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| In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme | |
| 2026-01-20 | |
| [JustTheNews] Republicans are now on the investigative prowl and sounding increasingly confident they can find and prove there was an intentional strategy by Democrats to hijack elections and manipulate apportionment in deep blue states like Minnesota. As the magnitude and complexity of Minnesota’s Somali immigrant welfare fraud scandal come into clearer focus, Republicans in Congress are more boldly talking about it being part of a larger scheme by Democrats to use illegal immigrants and purported refugees to hijack federal elections and manipulate apportionment that determines Americans’ congressional representation and federal funding. The Republicans' argument goes like this: Democrats reversed Donald Trump’s related first-term executive orders and ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted into 2020 U.S. Census. Then-President Biden opened the southern border so that millions of illegals could flood the country in just a few years. Next, liberal nonprofits helped move those migrants from the southern border red states, where they were not particularly welcome, to "sanctuary cities" in Democratic-run cities in the election battleground states and helped them enroll in welfare at the taxpayers' expense. And finally, Democratic leaders, like failed vice-presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tom Walz, they say, failed to act — or even worse, looked the other way — when evidence emerged that non-citizens were defrauding those safety net programs by the tune of billions of dollars. And liberal judges blocked efforts to stop or punish the fraud. COMER: "A COORDINATED EFFORT" But Republicans are now on the investigative prowl and sounding increasingly confident they can find and prove it was an intentional strategy. “No question. One hundred percent, this was a coordinated effort to get more Democrat voters into these states,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who is taking the lead in his panel investigating the fraud scheme, told the Just the News, No Noise television show this month. Comer rattled off statistics his committee has already dug up to make the case in Minnesota, where Democrats have now won most of the statewide offices for more than a continuous decade. Prosecutors now estimate half of the $18 billion in federally funded welfare in that state was lost to fraud over the last few years. 86% OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS ON MEDICAID, FOOD STAMPS AND OTHER ENTITLEMENTS, COMER SAYS “In Minnesota, 86% of the Somalis are on Medicaid,” he said. “That is free healthcare. You don't pay one penny into it like we pay into Medicare. All that Medicaid is free healthcare. So 86% of the Somali population of Minnesota gets full free healthcare, in addition to food stamps, housing and transportation and obviously daycare and things like that. So this is completely an effort to create a huge voting bloc. Democrats' success in the state is “because of this Somali population,” Comer added. “Not only do they vote, they now contribute a lot of money to Democratic candidates. And I think a source of this money is probably a lot of these fraudulent schemes taking place.” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman, is taking the lead in the senior legislative chamber, investigating blue state fraud and its ties to Democratic political strategy. He too, sees strong early evidence of a concerted effort to use illegal immigrants and refugees to hijack elections and federal funding, and has just introduced legislation to outlaw welfare to refugees. “It's not just welfare dependency. It's actually a scam, and they're stealing the money,” Paul told Just the News. PUBLIC CHARITIES SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY PART OF THE PROBLEM, PAUL SAYS Paul is focused on the role that liberal-leaning nonprofits played in securing billions in taxpayer money from the Biden administration to help move illegals from the southern border to blue sanctuary cities in the battleground. Paul hopes his legislation will shift the burden of supporting those non-citizens back to the charities who helped create the crisis. The Center for Renewing America, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on "America First" research and policy development, reports that some of those non-profits include the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Central American Resource Center and the International Organization for Migration, a UN-backed NGO with the stated goal of “facilitating pathways for regular migration,” among others. “People say, ‘Well, gosh, these poor people come from war-torn areas. How will they survive?’ Well, they will survive the way we traditionally did when we admitted people. If you sponsor them, they're your responsibility,” Paul said. “So you have many of these church charities involved with bringing people here, and then the church charity thinks that charity involves signing them up for welfare. If your charity brings them here, and they can't, they aren't working enough to have food you feed them. It's charitable to give your own money. It's not charitable to take someone else's money.” “If you look at the overall scheme of things, we're $2 trillion in the hole. We can't take care of our own, much less admitting hundreds of thousands of new people,” he added.
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