Somalis Drove 700% Increase in Minnesota ‘Autism’ Providers
FBI raids follow spending increase from $6M to $192M
The $250 million Feeding Our Future scam in Minnesota was massive in scope and yet is never discussed. Why? Because the perpetrators were Somalis associated with the state party.
The sheer brazenness of it though remains legendary.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.
These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.
The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn’t used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.
Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program. Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day. That’s a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”
Now the FBI is raiding ‘autism providers’ linked to some of the Feeding Our Future perps. There was a sudden ‘autism’ boom in the last 5 years. (Minnesota Reformer.)
The number of providers — who are supposed to diagnose and treat people with autism spectrum disorder — has increased 700% in the past five years, climbing from 41 providers in 2018 to 328 last year. The amount paid to providers during that time has increased 3,000%, from about $6 million to nearly $192 million
What drove this staggering increase?
A 2009 Minnesota Department of Health study found the proportion of 3- to 4-year-old Somali kids receiving autism services was as much as seven times higher than non-Somali children. More recent data show the disparity has only grown.
Idil Abdull is a Somali-American immigrant whose son has autism, which led her to advocacy. She opened an autism therapy agency and co-founded the Somali American Autism Foundation of Minnesota.
Abdull said before immigrant providers entered the field, white providers bullied and discriminated against parents of children of color. Minority providers saw the need to provide autism services beyond the 9-to-5 workday and stepped in to provide evening and weekend hours, she said…
Newer providers that better represent diverse communities are more flexible, offering services beyond the traditional 9-5 work day, some of them advertising that they’re open seven days a week.
The number of providers who diagnose and treat autism has increased from 41 providers in 2018 to 328 last year. The amount paid to providers during that time climbed from about $6 million to nearly $192 million.
The Autism Treatment Association of Minnesota says the rapid increase in the number of providers and payments correlates with the launching of the state program in 2018.
$192 million and $250 million are bringing us close to the half-a-billion mark and that is no doubt only a fraction of the ‘impact’ of Somali mass migration on our political and economic system.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield