicly described Minnesota as a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity, reflecting the growing outrage of hard-pressed residents who saw taxes rise while services declined.
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