Now it can be told. From the New York Post,
Two Christian groups were paid $62M to resettle tens of thousands of Somalis in Minnesota.
The Post reports,
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.
I’m sure that readers are already familiar with the outlines of this story: Christian charities importing refugees from overseas to Minnesota under federal government contracts. But the details, perhaps, have never been revealed before.
It all began back in the 1970s and with then-Vice President Walter Mondale (D-MN). Fast forward to the 1990’s
When Somalia was thrown into civil war in the 1990s and the US decided to take in refugees, the Minnesota operation was already an established, well-oiled machine.
And the result?
The two church groups have resettled an estimated 29,000 Somalians into Minnesota since 1993, collecting a reported $2,500 per refugee to cover costs like food, initial housing and social workers.
The population today is over 100,000 in Minnesota according to data, thanks to chain migration (also known as “family reunification”) and the state’s generous welfare system, which became a magnet for Somalis, including those initially placed elsewhere in the US.
It’s worked exactly as intended. For almost a generation now, Minnesota’s Democratic party (DFL) has enjoyed a complete monopoly on political power. Close statewide elections are decided by the votes cast from these now-citizen refugees and their American-born descendants.
The Post closes with this update,
A spokesperson for Catholic Charities Twin Cities said they closed their refugee and immigrant programs in 2018. Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment.
I’ve had occasion to write about Lutheran Social Service (LSS) of Minnesota before. Back in 2019, the then-CEO of LSS, Jodi Harpstead, became the head of the state Dept. of Human Services, where she went on to oversee an estimated $9 billion in Medicated fraud, perpetrated by some of the same individuals brought to America by LSS years earlier.
Consulting the LSS website, the nonprofit still appears to be in the refugee business.
Meanwhile, state government has gone all-in with refugees. The Post reports, regarding refugee resettlement in Minnesota,
They picked Minnesota because it had extremely generous state social safety net policies and welfare programs, which of course made resettling refugees there easier. Refugees from Somalia then moved to Minnesota after they were resettled elsewhere, in places like South Dakota.
That generosity continues. The state’s Dept. of Employment and Economic Development, has a separate division dedicated to Immigrant & Refugee Affairs. Harpstead’s old state agency continues to maintain an office of refugee resettlement along with its refugee cash assistance program.
As it turns out, LSS is still listed among the state’s refugee resettlement network partners.
Your tax dollars at work.
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