US Vice president J.D. Vance at Fox News Network, fresh York, February 17, 2026. © Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images
U.S. Vice president J.D. Vance said Democratic officials in Minnesota should reimburse billions of dollars from social benefits allegedly misappropriated by organizations run by Somali immigrants.
Last year, national prosecutors accused many people of fraud, claiming that half or more of the $18 billion reported to Medicaid under 14 programs in Minnesota since 2018 could be fraud.
Meanwhile, politician Tim Walz and Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey search national compensation for Minnesota immigration raids, which in their opinion caused crucial costs to state and urban budgets.
In an interview with Fox News aired on Saturday, Vance rejected these requests, claiming that state officials should alternatively reimburse taxpayers for failing to act to halt fraud.
"On behalf of the American people, we would like to get a reprisal for allowing Somali fraudsters to bargain billions of dollars from American taxpayers surviving in Minnesota.
They did nothing to limit these frauds” said Vance.
"I think it's absurd erstwhile people say, "We want a reparation." Reparations for what?
due to the fact that we enforce the law that the Americans chose us to do” – he added.
Since his return to power last year, president of the United States Donald Trump began fighting illegal immigration, promising to carry out the largest deportation in American history.
Minnesota, the seat of the largest Somali community in the United States, came under scrutiny after national authorities exposed alleged fraud in the field of kid nutrition, housing and another social programs, including aid funds in connection with COVID-19.
Trump claims that immigrants from Somalia “They take full control of Minnesota’s erstwhile large state” while Walz accuses the president of unjustly persecuting the people and applying hatred - filled rhetoric to this community.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/632885-vance-demands-reparations-for-somali/
