{"id":2516409,"date":"2025-12-02T08:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-past-time-to-end-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:18:58","slug":"its-past-time-to-end-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-past-time-to-end-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Past Time To End Temporary Protected Status For Somalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-past-time-to-end-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2516409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-motionless-at-swanky-fundraiser-and-gets-led-offstage-by-obama-white-house-responds\/\" title=\"Biden Becomes Unresponsive at High-End Fundraiser, Escorted Offstage by Obama - White House Issues ...ment\">article discusses allegations<\/a> of extensive welfare and Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, largely involving members of the Somali community who have settled there under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.It claims that meaningful sums of money from Minnesota&#8217;s government programs, such as the Medicaid-funded housing stabilization program and autism-related Medicaid claims, have been fraudulently obtained by Somali individuals and funneled to support the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda. Over 70 people connected to a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future have been charged in connection with fraud schemes. Former acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson estimates that fraud in Minnesota exceeds $1 billion. The article highlights criticism of the long-standing TPS designation for Somalis, the lack of assimilation, and the political influence of the Somali community in minnesota. Political figures like former President Trump and Congressman Tom Emmer have called for ending TPS protections for Somalis and investigating the fraud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-even-zoomers-want-tiktok-banned\/\" title=\"Poll: Even Zoomers Want TikTok Banned\">citing national security concerns<\/a> and the misuse of taxpayer money.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump is ending the gravy train of fraud in Minnesota, much of it perpetrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/national-sovereignty\/why-health-care-is-so-costly-779\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Somalis who have been relocated here<\/a> and who have allegedly used some of the money to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fund terrorism<\/a> back in Africa. Trump vows to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis, which has lasted many years <a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/constitution\/derrick-and-orrick-s-one-two-punch-against-trump-537\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longer than<\/a> it should have.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph H. Thompson, who served as Trump&rsquo;s acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota until October, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mn\/pr\/defendants-charged-first-wave-housing-stabilization-fraud-cases\">indicted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/23\/opinion\/state-sponsored-terror-fraud-schemes-sent-minn-tax-dollars-to-somali-qaeda-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six individuals from Somalia<\/a> and two others for wire fraud. They allegedly defrauded Minnesota&rsquo;s Medicaid-funded housing stabilization program.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as 56 people, mostly from Somalia, have pled guilty in connection with a federal investigation into a Minnesota nonprofit organization called Feeding Our Future. Even The Washington Post editorial board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/11\/22\/welfare-fraud-is-far-too-common\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed<\/a> its outrage at the vast extent of fraud in this state run by<a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/family\/sanctity-of-life\/minnesota-governor-tim-walz-signs-most-radical-abortion-law-in-america\/\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/family\/sanctity-of-life\/minnesota-governor-tim-walz-signs-most-radical-abortion-law-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gov. Tim Walz<\/a>, who was the Democrats&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/featured-top\/dumb-and-dumber-dems-pick-a-doozy-for-vp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> vice presidential nominee<\/a> last November.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1992061783084027955?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observed<\/a> that &ldquo;Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of dollars are missing. Send them back where they came from.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mn\/pr\/78th-defendant-charged-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">78 defendants<\/a> associated with Feeding Our Future have been charged with crimes. In just two years, the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased<\/a> its take of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">government funding<\/a> from $3 million in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021, as Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> for City Journal. Meanwhile, Medicaid payments on autism claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2025\/08\/a-billion-dollar-somali-autism-fraud-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased<\/a> by nearly $400 million in Minnesota between 2018 and 2024, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mn\/pr\/first-defendant-charged-autism-fraud-scheme-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal charges<\/a> have been filed based on alleged kickbacks to the Somali community.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the U.S., many of whom were settled there under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/humanitarian\/temporary-protected-status\/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-somalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Temporary Protected Status program<\/a> and have become American citizens. Earlier this year Trump terminated the TPS program for 600,000<a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/featured-top\/supreme-courts-getting-busy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Venezuelans<\/a> and 500,000 Haitians.<\/p>\n<p>It was more than 30 years ago that President George H.W. Bush ill-advisedly <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.federalregister.gov\/issue_slice\/1991\/9\/16\/46803-46805.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brought<\/a> Somalis into the United States under this <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >temporary program<\/a>. No &ldquo;temporary&rdquo; program should last more than three decades, as this one has.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, an experienced career prosecutor, estimated that the defrauding of government programs in Minnesota exceeds $1 billion. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an extraordinary problem, the fraud that&rsquo;s pervasive in this state,&rdquo; Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/u-s-attorney-says-minnesota-government-fraud-could-exceed-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> a news station in an interview in July. A former investigator who is Somali American <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/file:\/\/\/Users\/joshuamonnington\/Downloads\/Somali%20American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> this problem in an article published in the Minnesota Reformer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Minnesota&rsquo;s public programs don&rsquo;t adequately guard against organized fraud,&rdquo; the Somali American said. He added that many Somalis are &ldquo;skilled professionals whose experience and education credentials are not recognized in the U.S.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Somalis inherently trust one another. This creates a vast opening for fraudsters,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Decades ago Phyllis Schlafly criticized the lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/phyllisschlafly.com\/national-sovereignty\/border-security\/the-phyllis-schlafly-report-july-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assimilation by refugees<\/a> and other immigrants in our country. The fraudulent conduct only gets worse because tribal behavior dominates in these non-assimilated immigrant groups &mdash; rather than a competitive market that helps keep participants honest.<\/p>\n<p>As Thorpe and Rufo reported, many millions of these dollars stolen from the government in Minnesota are funneled to Al-Shabaab back in Somalia. Al-Shabaab seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom\/somalia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">impose<\/a> strict Sharia Law in Somalia and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affiliated<\/a> with the notorious al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Thorpe and Rufo, a former official who worked on the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force said, &ldquo;Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities [Minneapolis-St. Paul], in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,&rdquo; observed another expert on terrorism quoted by Thorpe and Rufo.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who is a Republican congressman from Minnesota, <a href=\"https:\/\/emmer.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/emmer-demands-answers-on-minnesota-fraud-schemes-funding-al-shabaab-terrorists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanded<\/a> on Nov. 24 that there be an investigation into the fraud. &ldquo;Minnesota has become the land of 10,000 frauds under Tim Walz,&rdquo; declared Emmer in a play on the state&rsquo;s &ldquo;10,000 Lakes&rdquo; nickname.<\/p>\n<p>News that stolen taxpayer dollars are funding Al-Shabaab terrorists &ldquo;is not only a grave national security concern, it&rsquo;s a slap in the face to the hardworking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-crime-wave-will-put-republicans-back-in-power-in-midterms\/\" title=\"CNN: Crime Wave Will Put Republicans Back In Power In Midterms\">law-abiding people<\/a> of Minnesota,&rdquo; Emmer said. <\/p>\n<p>But so many Somalis have resettled now in Minnesota that they have oversized political clout in elections there. &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t win the Somali community, you can&rsquo;t win Minneapolis,&rdquo; observed former Minnesota state senator David Gaither. &ldquo;And if you don&rsquo;t win Minneapolis, you can&rsquo;t win the state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ends Somali fraud and TPS in Minnesota abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":2516410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-12-01T161830.255.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[36382,16697,52619,49417,68043],"class_list":["post-2516409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-immigration-policy","tag-somalia","tag-temporary-protected-status","tag-tps","tag-u-s-immigration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-12-01T161830.255.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516413,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516409\/revisions\/2516413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2516410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}