11-22-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Minnesota’s Somali Refugee Fraud Problem

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of Michael Brown in Minnesota. First, let me just back up.
Let me back first, let me back up. Can you
find Somalia on a map? Do you know where Somalia is?
Can you find Minnesota? You know, land of ten thousand Lakes.

(01:59):
I think it is also probably the land of you know,
hundreds of thousands of Somalians. Minnesota is stubbornly and to
me kind of mystifyingly a blue state. I think that
might explain why it's also home to one of the
most generous welfare programs in the entire country. If you're

(02:22):
listening to me in Minnesota and you disagree, and you
don't think that you have one of the most generous
welfare programs in the entire country, then please text me
and explain to me why. Minnesota nice as they like
to say, but when you give away free stuff, it
has a flip side, it has a bad side. And
it's for this reason that generosity that Minnesota has that

(02:45):
is also home to a section of Minneapolis called Little
Mogad Dishue, Little Mogad Dishue, and to a large and
ever growing Somali community that's literally changing the Minnesota. What
began in Somalia way back in the nineties famine, civil war,

(03:07):
societal collapse eventually evolved into a movie we've probably all watched,
Blackhawk Down, back in nineteen ninety three. That was followed
by an ostensibly well intentioned federal effort to try to
resettle desperate Somalians in Minnesota in the largest city, Minneapolis,
and Minneapolis resoundingly amazingly calls its Muslims to prayer five

(03:33):
times a day and is represented in Congress by a
Jew hating Muslim communist who may have may have married
her brother to try to skirt the country's immigration laws. Now,
let me mix metaphors for a moment. No good deed
on the well paved road to hell goes unpunished. But

(03:55):
I would ask, if you live in Minnesota, did you
vote for that? Is that what you voted for? And
my guess is you probably did not, because we never
vote for this. Didn't vote on their taxpayer funds going
to free stuff for illegal aliens, didn't vote for the
chain migration that allowed a tiny Somalian community to blow
up and take over their biggest city in a relative heartbeat.

(04:19):
Nor do I think did Minnesotans vote on the sorry
state of their financial affairs. In Overton City Journal, Chris
Rufo writes Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer
dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim
Walls alone. Democrat state officials overseeing one of the most
generous welfare regimes in the country are asleep of the switch,

(04:43):
and the media, duty bound by progressive pieties, refuses to
connect the dots. I think we always refuse to collect
to connect the dots if it involves a minority. Either
a minority in terms of religion, although it truthfully, Islam

(05:03):
is not really a minority religion when you look at
it worldwide. But because they're Muslims, oh well, they don't
want to talk about that.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Now.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I would argue that if Minnesota itself was just merely
debt ridden, I'd just say, well, it's just like not
like every other state, but it's just like Colorado. We're
debt ridden. Colorado has a billion dollar budget deficit that
by my analysis, goes on for years and years and years.
Now they claim they patched it up with a special

(05:37):
legislative session and some tax increases, and they found some
money elsewhere and they tried to fill the whole, but
that whole is going to reappear next year. And you
may be living in a state Virginia or some other
states that are just like Colorado in that regard. But
what makes Minnesota special is the kind of fraud that's

(05:57):
going on now. I know that fraud goes on everywhere.
When I was inter Secretary of Homeland Security, I remember
test testifying one time about fraud within some of the
FEMA programs. And I was testifying, I think, along with
the Inspector General. I'm not really sure that. I think
the Inspector General was either testifying with me or the

(06:20):
Inspector General had provided some information. But we were trying
to clean up the fraud, because anytime you have a
major disaster, there is inevitably fraud involved because people like
heat and steel, and so you try to put mechanisms
in place, you try to put people in place to
minimize the fraud. And a congressperson, a congress critter, asked me,

(06:43):
let's just say that the fraud rate was five point
nine percent, and I was testifying that we were trying
to get it down below five percent, we were trying to
get it down to three percent. And the congressman asked
me some stupid question about, well, why isn't it zero
zero percent? And I made I still don't think it

(07:03):
was a mistake, but I made a statement to the
effect that, well, since humans are involved, we're never going
to get to zero. There will always be some fraud involved.
You would have thought I'd committed a heresy. Now, think
about the absolute irony of Amember of Congress asking an
under Secretary of Homeland Security about trying to minimize fraud,

(07:27):
and I just tell them the truth that it's never
going to get to zero because humans are involved, and
we're trying to do everything we can to minimize it
as much as possible. And that congress person had the
audacity to criticize me for telling them the truth that
fraud's always going to exist, but we're trying to minimize it. Hey,

(07:47):
member of Congress, what are you doing to try to
minimize fraud? That's why I have a really distaste for
members of Congress. But what makes Minnesota special, as I said,
is the type of fraud that is fostering. I'll let
City Journal explain. They write, if you were to design

(08:09):
a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look
a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services. Medicaid Housing
Stabilization Services, I'm going to refer to it as they
do as the HSS program, the first of its kind
in the country, was launched with a noble goal to

(08:32):
help seniors, addicts, the disable, and the mentally ill secure housing.
It was designed with low barriers to entry, meaning easy
to get to it, and minimal requirements for reimbursement. Nonetheless,
before the program went live in twenty twenty, officials pegged
its annual estimated price tag at two point six million dollars.

(08:57):
So you got that, it's low barriers to entry, minimal
requirements to get reimbursed, and they pegged in twenty twenty
the annual estimated price tag at two point six million dollars.
If you don't live in Minnesota, or maybe if you
do and you don't know this story, what do you

(09:20):
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me during the weekday. Also, so back to Minnesota. Minnesota's

(10:07):
Medicaid housing stabilization services originally estimated to cost two and
a half to two point six million dollars per year
when they launched it in twenty twenty, a mere five
years ago. They terminated it as as of this past
October thirty first, because the cost had skyrocketed to more

(10:32):
than one hundred and four million dollars for fiscal year
twenty twenty four, obviously a dramatic increase now. It was
originally intended to help seniors and people with disabilities so
they could find and maintain stable housing through Medicaid funding.
The costs by emerged amid accusations of substantial fraud, and

(10:53):
that led to federal and state investigations as well, as
I said, the program's complete shutdown in October of this
year just last month. The Department of Human Services in
Minnesota is now working to redesign and relaunch a more
secure and transparent housing benefit.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
The one hundred and four million dollar figure for twenty
twenty four that represents the most recently reported annual cost
for the program before it was closed. But of the
one hundred and four million dollars and estimated eighty eight
to one hundred million out of one hundred four million

(11:37):
is believed to have been lost to fraud, you have
one hundred and four million dollar program originally estimated at
two point five to two point six million, and an
estimated eighty eight to one hundred million out of one
hundred and four million is supposed you are guessing its fraud. Now,
I know I'm if you think I'm picking on Minnesota,

(11:59):
I am, But how many other states have this kind
of I mean, that's beyond fraud. That's just absolute, utter,
gross negligence to spend one hundred and four million dollars. Now,
I'm picking a Minnesota, but it applies to all of

(12:21):
us because this is not just state funded, this is
also federal funded, which is why you now have federal
investigations into this program. If I give you one hundred
and four million dollars and you steal one hundred million
dollars of it, I'm going to do everything I can
to put you in jail. I don't care what your

(12:43):
nationality is, what your skin color is, what your sexual
preference is, what your height, weight is, what or who
you sleep. I don't care you steal one hundred out
of one hundred and four million dollars from me. You're
going to jail. Now. Authorities say that the figure is
likely to grow as these investigations continue, since hundreds of

(13:03):
companies and potentially thousands of clients are going to be
implicated and additional waves of prosecutions are now anticipated. The
magnitude of the fraud is truly considered unprecedented in Minnesota's
history of welfare programs, the acting US Attorney Joe Thompson
reporting that it could constitute one of the largest fraud
waves in the history of the United States. Now why

(13:28):
did I mention Somali at the beginning? And that elon
Omar is the congressional representative. A substantial portion, potentially a majority,
of the fraud in this program has been perpetuated by
members of the Somali refugee and immigrant community, according to state, federal,
and investigating media sources. Multiple reports indicate that almost all

(13:52):
defendants charging the Medicaid, housing and welfare fraud cases of
Minnesota originate from the Somali community. Kayesh Meghan, a former
fraud investigator for the minnesot Attorney General's Office Keith Ellison
what a joke and himself a Somali American, stated that
it is uncomfortable and true that almost all the defendants

(14:15):
in the recent high high profile fraud cases are Somali. Now,
while these reports do confirm widespread participation from Smali refugees
and immigrants, precise percentages for the medicaid, housing stabilization services fraud,
I found that difficult to quantify other than the majority.

(14:36):
All I get in is I do a Lexis nexus search.
Is I get the majority seem to be or the
majority are Somalian. And you wonder why we need stricter
immigration controls and why we need to crack down on
these little, you know, mosques that are popping up all
over the country, because I think they're designed to be

(15:01):
affront for potential terrorist threats and they're obviously engaged in
widespread fraud if Minnesota is any investigation whatsoever. But I imagine
most people are afraid to talk about this because, oh, well,
you must be racist if you're saying that Somalis are Oh,
I'm just kidding. I'm just telling you what the news
stories are that it probably can find primarily out of

(15:24):
the city journal provide can find primarily to Minnesota. But
I want the rest of the country to know about it.
I want all my affiliates to know about this because
these reports indicate just how political correctness allows this kind

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of fraud to perpetuate and go on under the noses.
And but for at least one US attorney finally looking
at a program and saying, how do you go from
two point five million to one hundred and four million?
That seems like an awful lot, Maybe we should investigate.
And then you find out that, oh yeah, upwards of
a hundred of the one hundred and four million was
actually just fraudulent payments to welfare recipients. And then you

(16:10):
wonder why we can't have nice things in this country.
You can't have nice things in this country because we're
too politically correct. We're afraid to speak the truth. And
when facts like this come out, the cabal by acts
of oh mission, don't make a national story because oh,
we don't want people in Colorado to know about this.

(16:32):
We don't want people in Texas to know about this.
We don't people in California to know about this. They
got their own problems, and we do. I know, we've
got our own problems in Colorado. But when you have
a particular ethnic group that's involved from a particular country
that of our own doing we bring here and then

(16:53):
we allow and then they actually end up representing that
part of Minnesota in the United States Congress. I think
it does national attention. The available evidence attributes a large
majority of the medicaid housing fraud to Minnesota Somali community.
But I can't give you an exact dollar amount or
a breakdown by legal status. It's just not currently reported

(17:14):
in the public records. At some point, we're going to
recognize that the cost of illegal immigration and the cost
of political correctness in our public policy is going to
be the death nail for us in terms of our
finances and our economy. So Minnesota, thank you. And I'm
not being a sarcastic here, I mean thank you for

(17:38):
pointing out the corruption and the fraud that we've got
to weed out of this country. I'll be right back.

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Tonight.

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You said you would arrest Benjamin Attnyahoo based on they
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General Assembly as mayor, would you do that?

Speaker 6 (19:20):
So I've said time and again that I believe this
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S I can't tell you how much that irritates me.
These people who think they're world citizens, that if they're
citizens of the world, and then you become mayor and
you think that, oh, you're a your city, which by
the way, is a municipality. It is a subset of
the jurisdiction of the State of New York. It is

(19:48):
not a city of international law. You have nothing to
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of the world. Where's your loyalty, mister mayor? Is your
loyalty to the United States of America and to the
citizens of New York that you're essentibly going to represent

(20:09):
as mayor? Or is your loyalties to the International Court
or Criminal Appeals, by the way, an organization which the
United States of America does not officially recognize as being legitimate.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
You said you would arrest Benjamin NTNYA who based on
the twenty twenty twenty four International Court arrest warrant next
you and General Assembly?

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As mayor? Would you do that?

Speaker 6 (20:31):
So I've said time and again that I believe this
is a city of international law, and being a city
of international law means looking to uphold international law, and
that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court,
whether they're for Benjamin Ninnyaw or Vladimir Putin. I think
that that's critically important to showcase our values. And unlike
Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the
confines of the laws that we have, so I will

(20:52):
look to exhaust every legal possibility, not to create my
own laws to do so.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
On the other hand, this is also a world event.
Does that not count a little bit?

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Well?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
I think we are a global city. But I also
think what New Yorkers are looking for as consistency in
the way in which we talk about our values and
follow through on them. And that's why I think these
warrants from the International Criminal Court they are worth fully
exploring every legal possibility to actually follow through on.

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Oh oh, you know what, I think if he does it,
it might result I mean it could. I don't think
it will, but it could result in island maybe something
as miners Nugo war. I don't know the implication of

(21:36):
that is really horrified. What other international laws will Zoe
fram uphold laws that undermine free speech, laws that undermine
the Second Amendment, laws that undermine all of our constitutional rights.
Where are your loyalties? Though? Fram? See, I do not

(21:56):
think that Donald Trump owed. I don't care. Somebody's on
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Donald Trump? Okay, so what why don't you ask for
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he's a communist, and I just don't think that he
should have had the meeting. I know it's New York,

(22:19):
and I know that at New York or technically I
think Queen's is Donald Trump's home, is his home borough,
but New York City is Donald Trump's hometown. I get,
I get that. But a guy that speaks like this
and believes like this doesn't deserve to be elevated by
the meeting in the Oval Office because the implications truly

(22:41):
are horrifying. What what is he really after? If y'all,
if nett, y'all, whoever comes to speak at the United
Nations and Zoe Fram arrests him for being I don't know,
mean to the terrorists, mean to Hamas. That would violate
not only diplomatic community, but guess what he would actually

(23:01):
violate federal law because federal law prohibits US law enforcement
of any kind from cooperating with the deranged and the
malevolent international criminal court. But then Zoe fram has already
promised to violate economic law by making everything affordable through
massive government intervention. So he doesn't care he's going to

(23:23):
violate the basic laws of economics. Why wouldn't he violate
the basic rules of laws of the United States of America.
Just because federal code says something doesn't mean that he
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federal law says. The act that he would violate would

(23:46):
put him in direct violation of Title eighteen, Title of
the United States Code. He would be in violation of
federal law. But that let's see, we picked on Minnesota,
Colorado minises. We haven't picked on California today. In the
cal state education system, dumb assy is not an option.

(24:09):
It's actually your requirement. Nearly every California State University campus
requires students to pass at least one diversity and or
cultural competency class. Now what what's a cultural competency class?

(24:29):
San Francisco State University has among the most demanding criteria
requiring students to take courses in quote areas that the
campus feels are important to graduates. H might that be
oh American ethnic and racial minorities, environmental sustainability in climate action,

(24:50):
global perspectives, and of course, social justice. Some classes cover
several requirements, like Queer Crip LIPT, which examines connections between
ableism and other forms of discrimination such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia,
and transphobia that it appears in literary works. Another class

(25:14):
that covers multiple requirements include find This So Funny, Decolonize
your diet, Food Justice, and gendered Labor in Communities of
Color AH is now decolonize is spelled d E c

(25:36):
l O n I ze Is that d colon eyes
or decolonize See. It depends on where you put the emphasis.
Is it the emphasis or the emphasis because if I'm
going to d colon eyes my diet, I guess what
I'm gonna get rid of my colon? My colon is
kind of necessary to my diet or does it really
mean I'm going to decolonize my diet. I think it's

(25:58):
the latter, You know why, because it is the title
of this class is food Justice and gender, labor in
communities of color, So they want to focus on food
justice in communities of color, addressing issues including sex, gender,
and food production. I can honestly tell you that when

(26:24):
it's come to the idea of food production, Oh, I
don't know the the canned green beans or maybe the
fresh green beans, or the porking beans, or the canned
corn or the fresh corn. I've never thought about that.
In terms of food justice. I've never thought about was
it a racially diverse group of people that put the

(26:45):
corn in the can? Was it a racially diverse group
of people that drove the trucks that delivered it to
the warehouses? And then was it a racially diverse group
of people that took it from the warehouses to the
grocery store? And for the people that stock the shells
where they racially diverse? And then if I'm gonna look

(27:07):
about racial diversity, then I've got to talk about sexual diversity.
Were there are enough gay, queer, lesbian, what you know,
LGBTQ plus I were there enough of them involved in
all of that process? Because that's what food production is
to me. But it's food justice and communities of color
addressing issues including sex, gender, and food production, racism and

(27:29):
attacks on traditional food systems. Oh, cal State, Well maybe
it is the land of fruit and nuts, because all
that's mandated by California law. Cal State students are required
to take an ethnic studies course, but those are separate
from the campus's DEI requirements, so the ethnic studies would

(27:54):
more accurately be called anti European studies. Excuse me of
the few cal State campuses that don't explicitly require students
to take a diversity or culture centered course. You must
make DEI missions into their learning goals for students, says
the handout. One of Sacramental State's objectives for its general

(28:17):
ad requirements is to provide students with a significant and
useful understanding of peoples from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds.
Now you want to know with the auldlement purpose, it's
pretty explicit. In July that school's president Luke Wood said
he wanted to eliminate whiteness. Now, if you don't know,

(28:39):
California State schools are largely funded by coercive taxes on
California taxpayers, and that's what you're getting for your money. Congratulations, California.
I'll be right back. Welcome back to the Weekend with
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(29:01):
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There's a spa in Palisades Park, New Jersey. It's called
the King Spaw. They have updated their policies to allow
the guests, the paying guests, to use the facilities and

(29:47):
they can use it in alignment with their gender identity
that's displayed on their government or state issued photo ID.
Now they're doing that because there was a lawsuit filed
by a Alexandra Gobert, a biologically male transgender Air quotes
here woman who alleged that he was denied access to

(30:10):
the female only section of the SPA despite his ID
identifying him as a woman. Pardon me, I'm so confused.
Why is this being crammed down our throats? Why because truthfully,

(30:33):
most of my friends who are gay, I have asked
what they think about these issues, and they're really upset
because they believe that this is not something that pardon me,
I'm swallowed wrung. Most of my friends in the gay
community say this is not what they signed up for,

(30:56):
that they disapprove of this kind of imposing this kind
of ideology on other people when that's just not the norm.
And they get particularly upset about kids, you know their
you know, their parents decide that because Johnny, who's five
years old, likes to play with dolls, then let's start

(31:16):
getting puberty blockers to little Johnny at the age of five.
It is truly insanity. Is this is insanity? So this
lawsuit came about because of an incident that occurred way
back in twenty twenty two when Gobert visited He was
visiting the SPA and was initially assigned a male wriskman.

(31:38):
He was later given access to the women's locker room,
but then gets questioned by the staff because oh, they
saw him walking around and they saw his male anatomy,
and so they ultimately asked him to leave after confirming

(31:59):
that he had not undergone so called bottom surgery to
remove his penis in his testicles. So the SPA offered
him access to the female facilities, but only if he
wore a bathing suit, which he declined all according to
the court documents. So, as part of a confidential settlement
reached in August of twenty twenty five, King Spaw implemented

(32:21):
a policy change and provided additional training to the staff.
What teach them what to look for. Teach them that
LKA check the ID closely and I don't care how
deep the voice is, and I don't care what you
see in the speedo or you know, as you look
at the speedo, you may think you see something but

(32:43):
it's not really there. Let them in the women's locker room.
If the ID says female, We're a sick society. The
updated policy explicitly says that clients may use sex segregated
areas corresponding to the gender identity regard. You know, I
hate them phrase gender identity, because that's just that's a

(33:06):
made up thing. Gender is gender. Your gender identity is
in your head. The updated policy explicitly says that clients
may use sex segregated areas corresponding to their gender identity,
regardless of physical traits. That policy also emphasizes that clients

(33:29):
uncomfortable with that arrangement may request private accommodations, or they
can just forego use of the communal facilities. I'd say
that the policy reads this quote clients who choose to
access and use sex segregated areas where partial or full
nudity is either required or permitted to do so with

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the understanding that the other clients using those areas may
have bodies that do not appear to align with the
stereotypical body parts associated with the that area. They just
utter insanity, utter insanity, and it will leave the program
today without reminding everybody of something that happened on November

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twenty second, a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
There was of the CBS soap opera As the World
Turns First. Wood came at about one forty pm Eastern time.
It happened too quickly for cameras to be in place.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
And I gave it a great ideal of thought.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Grandtop.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Here is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas.
Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously
wounded by this shooting.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Then it was back to the soap oarper, but not
for long. Soon after, Walter Cronkite was back reporting from
the CBS newsroom, complete with rotary telephones and wire machines.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
This picture has just been transmitted by a wire. It
is a picture taken just a moment or two before
the incident. If you can zoom in with that camera,
we can get a closer look at this picture.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
In almost exactly one hour after his initial bulleting bear
this now famous announcement.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
From Dallas, Texas. The flash apparently official. President Kennedy died
at one pm Central Standard time two o'clock Eastern Standard time,
some thirty eight minutes ago. Vice President Johnson has left

(35:34):
the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to
where he has proceeded. Presumably he will be taking the
oath of office shortly and become the thirty sixth president
of the United States.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. If you're my age
or thereabouts anywhere, you probably remember, like many people do,
of that era, exactly where you were and what you
were doing. And I always bring it up every year
simply because it's a reminder of how our world changed,

(36:13):
yet really didn't change, because we had had assassinations before.
But what happened this time on November twenty second, nineteen
sixty three. We all witnessed it. We all witnessed it,
and that's what changed. Everybody. Have a great weekend, take care,
and I'll see you next weekend.