Somalis Scamming American Taxpayers

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© December 31, 2025

Mind of a Somali Scammer (Photo H/T: Jess Sosnoski – Telegram Defiant America)

 

Thanks to some journalistic grunt work by Nick Shirley, Americans are becoming aware of ongoing Somali scam fraud that has probably been occurring for decades. The fraud is so blatant that it might replace the notoriety of the old Nigerian Scam that has been around for decades. What makes the Somali Scam so insidious is rather than scamming individuals as the Nigerian Scam, the Somalis scam targets State and Federal taxpayer funding. WHICH MEANS of course the Dems are undoubtedly complicit in the very least not paying attention. My suspicion some Dems might be directly involved in protecting Somali Scammer (cough - Ilhan Omar).

 

Leftist fact-checking website are quick to get Barack Hussein Obama off the hook for importing Somali immigrants to Minnesota. But let’s take a look at a chart of Somali placement in America from theworlddata.com posted under the title, “Somali Immigrant Statistics in US 2025 | Key Facts” on 12/6/25:

 

Somali Refugee Admissions to the US 2025 Historical Trends Chart screengrab

 

As you look at this chart, NOTE the Obama years are from 2008-2016. And the installed Biden era is 2021-2025. THAT’S A LOT OF DEM-INSPIRED SOMALIS!

 

Keep in mind theworlddata.com post is trying to paint a rosy picture of Somali adaptation to American culture which is a lie! Essentially the Somalis have brought a Sharia-Muslim third-world culture to America resistant to ASSIMILATION to American Culture. Essentially theworlddata.com is telling look at the numbers through the lie of rich adaptation.

 

I’m on board with House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Wis.) calling for the deportation of Somalis involved with the criminal fraud scam against American Taxpayers as reported by The Hill 12/30/25:

 

o   Top Republican calling for deportation of ‘every Somali engaged in fraud in Minnesota’; By Sarah Fortinsky; The Hill; 12/30/25 9:44 AM ET

 

First four paragraphs:

 

“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Wis.) called for the deportation of all Somalis linked to fraud in Minnesota, amid heightened scrutiny of the state’s handling of the illegal activity.

 

In a post on the social platform X, Emmer said even naturalized citizens should have their citizenship revoked so they can be deported. The lawmaker added that he is willing to pass legislation to make such a move legal.

 

“I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers: Send them home. If they’re here illegally, deport them immediately; if they’re naturalized citizens, revoke their citizenship and deport them quickly thereafter,” the No. 3 House Republican wrote. “If we need to change the law to do that, I will.”

 

“Our nation will not tolerate those who take advantage of our charity and refuse to assimilate into our culture,” he added.”

 

In case you missed the OUTRAGEOUS Nick Shirley 42-Minute video of him going from taxpayer supported Somali managed Childcare Center to another with no kids and crazy refusals for admittance, here is X-Tweet posted on 12/26/25:

 

X-VIDEO: Nick Shirley – Somali-Minnesota Fraud

 

Posted by Nick Shirley (on X)

Posted on December 26, 2025

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL… pic.twitter.com/E3Penx2o7a

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 26, 2025

 

As is typical, the Dem-Marxist Mockingbird Media supporters have been lax-to-zero on reporting on the Somali Fraud Scam. Below are related news that you probably WILL NOT see from the MSM:

 

o   Minnesota’s Great Replacement: How Mass Migration Is Erasing the State’s Identity; By Amy Mek; RAIR Foundation USA; 2/19/25

 

o   Somali-American Received Millions in U.S. Taxpayer Dollars, MaineCare Funding While Claiming to Bankroll Jubaland Militia; By Maine Wire Staff (Edward Tomic and Steve Robinson contributed to this report); Maine Wire; 3/21/25 Updated 3/21/25

 

o   Somali fraud scheme exposes billions siphoned from US, one state set to crack down; By John Soloman; MSN.com (from Just The News); 12/24/25

 

o   Somali fraud is being exposed all over the country. Details here; By Joel Abbott; Not The Bee; 12/29/25

 

o   Monstrous, unheard-of Somali immigrant Medicaid fraud an indictment of unbridled immigration, indifferent media; By Michael Ryan; The Heartlander; 12/29/25

 

o   Trump Administration Launches ‘DOOR TO DOOR’ Investigation of Somali Fraud in Minnesota; By James Lynch; National Review; 12/29/25 4:19 PM

 

And because I like watching Natalie Winters on War Room, I’m sharing her Substack post on the Somali Scam Fraud below.

 

JRH 12/31/25

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EXC: Walz-Tied Somali Nonprofit Founder Awarded Millions In Government Grants Leads PAC Funding Radical Democrats Like Keith Ellison

 

By Natalie Winters

December 29, 2025

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Minnesota’s nonprofit-industrial complex is under the hottest law-enforcement spotlight in years, and not just because of the Feeding Our Future case.

 

While federal prosecutors keep stacking new fraud cases across state programs, a separate but related pipeline is hiding in plain sight: taxpayer-funded “community” nonprofits that sit next to political spending vehicles explicitly built to “buy access” to elected officials.

 

This scandal involves high-level Democrats, rising all the way up to the levels of Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.

 

One example now deserves a closer look: Isuroon, a Minneapolis nonprofit that received a $3,000,000 state earmark, and SAWPAC (Somali American Women Political Action Committee), a 501(c)(4) group that openly describes itself as a way to pool money so political leaders “start paying attention.”

 

1) The $3,000,000 carve-out: “Isuroon” in black-and-white state law

 

Minnesota legislative text shows a straight-up earmark for Isuroon:

 

A 2025 bill text (SF 3452) states $3,000,000 “for a grant to Isuroon” tied to predesign, design, construction, and renovation for property at 1600 East Lake Street in Minneapolis to carry out a mission described in the bill as supporting immigrant women and providing mental health counseling.

 

The bill also states that remaining money after the project is completed may be used for a specialty care center in the metro area.

 

“Founded in 2010, Isuroon is a women-led organization empowering Somali women in Minnesota. We provide access to health, financial literacy, civic engagement, and leadership programs,” explains the group’s About Us page. “Our mission is to support Somali women in overcoming barriers, navigating healthcare systems, and advocating for their well-being,” it continues before outlining how they leverage the “courage of Somali women” to battle racism.

Isuroon Somali Women's Nonprofit (Natalie Winters Photo)

 

2) The political machine next to it: SAWPAC

 

Somali American Women Political Action Committee (SAWPAC) describes its mission as “empowering Somali American women to take an active role in the political process.”

 

“SAWPAC works with political leaders throughout Minnesota to ensure they hear the voices of Somali women and families and our diverse needs are addressed,” they continue before listing out their top priorities:

 

§  Combatting the Dehumanization of Muslim Women and Their Families

 

§  Immigrants and Refugee Rights

 

§  Educational Equity

 

§  Reproductive Rights for Muslim Women and Their Families

 

In SAWPAC’s “Our Plan,” the group says its goal is ensuring advocates have “access to elected officials,” adding:

 

“It is no secret that money buys access to political leaders.”

 

They say SAWPAC is a way to pool resources “to make sure that political leaders hear our communities’ concerns and start paying attention when we speak.” They also describe building a database of advocates to “call, email, text, and meet directly with elected officials.”

 

3) Isuroon’s Ties To SAWPAC

 

Here’s where the trail tightens.

 

The CEO and Founder of Isuroon is the Chair of SAWPAC.

 

In Minnesota Campaign Finance Board meeting materials (August 2020), a message about a late SAWPAC filing shows Fartun Weli copied on the email — with an isuroon.org email address.

 

Separately, SAWPAC’s own fundraiser post says:

 

“This event is curated by the Somali American Women Political Action Committee that is chaired by Fartun Weli.”

 

4) Who SAWPAC supports: their endorsement list is heavily Democratic-coded

 

SAWPAC’s candidate page lists four “Minnesota Candidates” it supports:

 

§  MN Attorney General – Keith Ellison

 

§  MN Senate – Jim Abeler (R) [Blog Editor: This guy has to be a RINO]

 

§  MN Senate – John Hoffman (DFL)

 

§  Hennepin County Sheriff – Dawanna Witt

 

SAWPAC also published a post promoting a fundraiser honoring Keith Ellison’s re-election, identifying Weli as chair and listing committee members.

 

Recent examples of candidate support include:

 

§  $2,500 to Ellison, Keith Atty Gen Committee (12/29/2022)

 

§  $1,000 to Hassan, Hodan House Committee (01/02/2023)

 

§  $1,000 to Neighbors for Farhio (Khalif) (07/15/2022)

 

§  $500 to RenaforRep (Rena Moran) (10/29/2021)

 

§  $1,000 to Berg (Kaela Jo) for MN (09/21/2020)

 

5) The Tim Walz Tie

 

Gov. Tim Walz participated in the inaugural “Somali Day at the Capitol” on May 2, 2023 at the Minnesota State Capitol. Coverage of the event in local media identifies Fartun Weli as the executive director of Isuroon and a key event organizer.

 

Gov Tim Walz at Somali Day at the Capitol (Natalie Winters Photo)

Somali Day at the Capitol listeners to Walz speech (Natalie Winters Photo)

 

“The community has come to the realization that by working together, we can effectively tackle a wide range of challenges such as education, housing, the opioid crisis, security, and issues concerning Uber and Lyft drivers,” said Weli.

 

Governor Walz spoke after the call to prayer, saying: “The influence of this community is across Minnesota.” He followed by praising Somali Minnesotans’ “contributions” across the state - pointing to business, the arts, education, and the broader economy.

 

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Wokeism, Commies and America In Crisis

 

The fundamental transformation promised for America upon Obama’s election victory is now an out of control locomotive engine crushing downhill to the oblivion of America’s Founding principles is now in full swing under the puppet figurehead Chairman-Dementia Joe and the Dem-Marxist puppet masters … UNLESS… Well Justin Smith expounds under the hope more American Patriots arise to defend our heritage.

 

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Wokeism, Commies and America In Crisis

On the Path of Dissolution and Civil War - The Democrats' Extreme and Lawless Trajectory Towards Civil War

 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent 2/12/2022 1:20 AM

 

"And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."  ~ Revelation 20:9 KJV

 

America is in crisis more than our country has ever been, since the 1850s and much worse than the 1960s, and most of the Freedom-loving Conservative and Independent Americans recognize the Biden regime's willingness to break the Constitution and act lawlessly, with horror and disgust, along with his high-handed tyrannical edicts and mandates declared with nothing more than a wink and a nod, for what they represent. Here is a regime that embraces and advocates for the new "Wokeism" and the rising Marxist-Maoist Cancel-Culture, and taken together this is an existential threat to the nation on the whole, to the Republic and to Freedom and Liberty and all we hold dear.

 

Many philosophical pundits are certain that this is a blip and suggest Freedom-loving Americans are already turning the tide against the growing trend towards tyranny in our country. They erroneously suggest compromises are still in the offing and possible between the Democratic Party Communists and Conservative America, but they couldn't be more wrong: Both ideologies are totally antithetical to one another, and the Democrats have made it plain that they seek nothing less than the eradication of our nation's founding, essentially the erasure of America's Christian and Western principles, as a weird, despicable and dangerous sort of **anocracy seems to be running the nation today.

 

**[Blog Editor: Justin just enlightened me to a new word, “anocracy.” As I was looking for a good definition I noticed Dem-Marxist and RINO Anti-Trumpers in general blame Trump for this political state of existence EVEN THOUGH if you read the definition, it sounds awfully similar to the Obama election victory gloat of 2008 that America is on the verge of a fundamental transformation:

 

o   What is "anocracy"; Word Finder:

 

Wiktionary

anocracy

n. A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.

 

… MORE TO READ

 

o   Anocracy; WikiMili; Last Updated 2/5/22 (very detailed)

 

o   Anocracy; Infogalactic; last modified 5/28/16 20:38

 

o   Anocracy Definition; Governmentvs; © 2015-2022

 

o   To Democracy Through Anocracy; By Josep Colomer, David Banerjea & Fernando Mello; ResearchGate; FALL-WINTER 2016]

 

The Biden regime, and so too the Marxist-Maoist component of his party, are in the driver's seat pressing the fight against everything good, decent and moral that America was built upon: the idea of a core nuclear family comprised of one biological man and one woman and their children and the sanctity of marriage;  border security, national sovereignty and legal immigration; honor and God and Scripture, as they work overtime to squash America's best concepts. And this makes common ground to be found by the Marxists and Conservatives and Independents something as scarce as unicorns.

 

A nation cannot stand without shared beliefs between its people, regarding their societal identity and those ideas and principles they view as the best for one's guidance through life. It must have shared traditions, because without them the society is undermined by a consistent confusion and cacophony of competing ideas supported by different groups and tribes for one pet special interest after another; and, if not rectified, this leads countries into eventual chaos and dissolution.

 

This is the path America is on: Dissolution and civil war.

 

This was virtually ensured by the Democratic Party, as they have promoted and passed one anti-American piece of legislation after another and followed anti-American policies for decades, always pressing Congress and the public for more open and porous borders and a lax immigration system. They closed Ellis Island in 1954, which was the place where immigration officials would identify and reject the Communists, Fascists, Left-leaning anarchists and nihilists. As if that wasn't enough, with the strong backing of Senator Ted Kennedy and his Globalist-Communist buddies, they passed the Immigration Act of 1965, purposefully choosing to completely ignore the fact, that many cultures held a worldview totally antithetical to ours and did not value or respect our American principles and virtues.

 

Compounding the problem, subsequent Democrat led administrations refused to facilitate and insist new immigrants fully assimilate to American norms and traditional culture, in a manner that supplants our inalienable God-given rights for group identity. Instead, they allowed for mini-states representing a patchwork of the globe to spring up throughout the country, some with very little loyalty to America. And then there are those immigrants, legal and illegal, who still to this day embrace Big Government solutions and the idea the state is sovereign and the citizens are subjects; and as such, they are very receptive to the rise of the Marxist-Maoist Cancel-Culture regime in America.

 

To put it in stark terms in the manner many Conservative Americans now see the problem, and taking a few liberties from the words of Jean Raspail as written in 'The Camp of Saints':

 

"In one sense, (America) is more than ever triumphant, but it has a conception of the rights of man. In its original form this was an excellent idea, but it has now been misapplied and it's being used against (America) ... (continuing with one protagonist, Professor Clagues, as he confronts an invader) ... I too have stopped thinking and just want to tell you where I stand" -- and with that he fires his weapon and turns his back on the corpse to return inside his home.

 

Worse, much of today's anti-American sentiment has been done through our nation's public education system, from the 1960s to the present, through the many untold numbers of Communist mouthpieces who infiltrated it, now advocating the Critical Race Theory and racism directed at White America. Included in their anti-American mantra are assertions that America is an imperialistic racist nation that was built by people of color, as they use colonialism and the notion of cultural appropriation to plant the seeds of hatred for America in the minds of the youth who were born and raised here. They've overstepped their duties in the most egregious of manners, as they now attempt to teach America's children that no child should want to be an American, and that is criminal and beyond unconscionable, in my book.

 

These "educators" seek to make our youth forever feel guilty for the "crimes" of their ancestors, however real or imagined the "crimes" might be, with the degree of one's guilt to be determined by the amount of color in one's skin. They seek to institutionalize a perpetual class of victims and oppressors.

 

Today, the Biden regime and his Marxist-Maoist supporters scapegoat White America, and we especially saw this as the statues of our American heroes and our monuments and churches were attacked and defaced and often destroyed by Black Lives Matter and Antifa in recent years. We see this dynamic playing out in Biden's Open Border Policy and his refusal to stop the flood of Illegal Aliens -- future Democrats -- into the country. And it's obvious in every other Biden regime policy, as the Democratic Party Communists move to "transform" America, by debilitating our ability to produce energy through "dirty" fossil fuels and simultaneously demanding the redistribution of wealth, while Biden and his red, radical Globalist-Commies portray the American family, our national heritage, market commerce and our civic and religious institutions as corrupt, reprobate and immoral -- the very things representative of their party -- because, for the most part, White heterosexual men played the largest part in building and maintaining them.

 

In the name of "equality" and to further advance their Marxist-Maoist agenda, America bears witness to a new economic model paid for by the taxpayers, 'til they either can't pay any longer or they bleed tears of frustration, as the merit of one's ability and workmanship is reduced to nothingness and incompetence is rewarded and competence is handicapped. And rather than respecting all men and women through the prism of equality-in-the-eyes-of-the-law, the Biden Commies are moving to expand government over any expansion of Freedom and Individual Liberties, while they attempt to spend the nation into oblivion over the next three years, making all Americans equal in their shared economic misery at the lowest common denominator in poverty.

 

This is the Biden regime's concept of the government facilitating "inclusiveness" for the people, in a perverse fashion that calls good "evil" and evil "good". Satan himself couldn't ask for better.

 

Our beloved America's enemies want everybody to believe that America has been inherently and completely evil across its history. They want us to see our heterosexual Biblically ordained family as the deviancy and reject our "homophobic" churches to latch onto their heretical churches that bastardize the Word of God through their moral relativisms, false interpretations and outright lies. They call our entire way of life and the institutions we have built, including our educational institutions, "systemically racist" along with many corporations that aren't fully in agreement with their Marxist-Maoist Cancel-Culture model of governance, and they demand that we renounce it all, before we can once more be a fully functioning, participating member of the new society they are creating, a dismal dystopian society without forgiveness in which self-hatred is the premier principle.

 

And for those so inclined, one's guilt may be absolved for the exorbitant price of betraying America, sacrificing the nation and the three branches of government and all their subsidiaries that use to make it possible to live Free with some good bit of Individual Liberty to call our own, sacrificing our Freedom and Liberties in fact.

 

As Samuel Adams, one of America's Founders, once noted:

 

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties  of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. How necessary then is it for those who are determined to transmit the Blessings of Liberty as a fair Inheritance to Posterity, to associate on publick Principles in Support of publick virtue .... and Nothing but opposite Principles and Manners can overthrow it." [Bold emphasis in quote is Blog Editor’s]

 

We are no longer a Free country, not when elected and appointed government officials can simply declare a thing to be so, such as "Everyone shall wear masks -- everyone shall take the Covid-19 vaccine", and their subordinates impose those "mandates" as though they are law. We aren't Free, when our government continues to try to keep a "state of emergency" ongoing, in order to manipulate it, so the government can retain power and control over the American people.

 

Two weeks to flatten the curve of the Covid virus has turned into two years and counting and the tyrants speculating over "new variants", while now considering the possibilities of continuing the same failed lockdown policies for those variants that failed so miserably and caused so much economic destruction, as if the American people are that stupid or even willing to fall for that mess again. We've seen their hypocrisy, as the likes of Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi and Stacey Abrams and others have partied and gone about their lives maskless and nonchalantly while demanding everyone else comply with their asinine, unscientific illegal and illegitimate diktats.

 

Wouldn't Biden and his gang of traitors love an America where everyone would receive massive fines for not wearing their mask everyday, inside and out, using micro-chips in the masks that would match to the wearer and identify the "criminals" amongst us?

 

While America snoozed and was entertained by Hollywood, the Woke Biden regime caught much of America unaware and off-guard, to the point that every single core Freedom we held most dear was stripped away from us overnight, as Corporate Nazis complied with the Biden mandates even before they were fully reviewed and resolved by the Court, continuing to do so at this moment, and other good little amerikkans among us in the private sector have made sure to single out violators for punishment and cancellation. Our words must be nuanced for fear of being canceled by our work -- for any who are truly worried over such an eventuality, and our less brave citizens are pressured to acknowledge the false rectitude of ideas antithetical to our own, while books that contradict the false science of the CDC and Faucism with empirical findings and logic are blacklisted by certain publishers, such as Amazon, and others are pulled from circulation.

 

Whatever the case, complacency, a too-busy life, or apathy, Conservative America allowed the void in many segments of society and in every government institution to be filled by Communists and other radicals along the way. So much so did this occur that the Marxists and Maoists currently dominate America's culture on all the important fronts, in the entertainment industry, academia and the mainstream media, which is making for an uphill battle at the moment. The longer this remains the status quo in our country the more any future Conservative victories will ring hollow and the Marxists will strike with more extreme reprisals and increased plundering of the U.S. Treasury, until every last vestige of America's traditional culture is destroyed. 

 

It's a hard thing to fully comprehend, but incredibly, there are millions of Americans who have accepted the fallacies and outright lies of the Biden regime as their New Gospel, and unfortunately they are the useful idiots, the Brown Shirted foot-soldiers, who are excited and ecstatic to surrender to the Democratic Party Communists' authoritarian/totalitarian rule, for a continuation of Government freebees and the bread and circuses, no matter that any disobedience might one day mean their end at the end of a rope or a rifle.

 

The longer the Marxist-Maoists, the Biden regime and any subsequent tyrants push Americans along this current extreme and lawless trajectory the more a civil war becomes more certain, since what they demand contains no common ground or areas for compromise and is the bridge too far for most Americans who love everything about America, even Her flaws which were overcome and rectified by good men and women who transformed Her into a Shining City on the Hill, so exceptional and so wonderful -- a beacon of Liberty and Freedom to all, 'til now.

 

It's simply a question now of how soon or distant is the time that the fight is finally forced upon the principled Freedom-loving Americans. Upon its arrival, let us fight to win so that future generations may live Free, and let history note we were men and women of honor who did not flinch or give any quarter to the tyrants in the face of death.

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Edited by John R. Houk

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2021: The Invasion of America

 

With COVID despotism, an election coup and Dem-Marxist totalitarianism on the rise; unbridled illegal immigration festering on America’s southern border has nearly become an after-thought. Americans need to awaken that the ILLEGALS invasion and distribution is a long standing part of the fundamental transformation of American culture. Justin Smith lays the groundwork.

 

JRH 6/20/21

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2021: The Invasion of America

America Must Secure Her Borders Soon 

 

By Justin O. Smith

Sent 6/18/2021 10:42 PM

 

Americans have the absolute right to defend themselves, America Herself, their states and their communities from the detrimental effects of illegal immigration and the illegal aliens, who are currently flooding across the border in record numbers. Those of us who love this country have the right and the duty to determine who enters under existing immigration law found in 8 USC 1151, that is currently being mocked and broken by the Biden regime, and as such, Governor Gregg Abbott is one-hundred percent within the purview of federal and state law in [JOS] his recent declaration that he will build a wall along the border to halt the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens – [JOS] 180,034 in May alone -- who do not have any virtuous right to enter America just because they arrive at the border, especially in light of the Biden regime's malfeasance on the U.S. Southern Border. 

 

During his recent Border Security Summit Meeting in Del Rio on June 10th, Governor Abbott stated:

 

"President Biden's open-border policies have led to a humanitarian crisis at our southern border as record levels of immigrants, drugs, and contraband pour into Texas. While securing the border is the federal government's responsibility, Texas will not sit idly by as this crisis grows. The state is working collaboratively with communities impacted by the crisis to arrest and detain individuals coming into Texas illegally.

 

Our efforts will only be effective if we work together to secure the border, make criminal arrests, protect landowners, rid our communities of dangerous drugs, and provide Texans with the support they need and deserve. This is an unprecedented crisis, and Texas is responding with the most robust and comprehensive border plan the nation has ever seen."

 

This same statement should be issued by every Governor in the nation who opposes this Open Border Policy of the Biden regime. It is their absolute right as governors of Sovereign States and as understood through the prism of our Tenth Amendment Rights***. To date, America has only seen a weak and futile response from [JOS] twenty GOP Governors in a May 11th 2021 letter to Biden that only "urged" him "to end the humanitarian crisis and secure our southern border immediately".

 

***[Blog Editor: In looking at “Tenth Amendment Rights” it appears to me those Rights of late are dependent upon SCOTUS interpretations that seem to ebb and flow according to the dominant legal doctrine of the day. That concerns me since I am convinced the power of SCOTUS has been corrupted. Here are some posts for your consideration:

 

o   The Bill of Rights: The Tenth Amendment; Posts attributed to Tom Hand (creator of Blog/website that began in 2020); Americana Corner; No posting date provided

 

o   The Constitution in One Sentence: Understanding the Tenth Amendment; By Charles Cooper; Heritage Foundation; 1/10/11

 

o   The Tenth Amendment: Protecting Freedom Against Big Government; By George Landrith; Frontiers of Freedom; 5/25/12

 

o   Understanding States' Rights and the 10th Amendment; By Robert Longley; ThoughtCo; Updated 7/3/19

 

o   The Tenth Amendment and the Resurrection of States' Rights in the Age of Coronavirus; By Louis Adolfsen (of Melito & Adolfsen Law firm); JD SUPRA; 4/17/20]

 

Reported by Fox News on June 17^th [Blog Editor: I found Governor Abbot on Fox News 5/14/21 corroborated by Leftist Newsweek 5/25/21], the State of Texas has documented an eight-hundred percent increase in the quantity of fentanyl confiscated at the border, from January through May. That's more than enough of the deadly drug to kill over twenty-one million Americans. 

 

Just prior to the election, all the media and all America heard the promises from Biden and Harris both that they would stop Trump's wall, suspend deportations for 100 days and provide a way for all illegal aliens currently living in America to receive citizenship, and it didn't take a genius to understand that a Biden or Harris administration would pursue an open border policy. All of Central America was listening too, and the message was heard loud and clear. 

 

Recently, in a meeting with Kamala Harris, America's new border expert, Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei noted that almost immediately after Biden took office, U.S. immigration policy did a complete turnaround from President Trump's firm stance on the border. Giammattei stated:

 

"The message changed to 'We're going to reunite families, we're going to reunite children'. The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States."

 

This makes it all the more difficult for good, decent law-abiding Americans to accept Kamala Harris, the Biden regime's "Border Czar", and her words at face value or consider them to be honestly spoken, when she recently stood next to Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei, on June 7th, and abandoned her previously held assertion in 2017 that "an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal", as she stated:

 

"If you come to our border, you will be turned back. ... Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border." 

 

Please note that on February 1, 2021; eleven Iranian citizens were caught at the border, and almost every week the Border Patrol catches a drug cartel member or members, a pedophile or rapist, murderers and even people known to have terrorist ties, along with a large array of Other Than Mexicans, from countries such as Romania, China, Nigeria, Ghana, Yemen and elsewhere. 

 

If a state cannot defend itself and its people against foreign violence, just what can it do and what good is it?

 

Although states and States' Rights bring a certain amount of decentralization to the federation, the Founders and most Americans, until recent times, understood we had to share a common cause and goals regarding our national security and borders, and that not everybody could be welcomed into our domain with open arms, for any number of reasons centered on crime and subversion from within and abroad. As such, it has been incumbent upon every U.S. president to faithfully execute and uphold U.S. law, as noted in Article 2, Section 3 [Full Text], Clause 5 of the Constitution that states the president "shall take care that the Laws be carefully executed”, along with Article 4, Section 4 that supposedly ensures the president and our government will protect us "against Invasion" and "against domestic Violence".

 

The devious criminal deception of the Biden regime becomes all the more clear, once one discovers that Biden's administration is now actually flying [and bussing] illegal aliens all across America to major population hubs, where they depart and board buses for parts unknown. We recently saw some of this play out right here in Tennessee, as four planes loaded with [JOS] illegal aliens arrived at Chattanooga's Wilson Air Center between May 14th and May 19th 2021. 

 

How does any of this make sense to anybody of sound mind? This is the policy of an idiot, a walking, mumbling imbecile, who simply wants to be remembered as the anti-Trump. Nobody other than the Biden regime and the Democratic Party Communists is going around saying, "Hey ... let's bring in plane loads of Romanians, Guatemalans, Yemenis, and Iranians".

 

America is not morally bound to take everyone into the country for permanent settlement, and the entire world isn't entitled to live in America.

 

In despicable fashion, the Biden regime is refusing to enforce immigration laws as written, taking a page from the Obama administration, leaving States' borders unprotected against illegal aliens that should not be granted entry at all. And no matter what anyone says or tries to spin the issue, the sovereign States are not at the mercy of the Biden regime's refusal to enforce United States immigration law. Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.

 

In 1833, Justice Joseph Story wrote:

 

"If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges." [Scope of the Story quote: Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1098—99]

 

This is the exact current modus operandi of the traitors and criminals in the top echelons of California's state government, who seek to increase the numbers of those desirous of greater socialist programs while increasing their representation at the expense of the rest of the country; and, in the meantime, these illegals are also left free to travel state to state at will and making Americans suffer from coast to coast.

 

Many Democrats and other radicals are now trying to say that only the federal government has the right or authority to act in any regard on the border situation, because it is in their interests and aligned with their agenda to grow their voter base and power, to do nothing to stop the current invasion of illegal aliens. Nothing is further from the truth, and many of America's earliest leaders addressed any conflict between a state's authority and the federal government's authority in some great specificity.

 

During the Virginia State Convention in 1788, John Marshall, who would become the fourth Chief Justice of the United States in 1801, stated the following in regards to the constitutional prohibition on State power, although Alexander Hamilton had previously stated it months earlier in a much lengthier manner in the Federalist Essay #32:

 

"The truth is, that when power is given to the general legislature, if it was in the state legislatures before, both shall exercise it, unless there be an incompatibility in the exercise by one to that of the other, or negative words precluding the state governments from it ... All the restraints intended to be laid on the state governments (besides where an exclusive power is express given to Congress) are contained in the 10th section of the 1st article."

 

The Constitution recognizes the sovereignty of the States and their authority and power to police their own borders. Sovereignty includes the authority to fiercely defend one's own borders absent any valid federal prohibition; and once one reviews all the constitutional prohibitions on State power in Article 1, Section 10, it is readily apparent that there are absolutely no restraints on States that prevent them from acting decisively to halt illegal aliens from crossing the Southern Border into their State.

 

Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 (also often referred to as the Compact Clause) states:

 

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, ... engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

 

If a State has the power to engage in war through independent action when the danger is deemed "imminent", it should stand to reason that the States also have the civil authority to protect their borders.

 

The Founders acknowledged the necessity of prohibitions on the States' ability to wage war, but much like Justice Joseph Story, they also recognized that exceptions certainly needed to be noted, when the safety of all the States were involved and those exceptions were "not justly open to the objection of being dangerous to the Union." In his commentary on the Compact Clause, Story wrote [(JOS) § 1398]:

 

"Still, a state may be so situated, that it may become indispensable to possess forces, to resist an expected invasion, or insurrection. The danger may be too imminent for delay; and under such circumstances, a state will have a right to raise troops, for its own safety, even without the consent of Congress."

 

Bearing this very thing in mind, I wrote the following, in an article on June 6th:

 

"If the Federal Government and the Biden regime are not going to secure our borders, pray tell, just what is wrong with armed America militias within the border states stopping the illegal alien hordes at the border and forcing them back towards Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo or wherever from whence they came?"

 

Whether these folks have rifles or duffel bags of drugs or toddlers and babies in their arms, if hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens crossing the border each month and on track to hit a total of two million by year's end doesn't constitute an invasion, I don't know what does. Samuel Huntington, chair of Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies (1996-2004), wrote much the same in The Clash of Civilizations in 1996.

 

If able, every American, who loves this country and all it has traditionally represented across the ages, should be reaching deep within their pockets to send funds for the construction of the Texas border wall. And if that's not an option, abled-body men seeking honest employment should be placing their names on the list of candidates for all jobs available in the construction of the Abbott Wall.

 

Far from a crisis in any normal sense of the word, no one should mistake the situation on America's southern border for anything other than Biden's Open Border policy and manufactured "crisis" that is a part of the Democratic Party's Marxist agenda to complete the "fundamental transformation of America" through aliens who hold no real loyalty to America and Her traditions, to be used to erode and subvert the fabric of democratic mechanisms in local communities, while drawing checks from taxpayer funded welfare programs.

 

If America doesn't soon secure Her borders in a sane, logical manner, we won't have a nation any longer, because, regardless of Joe Biden's attempt to purge our language of words such as "illegal" and "assimilation", without a common language and common cultural norms brought forth through picking and choosing good candidates for U.S. citizenship, who will assimilate and uphold and defend America and Her principles, America will be torn apart by increasing tribalism and balkanization, while the nation's traitors and imbeciles grow in power, and She will fall into ruin and shambles. Biden's Open Border Policy and unrestrained illegal immigration will change America from the Shining City on the Hill that holds forth a river of hope into a sewer of despair. 

 

By Justin O. Smith

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Edited by John R. Houk

Except when indicated by “JOS”, embedded links are by the Editor. Text embedded by brackets are by the Editor. Bold text indicates this Editor’s complete agreement with Justin.

 

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