WOW! This writer really hits the nail on the head!

 

Somali Gangs and Rampant Crime

Minnesota boasts the largest Somali population in the U.S., and with that, fraud and gang violence have exploded.

Emmy Griffin Contributor patriotpost.us 10-8-26

Minneapolis-area Somalis are in the news again. Why? Well, it started because a Somali gang shootout disrupted a homecoming football game in a supposedly safer neighborhood outside of Minneapolis. In Eden Prairie, a fight broke out in the stadium during the fourth quarter. Reports say that 150-plus members of a Somali gang began fighting on the stadium grounds, and shooting broke out in the parking lot. The perpetrators were not students of either school. Stadium staff quickly evacuated the stands and players to keep them out of harm’s way, but the story still made national headlines.

Eden Prairie is nowhere near the truly bad part of Minneapolis. It is in a rich, mostly white enclave, and crime is low. It’s not where Somali gang shootings are accepted as part of the background noise. The Somali gang problem has metastasized so much that it’s bleeding (both figuratively and literally) into the wealthier suburbs.

Naturally, leftists continue to tell us that Minnesota does not have a Somali gang problem. They would even point to a statistic put forth by the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh that says Minnesota Somali immigrant males aged 18–54 are slightly less likely to be incarcerated (1,170 per 100,000) than native-born Americans are (1,221 per 100,000). Matthew Lilley, John Mitchell Fellow at the Australian National University, and Robert VerBruggen, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, point out how useless that statistic is in a City Journal article.

For one thing, recent Somali arrivals have had significantly less time to be incarcerated. If you change the qualifications to a longer time span (going back to 2006) and alter the age range to 18-29, with the further qualification that the Somali immigrant had to reside in the U.S. since they were at least 15, then the incarceration rate reflects a more accurate depiction of just how much the Somali population does not follow the law. The incarceration rate jumps from 1,170 per 100,000 for Somalis to 5,030 per 100,000. Native-born American numbers rise to only 2,450 per 100,000.

People who come to a different country with a different culture often assimilate very slowly, if at all. Instead, first-generation immigrants often continue their old culture in their new home. Unfortunately, Somalia ranks 179 out of 180 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, meaning even organizations like the World Bank and the World Economic Forum recognize Somalia as having a corrupt culture.

Minnesota is a deep-blue state. Ten years ago, Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is now campaigning for governor, told a crowd of Somali immigrants, “We are home to the largest Somali population in the United States, and we are so proud of that fact in Minnesota!” That is still true a decade later.

The Land of 10,000 Lakes has been on the receiving end of tens of thousands of Somali immigrants, and Democrats are massive supporters of multiculturalism. They cling to the moniker “great melting pot” as an antidote to racism; according to their worldview, they can’t be racist if they import a bunch of immigrants from other cultures.

Unfortunately for them, reality shows us that some cultures actually are better than others. When even the WEF calls Somalia corrupt, that says a lot about that culture. If you don’t take that corruption into account, you end up with Somalis defrauding the American taxpayer or Somali gang members starting a fight at a homecoming game that ends in a shooting.

The icing on the hypocrisy cake is that local Minnesota officials are upset that people are noticing Somali gangs shooting up the place on a regular basis. Pointing it out is apparently tantamount to being racist toward the Somali gangs. For the Left, being accused of “racism” is the worst crime imaginable, but at the end of the day, the real issue is cultural, not racial.

When you import people from a failing country ruled by Islamists and warring tribes for centuries (with brief civilization given to them from 1800 to the 1960s), you’re inheriting the chaotic and broken culture that is incompatible with American culture. As our Thomas Gallatin put it:

In brief, American culture rests on a foundation built on a Judeo-Christian ethic, which recognizes and prizes the fundamental perspective that all men are created equal. They all reflect the image of God and, therefore, are inherently endowed with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This forms the bedrock of American culture. And it has often been observed that what the Founders meant by Liberty was not absolute autonomy of the individual to do whatever they pleased, but rather the freedom of the individual to pursue happiness, restrained and directed by a shared Judeo-Christian morality.

This morality is only possible when defined by a commonly held set of social values, which is the essence of culture. Therefore, culture is best identified not by skin color or ethnic background but by a shared set of values and practices, which includes views on ethical behavior.

This is why multiculturalism, like socialism, is impossible.

And it’s why Somali gangs will continue to make the news.

 

It's about time, take their supposed benefits, entitlements and welfare, and they will self deport.

 

Trump Admin Tightens Medicaid for Immigrants

President Trump is serious about stopping the flow of taxpayer money as an enticement to come to America.

Michael Swartz Contributor patriotpost.us 10-6-26

Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.

As of last Thursday, a population of immigrants lost their Medicaid, and as Nathaniel Weixel of The Hill breathlessly explained, “States and advocacy groups have been trying to warn immigrants who were previously eligible for Medicaid — such as refugees, asylees without a green card, survivors of domestic violence and victims of sex trafficking — that they no longer qualify.”

This provision was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed in the summer of 2025, so it’s not like the 100,000 immigrants the Congressional Budget Office estimates will be affected haven’t had time to adapt. (Conversely, a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation pegged the number at 281,000. Still, it’s barely the population of a medium-sized city and only a portion of the millions of immigrants already here.)

And this isn’t the end of it. Should the OBBBA provisions stay in force — a crapshoot with the potential of a Democrat-controlled Congress — more than a million immigrants will lose both their ObamaCare subsidies and their Medicare coverage, according to Weixel.

But Brianna Lyman of The Federalist explains, “Under the new eligibility requirements, refugees and asylees who do not have green cards will no longer be eligible for Medicaid covered by federal tax dollars, though states can individually choose to provide the coverage themselves. (Lawful permanent residents, minors, Cuban and Haitian migrants, and those covered by the Compacts of Free Association are eligible should they meet the other requirements.)”

It’s likely those in blue states will have their bills picked up by those taxpayers, but the federal spigot will be turned down.

All this brings up some questions ably asked by Not the Bee’s Joel Abbott — queries that are likely on the minds of millions of other Americans as well. “This rule change is mostly affecting green card holders that are here on a valid work visa,” he says. “Unlike refugees, they have the option to go home. Unless they have a true emergency (like a child that has a new and urgent condition), why should they be qualifying for Medicaid instead of returning to their home nations? Why should U.S. citizens be forced to pay for the healthcare costs of foreigners, especially since many American families (this writer included) cannot afford a healthcare insurance plan but do not qualify for Medicaid?”

It seems we have reached a point where some expect us to take care of the whole world. Democrats under the last administration threw open the borders and basically told everyone to come on in. Remember five years ago when yours truly wrote about the borderless nation, and there were photos of waves of immigrants in shirts pleading for Joe Biden to let them in? They came to get benefits paid for by American taxpayers (or, more likely, spiraling deficits).

The irony is, as Abbott also points out, doctors in the immigrants’ home nations work more cheaply than ours do. “If immigrants cannot afford medical care here, they have the ability to return home for care — something Americans do not have the luxury to do unless they can afford to be a medical tourist.”

I stated earlier that the OBBBA is only assured of remaining in force with a compliant Republican Congress. As we noted last week, electing Democrats this fall will begin the process of chipping away at what President Donald Trump has built, as they will surely obstruct and hinder his efforts in order to win back the Oval Office in 2028 and return us right back to where we were under President Autopen, if not even worse.

“Democrats are foreigner first, Americans last,” explains Lyman. “They care little about the effects of mass legal and illegal migration and have gone so far as to suggest that upon taking power, they will do what they can to prioritize foreigners — even though Americans voted for Trump, who ran overwhelmingly on mass deportations and cracking down on all immigration. This is why the midterms matter so much.”

Americans are a nation of givers, but we don’t like to be taken advantage of. Those who are affected by the termination of federal benefits had many months to make alternate arrangements, so despite the best efforts of immigrant advocates and The Hill to create a sob story over this issue, we’re not moved. The gravy train had to stop somewhere, and last Thursday this particular engine came to a halt.

 

An extremely important education of our future, if we don't wake up!

 

Pay Attention to the Red-Green Alliance

The radical Left and radical Islam may seem like unlikely partners, but they have a common enemy.

Douglas Andrews Contributor patriotpost.us 10-9-26

Paris and its suburbs are burning once again, and we here across the pond are mostly yawning about it. But we ought to wake up, ought to take notice, because the rioting that’s currently rending France is coming to a theater near us.

Oh, sure, we’re being told by Le Monde and the rest of France’s legacy media that it’s “mostly peaceful” high school kids complaining about the crappy condition of their public schools. Every article, it seems, refers to these “high school protests,” suggesting that all this could’ve been avoided if the government had merely slapped on a fresh coat of paint in the hallways and replaced all those dog-eared copies of Les Misérables.
But as John Daniel Davidson writes at The Federalist, there’s something wrong with this narrative: “What we see are not protests of classroom conditions, but the wanton destruction of schools, violent attacks on firefighters and police and even teachers, and all the indications of central organization and planning.”

Who knew “high school students” were so organized?

Actually, they’re not. And it’s strange that these high school kids just happen to be mostly male and happen to look a lot more North African than French. Indeed, one social media post after another tells our lyin’ eyes an entirely different story than the one being slopped out by the Leftmedia. What we’re really seeing in France are the rotten fruits of the red-green alliance — red for communism, green for Islamism — an unlikely alliance that exists only because its dissimilar parties have a common enemy: the free-market capitalist Judeo-Christian West.

Oddly, Pope Leo XIV was in France just last week, and he drew 800,000 people to an outdoor mass on the Champs-Élysées — which is remarkable considering the anti-Catholic Jacobin Left long ago flexed its secular muscles in France. But, as Davidson notes, there are two Frances: There’s a Christian-Catholic one, and there’s a red-green leftist-Muslim one, and the latter is conquering the former. Davidson continues:

It’s pretty obvious what’s going on, and who is behind the unrest. This is the Red-Green alliance of the socialist/Antifa left and Muslim immigrants, operationalized to bring the country to its knees through widespread rioting ahead of national elections next year. …

It might be illegal to say so in France, but these are ethnic riots, a show of force by unassimilated Muslim migrants and their hard-left revolutionary allies, who believe that together they are strong enough to overpower the native majority.

Actually, I misspoke earlier when I said that this unholy alliance will soon be coming across the pond. It’s already here. Indeed, the late great leftist apostate David Hororwitz warned us about it in his prescient 2004 book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. And Andrew McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor of the World Trade Center bombers, reiterated it in his 2010 book The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. And, more recently, Victor Davis Hanson talked about on a Daily Signal podcast titled “The Strange Alliance Between Islam and Socialism.”

There’s certainly a useful idiocy within the Left in allowing Islam to infect its movement, but the ultimate result of this collaboration has a historical precedent in revolutionary Iran, where the Ayatollah, upon having used the Left to help depose the Shah and then seize power, ultimately shoots the leftists because he never liked them and no longer needed them.

The alliance, though, works because Islam is calculating and pragmatic, and because the Left is vain and willing to overlook the fact that Muslims would just as soon push their people off of buildings as to ascribe to their cultish LGBTQ orthodoxy.

When we open our eyes, we see elements of this red-green alliance all over the place. We see it in France, of course, but also in the UK, where Pakistani rape gangs were allowed to prey upon tens of thousands of young lower-class white girls and do so for decades with relative impunity due to Great Britain’s impotent and politically correct leadership. We see it in Iran’s partnership with the Democrats ahead of the midterms. We see it in the coalition that elected radical socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani in our once greatest city. Yesterday, on October 7, on the three-year commemoration of Israel’s 9/11, Mamdani felt empowered to briefly acknowledge that awful anniversary and then scold Israel in the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. “The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” he said. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

How vile can a popularly elected politician be? This lying dog was prattling on about “genocide” before Israel even invaded Gaza. (Incidentally, when you see a guy waving a Palestinian flag, especially in New York City on October 7, you should think: “This person wants to kill all the Jews.” And Jew-hatred is another common cause of the red-green alliance.)

We also see this alliance at work in the telltale candidacy of the most radical leftist to ever run for U.S. Senate on a major-party ticket, Abdul El-Sayed, in Michigan; and we see it in the unwillingness of Minnesota’s Democrats to crack down on the Somali gangs and fraud in their midst, and in the anti-ICE protests against our immigration laws, and in the useful idiocy of their martyrs, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

In all of these cases, leftists fear the political clout of the powerful Muslim voting bloc in their midst, and so they go along to get along.

“If we don’t put an end to Muslim immigration,” concludes Davidson of the unrest in France, “that’s what our future holds.” But what he seems to overlook is the very real problem of the Muslims who are already here, already taking over cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-TRAM-ick) and throwing up one mosque after another in Texas, of all places.

We might not be terribly interested in Islam at the moment, but Islam is most definitely interested in us and our institutions. Which is why if we continue to ignore this red-green alliance, we do so at our peril.

 

This very important post deserves your special attention! It describes the horrific devastating consequences of the previous administration.

 

Biden’s Fraudulent Smuggling of Migrant Children

The Democrats’ push to get children out of federal custody outweighed the protocols that ensured their safety.

Emmy Griffin Contributor patriotpost.us 10-6-26

No words are strong enough to convey the atrocities that Joe Biden’s Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program perpetrated against hundreds of thousands of vulnerable migrant children. Calling it a humanitarian crisis doesn’t do it justice. It was a combination of fraud, human trafficking, and human smuggling.

The Democrats’ goal was to flood the states with migrants, not protect the 479,000 unaccompanied minors who went missing under the Biden administration. Those half a million children were supposed to fall under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which are responsible for vetting every sponsor and conducting thorough inspections. However, these children were shuffled through as quickly as possible.

According to The Daily Wire, “Between October 2023 and September 2024, the Biden administration approved roughly 99% of sponsor applications.” Of those applications, 85% involved some form of fraud. Even at the time, Biden officials reported knowing that they were giving these kids away to traffickers, but the push to get them out of detention and into the interior was stronger than the moral obligation to protect them.

The Federalist’s Breccan Thies reports that at least six different types of fraud were perpetrated in these cases. They encompassed “false or fraudulent identity documentation, manipulated photographs, misrepresented or unverifiable addresses, fingerprint fraud, failure to disclose household members, and misrepresentation of age by a UAC.” That last one is simply an adult claiming to be a minor because it was easier to get into the country that way.

According to ORR Senior Advisor John Fabbricatore, “This is fraud that should have been caught by the Biden administration easily, but it was not because there was more of a want to get these kids out the door as quickly as possible.” If government officials had bothered to do their due diligence, they could have prevented a lot of suffering and tragedy.

Take the following two cases.

1. A young girl,15, was handed over to her sponsor, who claimed to be her brother. No DNA testing or fingerprint checks confirmed this; instead, there was only fraudulent paperwork. That sponsor not only wasn’t her brother, but he proceeded to rape, abuse, and impregnate the girl before the state got involved and filed criminal charges.

2. A “step-sister” claimed a 17-year-old boy. She provided Venezuelan documents that the government couldn’t verify, yet HHS and ORR released him anyway. The boy was later found dead in a car, his genitals exposed and a passed-out 30-year-old male in the vehicle with him. He was likely sex-trafficked, though that has not been publicly declared as the investigation is ongoing.

“Heightened scrutiny and better vetting practices could have prevented the fraud that led to the violent abuse of these minors,” Fabbricatore advised. “All it would’ve taken was a willingness to slow down and follow policies requiring heightened scrutiny and better vetting practices, but that did not happen and the result was tragic.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented, “The Biden Administration failed in its most basic responsibility: protecting vulnerable children in federal care. It weakened safeguards and prioritized speed over scrutiny, leaving children exposed to fraud, exploitation, and abuse.” He added, “Under President Trump, HHS is restoring rigorous oversight, verifying who takes custody of these children, and putting their safety first.”

This means unaccompanied minors are going to be held in federal custody for a longer period, reducing the likelihood that they are handed off to cartel-infiltrated NGOs or dubious sponsors. President Trump’s HHS also isn’t afraid to send these children back to their countries of origin, though that is a more complicated measure since some of these countries are hostile to our deportation efforts.

All told, this is a much better state of play than four years ago. Unaccompanied minors’ chances of reuniting with their families are high, and their chances of being handed over to human traffickers have shrunk considerably.