Minnesota’s Somali taxpayer swindle: Welfarism plus immigration without assimilation is a toxic mix

Published January 9, 2026 4:16am ET



The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously argued that “it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both.”

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