Minnesota Governor and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz is widely known amongst Democratic circles as a friend to refugees.
According to a report published by The Daily Wire, back in 2019 Walz petitioned the Trump administration to send more refugees to Minnesota, even though the state already had the highest number of refugees per capita in the United States.
“Minnesota has a strong moral tradition of welcoming those who seek refuge. Our state has always stepped forward to help those who are fleeing desperate situations and need a safe place to call home,” Walz wrote in a letter to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.”
According to the report, Walz’s request was a response to former President Donald Trump’s move to allow states and localities to deny increased refugee resettlement in their communities. Walz, who had previously pushed for Minnesota to become a sanctuary state, has a long record of supporting unfettered immigration.
“Refugees strengthen our communities. Bringing new cultures and fresh perspectives, they contribute to the social fabric of our state,” Walz said in his letter to Pompeo.
While on the surface, Walz may have had the best of intentions.
The only problem was, Somali refugees in Minnesota were waged in gang wars and engaged in child sex trafficking during Walz’s tenure.
According to a CBS News report, since at least 2009, members of Minneapolis’s Somali refugee community have formed gangs along the same clan lines that plunged Somalia into civil war.
Members of the gangs — many of whom fled Somalia to escape clan warfare — engaged in what appeared to be targeted murders against one another.
In 2008 the Minneapolis Police Department created a special Somali Liaison position in an attempt to stem the violence.
Per The Daily Wire report, then in 2012 authorities uncovered a Somali child sex trafficking ring operating out of Minneapolis and St. Paul, that also expanded outside state lines to Columbus, Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee.
It was reported that multiple girls under the age of 14 had been forced into prostitution by three different Somali gangs, resulting in the 30 different defendants — many of whom were allowed into the United States as refugees — being charged by federal authorities.
But that’s not all that happened under Walz’s watch.
The same reported found that Somali migrants in Minnesota defrauded the government out of a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars intended to feed impoverished children. Nearly 50 defendants created a fraudulent organization called “Feeding Our Future,” and multiple subsidiary organizations that defrauded $250 million from a coronavirus relief program. Only $50 million of those funds have been recovered.
Recent public opinion surveys have found that immigration is one of the most important issues for voters heading into the November election. And with Kamala Harris touting herself as the “border czar”, the spotlight is only going to get brighter on the Harris/Walz duo.