I firmly believe that bringing in hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees has been a disastrous mistake — one that has burdened communities, strained resources, and created deep cultural and security challenges that our leaders refuse to acknowledge.
There’s no reliable count of just how many Somali refugees are living in the U.S. — and that’s part of the problem. What’s clear, though, especially if you live in a deep-blue city where they’ve become a major voting bloc, is the outsized and corrosive influence they’ve had on local politics.
Take Minnesota, for example. Every major voter fraud scandal you’ve heard about there? Somali-linked. Ilhan Omar? Somali. And now there’s even a good chance Minneapolis could elect its first Somali mayor — though a growing backlash coalition is forming to stop it. Current Mayor Jacob Frey is so worried he’s literally running campaign ads in Somali.
Minnesota’s political system, particularly in Minneapolis, has seen troubling signs of corruption and voter irregularities in recent years, linked largely to Somalis who refuse to integrate into American society (like Omar). Investigations have revealed widespread fraud in some state programs, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. These scandals have shaken public trust and exposed serious weaknesses in oversight and enforcement.
Within Minneapolis politics, factional infighting and allegations of misconduct among the Somalis who dominate the Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party are rampant. Earlier this year, the state DFL had to void a key endorsement after internal investigations found major irregularities in the process — a move that underscored just how chaotic and compromised the city’s political culture has become.
Since the DFL does not verify citizenship, it is highly likely that many of the Somalis who attended (and who were not proficient in English) were ineligible to vote, leading to potential corruption of the voter rolls.
And Omar regularly tells Somalis that she represents Somalia, not Minnesota:
I find it distressing to see many women in Western society wearing a niqab and numerous Somali men openly mocking Americans’ gullibility. It troubles me even more that the Democrats in power are fully aware of how harmful this community has been yet have chosen to cater to them. And the poison isn’t just in Omar’s Minnesota; it spreads wherever Somalis settle in numbers.
Omar is very clear about her loyalties when speaking to Somalis. This sentiment is commonly shared among Somali refugees who travel freely between here and their home country, where they claim to be in danger.
A growing number of Americans are sick and tired of what they see as blatant – maybe even treasonous – disloyalty to America, and that includes President Trump, who just said again this week that Omar should return to her native land she seems to love so well (now that she doesn’t have to live there).