Posted on 04/03/2026 6:07:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Scenes from the Somali takeover of a mostly white Minnesota town.
The AU Special Representative for Somalia and Head of AMISOM Ambassador Maman Sidikou in Minnesota, AMISOM Public Information, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.
But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.
The city of over 20,000 used to be much less diverse. In 1990, it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it, with a shudder, “an almost entirely homogeneous white community, not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration, and it had a meat processing plant, now partly shut down, which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.
Now Faribault is much more diverse and it has problems that it didn’t used to have.
Faribault was the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides, interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.
It was also part of the $250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.
Faribault’s part in the massive fraud in which nonprofits claimed to be providing free meals to hundreds of thousands of Somali kids who didn’t exist came through the Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) run by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali, who made off with $5 million in meal funds after claiming that their restaurant in Faribault, which only had 9 tables, was serving meals to 1,600 children a day and had served a total of 700,000 meals.
The Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2,500 children a day. Sizable amounts of kickbacks were paid to a man who then fled to Somalia. The Minnesota Post’s article praising the Somali takeover of Faribault had hailed SAFE, claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.
The other non-profit promoted by the Post article, the ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’, which operates out of the massive 115-year-old historic Gale Mansion, often used as a wedding venue, has been linked to one Faribault meal site that claimed to be offering 2,000 meals a day.
The ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly $3 million for the free meals and Somali elected officials had proposed bills that would pour millions into the organization.
The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where $1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali, initially identified only as a Somali mother, went.
“‘We need help.’ This sentiment, expressed by a Somali mother about the specific concern of youth drug use and the more general frustration of trying to parent in a new culture, captures the heart of this grant proposal.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services responded with nearly $1 million for the Faribault schools that was supposedly used to provide Somali services.
Faribault is much more diverse now with an estimated 4,600 Somalis out of 25,000 people. The white population has dropped to 65% and the school system is even more diverse.
Minority enrollment in the city’s schools was up 243% in twenty years. By 2018, minority students made up a majority of the school system. Today, 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white. A population of older white homeowners is subsidizing education and services for Somali and South American migrant meatpacking plant workers with their property taxes.
The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science, health and social studies in Somali. As of 2022, there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.
The Somali education program was proposed after complaints from Somalis and other migrants that their “home languages were being lost as students became more English-dominant” and “parents and children no longer shared a common language, weakening communication and cultural connections within families.” Rather than expecting their parents to learn English, Faribault schools are expected to prevent their children from learning English, instead teaching them in Somali.
Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%, science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores, graduation rates, attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.
What would Faribault be like if it were less diverse and Somali? Faribault chool statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math, science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science. Call it the ‘Somali Effect’.
Faribault is more diverse, it’s also more dangerous and has linked up with the epicenter of Somali fraud in the Twin Cities. Its schools are failing and it has no future.
“Faribault has become our city,” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.
The very idea of teaching kids the Somali language in America is outrageous. If they were older & intended going to Somalia to teach something worthwhile, I could see where it might be justified in some way. After all, we do have missionaries going to foreign countries where it is worthwhile to learn the language of that land....but not school age kids learning only that foreign language. That makes no sense. If they are going to be on the next boat to Somalia, then they can learn it when they get there. The folks who seem to be demanding this can be on that same boat back to Somalia as far as I’m concerned.
You are correct. It is undoable. Best bet is to leave certain states and in others do not live near a large city. We may very well see a divided union in the future. I don’t see how all 50 will get along much longer.
Ungrateful bastards, think they own the country. This is the attitude of our new gate crashers.
😡 That's the problem right there!
“Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.”
Import Somalia, become Somalia. Minnesota must be an absolute wreck at this point.
How about, F**K NO, Never Ever??
If they want to learn Somali, they can move back to that SH*THOLE COUNTRY...
Zero Immigration time.
SOP…. Meat packing plant comes to town….hires all immigrants, town becomes a 3rd world hell hole. This is why Thune is against the SAVE act….meat packing is a major industry in S Dakota-they hire mostly illegals.
It is the American Way. And the smart ones went into politics. Just like Americans!
Patriots, Call Congress
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Call the White House
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Message: Faribault, Minnesota is the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid fraud scam. Eight Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to fraudulently bill taxpayers for phony invented “rides, interpreters and acupuncture services.” Also part of the initial $250M Somali meal tax dollar fraud.
The massive n/p Somali fraud claimed to be providing free meals to thousands of faked Somali kids who didn’t exist came via the “Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE)” headed by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali, who pocketed $5 million tax dollars for meals, claiming their restaurant with 9 tables, served meals to 1,600 children——a total of 700,000 meals.
The Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2,500 children a day. Sizable kickbacks were paid to a Somali man who fled to Somalia when the threat of jail surfaced. The obedient Minnesota Post praised the Somali takeover and hailed SAFE, claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.
As well, the media hailed ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’, linked to a phony meal site that claimed to be offering 2,000 meals a day. ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly $3M tax dollars for “free meals” and Somali elected officials proposed laws that would pour millions of tax dollars into the greedy Somaii organization.
The Somali fraud penetrated Faribault public schools. Investigators are looking for the missing $1 million tax dollars purportedly “to stop Somali drug abuse.” The tax dollars were solicited by a Somali named Lul Bashir Ali, identified only as a “Somali mother.”
And we continue down the road of political and National Suicide with the pedal to the metal. With a grin from ear to ear. Once the American Haters get what they have been praying for over the years it won’t seem nearly as funny as they thought back then.
Expel them all back home or send them to Canada and offer them MAID.
(The meaning of the Tower of Babel escapes them, along with all other matters of any significance.)
The Lower Slobovians think it's sophisticated, which (in their opinion) is the highest level of enlightenment to which anyone can aspire.
Their highest praise of California, for example, is that it's sophisticated.
They consider the left/wokism to be sophisticated too.
They wax ecstatic at the very word. "Ooooooooo! It's so...sophisticated!"
Maybe they'll LOVE adding Somali to the telephone recordings.
"Walz emphasized that Somali Minnesotans are 'seen, heard, valued, and loved,' calling them part of 'the fabric of what is good about Minnesota.'
Tim Walz vowed to stand with Minnesota’s Somali community, stating during a 'No Kings' rally in Minneapolis on March 28, 2026, that his admonition would 'never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans' calling them part of 'the fabric of what is good about Minnesota.'
Nevermind all the crime and welfare use they've brought in.
Walz is a useful idiot - with the emphasis on idiot. And, like all useful idiots, he will be the first to go.
Minnesota state officials were obviously complicit in the fraud. If an applicant for funding was proposing to provide thousands of meals per day shouldn’t there have been some evidence they had the facilities to prepare that many meals? Why were there no spot checks to see if meals were actually being provided? It would seem Minnesota officials rubber stamped applications and started writing checks to the fraudsters no questions asked. It also begs the question as to how Somalis with limited English proficiency and education were able to find these government programs and make applications. I suspicion that there were outside groups aiding and abetting the Somali fraudsters.
Somali’s learn jive speak that should be wild?.
Somali’s learn jive speak that should be wild?.
“Golly!”
Yes something new we learn after the fact bad deal.
SOP…. Meat packing plant comes to town….hires all immigrants, town becomes a 3rd world hell hole. This is why Thune is against the SAVE act….meat packing is a major industry in S Dakota-they hire mostly illegals.
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Thune and Bondi - two political animals and not the die-hard patriots we need right now. As an aside, I want to renew my nomination for the AG to replace Bondi here and now, in hopes that Trump or his lieutenants are listening. He needs to seriously think hard about selecting Joe DeGenova for AG. Joe is long in the tooth, knows DoJ like the back of his hand, is a fire breathing prosecutor of long standing, and a patriot and America First lawyer through and through. Yes, he has some miles on him, but that’s a true asset in my 80 year old mind. You don’t need youth in that job so much as wisdom and maturity. He knows the DoJ like the back of his hand. He also has lots of brain power next to him in a wife who is also a fire breather and a seasoned DoJ woman. Together, they would be a superb team and seriously kick ass in the DoJ with their no nonsense approach to getting things done. Just get’r done.
SOOO—— THE ONLY JOBS THEY WILL FIND ARE AS CDL TRUCK DRIVERS???
ANOTHER REASON TO CLEAN OUT THE COUNTRY-———
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