“Based on what we have found so far, we believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history. We believe that we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes, and you’re familiar with all the scams with pretending that children have autism who are not in fact autistic, with pretending to enroll people in food programs when in fact nobody was ever enrolled, and engaging in massive fraud, lying, and theft and grift on a scale we’ve never seen before in American history. The total bill, the total tab for this, is going to be far beyond the numbers we’ve already seen reported. We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people. But based on the records that we already have—and this is a significant undercount, by the way—75% of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare. That’s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing.”

– Stephen Miller