DAVID MARCUS: Somali power surge raises the question Minnesota avoids — where's assimilation?

The Cedar-Riverside vicinity of Minneapolis is divorced from the downtown country by a tangle of road overpasses, and arsenic it turns out, it’s the cleanable spot for Somali immigrants successful Minnesota to make an enclave that is overmuch much Somali than American.

On the main drag, you tin spot the skeletal remains of shuttered non-Somali businesses, specified arsenic the aptly named Western World, an outerwear supplier that had stood successful the determination since 1970. Every recently opened concern is Somali.

Block by block, nether the dependable regard of the 1970s brutalist Riverside towers, present populated mostly by Somalis, the vicinity is losing its aged individuality and transforming into thing that looks much similar Africa than Minnesota, speech from the snow, of course.

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This is not caller successful America. Immigrant groups person agelong travel to our federation and chosen to unrecorded successful isolation with their ain customs. The quality present is that the Somali assemblage successful Minnesota is besides seeking, and gaining, governmental powerfulness — not conscionable successful their neighborhood, but besides crossed the authorities and adjacent the national government.

A presumption of a precocious emergence gathering successful the Cedar-Riverside vicinity of Minneapolis connected December 9, 2025. Block by block, nether the dependable regard of the 1970s brutalist Riverside towers, present populated mostly by Somalis, the vicinity is losing its aged individuality and transforming into thing that looks much similar Africa than Minnesota, speech from the snow, of course. (Fox News)

In the aftermath of a monolithic fraud ungraded successful which possibly arsenic overmuch arsenic a cardinal dollars intended to provender bare kids was allegedly stolen by organizations with precise adjacent ties to the Somali community, section residents are starting to consciousness mounting frustration.

One antheral who agreed to spell connected video told Fox News Digital, "I mean, I'm concerned, obviously, due to the fact that there's nary existent accounting for immoderate of this, and taxes proceed to rise. Our bills spell up connected a regular basis, and yet there's nary accountability for wherever immoderate of this wealth goes."

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The information that a immense bulk of those implicated successful this nationalist wealth ungraded are Somali speaks to the level of governmental powerfulness the assemblage has amassed connected each level portion hardly assimilating astatine each to the broader culture.

One pistillate I spoke to, named Jane, successful her precocious 30s and precise sympathetic to immigrants, did admit, "They benignant of person their ain happening going on."

Lius, a edifice owner, besides told Fox News Digital connected video, "With the Somali community, what bothers maine is that I learned that they get each the benefits from the government. They don't adjacent pay, like, afloat rent. They get a rent credit. They get each types of credit. And a batch of them don't adjacent similar to work."

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Recently, the politician of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, got successful blistery h2o for suggesting that America should not beryllium a melting cookware but alternatively a crockery — basically, that each idiosyncratic migrant radical should clasp its taste norms.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud condemned the "hate" astatine the protests, saying it was not reflective of the city's values, successful comments during the Nov. 18, 2025 metropolis assembly meeting. (Dearborn City Council Meeting via YouTube)

In fact, it has ever been imaginable successful America for groups to unrecorded separately from the remainder of society, obeying their ain rules, but these groups, specified arsenic the Amish and Hasidic Jews, don’t question authorities and national governmental power.

Assimilation has agelong been the prerequisite for governmental powerfulness for the precise crushed that successful politics, our elected officials indispensable service everyone’s interests, not conscionable their ain isolated communities.

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Even erstwhile Somali voters formed ballots for a campaigner specified arsenic Mayor Jacob Frey — who is not 1 of them — successful November’s Minneapolis election, they were inactive the electorate that Frey had to pander to most.

This explains successful ample portion wherefore this alleged theft of truthful overmuch wealth by Somali organizations went unnoticed and uninvestigated for truthful long. Not lone did the Somali governmental instrumentality presumption immoderate specified probe arsenic inherently racist, but it besides had the governmental musculus to marque Democrats specified arsenic Gov. Tim Walz look the different way.

The constituent present is not that determination are radical successful the satellite who are not susceptible of assimilating into American society, the constituent is that they person to privation to.

One astir has to respect the lengths to which the Somali assemblage goes to stay isolated. On galore stores tin beryllium seen a greenish motion that reads "Ramadpay," which is simply a Minneapolis-based wealth ligament work that sends currency to respective Muslim countries.

A motion advertizing Ramad Pay is seen successful the Minneapolis vicinity of Cedar-Riverside successful Minnesota connected December 9, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

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So adjacent successful sending wealth home, the Somali assemblage has managed to circumvent American banking systems and support each the fees successful the community.

The Somali assemblage and its leaders, specified arsenic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., person a prime to make: either they tin assimilate arsenic truthful galore different groups person earlier them — and instrumentality their spot successful authorities and national authorities — oregon they tin enactment isolated.

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What cannot beryllium allowed to proceed is for this assemblage to exert governmental unit connected the remainder of the state portion simultaneously claiming immoderate oversight of that power is bigoted. That crippled indispensable beryllium good and genuinely over.

In Cedar-Riverside, Western World is not conscionable an out-of-business covering store, it's a awesome of increasing hostility betwixt Minnesota bully and Somali-based graft. As much and much corruption emerges, this hostility volition lone proceed to grow.

Nikolas Lanum is simply a Video Editor astatine Fox News Digital.

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