Ripping Off Taxpayers Since 2015 (at Least) – RedState

We’ve been spreading a lot of pixels, rightly so, about the whole fraud problem at Somali community daycares in Minneapolis. While we’re pleased to see Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Justice investigating these allegedly fake facilities, it’s also important to get into the Wayback machine and remember that this has been going on since at least 2015. A video from 2015, reportedly used in a 2018 fraud prosecution, shows parents dropping their children off at one of these daycares, then leaving with them moments later.

This is a 2018 criminal prosecution in Minnesota against Somali daycare fraudsters.

In the surveillance video, Somali parents took their children to daycare, checked them in, then left with them moments later.

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– Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 29, 2025

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The daycare owners would then bill the state for a full day of child care and pay the parents bribes for their participation in the fraud.

Somali fraudsters have been stealing from taxpayers for years and it is clear that the entire Somali community is in on the act.

A local report (Minneapolis) from 2018 presents surprising details:

Minnesota lawmakers are planning a hearing Tuesday after Fox 9 investigators revealed child care fraud that could cost taxpayers millions of dollars and some of which could go to terrorists overseas.

Carry-on suitcases stuffed with $1 million in cash routinely depart on flights from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in the Middle East. Last year alone, government officials determined that money transfers totaled more than $100 million. They believe a significant amount comes from fraud in the state’s child care assistance program, which provides government subsidies to low-income families.

At least 10 child care centers are currently under active investigation for overbilling the state. Most of these centers are owned by Somali immigrants. Community members told Fox 9 that fraud was widespread. It is believed that some of the funds are sent as remittances to relatives in their home countries. Investigators also believe terrorist groups demand a share of the money when it arrives abroad.

It all sounds familiar.

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Watch: DHS and ICE investigators go door-to-door to crack down on suspected Minneapolis fraudsters

Part of the problem is the relocation of Somali “refugees” to Minnesota, among other places. Minnesota has for years been a state that has boasted about its generous welfare benefits. The state also appears to have operated on a high-trust basis when administering these programs, but then welcomed a massive influx of people from a low-trust society.

The implications of this are enormous. It’s the social equivalent of a biological event: an invasive species (like, say, giant toads in Australia) enters an environment where it has no natural predators or other control over its spread, causing all sorts of problems. In this case, Minnesota accepted the largest influx of immigrants in the United States, from a culture that is essentially a zero-trust society. And these people quickly learned to game the system.

Also in 2018, a City Journal article made this compelling point:

The case of Fozia Ali, recently sworn in as a park board member in an upscale Twin Cities suburb, is telling. Ali’s daycare in south Minneapolis was suspected of billing the government more than $1 million for fake child care services. According to Special Agent Craig Lisher, the FBI “found documents indicating that she was collecting a significant amount of money for a far greater number of children than were actually attending the center.” Ali’s case also had an international dimension. “We are aware that some of the funds went overseas, what she was taking in, corporate money,” Lisher noted. He refused to specify what these funds were intended for.

Ali used a phone app to register the charges with the Minnesota state government while staying in an $800-a-night hotel in Nairobi. She pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud charges and is serving time in federal prison. But the scam goes well beyond Ali. Although the total loss of the state’s $248 million child care program has yet to be determined, we are obviously dealing with a serious case of deception. But the real damage, harder to measure, will likely be to Minnesota’s high trust values, where newcomers can so easily deceive natives.

If Fozia Ali were not a criminal defrauding the taxpayers of Minnesota and the United States, she would almost have to be given credit for her audacity – reporting fraudulent charges while on vacation in Kenya, among other things.

The scope and scale of this situation are becoming more evident and more worrying every day. It seems this has been going on for at least ten years. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been defrauded. How many millions, if not billions, were left in suitcases to end up in Somalia? And who were these dollars given to?

When you import the third world, you import third world behaviors. Nowhere is this more evident than in Minneapolis, right now.

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