Import such vast numbers of people from an infamously lawless failed nation that it reduces a major American city to a foreign colony, and the result will be crime. Specifically, the result of Democrats converting Minneapolis into an outpost of Somalia has been fraud:

Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud.

The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marriages, fake death certificates and “other bizarre schemes,” as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.

This has been going on for some time:

As far back as 2008, the State Department temporarily suspended one of the family reunification programs used by Somali immigrants when DNA testing of applicants found that 80% of all its claimed family relationships were fake.

The most infamous Somali fraudster is prominent Democrat Ilhan Omar:

In 2016, following up on a tip posted on a local Somali discussion board, I found that Omar — then a first-time candidate for the Minnesota state legislature — had “religiously married,” but not legally married, Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her children.

However, records showed that in 2009, she had legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — a man identified as her brother by Somalis on the discussion board.

Careful you don’t ask any embarrassing questions. Democrats will whack you with their bigotry club:

When I asked the Omar campaign about her marriages, a criminal defense attorney responded with a message accusing me of bigotry…

The purpose of the sham marriage may have been to help her brother get US student loans. She filed joint tax returns with Hirsi while married to Elmi. Charges might be filed — but that would be bigoted.

Somali fraud is costing us a fortune:

A number of local Somali residents participated in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case — the largest COVID fraud discovered so far in the United States — with losses to taxpayers exceeding $250 million.

Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson, who has prosecuted the two Feeding Our Future cases that have gone to trial so far, recently revealed expansive Medicaid fraud schemes featuring Somali perpetrators. Thompson estimates these frauds to run into the billions of dollars.

Greater still will be the cost of a black hole for welfare payments where an American city once stood. It will suck money out of our pockets for generations to come. Worse yet, it will generate reliable votes for the Democratic Party.

On a tip from abcanc.