Former Vikings captain Jack Brewer opens up about witnessing Minnesota's 'Somali elite' amid fraud revelations

Former Minnesota Viking and University of Minnesota shot subordinate Jack Brewer said he's seen high-end concern involving the "elite" Somali colonisation successful Minnesota up close. In the process, helium witnessed a demographic and people translation successful his location state.

"You spell to 1 of them, and they person Bentley and Maserati dealerships successful Minnesota. I cognize due to the fact that I’ve done concern with them, and I’ve been endorsed by them arsenic an athlete," Brewer told Fox News Digital. 

"Now, you spell successful there, and immoderate of their main customers are these Somali fraudsters buying high-end cars successful a authorities that gets 4 months of sunlight and decent weather. They’re driving astir sports cars similar you would spot successful Beverly Hills oregon South Beach Miami, each disconnected the backmost of the American taxpayer."

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Images of bare daycare centers person go a abrupt taste flashpoint crossed the nation. Minnesota is embroiled successful a increasing ungraded aft revelations that perchance billions successful payer dollars were distributed fraudulently done members of the state's Somali population.

Brewer recalls the infinitesimal helium began to spot that world instrumentality shape, erstwhile the Somali colonisation began to abruptly roar crossed his authorities 28 years ago. He witnessed this arsenic a hubby to a Muslim American ineligible immigrant. 

"I person been successful Minnesota a agelong time. My woman was calved and raised there, from a household of immigrants that came from the Middle East, came to America, assimilated and not conscionable assimilated but really made maine much patriotic," Brewer said. 

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"I saw Somalians coming determination successful droves. They had their ain conception of municipality and dilatory started taking implicit the metropolis of Minneapolis."

The Somali colonisation successful Minneapolis and St. Paul grew importantly starting successful the aboriginal to mid-1990s, driven by refugees fleeing Somalia's civilian war, with important numbers arriving aft 1991 and continuing done the 2000s. 

The illness of Somalia's authorities successful 1991 led to wide conflict, forcing millions to fly the country. At the time, Brewer was conscionable a kid successful Grapevine, Texas. By the clip helium transferred from SMU to the University of Minnesota, the Somali colonisation was estimated astatine astir 15,000 people, according to the Minnesota State Demographic Center. 

By the clip Brewer joined the Minnesota Vikings successful 2002, astatine slightest 5,123 Minnesota students reported speaking Somali arsenic their superior connection astatine home, according to the National Institutes of Health. 

Over the years, Brewer, arsenic a pro jock with endorsements, says helium did concern with galore of the section Somali immigrants who were attaining wealth. He began to witnesser their increasing power connected section civilization and religion. 

"You crook connected your TV. Have you ever seen a politician connected tv waving a overseas country’s emblem and dancing and trying to rally radical to enactment Somalia implicit supporting America? … When you locomotion done Minneapolis, you perceive Islamic sirens going disconnected due to the fact that they’ve travel successful present with that culture, trying to bring successful Islamic culture," Brewer said. 

"This is simply a spiritual conflict similar we haven’t seen successful a agelong time." 

A caller probe by activists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo recovered that national counterterrorism sources confirmed millions successful funds for Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, Feeding Our Future and different state-sponsored organizations were sent to Somalia and that the violent radical Al-Shabab whitethorn person obtained that cash.

Approximately 40% of households successful Somalia get remittances from abroad. Thorpe and Rufo reported that, successful 2023, the Somali diaspora sent $1.7 cardinal to the country, which was higher than the Somali government's fund that aforesaid year.

In the Land of 1,000 Lakes, governmental powerfulness and payment funds recovered their mode to the Somali population.

The authorities saw the emergence of respective salient Somali politicians, including U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, authorities senators Omar Fateh and Zaynab Mohamed and St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed, each Democrats.

"These radical person embedded themselves into the governmental world, wherever present they are leveraging the national authorities to money their campaigns, to nonstop wealth overseas to Somalia and to physique luxury condos and make a manner for radical successful Somalia disconnected the backmost of the American taxpayer," Brewer said. 

"For me, arsenic a erstwhile Minnesota Viking, arsenic a erstwhile Gopher, I got my undergraduate and my master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota. I was a skipper connected some of those teams. It’s 1 of the astir embarrassing times I’ve ever had for a authorities that I’ve proudly said helped crook maine from a lad into a man."

Brewer, a concern owner, added that he's moved galore of his assets retired of the authorities successful caller years. 

"I’ve pulled backmost galore of my concern interests successful the authorities and moved concern interests elsewhere due to the fact that of what we’ve seen post-George Floyd," helium said. 

Somali residents antecedently told Fox News Digital they are angered the full assemblage has been saddled with what they accidental is an unfair reputation, blaming a tiny number of fraudsters and criminals for the antagonistic attraction against the full group.

"Somalis successful Minnesota are hard-working folks.  Many of them enactment 2 jobs, and yet astir 75% are inactive poor," Council connected American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota Executive Director Jaylani Hussein antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

"There are entrepreneurs, palmy restaurants — radical successful trucking, IT and adjacent firm America — making important changes. But those affirmative stories don’t get overmuch attention."

About 36% of Somali Minnesotans lived beneath the poorness enactment from 2019 to 2023, much than triple the U.S. poorness complaint of 11.1%, according to Minnesota Compass, a statewide information project. Somali-headed households reported a median income of astir $43,600 during that period, acold beneath the nationalist median of $78,538.

Najma Mohammad, a hairsbreadth stylist who came to the U.S. arsenic a child, antecedently told Fox News Digital, "Most radical deliberation conscionable due to the fact that immoderate radical are atrocious and Somali, that each Somali is bad, which is conscionable a stereotype."

Brewer stands down the state's patriotic Muslim ineligible migrant population, which helium is connected to personally done his wife's family. 

"Witnessing their household — the mode they bash business, the mode they emotion this country, what they basal for, their patriotism — I’ve learned from it. I’ve go amended from it. I’ve loved my state much from witnessing my in-laws. So, I cognize what’s possible," Brewer said.

"They did that by moving to Minneapolis and gathering their businesses. It tin happen, and it does happen. That’s what this state was built upon."

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But helium besides wants to spot President Trump instrumentality drastic measures successful effect to the caller developments.

"I would enactment a frost connected each migration until we get a grip connected the extent of this fraud and the extent of the corruption that has taken place." Brewer said. "We request to get each these overseas terrorists retired of our country. That should beryllium a corporate effort betwixt our equipped forces, our section instrumentality enforcement, our communities, our leaders, our churches — everyone — to support our land."

Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report. 

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