Posted on 11/07/2018 1:38:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Fresh off her victory as the first refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, Democrat Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that she is going to Washington to help "serve as a check on the rhetoric of fear and division."
Congress needs to make "sure we are moving the country in a "direction that is more hopeful, inclusive and prosperous," Omar said the morning after winning her election in Minnesota's 5th district with 78 percent of the vote.
Omar spoke during her campaign about her opposition to President Trump's travel ban against Muslim countries.
"When I was coming to this country, I heard about it's promises," she said. But those promises, she said "aren't extended to everyone." "I couldn't sit on the sidelines," she said.
In addition to her other "firsts," Omar is first person born on the African continent to be elected to Congress.
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Uh....the promises of America are extended to those who want to follow American law and culture. We’re not interested in Islamic law or culture.
Absolutely NOTHING good happened in Minnesota last night.
Can we trade them to Canada for Alberta?
If I should meet this woman alone on the street, can I invoke Sharia law and punish her?
Methinks a ten year moratorium on ALL immigration (H1b, refugees, asylum, etc.), until some of the immigrants we have here now can assimilate into our culture.
5.56mm
Dims remind me of the girl who had “the” reputation in school for sleeping with anyone in their selection of candidates.
Didn’t they also elect another Muslim Jihadist who is legally married to her brother LOL I tell ya, from blowing things up to marrying their brothers, Muslims are nuts
What’s the over under on number of days until this creature insists on prayer rugs in the Capitol, and breaks every time there is a call to prayer. Minnesota has gone to hell and the hogs ate it!
I’d like her to elaborate on what promises she heard? As a refugee, the only promise that could be made was a temporary place to exist until she returns to her home country - which is now at peace btw.
Her reference to it as ‘the Muslim ban’ tells you all you need to know. It is a ban based on objective criteria based on our (and their) ability to identify a threat. With a very clear path off that list.
THAT makes sense.
Minnesota - The Retard State.
Hell of a track record you dimwits have, eh? The Minnesota winters have damaged your brain cells beyond repair.
Deport her.
Its no damned wonder she won, there are more Muslim Somalis in Minneapolis than there are in Somalia!! Hence the name “Mogadishu on the Mississippi”
Immigrants used to come to America and they would need a job medical records and a place to stay. Nowadays they come and lecture us and get into politics.
This is the result when we import moslems from islamonazi krapistans
Ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali how inclusive Islam in Somalia is. This one should have stayed in Africa and worked on that back home.
Does she support homosexuality?
SPOT ON!
Only until they are dropped off a very high building; then, they’re on their own. ;^)
Fox 9 television uncovers a far-reaching scandal: last year, more than $100 million in cash left the Twin Cities airport in carry-on luggage, bound for the Middle East and Africa: This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on. On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms. Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
Where does the money come from, and where is it going? It was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system. Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds to help impoverished relatives back home. [Former Seattle police detective Glen] Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
But the real scandal is where the money came from in the first place–welfare fraud:As Kerns dug deeper, he found that some of the individuals who were sending out tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments happened to be on government assistance in this country. How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home? “We had sources that told us, ‘It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,’” said Kerns. *** Five years ago the Fox 9 Investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was on the rise in Minnesota, exposing how some businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government subsidies meant to help low-income families with their childcare expenses.
“It’s a great way to make some money,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers falsely signed up low income Somali Muslim families that qualify for child care assistance funding.Surveillance videos from a case prosecuted by Hennepin County show parents checking their kids into a center, only to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes, no children would show up.
Either way, the center would bill the state for a full day of childcare.Video from that same case shows a man handing out envelopes of what are believed to be kickback payments to parents who are in on the fraud. Evidently welfare fraud in various forms is widespread in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community. This is, I think, generally known, but the scale of fraud disclosed here is astonishing:
“We believe that there’s a scope of fraud out there that we really need to get our arms around and ensure that those dollars are going to kids that really need them,” Acting Commissioner for the Department of Human Services Chuck Johnson said.
He told the Fox 9 Investigators his agency has 10 daycares currently under active investigation for fraud. Fox 9 has learned dozens more are considered suspicious. Search warrants obtained by the Fox 9 Investigators show each one of the suspect centers has received several million dollars in childcare assistance funds.
According to public records and government sources, most are owned by Somali immigrants. *** Sources in the Somali community told Fox 9 it is an open secret that starting a daycare center is a license to make money.
The fraud is so widespread they said, that people buy shares of daycare businesses to get a cut of the huge public subsidies that are pouring in. Government insiders believe this scam is costing the state at least a hundred million dollars a year, half of all child care subsidies.
A friend who saw this news story wrote: This has me more angry than I’ve been since the 2011 tax increase on the “rich” aka, working families. I can’t put into words how utterly incompetent you must be to not have a checks and balances in place for tax payer funded programs, the tax payer dollars that people like myself and millions others diligently pay quarterly, leaving our children in childcare to work and provide for our families, pay taxes, only to have this hard work fund bogus programs that somehow are funding the same terrorist activities meant to harm our country?!!! Unbelievable. The commissioner and employees responsible for overseeing this mess should pay, every single one of them – they should be fired – they didn’t do their job.
Her outrage is appropriate, but perhaps misguided. I suspect that many of Minnesota’s liberals think that our bureaucrats performed their jobs very well: they siphoned off hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to finance liberal constituencies—the principal purpose of government, according to our lib friends.
So, how dumb are we? Honestly, I think it is impossible to plumb the depths of our stupidity. We need to totally revamp both our immigration policies and our welfare system to guard against these Somali migrant crooks.
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