Minnesota Fraud

For years, the state has wrongly convinced itself that its Black residents suffer from a deeply racist past. Progressives made a key error, confusing the situation of new immigrants who happen to be Black Africans with those who are the descendants of American slaves. But they were sure they had to correct the past with dramatic policy changes.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune, for example, claimed the fraud price tag touted by federal prosecutors is totally inaccurate: Members of the Somali diaspora likely stole only $152 million, the paper huffed — before acknowledging that the total amount “is expected to grow as ongoing state and federal investigations into the state programs continue.”

The logical result of such tribal immigration is now upon us. Somali immigrants, both legal and illegal, have pulled off a likely multibillion-dollar welfare fraud in Minnesota — perhaps the greatest single heist of welfare funds in the nation’s history. They were empowered by the usual DEI boilerplate rhetoric from their Minnesota champions, Rep.... See more

Let’s extrapolate the numbers: The US Census reports about 107,000 people of Somali descent in Minnesota; if we’re generous and say that each one of them pays taxes, their per-capita state and local tax contribution is about $630.

Yet the average Minnesota taxpayer paid roughly $8,050 in state and local taxes in 2024 — and sent $16,044 to the... See more