Immigration
December 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
David Zimmer told the appalling story of Adbimahat Bille Mohamed at AmericanExperiment.org. Briefly, Mohamed is a serial rapist. In 2017, he raped a 15-year-old girl. He was not charged in the initial investigation, but was later identified through DNA. In 2024, he raped another woman. These are some of the charges he faced: During the pre-trial phase of the May 2024 rape case, Mohamed’s DNA sample was entered into the
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December 7, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Stop the fraud or win elections. This is the choice now facing Democrats in Minnesota. Want to guess which one will prevail? The ethnic-Somali population in Minnesota (including refugees and 2nd generation) numbers around 107,000, according to census data. Thirty-five (35) years ago, that number was zero. Nearly all are citizens. The total foreign-born population in Minnesota sits around 500,000, most of whom are naturalized American citizens. Even allowing for
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December 6, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can stop fraud in Minnesota without attacking Somalis. In a perfect world, Lopez is absolutely correct. She writes (non-paywall version here) that, It is true that Minnesota has seen an extraordinary rash of fraud in taxpayer-funded programs recently. More than 70 people have been charged, including several Somalis. “Several”? Wall Street Journal columnist Matthew Continetti writes, Of 86 people charged so far, all
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December 6, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One of these days we will move on from the Minnesota fraud story, but for now the hits keep on coming. President Trump directed a surge of ICE personnel in Minneapolis, as he has in several other cities. That prompted a bizarre press conference by the Minneapolis Chief of Police, in which he urged citizens to call 911 if they see an ICE officer misbehaving, suggesting that the Minneapolis Police
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December 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard about the sickening case of “Minnesota man” Abdimahat Bille Mohamed. Libs of Tiktok picked it up in the X post below. My post here elaborates on Bill’s adjacent post. “Minnesota man” Abdimahat Bille Mohamed r*ped a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint and r*ped another woman he met on snapchat. He struck a plea deal and DID NOT SERVE JAIL TIME. He just r*ped another woman. Who could’ve
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December 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Wall Street Journal editorial board member Barton Swaim writes about the massive Minnesota Somali frauds we have been covering for a long while now on Power Line. Today Swaim devotes his weekly Unruly Republic column to “Our ‘digestible’ immigrants” (behind the WSJ paywall). He warms up to his theme with an overview of the scandal revealing our indigestible immigrants: * * * * * The Somali fraud story is in
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December 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Gabriella Power hosts the Power Hour on Sky News Australia. I was on her show yesterday. We talked about the exploding Tim Walz scandals, Kamala Harris’s retrospective on her VP choice, President Trump’s halt on Third World immigration, Trump’s revocation of Biden’s “autopen orders,” whether the Seditious Six face legal peril, and the current state of peace negotiations in Ukraine. I make no comment on my own performance, but Ms.
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December 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On Thanksgiving Day, President Trump announced his intention to (among other things) “pause all migration from Third World Countries.” Today, Trump began to make good on that pledge: The Trump administration formally halted immigration applications from 19 countries deemed to be a high risk for producing terrorists and other national security threats — hours after a source told The Post that list could grow to 30 nations or more. In
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December 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The threat of immigration enforcement aimed at Minneapolis Somalis has set off a panic. City officials including the mayor and police chief are not on board with the idea of law enforcement. They favor non-enforcement, if not obstruction. They are inclined to let sleeping fraudsters lie. They and their friends and family form a crucial component of the partisan political base of the city. This is what happens when you
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November 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Immigration isn’t really complicated. Whether it is good or bad depends on whom you get, and in what numbers. The quality of immigrants is an individual matter, but country of origin is highly important, as it determines the culture that immigrants will bring with them. And, as we have seen in America, many immigrants do not adopt our culture, they inflict their culture on us. Thus, Denmark has had an
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November 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the New York Post featured Douglas Murray’s column “Afghan terror and Somalia [sic] fraud shows why Trump is right on migrants” in its opinion pages. Murray credited the Rufo/Thorpe City Journal column that I wrote about this week here at City Journal and here on Power Line with the “the discovery…reported first” by them of “vast amounts of welfare and charitable fraud being carried out by the Somali residents
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November 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Scott has already written about President Trump’s national address on the shooting of National Guardsmen in D.C. as well as his Thanksgiving Day tweet promising to do something about the country’s immigration mess. I want to offer additional thoughts on the measures that Trump says he intends to take with regard to immigration. First, this is the portion of Trump’s tweet where he describes what he intends to do: I
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November 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Ryan Thorpe/Chris Rufo City Journal column “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” is, as Drudge would say, impacting. It attracted the attention of the White House and elicited President Trump’s statement that he has terminated Teporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. The Star Tribune story by Christopher Vondracek on Trump’s statement is a glorified editorial of the party-line lyin’ kind. Vondracek baldly asserts: “Trump’s post
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November 22, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In the wake of news stories about the massive frauds that have been perpetrated in Minnesota–stories that we have been writing about here, for years–President Trump is moving to revoke temporary protected alien status for Somalis in Minnesota: Unfortunately, this action (assuming Trump follows through) will have no practical impact, since there are only a few hundred Somalis on TPS in Minnesota, and fewer than 1,000 across the country. The
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November 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
This morning’s Free Press newsletter by Nellie Bowles gives us the quote of the day, if not the week and the month: Jacob Frey is one of our great colony leaders: Do you know how Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey fended off his socialist challenger, the Somali American Omar Fateh? Apparently by exploiting Somali clan divisions. Here is Ilhan Omar standing next to Omar Fateh, slamming the community for fragmenting. And
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November 13, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The murder of Sara Sharif is a well-known case in Britain, but I became aware of it only because of a government report that has just been released. The report details failures by government agencies that contributed to Sara’s death: Sara Sharif was murdered by her father and stepmother after a professional who may have “feared causing offence” failed to question why she was wearing a hijab that hid her
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November 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 “in their faith tradition.” Their marriage represented a merger of Somalia’s two largest clans: the Darood (Omar) and Hawiye (Hirsi). The clans are rivals. They don’t get along. The merger was therefore one source of Omar’s political appeal to Somalis in 2016. Moreover, according to my Somali friends, Hirsi was the brains of the operation before Omar blew him off for her third
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