I haven’t much commented here about the welfare, childcare, autism, and other fraud which is currently in the news. Long time readers know I follow the Power Line website which these days originates almost entirely from Minnesota.
The guys at PL have spent the last 2-3 years carping on this story of immigrant Somali fraud ripping off the federal government to the tune of perhaps billions of dollars. Much of the time they were talking to their considerable audience with next to no one else in media picking up the story.
More than 50 were convicted of fraud - all but one Somali - and still no one wanted to notice. The aversion likely because Somalis are not-white Muslims and picking on them could be called racism laced with Islamophobia.
Comes along a young free-lance journalist with gumption and a cell phone camera, and the story finally breaks out. He documents Somali run day-care centers with no kids present during workdays and federal grants worth a million or more. Red-handed doesn’t begin to cover it.
Anyway, I’m happy something will finally be done about the abuse of our tax payments. But I’m sad it took years during which serious money was stolen and much of that sent of Somalia to fund Islamic terrorism. Meanwhile the legacy media looked away, ignored it.
I blame Obama’s (and Biden’s) woke and DEI policies for the resistance to recognizing wide-spread organized crime with a non-white immigrant face. The fact George Floyd died in Minneapolis was a coincidental but contributing factor too, I suspect.
