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Posted on 01/23/2026 12:34:54 AM PST by xxqqzz
Unlike some of her peers, Jessica Herod has not had staff detained by federal immigration agents, hecklers defecate in front of her door, or armed state investigators entering her daycare.
Still, Herod is worried. She is co-founder and chief operating officer of Olu’s Beginnings, a child care center in North Minneapolis where 75% of the children enrolled depend on federal funding.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that it suspended $467 million in annual payments to Minnesota that enable low-income parents to access child care. The unprecedented federal funding freeze, which is now tied up in court, “would affect me significantly,” Herod said. “I would have to do layoffs and merge classrooms.”
Ever since Nick Shirley uploaded a YouTube video, produced with assistance from Minnesota House Republicans, claiming that Somali immigrants in Minneapolis take taxpayer money to run phony daycares, the state’s child care industry — one not exactly known before for fanning the flames of political conflict — has been in survival mode.
“Over the last few weeks, we have been so demonized,” said Dawn Uribe, who runs four Spanish immersion preschools under the name Mis Amigos. “It’s been heartbreaking.”
Here is a breakdown of the immediate and long-term obstacles for Minnesota’s child care centers and the families that use them.
What is it like now to run a child care facility in Minnesota? It was a week ago, Uribe said, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement grabbed a Mis Amigos’ facilities and maintenance specialist from a suburban Home Depot and tossed him into a van.
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That's the spirit!
They found a legitimate service that was not some storefront and is having problems because the federal funds were cut off to Minnesota.
-PJ
where 75% of the children enrolled depend on federal funding along with thier so called parents who are also in the dime, no compassion here, go home
What I understand (correct me) is that Tampon Tim, in reaction to federal complains, cut ALL funding to everybody.
So now, not even legit providers can get the money.
But they blame it, you guess, on Trump.
Instead on Tampon, who cannot distinguish between legit and fraudulent businesses.
Just knowing that those animals are more than just uncomfortable, gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Something like 80% of the daycare centers in Minnesota are for Somalis. The problem, of course, is that Somalis don’t work, so they don’t have a need for daycare.
As to the other 20%, it’s like the FBI, where the bad 99% of the agents make the honest 1% look bad - those are the breaks.
My reaction to that was Why the HECK is the FedGov funding daycare!?
No. No. No. No. NO!
Start from there, answer that question. Make the state come up with that money, no using printed money from the FedGov.
That is a state/local function, plain and simple.
We need to stop funding “child care”.
Every time we do we make it more expensive for parents to have a homemaker mother stay home with their children—and we put our next generation into an even longer, more all-encompassing, institutional system.
I wouldn’t like my family name to be “Herod.”
The blame squarely lies on those who committed and this who either facilitated or ignored the massive fraud. In other words, the Democrats.
Right. Now do the Learing Center. What a joke article.
While there is an obvious similarity to the mid-east “Herod”, it’s presumably the Scot or Irish Gaelic “Herod” (Anglicized from “Heraud”) and just means “heroic”. There’s a knight somewhere in her woodpile.
Variants of “kohen” appear in Scotland, too, with nary a Jewish link. Just a county.
Only so many consonant and vowel combos to go around. Sometimes they reoccur.
Trying to give a damn..... no can’t.
A non-Somalian daycare operator in North Minneapolis
says Trump’s cessation of federal tax dollars means
“I would have to do layoffs and merge classrooms.”
We see complaints by the providers but I have yet to see one “parent” on the air, or in print, complaining that they can’t get childcare or their kid was kicked out.
I’m of the mind that all of them getting state and federal money are frauds.
EC
Still wouldn’t Herod for a surname
Oh, I agree. Unfortunate. Have a friend named “Jeffrey Dahlmer”. No known relation. He literally changed his name to his moms maiden name.
What I take from this is that the real people associated (guilty of) with the child care scandals in Minnesota is now making it very tough for the legitimate child care folks & I’m fairly certain there may be many of them. Hope they get this sorted out as honest child care is very important.
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