"Immigration is judged by outcomes, not slogans. And the outcomes of the Somali experiment in Minnesota, in Scandinavia, in the United Kingdom echo with one conclusion the political class refuses to say aloud: the experiment has failed." The American Spectator
"There are scandals that explode with theatrical outrage, and there are scandals that settle over a nation like a quiet, damning verdict. Minnesota’s autism-therapy fraud belongs firmly in the latter category. On November 22, 2025, The Washington Post noted — with the weary delicacy that now accompanies every public-sector failure — that welfare fraud in Minnesota had become “far too common,” highlighting federal charges against eight men, six of them Somali, accused of exploiting the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program under Medicaid and helping force the program’s shutdown.
"But the autism-therapy empire was something darker, and far more revealing. According to federal filings and local reporting, dozens of clinics — many Somali-owned — are under scrutiny for allegedly mass-producing autism diagnoses and billing Medicaid for therapy that never occurred. In one charging document, prosecutors describe a $14 million scheme centred on falsified treatment notes and kickbacks to parents, tied to defendant Asha Farhan Hassan, who is also charged in the Feeding Our Future food-aid fraud.
"That separate case has already produced more than 40 convictions and guilty pleas in what prosecutors call a $250 million conspiracy to fabricate child-meal claims and loot a federal nutrition program. Medicaid spending on autism services in Minnesota soared in just a few years, from relatively modest sums to hundreds of millions, as the number of providers exploded — a pattern that even sympathetic observers concede is impossible to explain as merely better detection of disability." . . . More...
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