Jack Brewer speaks out against ‘Somali elite’ amid fraud revelations

Former Minnesota Viking and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer said he’s seen up close the high-profile jobs involving Minnesota’s “elite” Somali population. During this period, he witnessed a demographic and class transformation in his state.

“When you go to one of them, they have Bentley and Maserati dealerships in Minnesota. I know because I’ve done business with them and been supported by them as an athlete,” Brewer told Fox News Digital.

“Now you get in there and some of their main customers are Somali hustlers who buy high-end cars in a state with four months of sunshine and good weather. They’re driving around sports cars at the expense of American taxpayers, like you might see in Beverly Hills or South Beach Miami.”

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Images of empty nurseries became a sudden cultural flashpoint across the country. Minnesota is caught up in a growing scandal after it was revealed that potentially billions of taxpayer dollars were fraudulently distributed through the state’s Somali population.

Brewer remembers the moment 28 years ago when the Somali population in his state suddenly began to grow, when he began to see reality begin to take shape. He witnessed this as the husband of a Muslim American legal immigrant.

“I’ve been in Minnesota a long time. My wife was born and raised there, from an immigrant family that came from the Middle East, came to America, assimilated, and not only assimilated, but made me more patriotic,” Brewer said. he said.

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“I saw the Somalis coming there in groups. They had their own part of the town, and slowly they started to take over the city of Minneapolis.”

Minneapolis and St. The Somali population in St. Paul increased significantly in the early to mid-1990s due to the influence of refugees fleeing Somalia’s civil war; significant numbers arrived after 1991 and continued into the 2000s.

The collapse of the Somali government in 1991 led to widespread conflict that led to millions of people fleeing the country. At the time, Brewer was just a kid in Grapevine, Texas. When he transferred from SMU to the University of Minnesota, the Somali population was estimated at approximately 15,000 people. Minnesota State Demographic Center.

When Brewer joined the Minnesota Vikings in 2002, at least 5,123 Minnesota students reported speaking Somali as their primary language at home. National Institutes of Health.

Over the years, Brewer says, he has done business with many of the local Somali immigrants who have made their fortunes as a pro athlete with support. It began to witness their increasing influence on local culture and religion.

“You turn on your television. Have you ever seen on television a mayor waving the flag of a foreign country and dancing and trying to rally people to support Somalia instead of supporting America? … When you walk in Minneapolis, you hear the Islamic sirens going off because they’re coming here with that culture and trying to bring the Islamic culture,” Brewer said. he said.

“This is a spiritual war we haven’t seen in a long time.”

A recent investigation by activists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo confirmed that federal counterterrorism resources sent millions in funds for Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, Feeding Our Future, and other government-sponsored organizations to Somalia, and that the terrorist group Al-Shabab may have obtained the money.

Approximately 40 percent of households in Somalia receive money from abroad. Thorpe and Rufo reported that the Somali diaspora sent 1.7 billion dollars to the country in 2023, which was higher than the Somali government’s budget for the same year.

In the Land of 1,000 Lakes, political power and social welfare funds reached the Somali people.

In the state, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, state senators Omar Fateh and Zaynab Mohamed, and St. Louis, all Democrats. It has seen the rise of several prominent Somali politicians, including St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed.

“These people have embedded themselves in the political world and are now taking advantage of the federal government to finance their campaigns, send money abroad to Somalia, build luxury apartments and create a lifestyle for people in Somalia at the expense of American taxpayers,” Brewer said. he said.

“For me, as a former Minnesota Viking and former Gopher, I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota. I was a captain on both teams. This was one of the most embarrassing times I’ve ever experienced for a state that I proudly say helped transform me from a boy to a man.”

Brewer, the business owner, added that he has moved most of his assets out of state in recent years.

“Due to what we have seen post-George Floyd, I have withdrawn most of my investment interests in the state and moved my business interests elsewhere,” he said.

Somalis have previously told Fox News Digital that they are angry that the entire community is subjected to an unfair reputation, blaming a small minority of scammers and criminals for the negative attention given to the entire group.

“Somalis in Minnesota are hard-working people. Many work two jobs, but 75 percent are still poor,” Jaylani Hussein, Minnesota Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), previously told Fox News Digital.

“There are entrepreneurs, successful restaurants (people in trucking, IT, and even corporate America) who are making significant changes. But these positive stories don’t get a lot of attention.”

About 36 percent of Somali Minnesotans lived below the poverty line from 2019 to 2023; That’s more than three times the U.S. poverty rate of 11.1 percent. Minnesota CompassA statewide data project. The Somali head of household reported an average income of $43,600 during this period; which was well below the national average of $78,538.

“Most people think that just because some people are bad and Somali, every Somali is bad, which is just a stereotype,” hairstylist Najma Mohammad, who came to the United States as a child, previously told Fox News Digital.

Brewer stands behind the state’s patriotic Muslim legal immigrant population, to which he is personally connected through his wife’s family.

“By witnessing their family – the way they do business, the way they love this country, what they stand for, their patriotism – I learned from that. I got better from it. I loved my country more by witnessing my mother-in-law. So I know what’s possible,” Brewer said.

“They did that by moving to Minneapolis and starting their own business. It can happen, and it does happen. This country was built on it.”

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But he also wants President Trump to take drastic measures in response to recent developments.

“I would freeze all immigration until we understand the depth of this fraud and the depth of corruption that has occurred.” Brewer said. “We must remove all these foreign terrorists from our country. This must be a collective effort among our armed forces, our local law enforcement, our communities, our leaders, our churches – everyone – to protect our land.”

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

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