Somali Activists Demand Reparations for Economic Harm They Attribute to ‘ICE Terror’
“We believe programs fit into our criteria. For Somali small business owners … We have been suffering since the crisis of ICE.”
In a remarkable display of chutzpah, Somali activists from the group Neighbors United held a press conference on Friday to demand reparations for the Somali-owned businesses they claim suffered economic harm from the recently concluded ICE raids in Minnesota.
While the surreal event can be viewed in its entirety via FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, the excerpt attached to the social media post below captures the essence of the Somali demands.
A spokeswoman for the group demanded that Somali businesses with revenue of less than $200,000 be compensated for their losses. (Try making that demand in Somalia.)
She also called for an end to evictions of Somali families unable to pay their rent.
We believe programs fit into our criteria. For Somali small business owners, not those who makes $200,000 and above. We don’t make that much amount. We have been suffering since the crisis of ICE.
We also demand an immediate help to evictions so families are not pushed to homelessness during the crisis.
She said, “Our community deserves accountability. Our community deserves safety. We need also justice for those who lost their lives defending the community.”
🚨 BREAKING: Somali community in MN demanding reparations over “ICE trauma”
Their demands:
– Free cash grants to immigrant businesses under $200k
– Stop all evictions + free rent
– Reparations for “ICE trauma”
– Government apology & “accountability”
– ICE banned from their… pic.twitter.com/q9nctcTyYO— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) February 21, 2026
As audacious and entitled as these demands may be, the language on the group’s website is even more presumptuous. The homepage screams, “WE ARE NEIGHBORS UNITED. … AN ORGANIZATION STARTED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY AT KARMEL MALL IN MINNEAPOLIS TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IN THE WAKE OF RACIST ICE ATTACKS. … ICE OUT! REPAIR THE DAMAGE!”
The group then itemizes its “demands” of Gov. Tim Walz, who has proposed “a meager $10M in loans to only those businesses who make over $200K a year” to compensate for losses sustained in Minneapolis “due to racist ICE terror.” They appeal to the embattled governor to do something for smaller businesses, those facing eviction from their homes and business spaces, and more.
It’s worth noting that after border czar Tom Homan announced a drawdown of ICE agents in the state, Walz called on the federal government to “pay for what they broke.” The governor claimed that ICE’s presence in Minnesota had left behind “deep damage” and “generational trauma.”
At any rate, the race card has actually been a very effective defense for Somalis accused of fraud. In November, journalists Christopher Rufo and R.K. Thorpe published an explosive report that alleged massive Medicaid fraud among members of the Somali community.
The report quoted former Minnesota State Sen. David Gaither, who said that when members of the Somali community come under legal scrutiny, they typically respond by alleging racial bias. He said, “Even if the facts don’t point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent.”
According to Gaither, “the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota’s Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community. This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize.
Gaither concluded, “If you’re a politician, it’s a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don’t win the Somali community, you can’t win Minneapolis. And if you don’t win Minneapolis, you can’t win the state. End of story.”
EXCLUSIVE: @RK_Thorpe and I have new reporting on America’s Somali fraud rings, which have stolen billions in taxpayer funds—and sent some to Islamist terrorists back home.
“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer.”https://t.co/RDgnKXAnyP
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) November 19, 2025
After allegations of fraud inside the Somali community exploded in December, few Americans are likely to sympathize with the new demands for reparations.
Judging from the reactions on social media to news of Neighbors United’s Friday press conference, they needn’t have bothered.
Here are a few of the responses:
— Kelly (@KellyforGod) February 21, 2026
— Jim (@Kajonnes) February 21, 2026
— Mark (@TaxedAndMad) February 21, 2026
And finally:
The American Taxpayer response: pic.twitter.com/MinIkntukj
— Jay Gee (@JAG2944) February 21, 2026
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Send them all back to Somalia
“Somali Activists with Neighbors United demanded reparations after the recent ICE raids.”
And they say Muslims don’t have a sense of humor. She ought to head for Vegas. New talent is always welcomed.
Did Walz and his democrat cronies EVER give any $$$$ to the owners of the priavate businesses in 2020? At the time he had an $18,000,000,000+ surplus. (He just spent it and has nothing to show for it)
Reparations in the form of a one way ticket back to Somalia.
Average Somali IQ is 67, well below the 82 that the armed forces have determined is the minimum IQ that you can be trained to do something useful at.
Which is why mostly they’re doing nothing useful. Incapability. Grift is all there is, in a modern society, that’s left.
In their home society they function with purpose but in poverty. Competition is less but productivity is zero.
Low IQ coupled with a sense of entitlement is a really obnoxious combination. Why on earth were these reprobates ever admitted into our country.
Democrats: most likely Clinton, Klobachar, Elision Franken….fo votes
If the average IQ of Somali immigrants is 67, then there must be someone with sufficient IQ to fool and take advantage of Minnesota state workers and politicians. Or there is the possibility that the Minnesota government as a collective has an equal or lower IQ.
I have to admit I like this
for years now I have been replying back to the reparations armies that they can have the money as long as the people who pay out those monies can then charge for :
crimes committed by those who received the reparations and any family members for the past 6 generations ( see how fair I am..I dont even go back to the beginning of time like they do)
must pay back whites and asians first
so the trillions (?) probably more than that of
free housing food clothing education etc
of crimes committed against whites and asians etc etc
they will run into debt if they have to pay it back
so please lets get thisss discussion out in the open
Something has to be done to make life so uncomfortable for Somalians that they get up and move to a friendlier country, say Canada. Their enablers can go with them too.
The alternative that comes to mind is Spain. Their idiot Prime Minister wants to take in another 500K immigrants and our Somalians would be just what he is looking for.
Spain is already asking for “help” with the millions who came in recently.
Well, then, we should help by sending him more!
What a coincidence — that’s exactly what our Somalis are trained in!
I’m sure many of Spain’s new immigrants need access to affordable (govt. paid) day care. Who is going to provide it?
You have DEMANDS?
We’re prepared to accept your official filing over there, inside our… uh, Bookmobile. Yeah, Bookmobile, that’s the ticket.
All demands must be filed in the demanders country of birth.
In person, no mail-ins or on-line.
That won’t work. You’d never get a Somali inside a bookmobile.
Ask your Queen Ilhan for a hand-out, OK?
Ciounter offer: “Shut up.”
The allegations of ‘ists, isms and phobes’ have long since lost their usefulness. Too many false complaints. For a great many people when we hear such an allegation we stop listening to the person making making it. If that means an actual wolf really has shown up and he occasionally eats a few sheep b/c we ignored the ‘warning’ so be it.
You want money because people find you unlikeable?
You clearly “don’t understand how radio works.”
I’ll reparate a boat, and you can sail right on back to pirate-infested waters.
I swear I have never seen a bigger pile of scum that thinks the US is just a giant Daddy Warbucks to give them money they feel entitled to.
Don’t forget the villainy.
Isn’t that entitlement (aka we’re better than the rest of you) a basic component of their faith?
Amen on that. Muslim”s perceived superiority isn’t based on knowledge, ability or productivity. It’s purely a function of their belief that Allah has their back. These true believers still believe even as the bomb vest explodes!
As the French say: quell chutzpah!
As has been said by so many people so many times, including Yours Truly, “Stop making excuses. If race is all you have, you have nothing.”
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Deport the inbred con’t.
STFU and go to hell, or Somalia. But I repeat myself.
I’m willing to pay for one way passage back to Somalia.
They can chip in if they want the pilot to land when they get there.
ICE terror?
Nothing But Projection. ICE is the one who got terrorized, by these invaders and their human shield AWFULs.
Absolutely, this was a textbook example of Marxist propaganda. Hammer the narrative that suits your cause, recruit the fellow travelers and dupes ( politicians, media, dumb ass women) to echo the narrative and often you win the day. In this case they came close to winning the war, dangerously close.. when you win over influential people like Joe Rogan, a wave effect can and did develop.
It’s all based on lies and exaggeration but it was effective
It’s not enough, that innumerable Somali Muslim supremacist/Islamofascist grifters/thieves have robbed the U.S. federal government and Minnesota coffers, blind — now, these arrogant, subversive, evil and vile pukes demand payment of the Islamic “jizya” “tax,” from their “infidel” servants/slaves.
Robbed US, the only taxpayers!
When someone DEMANDS something of me, they definitely put me in a mood of, “There’s the door.” The only reparations they will ever get from me is the price of a ticket back to Somalia.
You don’t get to DEMAND anything of us. Period.
If you have reason to fear ICE that is your fault and your problem. If you want relief from that fear then go back to your own country you goddamn criminal.
Yep. If these business had less traffic b/c ICE was seeking, finding and detaining illegal aliens within the city which caused others with questionable immigration status to stay home …tough cookies. Same for the flow of funding taking a hit as fraud investigations ramp up.
I’ll happily agree to their demand, just make all reparations payable in one-way international airline tickets.
Go f*%$k yourselves! Parachute them all into Somalia HALO like 50ft.
They’re just looking for a new scam to replace the ones that have been discovered and shut down.
This has nothing to do with race. When the Jews were trying to populate Israel immediately before and after the War of Independence, they refused elderly, unskilled, criminals, and most women. Racist? How could it have been when everyone they were excluding were Jews? They understood the nascent country couldn’t afford freeloaders, the infirm (unproductive), and few others than military age men who were fit, not criminals, and preferably had experience with agriculture. They just didn’t have the money to take care of anyone. We have the money, but we damn sure shouldn’t be spending it on a bunch of grifters, fraudsters, and ingrates. If they really thought we were racist, why would they expect money from us? Of course, that’s the point. They expect us to bend over backwards to prove we’re not racist, and the proof is in the Benjamins.
Slight quibble. We do not ‘have the money’ to afford immigrant freeloaders. See the $38+ Trillion Federal debt with annual deficit spending of $2 Trillion ish putting us on track to exceed $50 Trillion Federal Debt by 2032….which is a big problem b/c that’s when the SSA trust fund will be exhausted and every penny borrowed from SSA by the Treasury will have been paid back with interest. That means only incoming SSA tax revenue will be available to fund SSA benefits which is projected to be about 75% ish of benefit amounts. Coincidentally that’s the same year the leading edge of Gen X turns 67 becoming eligible for full SSA retirement. That little fact means Gen X and younger generations are already gonna get a 25% haircut on SSA benefits which means they are not gonna be willing to shoulder more tax burden in a ‘reform’ while older generations get a pass and refuse to share the pain equally.
Looting continues, why not try this? Some judge will gladly give them reparations for their pain and suffering.
Speaking purely of physical appearance, Somalis have got to be the ugliest people on earth.
Dirt worshipping savages of low intelligence. If only they could “fit it”? (s).
And you expected…..what? The Somali community went immediately into ‘full victim’ mode because taxpayers are furious that they stole billions from us as their way of thanking us for letting them leave their sand/mud huts in Somalia, and come here. Their training from democrats is on full display for all to see.
They can demand in one hand and defecate in the other.
I’m sure this applies to Somalia as well …
https://x.com/RMXnews/status/2024918246130856440