The headline read, “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer.” In a report by Journalist Christopher Rufo, Ryan Thorpe for the City Journal, it was revealed that Minnesota’s Somali population is allegedly stealing welfare funds and sending them back home to give a cut to the waiting wallets of Al-Shabaab terrorists. They are the MN terror connections within the welfare system in Minnesota.

“But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz.

The money paid out by Minnesota’s scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental. The state’s failed Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, for instance, was kicked off in 2021 with expenses expected to ring in at $2.6 million. But instead, the program paid out $21 million its first year. In each subsequent year the program ballooned to $42 million, then $74, and then $104 million, respectively. During the first half of 2025, costs had already reached $61 million, according to City Journal.

Fraud is also endemic in many of Minnesota’s other welfare programs. City Journal noted that a Somali woman named Asha Farhan Hassan has been charged with defrauding the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program of $14 million over fake diagnoses of autism in children of Somali migrants.” Breitbart

And this about the welfare fraud in MN terror connections:

“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”

Thompson said many firms enrolled in the program “operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings.” The perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing. He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud had “other companies through which they billed other Medicaid programs, such as the EIDBI autism program, the . . . Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services program, the . . . Integrated Community Support program, the Community Access for Disability Inclusion . . . program, PCA services, and other Medicaid-waivered services.” Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe of the City Journal

BREAKING: MILLIONS of Minnesota taxpayer dollars have been funneled to a terrorist organization in Somalia using autism claims through Medicaid.

Autism treatment centers spiked in the state, with many opened up by the Somali community. Autism claims in the Somali community then… pic.twitter.com/VYC77sHozi

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 20, 2025

?BREAKING: “The Minnesota tax payers are funneling money through FRAUDULENT autism claims back to Somalia where that money lands in the accounts of Al-Shabaab.”

Al-Shabaab is “an Al-Qaeda linked Islamic terror group.”

Deport every single one of them & arrest anyone who helped. pic.twitter.com/PXFiJ0s76S

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) November 21, 2025

Absolutely bonkers story about Somalian immigrant communities in Minnesota over-diagnosing their own kids with autism so that they can funnel billions of Medicaid dollars back to terrorist cells in Somalia. https://t.co/B37pPUUIkK pic.twitter.com/FxVboB9QIF

— Edward L Hamilton (@EdwardLHamilton) November 19, 2025

To put this story bluntly, ten years ago the Somali population had the dubious distinction of having the most persons who left the US to join ISIS. Now they are “drowning” in fraud.  The MN terror connections come from welfare fraud that is siphoned to Al-Shabaab terrorists.

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