You can’t make this up, America. After months of federal agents finally cracking down on illegal immigration and related chaos in the Twin Cities, the Somali community in Minnesota is now demanding that you and I pay them reparations. Not for anything they suffered at the hands of actual criminals—oh no. For the horrifying experience of watching law enforcement enforce the law.
This is peak 2026 clown world, and it’s playing out right in the heart of one of the most welfare-dependent enclaves in the country.
The “Crisis of ICE” That Has Them Clutching Their Pearls
Operation Metro Surge kicked off in December 2025. Thousands of ICE and DHS agents flooded Minnesota, targeting criminal aliens, fraud networks, and the everyday violations that had turned parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul into no-go zones for actual Americans. The operation wrapped up in mid-February 2026 after two solid months of work. And what did the locals who benefited most from lax enforcement do? They held a press conference and started crying about “trauma.”
Their solution? Make the taxpayers who already fund their existence foot the bill for the inconvenience of having rules again.
BREAKING: Somali community in MN is now demanding reparations over ICE trauma pic.twitter.com/DF1sQF1gNo
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 20, 2026
Exactly What These Activists Are Demanding
Straight from their own mouths: direct cash grants—not loans—to immigrant, Black, and brown small businesses pulling in under $200,000 a year that claim they lost income because ICE was around. They want free rent for renters and businesses alike, an immediate halt to all evictions, and Governor Walz to declare a “peacetime emergency” just to stop landlords from collecting what they’re owed. Oh, and an official apology from the federal government for the disruption.
Minneapolis city officials threw out a number: over $203 million in supposed losses just for January. That breaks down to $47 million in lost wages and $81 million in small business revenue, plus some hotel cancellations. They claim it affects 76,000 residents who now need “relief.”
Translation: We hid from the cops enforcing immigration law, our businesses took a hit, now write us a check.
The Bill They Owe America Instead
Here’s the part they conveniently leave out. While they’re demanding handouts for “ICE trauma,” Minnesota has been hemorrhaging cash to fraud in social services programs—up to $18 billion since 2018, with a massive chunk tied directly to Somali-linked operations. Child care scams, housing fraud, Medicaid rip-offs, the whole Feeding Our Future nightmare that kept metastasizing. Billions funneled out of American pockets, some of it reportedly wired straight to Somalia.
Vice President Vance put it perfectly in response: we ought to be demanding reparations from Minnesota for letting those fraudsters steal billions from the American taxpayer. Exactly. The state let this go on for years. Now they want Washington to reimburse them for the cleanup? The sheer gall.
These aren’t abstract numbers. This is your money—hard-working Americans’ money—propping up a community where welfare dependency runs sky-high while fraud artists treat government programs like an ATM.
The Likely Outcome: A Giant Middle Finger from Reality
Zero. Zilch. Not one thin dime.
This is a Trump administration. ICE isn’t apologizing for doing its job. The feds aren’t cutting checks to people upset that criminal aliens and fraud rings finally faced consequences. Walz can beg all he wants, Frey can wave around his $203 million fantasy, but the adults in charge aren’t playing. Expect more enforcement, not less. Expect continued scrutiny of the programs that got looted. Expect deportations of the worst offenders, because that’s what America First looks like.
The Somali activists can demand “justice and real relief” until they’re blue in the face. The only real relief coming is for the American taxpayers who’ve been footing this bill far too long. Law and order isn’t trauma—it’s the bare minimum. If that hurts their feelings, there’s always a one-way ticket back to the homeland they apparently miss so much when the rules apply.
Time to stop the grift. The checks are bouncing, the party’s over, and Minnesota’s Somali community just learned the hard way that the era of open borders and open wallets is finished. Good. About damn time.