Minnesota’s Somali taxpayer swindle: Welfarism plus immigration without assimilation is a toxic mix
The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously argued that “it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both.”
The man was wrong. You can. The result is now on display within the Somali community in Minnesota.
It’s clear that an outsize level of corruption exists among these newcomers in Minnesota. Tax dollars allegedly flow into autism treatment centers to treat children who don’t have autism, and state funds prop up charitable ventures that employ scores of people but fail to engage in any legitimate charitable functions. That’s just what we know from the existing indictments.
The Somali fraud story was on a low journalistic simmer for years until Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo at City Journal reported that some of the bilked funds were diverted to the terrorist organization al Shabab. Then, the day after Christmas, a 23-year-old YouTuber named Nick Shirley released a 40-minute viral video of Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota allegedly fraudulently taking funding meant to provide for low-income families.
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