Tim

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

Somehow, the left advanced the absurd notion that the salad bowl of immigrants, chiefly and permanently identified by tribal ethnicities, races, religions and nationalities, and only secondly as new Americans, would radically change America for the better. And so ended the ancient notion of assimilation, now to be known as “cultural appropriation.”

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

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.”

But Minneapolis went into "how to be anti-racist" overdrive. Led by liberal Mayor Jacob Frey — who’d become notorious when he failed to crack down on the riots that followed the death of George Floyd— the city approved a law abolishing all single-family zoning in Minneapolis. He made clear that doing so was a form of reparations. Per Mayor Frey,... See more

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.

In fact, it has always been possible in America for groups to live separately from the rest of society, obeying their own rules, but these groups, such as the Amish and Hasidic Jews, don’t seek state and federal political power.

Assimilation has long been the prerequisite for political power for the very reason that in politics, our elected... See more