Written by Michael Barone
As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one year’s end and the next one’s beginning to take a longer look at America’s experience with immigration, and to seek the guidance of the first and one of its two greatest presidents.
The Founding Fathers were aware that their new nation was gifted with vast acreage, but only 4 million people were counted in the first decennial Census in 1790.… Continue Reading
Tags: Constitutional Convention, Ellis Island, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Immigration Act of 1924, Moses Seixas, Nathaniel Philbrick, Somali Americans, Touro Synagogue
Immigration | David E. Smith |
January 3, 2026 5:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she’s verbally targeted by President Donald Trump.
At the end of a typically syrupy interview with Esme Murphy from the local CBS station WCCO in Minneapolis on Sunday, Omar claimed her 19-year-old son Adnan Hirsi was pulled over by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement personnel.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adnan Hirsi, CBS, DEI, Donald Trump, Esme Murphy, Ilhan Omar, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Somali Americans, Somalia, The Situation Room, Todd Lyons, Wolf Blitzer
Immigration, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
December 20, 2025 8:00 AM |
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