As Somali refugees in Minnesota waged gang wars and engaged in child sex trafficking, Governor Tim Walz pushed for even more refugees to be resettled in his state.
Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris tapped as her running mate this week, petitioned the Trump administration to send more refugees to Minnesota in 2019, even though the state already had the highest number of refugees per capita in the United States.
Somali refugees brought more than fresh perspectives to Minnesota.
Since at least 2009, members of Minneapolis's Somali refugee community have formed gangs along the same clan lines that plunged Somalia into civil war.
Violence between rival Somali gangs has continued to plague Minnesota in recent years, particularly in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, now referred to as "Little Mogadishu." Violent crime in the area soared a whopping 56 percent in 2018, with authorities attributing the rise to gangs like the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia, the Hot Boyz, and Madhibaan with Attitude.
During Walz's tenure, Somali migrants in Minnesota defrauded the government out of a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars intended to feed impoverished children.
Over 13,000 Somali refugees were accepted into Minnesota between 2005 and 2018, and the state had 69,000 Somali residents as of 2019, accounting for about 40 percent of all Somalis residing in the entire United States.
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