When Assimilation Fails: What the Minnesota Welfare Scandal Reveals About U.S. Immigration Policy

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To discuss a really interesting column. Again, it goes along with a topic that we’ve been talking about for years here when it comes to immigration. I call it assimilation and the need to have immigrants that are willing to assimilate. Barton Swain today had a really interesting piece entitled Our Digestible Immigrants. If you wanted to invent a parable of modern liberalism’s failure, you’d have to work hard to top the story of Somali immigrants and US citizens alike bilking Minnesota social welfare system. So enormous and brazen was the theft that the New York Times treated with a competent and mostly unflinching article, which is the only reason anybody outside the small world of conservative punditry knows about it. The time it took for the Minnesota story to make its way into the national headlines is part of problem. Federal prosecutors had already convicted 59 of the fraudsters, which tells you how long this thing has been happening.

Few local media outlets in Minnesota, KARE, have covered the story since the first indictments. A couple others as well, and again, this is going back years. The Somali fraud story is in some respect akin to the so-called grooming scandal in Britain. You remember this? In which gangs of Pakistani men sexually abused young girls, the government.

and the news media. No, no, no, we can’t do anything about this. people will think we’re racist. And how messed up that is. we’re gonna be accused of Islamophobia. Well, we made fun of that. And here we got Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities. couldn’t, state authorities couldn’t do a damn thing. They couldn’t, we can’t stop this theft. You’re talking again, a billion dollars.

Just Medicaid, housing, other welfare programs. Pretty darn bad.

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Bold scandals, he writes. Question about, most of us would rather, it’s a question. Again, people are afraid to ask this question. I’m not, I’m not, as you can tell, I have no filter. I have no filter and people can call me whatever you wanna call me, racist, Islamified, I’m just dealing with reality. And I don’t care how much.

how much you would like oil and water to mix, it’s just not going to. All right, follow along here. Large scale immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. Show me, show me a place, show me a place in the world where it’s worked out.

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Martin Swain in this article, and I got a little upset with him about this, he points out Italian immigration in the early 20th century and saying that, well, you know, that had some imported some form of criminality. Martin, know, you haven’t done your homework on this by any stretch of the imagination of several books. Black Hand is an excellent one as well, where you actually learn a little bit more about what actually took place, but neither here nor there.

Minnesota is roughly 80,000 strong, Somali community contains many industrious people and good citizens.

Okay. But an unbiased observer could be forgiven for thinking Minnesota’s Somali population isn’t capable of assimilation. Again, I don’t know if you’ve watched some recent man on the street interviews in their neighborhoods. Every single one says, not only do they not want to be here in the United States, they don’t want to live under our laws.

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Again, why are you here then? Anyway, there was an essay that was recently put out talking about this. Bad actors within the community would approach potential conspirators. is how the scam would work. Co-conspirators without any fear of betrayal. Even the people who said no to phenomenal offers of tens of thousands of dollars in free taxpayer money.

didn’t inform the authorities that a major community-wide fraud against the public was in progress. Potentially, criminal oddities went almost totally unreported to anyone in government. The FBI learned about Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit that was one of the main vehicles of the fraud from a whistleblower in the Department of Education, not from any of the scams, ground-level witnesses or participants. Anyway, there was a book.

It’s called Dominion came out in 2019 by a British historian, Tom Holland. And he contends that Christianity has left an imprint on the West so deep as to be.

Inredactable and imperceptible. Even atheists and nations once Christianized think in Christian terms without knowing it. Only a Christian nation, and I suspect Mr. Holland would say, would invent a social welfare system as lavish and easily exploitable as the one in Minnesota, pretty much all over the country.

Essentially what Christianity has that Islam does not is a concept of the secular. He said this in a recent interview, Tom Holland. From its beginning, Christianity has acknowledged that some parts of human society will function outside the demands of revelation. Think of Jesus’s imperative to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. Islam classically acknowledges no such fear.

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I think Islam is uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset. And Minnesota’s Somali population plainly doesn’t think of itself as digestible. Now, I’ve said this before and I’ve got blowback from some of the listeners in regards to immigration here in this country. And we all know, okay, the door is thrown open.

Central America, Mexico, South America, all these places, we have to know who’s here and we have to assimilate these people as well. The one thing I’ve thrown out over the years is said, hey, people, you we can deal with this. It could be much worse. It could be Europe.

Europe, their mass, large scale mass immigration, Muslim immigration is a far greater problem than what we are dealing with. And again, you take a look at some of these cities and Scandinavia, country, they’re a disaster. Some of the highest crime rates in the world. Stockholm, yeah. Massive no-go zones in Paris.

President Trump was asked about the Minnesota fraud prosecutions. And he said, these aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain. They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch. And he actually obviously went after Ilhan Omar, because she does that all the time anyway.

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And some say, well, you know, that’s terrible. That’s mean. That’s not everybody.

You know

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He’s not exactly wrong, okay? He isn’t wrong to sense that something is off, okay? We all know it. We all see it. We all know it doesn’t work. We all know it’s not okay. Okay, we got up that entire community is completely contemptuous of the country that took them in.

And yeah, yeah, I don’t know the legalities. I don’t know how you’re gonna start pulling people’s paperwork and saying, whoops, we screwed up here, you gotta go home. But.

I think that’s something that people could get behind.

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Again, is bad. Again, people see online, they’re seeing people getting pulled over by, I have story here recently in Florida, a lady was a citizen, got pulled over in a and she was completely legal. I mean, let’s focus a little bit. Let’s put a little bit more focus on those illegal aliens.

from these really, really dysfunctional, just different than us. And I’m sorry, I’m gonna say it.

Mazda Nations!

Listen, it is what it is. Okay, I have another one of those prove me wrong things. Look at these communities. They want surreal. They don’t want any part of the thing. They want to cut themselves off. And we brought them here. We allowed this to happen. Yeah, we might want to rethink that. Let’s figure out a do over on this. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.