THE SOMALI FRAUD MIRAGE
How a bookkeeping crime became a border myth
It stalks cable news.
It eats Medicaid.
It apparently lives inside Minnesota.
And it is… mostly imaginary.
Because what actually happened was not a cultural conspiracy.
It was a reimbursement pipeline collapse.
But pipelines do not make good villains.
People do.
So the story was given a face.
A skin tone.
A religion.
A convenient immigrant silhouette.
🧾 🏛️ WHAT “FEEDING OUR FUTURE” REALLY WAS
Feeding Our Future was not a Somali charity.
It was a Minnesota nonprofit run by a white executive who controlled a federal money faucet.
Her job was simple:
Approve sites.
Verify meals.
Submit claims.
Collect reimbursements.
Instead, she built a toll booth.
If you wanted federal meal money during Covid, you passed through her.
Some sites served food.
Some did not.
Some inflated numbers.
Some invented children.
The fraud was not about feeding.
It was about billing.
And billing, in America, is where empires are quietly stolen.
🧭 🧱 WHY SOMALIS WERE IN THE PICTURE
Because Minneapolis has one of the largest Somali communities in the United States.
Because many Somalis run:
Restaurants
Cafes
Community kitchens
Food nonprofits
Because when Covid hit, those businesses collapsed.
And when Feeding Our Future came knocking with fast federal money, they listened.
Some ran honest sites.
Some lied.
Some are convicted.
Some are not.
That is how crime works.
But fraud clusters around access, not ancestry.
No one says “The White Suburban PPP Ring.”
No one says “The Christian Relief Scam.”
No one says “The Golf Club Loan Launderers.”
But when fraud happens in an immigrant neighborhood, suddenly it becomes a tribal myth.
🧨 📺 HOW IT TURNED INTO A POLITICAL WEAPON
Trump did not discover fraud.
He discovered a narrative.
Here was the perfect story:
Black
Muslim
Refugee
Urban
Receiving government money
It writes itself.
So instead of:
“Pandemic oversight failed catastrophically”
We got:
“Immigrants are stealing your tax dollars”
One sentence leads to reform.
The other leads to raids.
Guess which one they chose.
🧭 🧠 WHAT THE EVIDENCE ACTUALLY SHOWS
There is real fraud.
There are real convictions.
There are real stolen dollars.
What there is not:
A Somali conspiracy
A cultural crime wave
A community-wide theft operation
What exists is something far more American:
A privatized payment system with no adult supervision.
That is not immigration failure.
That is late-stage capitalism with a clipboard.
🧨 🚔 WHY MINNESOTA IS NOW A TARGET
Minnesota has:
Immigrants
A Democratic governor
A real fraud case
That makes it a perfect stage set.
You can run raids, freeze funds, and shout “corruption” while never fixing the system that caused it.
The border has moved.
It now runs through Minneapolis.
🧭 🗺️ THE QUIET TRUTH
Fraud does not care who you pray to.
It cares who signs the check.
And the real scandal is not who opened the meal site.
It is who built a federal pipeline so stupid that anyone with a printer and a pulse could drain it.
That is not a Somali story.
That is an American one.






One of your best articles ever.
So true and so sad.
Racism is so rampant