‘Squad’ Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s fellow Somalis in Minnesota are becoming a huge problem. If it’s not defrauding American taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s gang violence.
Minnesota has now seen at least two high-profile shootings tied to Somali gangs, and the Democratic response has been to pretend none of it is happening. The gangs don’t exist. The violence isn’t a pattern. And when gunfire breaks out beside an Eden Prairie homecoming football game — forcing the cancellation of both the game and the dance — the citizens who notice can expect to be called racist for noticing.
That reflex is not an argument. It’s a strategy, and it has one purpose: to make the subject too uncomfy to discuss honestly and, thus, prevent any solution to the problem.
But the dam is giving way, and the numbers are coming from law enforcement rather than from commentators. In Ramsey County, Sheriff Bob Fletcher reports hundreds of shootings and more than a dozen deaths connected to this violence. He hasn’t issued a statement about it. He has stood up an entire unit dedicated to Somali gang activity — a staffing decision, made with limited resources, by a sheriff who has to answer for results:
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says he is forming what he believes to be the first Somali gang task force in the U.S., made up of about five dedicated investigators.
“In the last year, we’ve had 14 homicides here in the metropolitan area; over 120 shooting incidents,” he said. “We had two more last night, and it’s a growing problem. And we better work our butts off right now to fix this problem in the Somali community, or we are going to launch into a 200-year legacy that won’t be unlike what some of the European countries are seeing.”
Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Jama Shine, a Somali investigator working on Fletcher’s team, said the community needs to be “honest.”
“Yes, we do have a gang problem, right? And we have to address it. I’m from the (Somali) community. These kids don’t represent me, don’t represent our community. We need to hold them accountable.”
Agencies don’t build specialized units to address phantoms. They build them when the caseload is overwhelming the ordinary structure, which is a more candid assessment of the problem than anything coming out of the governor’s office. It’s insane that Democrats pretend this isn’t a problem when we have entire police units devoted to combating Somali gang violence, as well as video:
Somali gangs driving BMWs, Mercedes and Audis, likely funded with your stolen tax dollars.
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) October 7, 2026
Yeah, nothing to see here. Move along.
And this looks like the first trickle. The Feeding Our Future scandal followed the same arc: scattered reports dismissed as exaggeration, officials insisting nothing was wrong, and then a quarter of a billion dollars in confirmed theft once someone finally bothered to look. The pattern in Minnesota is consistent. State leadership treats any uncomfortable question about a favored community as bigotry, right up until the indictments make denial impossible.
I’m still waiting for anybody to tell me a single way that the United States of America has benefitted from mass migration from Somalia.
— Brandon Gill (@realBrandonGill) October 6, 2026
So are we, Rep. Gill.
The violence associated with mass migration is not an unfortunate side effect; it is a key factor. Omar’s native country is a failed nation, whereas America is primarily a peaceful country, which sets it apart from many other nations. The Democrats, intent on undermining American exceptionalism, seem to want to diminish our status and make us comparable to the rest of the world, where gang violence, fraud, corruption, and oppression are common.
