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Minneapolis taxpayers must pay public housing rent for Somalis that spend their income on travel
American Thinker ^ | October 2, 2016 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/02/2016 7:36:15 AM PDT by detective

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Full title: Minneapolis taxpayers must pay public housing rent for Somalis that spend their income on travel back to Somalia

What a deal! Come to the United States, and if you spend your income (even that from welfare and refugee programs) on travel to Somalia instead of paying your rent in public housing, whey the suckers taxpayers of Minneapolis will pick up the tab. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports (via Refugee Resettlement Watch):

Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants.

The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: corruption; freerent; somalis
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Taxpayers are forced to pay to support Somalis when they leave the country.

Most receive federal Supplemental Security Income and other taxpayer handouts any ways.

"Minnesota actually has contributed more fighters to ISIS than any other state."

1 posted on 10/02/2016 7:36:15 AM PDT by detective
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Not to mention, Minnesota gave the Senate - Al Franken, just for laughs.


2 posted on 10/02/2016 7:38:45 AM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: detective

Traveling to the countries these so-called refugees fled to escape persecution and war.


3 posted on 10/02/2016 7:38:58 AM PDT by Will88
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If they are here as “refugees because they will be persecuted in their *home land*, Why are they allowed to commute back and forth and STILL keep refugee status?


4 posted on 10/02/2016 7:39:13 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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Why are they allowed to commute back and forth and STILL keep refugee status?
Because they vote democrat.It is that simple. Open corruption.
5 posted on 10/02/2016 7:41:04 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Carry everyday, your country is depending on you.)
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How are they refugees if they can go back home without fear?


6 posted on 10/02/2016 7:41:18 AM PDT by TexasGator
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I don’t know when this government spending bubble will burst, but when it does, it’s gonna be fugly.


7 posted on 10/02/2016 7:44:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Embrace the suck, Minneapolis.


8 posted on 10/02/2016 7:46:29 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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Traveling back to the country you fled should forfeit your refugee status.


9 posted on 10/02/2016 7:46:47 AM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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Dear Minnesota Taxpayers:

I would like to take a trip. Please pay my mortgage.


10 posted on 10/02/2016 7:48:32 AM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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I guess they have enough money for transnational airline tickets though.

The West is too stupid to survive.


11 posted on 10/02/2016 7:49:19 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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Last time I was in the Twin Cities the buildings were still there but I didn’t recognize the place.


12 posted on 10/02/2016 7:53:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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NTL REVIEW/BY DAVID HANSON----The Boston Bomber Brothers offer us a teachable moment about what has become near-suicidal US immigration policies.

Our sap-happy US government cannot assure the public that it is now enforcing immigration laws already on the books,

(1) that foreign nationals must at least avoid criminal activity,

(2) that foreigners must stay off public assistance,

(3) that the US govt is disinclined to grant "asylum" (means a free ride on the US gravy train and endless SS payments) to “fearful refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions,

(4) on-the-book govt mandates that force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for the refugees to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.

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THERE'S MORE---Bostonians were enraged upon discovering THEY footed the travel bills of the entire Chechneyan family to attend the trail of the surviving bomber brother.

As they planned the bombing, the family received "every conceivable public benefit available out there" amounting to some 100 thousand dollars.

The evil Tsarnaevs worked the system bigtime; the entire family pocketed, including:

(1) the two bombing suspects' parents (mother later absconded--wanted for shoplifting),

(2) the two suspects themselves,

(3) their trouble-making sisters (one arrested for bomb threats),

(4) the widow of the suspect killed, and,

(5) their child.

Could also include benefits for their Chechen "student" pals who tampered w/ bombing evidence (one is now in jail, the other going to trial).

(Excerpt) Read more at wcvb.com ...

SOURCE http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/hearing-set-to-look-at-tsarnaev-family-welfare- benefits/-/11971628/19933058/-/9yagjz/-/index.html#ixzz2RtfE87js

13 posted on 10/02/2016 7:54:05 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nohing penetrates it.)
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And, you don’t have to speak English or participate in in the culture. All you have to do is sit on Santa Claus’s knee, i.e. vote Bolshecrat, legally or illegally.


14 posted on 10/02/2016 7:59:58 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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If MN doesn’t vote for Trump this time, they deserve the ripoff.


15 posted on 10/02/2016 8:01:40 AM PDT by Rebel2016
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It’s a federal program shared with the states, so federal taxpayers are screwed, too. Anyone know what % the feds pay for this program? For some other kinds of programs the federal share can be as high as 85-90%, so the country as a whole should be able to deny this kind of crap even if a state’s residents like it.


16 posted on 10/02/2016 8:06:28 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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Gladly let the Muslims leave, then slam our doors shut upon their return!


17 posted on 10/02/2016 8:08:23 AM PDT by BobNative
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Ha...I read that in Germany...they even pay the air fare for them...too bad its not a one way ticket.


18 posted on 10/02/2016 8:13:10 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.rc)
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To: Rebel2016

MN is incurably liberal.


19 posted on 10/02/2016 8:17:21 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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I am certain the majority of Minnesota taxpayers would gladly pay for one way tickets for Somalis wanting to go back to their Islamic dung heap and maybe include a free can of Spam.


20 posted on 10/02/2016 8:20:38 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatchet)
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