Posted on 01/12/2026 10:35:11 PM PST by Morgana
Hundreds of Somalis stormed an ICE operation in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Monday after a Somali news station live streamed the raid.
ICE agents were surrounded by hundreds of Somalis blowing whistles and protesting as the officers conducted a raid on a Somali-owned business in a strip mall.
“ICE out! ICE out!” the mob of Somali protestors shouted.
Ice agents deployed tear gas to disperse the protestors after they blocked their vehicles from exiting the parking lot.
Democrat State Senator Aric Putnam was spotted amid the chaos trying to act like a barrier between the protestors and federal agents.
“Don’t even get close,” Putnam says as he pushes back on the protestors.
“It’s a stressful moment, a really intense confrontation. It’s a reasonable response when you see this in your neighborhood,” Democrat State Senator Aric Putnam said.
“The idea that you need 50 people with weapons and tear gas, and I’m not speaking real well because I got a little bit of pepper spray, those things are not needed for a normal, regular, authentic, genuine law enforcement operation,” Putnam whined.
According to CBS News, at least two people were arrested during the protest.
“Federal agents arrested one person as part of the raid, and later, two protesters in the parking lot. Many of the businesses there are run by the Somali community,” CBS reported.
WATCH:
Two days ago, Somalis and other protestors shouted at ICE agents in the same St. Cloud strip mall.
The agents left and returned on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Yepper
No Virginia these are definitely not Amish
Deport them all. Ban any Somali from ever entering the US again.
This signals (to me) the operation is gaining success and the illegals are feeling threatened. Time to double if not triple the number of ICE agents there.
Set up shop at the ‘Quality Learing Center’, make it a command center, just to rub it in their faces.
Unfort., it doesn’t sound like they used their ‘weapons’ all too well if tear-gas is the worse they employed.
Back-pack CO2 canisters, air-guns & multiple hoppers FILLED w/ pepper a/o rubber balls. 2 warnings at most & depress trigger (aim for legs, crotch, chest).
Too, I’ve YET to see any personal carrier, aka ‘paddywagon’ during these raids (proving, IMO, they’re not serious)
Charge them all, including those who paid them.
Anyone in the country illegally gets deported. We have no obligation to deport a criminal to a country he claims to be from, so deport him anywhere.
Do it by lottery on television. It can be like "The Running Man".
Maybe he'll go to Ukraine. Maybe he'll go to Afghanistan, Iran, or Haiti. Place your online bets before we spin the wheel and find out.
Deport all the anarchists NOW.
Arrest and jail any that became citizens and review that for fraud as well.
Correct. We do not have the numbers of federal agents and officers to police one part of the state. The fiscal costs are also enormous. The dems know that. It starts with the sanctuary state and cityBS. That is nothing more than declared insurrection and harboring. Go in and arrest tampon Timmy, Ellison, the mayors of all these cities and charge them with conspiracy to obstruct and insurrection. If it takes Trump to lead a whiskey rebellion put down like George W did, so be it. I visualize him in the attack helicopter from accopolis now with the flight of the Valkyrie blaring.
Everyone shout together...
Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT, Somali OUT
Ship them all back to Somalia. We don’t need that crap going on here. Send Ilhan Omar back with them.
louisianailluuminator.com
A history of child care fraud in Minnesota
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The federal government sends money to states to subsidize the cost of care for very low-income children, and some states put additional funds into that system. In Minnesota, it’s known as the Child Care Assistance Program, or CCAP. Centers that accept children on subsidies will bill the state for the cost of caring for those kids. In 2019, a state investigation found that there was probably several million dollars in child care fraud taking place within that system, where centers were billing for children they were not providing services for. Investigators believed the level of child care fraud in the state was more than the $5 million to $6 million prosecutors had been able to prove until that point.
By 2019, state prosecutors had charged at least a dozen Minnesotans and centers with defrauding the state’s child care program in the prior five years. After the 2019 report was issued, the state tightened oversight, including creating the Department of Children, Youth and Families to take over child care licensing, oversight and auditing. Last year, Minnesota passed a law to criminalize kickbacks for child care program enrollment referrals.
A 2025 report by the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that issues with overpayments continue in the state. The inspector general sampled 1,155 child care centers and found that 11 percent of the payments made to those centers in 2023 had errors. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there was fraud. Improper payments is an umbrella term that could include fraud.
For example, “an improper payment is a child was present for 40 hours and somehow the state paid only for 30 hours. Fraud is when you’re charging for kids that were never enrolled,” explained Danielle Ewen, a national child care expert. An 11 percent rate puts Minnesota above the permissible 10% threshold established by the federal government, Ewen said. On average nationwide, the rate is 4%. So while child care fraud is something Minnesota has been working to reduce in recent years, “these are not new issues, but they are being repackaged and they are being promoted in ways to make it seem like there is an epidemic,” said Elliot Haspel, a national child care expert, on a call with reporters this week.
pic——Minnesota state Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn denounces the Trump administration’s freeze of child care funding to the state at a Dec. 31, 2025, news conference. (Photo by Alyssa Chen/Minnesota Reformer)
According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, only seven states since 2013 have had errors in more than 10 percent of their child care fund payments. That also does not mean there is necessarily fraud, but rather errors in overbilling. The federal Office of Child Care did not respond to questions about The 19th about which states are above the threshold.
What did state investigators find when they investigated the day cares in the videos? State investigators conducted unannounced visits at the day cares in the viral video over the past six months as part of the typical licensing and auditing process, according to Tikki Brown, the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families. An analysis of publicly available inspection records by The 19th found that most of the centers had unannounced inspections as recently as October, November or December.
After the video was posted, investigators from the state Office of Inspector General conducted compliance visits to nine of the 10 centers in the video (one of the centers in the video has been closed for several years and has not received funds in that time). They found normal operations and children at all but one, which had not yet opened for the day. Further investigations are being conducted into four of the nine facilities, but the state has not said what exactly it’s investigating.
Most of the centers in the video did have numerous state licensing violations against them regarding cleanliness, staff supervision and some recordkeeping around immunizations and allergies. But none of the violations against the centers were regarding fraud, according to state enforcement records.
Quality Learning Center, the center most prominently featured in the video because one of its signs misspelled learning, closed this week. Another center in the video, Mako Childcare Center, has been closed since 2022, the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families said. There is evidence of one of the day cares in the video having a connection to prior fraud investigations. Fowsiya Hassan, the CEO of Minnesota Best Childcare Center, previously owned another day care called Sunshine Child Care Center that was raided in 2022 as part of an overbilling fraud investigation. No charges were brought. Hassan sued the state last year over the raid, which led to the closure of Sunshine, claiming “licensing and fraud investigations in Minnesota have long been disproportionately targeted against Somalis.”
Every state is federally mandated to publicly report the results of inspections at licensed child care centers (including the dates of the inspections), and day cares are required to undergo at least one unannounced inspection a year. In Minnesota, that information can be found at the state’s Licensing Information Lookup tool.
To find information on your state, visit The 19th’s child care safety dashboard which has a link to each state’s dashboard of child care providers.
Why was the Somali community targeted?
David Hoch, the lobbyist and former right-wing candidate for Minnesota attorney general who serves as the main source in Shirley’s video, received information on the centers from Republican staffers in Minnesota. Hoch has had a particular focus on the Somali community and fraud for some time. In a now-deleted Instagram account, Hoch posted almost exclusively about the Somali community, according to reporting in The Intercept. “EVERY Somali in MN is engaged in fraud. ALL of them,” Hoch posted. “Even the Blacks have had enough of the demon Muslims,” he said in November.
Over the years, whistleblowers alleged that the fraud money in Minnesota’s child care system was being used to fund the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabab. The 2019 Office of the Legislative Auditor investigation found those claims to be unsubstantiated. The Somali community has been a particular target of President Donald Trump, who has claimed that “much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia.” The president last month called Somali immigrants “garbage” who he doesn’t want in the country.
Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the United States, and child care has historically been an industry that employs large numbers of immigrants. About 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrant women. Since Shirley’s video, there have been numerous reports of people harassing Somali-run day cares and businesses either through in-person visits demanding to see children, or through threatening phone calls. At least one center was broken into.......possibly staged buy Somalis. Day cares in Minnesota have reported concerns for children and staff safety, particularly as ICE activity in the state has ramped up. Dawn Uribe, the owner of four Spanish-immersion preschools in Minnesota, said she “really can’t overstate how afraid” her all-immigrant staff is since the video was posted even though all have work authorization and most are citizens or permanent residents. “We are really preparing for the next couple of weeks for people to be calling off [work] and not coming,” Uribe said.
What is the child care funding freeze and who is impacted by it?
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Hyenas
Water cannons. You’ll never see another po’testor again if you disperse these people with water cannons in 25F Minnesomali weather.
IMO, the non-indelible dye further proves govt isn’t serious about the problem(s).
God knows the wringing of hands/gnashing of teeth if the termination of the welfare state (THE fix) would cause govt from dog-catcher to the Pres.
Shoot a few of them. The rest will get the idea.
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If people interfere with lawful LEO activity, should they not be charged?
Get aboard the Federal Exile jet while the offer is still $3,000.
“those things are not needed for a normal, regular, authentic, genuine law enforcement operation,” Putnam whined.”
Interference mobs are not needed for a normal, regular, authentic, genuine, deportation enforcement operation, either.
The simpilest solution I can see to this entire problem is the use of water cannons. Especially this time of year. Just soaking people down in freezing weather would get them off the streets immediately. Their use would be a powerful deterrent against these desert dwelling Somali primitives. They would work equally well against Antifa types as well. Why are they not being used to clear roads, intersections and public spaces?
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