Writes President Trump, at Truth Social.
Here's the Washington Post article on the subject, "Trump says he will cancel temporary protected status of Somalis in Minnesota/The Trump administration has previously sought to terminate TPS safeguards for multiple countries. The designation shields particular nationalities from deportation" (gift link). Excerpt:
In recent days, Republicans including House Speaker Mike Johnson (Louisiana) and Reps. Tom Emmer and Pete Stauber of Minnesota have been vocal about a report in the City Journal — a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank — which claimed, citing former law enforcement officials, that money obtained fraudulently in Minnesota had been funneled to a Somali terrorist group.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota said in September that “billions” had been defrauded from the state government in “massive fraud schemes,” but the statement did not include allegations of funneling money to groups in Somalia....
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Good!
…one corrupt government money funnel down, scores more to go…
No evidence needed, Trump's adherents operate solely on feelings.
Powerline.com has done some quality reporting on the ongoing fraud in the Somalian community in Minnesota. Don’t reply on WAPO or the Star-Tribune for any truthful reporting about this fraud.
Walz not Waltz unless there’s a parallel universe Minnezota
A federal judge will block this and protect the fraud.
Sorry, Crazy Donald, these wild fake dodges are no longer going to save you. Your spell over some of the American people is breaking, and now they are starting to turn on you. The Republican flying monkeys in Congress can't wait to see you melt away and be free of your evil hold over our lands.
’Your spell over some of the American people is breaking, and now they are starting to turn on you.’
His odds to win a third term are fading…
Start with Ilhan and her immigration fraud.
"Sau-wee, Kwazy Donald, blah blah blah" -spoken like a true TDS sufferer.
The Gopher State- where it’s a-okay to marry your brother…
Mark said...
No evidence needed, Trump's adherents operate solely on feelings.
I live in Minnesota. There's all the evidence you need everywhere you look. The reporting comes from all manner of media outlets, including the local television stations who historically have been cheerleaders of all things DFL. For you to assert "no evidence needed" demonstrates (a) profound intellectual laziness and/or (b) profound bad faith argumentation. In this instance, "and" is the magic word.
Can anyone state an affirmative case as to why there should be Somalis in the U.S.?
Temporary Protective Status means temporary.
Some corrupt judge will block Trump's order. While it's being appealed, the Somali fraud gangs will consolidate their theft, then Trump will eventually prevail.
Disinformation queen ann strikes again:
"Only about 705 Somali TPS holders live in the U.S., and most Somali Minnesotans are citizens or permanent residents, limiting direct legal impact though increasing fear and stigma."
Between your fears of immigrants and transgenders, you live a very shallow life in Madison, Wisconsin. You don't do any research, not offer anything up but fear and hate...
Don't you worry about your reputation, when this all catches up to you? The future is here, ann. Nobody's going nowhere. You have to learn acceptance of Others, because the younger people indeed are learning to get along, assimilate and make America a better place...
Fear not, old woman.
rehajm said...
Walz not Waltz unless there’s a parallel universe Minnezota
11/22/25, 8:41 AM
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Wow, you only included the "sic" after someone pointed it out? He was a national figure, and you didn't catch the misspelling yourself?
Maybe that should tell you that you're not familiar enough with a topic to be writing credibly about it? Sad, sad, sad... I really wish it were true that meadey was ghostwriting the blogposts these days, and ann is not slipping like this.
How far the might professor emeritus is falling...
"...No evidence needed, Trump's adherents operate solely on feelings. ...."
That's a particularly astute comment, considering the plethora of hard news stories unfolding over the past couple of weeks trotting out the volumes of evidence of fraud across agencies, with estimates that keep being revised upward, and reports of hard cash being regularly shipped to Somalia.
Nobody is denying there is fraud, but...
you do not judge a group of hard-working people by the criminals in their midst. If you did, imagine all of the ethnic groups and races (elite whites too!) who would be cancelled because some of their group thrives on fraud, crime and evil wrongdoing...
Imagine today if we condemned all the Jews because of what notorious members of the tribe have recently pulled? We don't do that in America, for good reason.
Oh ann, you had no business being in front of a classroom if this is who you really are: then and now. I hope it's just dementia and surrounding yourself with your high-school-grad mate's intellect every day of your life.
Don't marry down. Thank you for teaching us all THAT lesson, at least... Praying the Cohen boys are spared the hateful infection that has caught hold in you. They're not relocating to Madison, or even visiting during the holidays with the meade household, right???
Way don't we eliminate TPS entirely?
Anecdotally, I have heard that some if these people go back go their home counties in "vacation". If they are being persecuted there, why would they go back?
You guys expect Mark to look into it before claiming there is no evidence? C'mon, man.
Beasts of England said...
Can anyone state an affirmative case as to why there should be Somalis in the U.S.?
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Because they are citizens, they have put down roots here, their children are citizens (some in the best public high schools even, putting up good standardized test scores... that don't land them at places like UW-Eau Claire, say), and most importantly... they are hard-working and doing the jobs that WhiteMen and their offspring are not able nor equipped to do. When you check out of the essential workforce, don't be surprised when an immigrant groups surpasses you and yours in time... The elites don't really contribute much anymore. We can live without hateful blogs, but not the people who do the daily work that sustains society.
(I'd give my answer an A, but I know the ass-kissers and those connected rate higher in the wrong hands. "Give the teacher what she wants to hear" has failed us. Nobody is following "the leaders" nor impressed with where you landed anymore if you got there b/c your mommy or daddy, or money, pulled strings...)
God Bless America. The change that we promised was gonna come is indeed here. Fear not.
Given the recent mayoral election, I suspect a lot of non-Somali Democrats are going to quietly be fine with this.
Anecdotally, I have heard that some if these people go back go their home counties in "vacation". If they are being persecuted there, why would they go back?
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Because the wars are over, they have money and family still there, and as American citizens, are indeed able to visit and vacation throughout the world.
We don't toss Constitutional rights out of bigotry. Don't let the former law professor convince you otherwise...
Original Mike said...
You guys expect Mark to look into it before claiming there is no evidence? C'mon, man.
I don't, but assholery needs to be called out every single time.
Given the recent mayoral election, I suspect a lot of non-Somali Democrats are going to quietly be fine with this.
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They're our neighbors, workers, and public servants. They help build the community and inject freshness into the system. Look at how Minneapolis is faring compared to Chicago.
But nobody calls to "kick them out" in Chicago with the massive corruption there. Why? Because in Minneapolis, more of the citizens are recent immigrants. But once you are a citizen, you cannot be denied your rights...
Not many Somalis here are here under TPS status. If your blog hostess had any interest in fair reporting, or understood numbers, she would not be tossing this rancid red meat at you, to make you all reveal your bigotries and dumb you down by consuming this slop daily.
Be careful who you trust. Some of them indeed have not been vetted, but got where they got because of quota/identity-group hiring back in the day, and are trying to force their offspring into places of importance too. (what happens then? Incompetence reigns. Look around at where the country is at right now... who led us here exactly?)
You mean Trump is suggesting terminating it. Minnasota will go to one of the 700 US District Judges, and one will issue an injunction and say Trump cant do it because blah-de-blah bullshit.
If the number of far-left Judicial injuctions against the POTUS have past 100 mark I wouldn't be surprised. Amount of outrage by Senate Republicans = zero.
The Vault Dweller said...
Given the recent mayoral election, I suspect a lot of non-Somali Democrats are going to quietly be fine with this.
Yeah, but all this stuff happened on Jacob Frey's watch, so he was rewarded for his laziness.
Why would we even have a blanket restriction against deporting a nationality. That's just a dumb standard. If the merits of the case don't tell you what to do then maybe you are too dumb to decide things. Even if the nation they are from is too dangerous, you send them somewhere else. Danger is clearly irrelevant since we don't prevent them from going to blue cities.
Minnasota is a state of clowns. remember they voted for Al Franken. Look at Walz, I can never figure out whether this typical Minnasota Libtard is brain damaged or a massive liar and crook.
OK. Mr. D., inform us.
You claim slam dunk evidence of what is being claimed is easy as pie to produce? Do so.
Remember, people here are allowed to completely disregard news outlets as not trustworthy. They do so on stories the host treats as real, so your proof better be non partisan.
The only reason any of this has seen the light of day is because the feds have been prosecuting it, which began under Biden's prosecutor here, Andrew Luger. When the history of all this is written, Luger will deserve a lot of credit for being a straight shooter and standing up to the corruptocrats who run this state. Having said that, Trump's move is absolutely necessary.
Mark said...
OK. Mr. D., inform us.
You claim slam dunk evidence of what is being claimed is easy as pie to produce? Do so.
Look up "Feeding Our Future" on Google, you lazy sack of crap. Dozens of convictions, most earned by a Biden prosecutor, Andrew Luger, all predating Trump's latest move.
As GatorNavy said, Powerline.com has done great reporting on this, and it has been largely ignored by the "quality" media. It is fraud on a scale that is shocking. Importing Somalians has to be one of the stupidest ideas of all time.
Head 'em up! Mooooooooooove 'em out!
This is what I voted for.
There are a few things we know about Trump’s scapegoat hunt that tends to get lost among those still convinced this is somehow about deporting illegal imigrants or criminals.
TPS isn’t random charity. Congress created it because U.S. law requires that we do not deport people into active civil war, state collapse, or mass-scale humanitarian crises. Somalia has had years of violent instability, famine, and an inability to act as a functioning state.
That’s why Republican and Democratic administrations alike extended TPS for years. It’s a statutory, legal protection—not some optional ‘favor.’
TPS holders are not the source of the crime narrative Trump’s manufacturing. DHS’s own data shows TPS holders—Somali or otherwise—have low to almost nonexistent crime rates. Before they can even apply for TPS, they have to pass background checks and be continuously present in the U.S. They work legally, pay taxes, must re-pass vetting every 18 months, yet not eligible for benifits U.S. citizens have. They are far more unlikely to commit crimes as that would endanger their legal status whereas you and I at worse would pay a small fine.
People pushing ‘gang’ or ‘fraud’ stereotypes almost never provide real data because it has never matched reality, mainly because, there is none. Trump knows how gulible they are and has a loud outrage machine to keep them fired up.
If someone believes that TPS should end, that’s a legitimate policy debate. But saying ‘why should they be here at all?’ ignores both the law Congress passed and the disasters those laws were meant to prevent.
And one more point: when TPS ends, immigrants don’t, or are not suppose to, magically lose all legal options overnight. Many shift to asylum claims, withholding of removal, family petitions, or other forms of relief. Courts have repeatedly ruled that abrupt mass removals without due process violate the law. That’s why prior terminations ended up in litigation.
While we should be debating policy and facts, I understand (not to be misconstrued as I agree with) Trump’s need to invent crime waves and deny the legal framework that already exists as it massages those white grievances he’s rallied his base with.
"Remember, people here are allowed to ...."
Mark, people here are allowed to do whatever they please. That's why your emissions are tolerated.
pool time!
How Long? how long until a district judge overturns this?
i'm guessing: by tommorrow morning
TPS holders are not the source of the crime narrative Trump’s manufacturing. DHS’s own data shows TPS holders—Somali or otherwise—have low to almost nonexistent crime rates.
If you don't investigate, that's exactly what the data will show. The real issue in Minnesota isn't the conduct of some Somalis and their friends - it's the utter lack of oversight from the government here.
No one disputes conditions in Somalia are horrible and have been for decades. I would stipulate most Somalis who've come to Minnesota are law-abiding. What's galling is that some Somalis have been systematically defrauding taxpayers and that some of the defrauded money has gone back to Somalia to fund the ongoing clan wars that make life hell there. No one should defend that.
There's also a sizable Somali community in Maine. Although I see in recent years the community has lost some 4,000 folks as population has dropped from 10K to 6K. Meanwhile Minnesota's Somali population has grown over the same period from 58K to 86K. Smart Somalis go where the grift is greatest.
Trump is your captain now.
Iswjt (the pirates brother flamed out in his mayoral run)
NoGO?
Most people are not criminals, so we should not investigate, prosecute, or take any steps to prevent what most people never do.
Skinnies out?
"How Long? how long until a district judge overturns this?"
I'm sure the complaints are already written for any action Trump takes. They just change a few words here and there and select a venue from the preestablished list of activist judges, who they know hate Trump. They get what they want. Trump stops and waits for the inevitable appeal to random judges. They overturn it. Rinse and repeat. Trump needs to go back to dictator school. He didn't learn a thing.
Democrat Party: a cobbled patchwork of America-hating grifters, race-baiters, old lefty brokedicks, alcoholics, awful female white lefties and assorted undesirables.
Minnasota is a state of clowns. remember they voted for Al Franken.
Actually, I believe it was an election official's car trunk that provided enough votes for Franken to win.
The "Feeding the Future" fraud in Minnesota was shut down by the FBI in 2021. It was not simply related to Somalis.
As for Somali gangs, only the Somali Outlaws are mentioned in the Land of Lakes. The Outlaws' principal territory encompasses the area around the Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. They are also located in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which has a high concentration of Somali-Americans and Somali immigrants (and is called "Little Somalia). Other gangs in these neighborhoods are not Somalis, and they fight gang wars.
63,192 people with Somali backgrounds live in Minnesota, and most of them are U.S. citizens.
No UPDATE yet, huh? Shame on your professor...
"Minnesota is home to an estimated 79,000 Somali residents, the largest Somali community in the United States. Yet most Somali Minnesotans are either U.S. citizens or permanent residents and would not be directly touched by any change to Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Lawyers and advocates said that contrast helps explain why Trump’s announcement caused more confusion and anger than immediate legal consequences on the ground in Minnesota’s Somali neighborhoods.
According to immigration law experts and the Department of Homeland Security, TPS designations for a particular country are made at the federal level and, under current practice, cannot be terminated for just one state. Any move to end TPS for Somalia would have to apply to all Somali TPS holders nationwide, not solely to those living in Minnesota."
Good.
They have ruined Minneapolis. Well...not just them. Them and the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.
I continue to suggest that we trade Minnesota to Canada for the Province of Alberta.
It would be a win-win for everybody.
gadfly said...
The "Feeding the Future" fraud in Minnesota was shut down by the FBI in 2021. It was not simply related to Somalis.
That's a bald-faced lie.
This is straight from the Biden Justice Department, including requisite quotes from Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and Andrew Luger. Since the initial indictments were made, over 30 more individuals have been prosecuted, both by Luger and his Trump-era successors. And there are more charges coming for a variety of other scandals, including the current scandal involving people who were defrauding government programs for autism.
Mr. D., I don’t think anyone disputes that the Feeding Our Future fraud was real, serious, and deserved prosecution. But it also doesn’t justify leaping from ‘a criminal conspiracy existed’ to ‘Somalis as a group are a threat.’
The fraud was exposed and prosecuted because it was investigated. Dozens were charged. Many received lengthy sentences. That shows oversight eventually did kick in—late, but decisively.
Notice how cases don’t become ethnic indictments when the perpetrators are white, Christian, rural, suburban, or corporate. When Medicare fraud is committed in Florida, nobody argues Floridians shouldn’t be here. When PPP fraud was rampant, I don’t recall anyone proposing to deport the entire business community.
Criminal rings deserve prosecution. Remind me how civil-rights penalties are suppose to be for everybody who happens to share the same ancestry.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Mr. D., I don’t think anyone disputes that the Feeding Our Future fraud was real, serious, and deserved prosecution. But it also doesn’t justify leaping from ‘a criminal conspiracy existed’ to ‘Somalis as a group are a threat.’
Read through my comments. Show me where I said Somalis as a group are a threat. I specifically stipulated that most Somalis in Minnesota are law-abiding. Law-abiding Somalis are victims of the fraud, too - they pay taxes just as I do.
In addition, I have never said mass deportations should take place. It's not going to happen, precisely because the vast majority of Somalis are indeed US citizens. Civil rights protections absolutely apply to all citizens.
I'll give your credit for this much - at least you rely on strawman arguments, which is a step up from the outright lies of gadfly and the "la la I can't hear you" approach of Mark.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rufo/p/the-largest-funder-of-al-shabaab?r=fdyt3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Ronald j ward— here’s a link to the rufo expose which is truly jaw dropping. There is no doubt that this was a coordinated web of fraud among Somalis who obviously have a very tight unassimilated community and a high degree of trust among each other, Ie., tribalism , and that they are canny enough to know that Americans are too woke to connect the dots, lest they be called racist xénophobes.
According to DHH, Customs & immigration services, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/07/22/2024-15829/extension-and-redesignation-of-somalia-for-temporary-protected-status
TPS expire St Patrick day 2026
So less than 4 months from now.
Just let it expire and send the home
John Henry
Mr. D., you quoted me @ 10:16 AM ;”TPS holders are not the source of the crime narrative Trump’s manufacturing. DHS’s own data shows TPS holders—Somali or otherwise—have low to almost nonexistent crime rates”.
You responded to that with; “What's galling is that some Somalis have been systematically defrauding taxpayers and that some of the defrauded money has gone back to Somalia to fund the ongoing clan wars that make life hell there. No one should defend that”.
If I misinterpreted you, my apologies but it’s unclear who is “defending that” and what actions you prescribe.
You responded to that with; “What's galling is that some Somalis have been systematically defrauding taxpayers and that some of the defrauded money has gone back to Somalia to fund the ongoing clan wars that make life hell there. No one should defend that”.
No, I responded with this:
No one disputes conditions in Somalia are horrible and have been for decades. I would stipulate most Somalis who've come to Minnesota are law-abiding. What's galling is that some Somalis have been systematically defrauding taxpayers and that some of the defrauded money has gone back to Somalia to fund the ongoing clan wars that make life hell there. No one should defend that.
The first part of the statement, which you chose to omit, directly addresses the concern you'd previously offered.
The point you were making - that crime rates are low by some metrics - is true as far as it goes, and that's why I specifically stipulated that most Somalis in Minnesota are law-abiding. But it does not change the larger point - there is a significant fraud problem involving Somalis, and others, in Minnesota.
As for "what actions you prescribe," you'll note I did not prescribe any. However, I offered praise on two occasions to federal prosecutors, specifically calling out the Biden-era prosecutor Andrew Luger for his efforts.
If you sincerely want a prescription, here it is - it's the duty of the state of Minnesota and its elected officials to pay attention to expenditures of governmental funds, and as President Trump rightly noted, the governor of this state has been derelict in that duty, as have those in his administration who are directly charged with oversight of such expenditures. We only know these things have happened because the feds have been involved, and some members of the local media, most notably A. J. Lagoe of KARE-TV here in the Twin Cities, have been paying attention and calling these activities to account. My prescription - the state government needs to do its job and those who are criminals need to be brought to justice.
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