In October 2024, PBS News Hour pondered the alarming rise of autism diagnoses among Somali children in America. In September 2025, researchers from Minnesota Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (MN-ADDM) at the University of Minnesota showed that 1 in 12 (8.26%) eight-year-old Somali children in Minnesota have autism, while overall 1 in 28 (3.6%) of all eight-year-old children in the state are identified with having autism.
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In May 2026, we discovered the reason for this alarming statistic. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a statement that it had arrested two Minnesota residents, Shamso Ahmed Hassan and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, on charges of health care fraud involving autism after allegedly stealing more than $21 million from American taxpayers.
This is what Gov. Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar must mean by Somali cultural enrichment. Twenty-one million dollars is quite enriching for someone who looks like a cousin of Ilhan Omar.
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Sooner or later, the money trail will no doubt lead back to Omar’s political and personal finances when federal authorities tie her into one of the many Medicaid scams that the Somali community have been running. I doubt if Omar could have resisted putting her bucket in that culturally enriching stream that was flowing all around her.
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