Tim Walz promotes new Minnesota paid leave program open to undocumented workers’

Washington Examiner ^ | Dec 4, 2025 | Mia Cathel

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Gov. Tim Walz is promoting a new government assistance program open to illegal immigrants in Minnesota, as he faces scrutiny for allegedly allowing statewide welfare fraud, reportedly committed primarily by Somali immigrants.

The Minnesota Paid Family and Medical Leave Program (PMFL), which Walz signed into law and is publicly praising ahead of its start date on Jan. 1, will cover “undocumented workers,” according to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.

Employers are required to display a PFML poster at their respective workplaces to notify employees about the paid leave program. The poster must be displayed in any foreign language that is the primary language for at least five workers.

Courtesy of the state government, these posters are available in a vast variety of languages, with more versions coming soon, including the following: Spanish, Somali, Hmong, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Chuukese, Danish, Dari, Finnish, French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Laotian, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Portuguese (Euro and Brazilian), Russian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

The grant program is focused on awarding proposals that emphasize “equity.” According to the application instructions, grant proposals should aim to increase awareness and access among “priority populations,” such as racial minorities, immigrants and refugees, LGBT people, and limited English proficiency speakers.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; democratcorruption; democratcrime; immigration; minnesota; walz

[I got the rope]

The only way this makes sense is if he is in on some kind of grift. What is this about.

[for-q-clinton]

you mean illegal immigrants

[metmom]

Walz is giving Newsome a run for his money as the worst governor in the country.

[lee martell]

Caligula on Ludes.

[ConservativeMind]

No, he and other liberals all have Messiah Complexes.

[verum ago]

No, he and other liberals all have Messiah Complexes.

That's the scary part. If it was grift, they could be persuaded / bullied or otherwise convinced or removed from the scheme.

They actually believe this sh*t is righteous. They'll fight for it. For them this is a matter of principle, unfortunately.

This is actual evil.

[Organic Panic]

As long as they spend ONLY Minnisottastan money, fine by me. This will bankrupt companies and send them feeling the state. Of course every government employee will milk this for all its worth further bankrupting the state. I am all for it.

[PGR88]

[Tommy Revolts]

The "R" word.

[TigersEye]

Tampon Timmy isn’t wasting any time getting a new fraud going now that the Somali Fraud is coming apart.

And people say he’s incompetent! /s

[gundog]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
-C.S. Lewis

[verum ago]

I almost posted that exact quote. It was very much on my mind when I posted what I did.

I don’t like it when C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton have pertinent quotes on contemporary events, but it seems like they do with ever increasing frequency.

Obviously you can add Orwell to that list as well...