Russian forces carried out 1,033 strikes on 56 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 9, killing two people and wounding 41, according to regional reports. The attacks included 33 airstrikes, 789 drone strikes, three rocket launcher attacks and 208 artillery strikes, with 437 reports of damage to homes, vehicles and infrastructure.

In Zaporizhzhia city, a morning guided bomb strike destroyed and damaged residential buildings, according to Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defense council. By evening, the number of people injured in that strike had risen to 19, including two children, one of them a 14-year-old girl. An FPV drone also hit a minibus downtown, injuring two men and a woman. Acting regional head Semikin said 23 people were injured in the city that day.

In western Ukraine, a Russian drone struck a home in the Rivne region at about 4:30 p.m., wounding seven members of a large family, four of them children. A 32-year-old woman and three children, aged 12, 13 and 13, were hospitalized. A 13-year-old boy was in intensive care in serious condition. A café and a shop were also damaged. Earlier, a woman was injured in Sarny district.

Overnight, a jet-powered Shahed drone killed one man in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, according to Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv. A building, dry grass, and bushes caught fire.

In Kyiv Oblast’s Bucha district, rescuers fighting a fire at warehouses hit by Russian drones found the body of a missing woman. Three people were injured there. Oblast head Tymur Tkachenko said Russia “must answer for every life taken.” Across the oblast, six civilians were injured and 28 objects damaged, including 24 private homes, in the Bucha, Brovary, Obukhiv, Vyshhorod and Fastiv districts, according to the North Operational Command.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv city authorities had failed to take resilience measures “in almost all respects,” as Russian strikes caused significant damage to the power grid and transmission infrastructure. He called delays in regional resilience plans “absolutely unacceptable.”

In Chernihiv Oblast, Governor Viacheslav Chaus reported that Geran drones damaged a school and a dormitory in Mryn, Nizhyn district. Banderol munitions destroyed a farm in the Kulykivka community and set straw ablaze, and a drone strike in the Liubech community injured an elderly man. Overnight, a drone set fire to the Epicentr hypermarket outside Chernihiv, which had been largely destroyed in 2022 and subsequently rebuilt. In the morning, a drone hit a house roof in Chernihiv.

Sumy Oblast faced almost 30 attacks on 19 settlements in 12 communities. Mortar fire injured a 54-year-old man in Serednia Buda, and buildings were damaged in Velyka Pysarivka and Berezivka.

In Kharkiv Oblast, nine settlements were hit and six people injured, Governor Oleh Synehubov said. Those injured included three women, aged 41, 54 and 65, in Podvirky, a 50-year-old man in Lozova and a 75-year-old man in Yurchenkove.

Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin reported one civilian killed in Kramatorsk and 11 injured in the oblast, a day after a glide bomb killed 30 people on two Kramatorsk buses.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast faced almost 40 attacks by drones, artillery and a missile. Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported one person killed in the Synelnykove district. An agricultural enterprise, homes in Zelenodolsk and an apartment building in the Nikopol district were damaged.

In Kherson Oblast, attacks on Kherson city and 33 other settlements killed two people and injured nine, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said, and damaged six houses. In Odesa, a drone set fire to a food warehouse. Elsewhere in the region, 11 houses at recreation bases were damaged and a café destroyed, with no casualties.

The regional figures listed above put the October 9 civilian toll at eight killed and 82 injured. Ukraine’s General Staff reported Russian personnel losses of 1,420 that day, bringing its estimated cumulative total to about 1,550,910.

Ukraine’s negotiators, Rustem Umerov, Kyrylo Budanov, Serhiy Kyslytsya and David Arakhamia, began two days of talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the United States. In Kyiv, Zelensky met Senators Roger Wicker and Kevin Cramer and Representatives Dan Crenshaw and Marc Veasey. “Of course, we are counting on the Lindsey Graham law being implemented,” Zelensky said.

After a call with Putin, President Donald Trump said Russia would supply about 4.8 million metric tons of diesel to U.S. and global markets. Treasury issued General License 135, authorizing Russian diesel transactions through April 7, 2027.

On October 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced £54 million ($71 million) in aid on his first Ukraine visit in the role: £20 million for grid repairs, generators and solar power, and £34 million for heating and water before winter. “You cannot wait us out,” Miliband said.

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Just when you thought the controversy surrounding far-left Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) couldn’t get any more suspicious, another bombshell has emerged, and this time, it involves her date of birth and the citizenship records that could determine whether she legally obtained American citizenship.

According to an explosive new report from the New York Post, staff working for the Somali-born congresswoman reportedly arranged to have her official birth year changed from 1981 to 1982 in May 2019, months after she won her first congressional election in November 2018.

According to The Post, Omar’s birthdate had long been listed as October 4, 1981 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, on Wikipedia, and in major outlets including the BBC. That date remained in place throughout her time in the Minnesota House and into the early months of her congressional term.

Then, in May 2019, shortly after a political opponent’s video went viral questioning her age, Omar’s staff contacted the library and requested the year be changed to 1982.

An email from the library director, reviewed by the Post, states:

“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982.”

The director added that Omar’s team was simultaneously working to “correct” the year on Wikipedia and in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

The original 1981 listing, the library noted, had been entered because it was “widely available, in Wikipedia and the Biographical Directory, and so we added that birthdate without documentation.”

Ilhan Omar’s staff helped change her birthdate in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library after she was elected to Congress in 2018. https://t.co/YjKWZiClL6

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 13, 2026

That discrepancy is potentially significant.

Under immigration law governing derivative citizenship at that time, a child’s age could be a decisive factor in determining whether citizenship was automatically obtained through a naturalized parent.

Federal immigration law generally required qualifying conditions for derivative citizenship to be satisfied before the child’s 18th birthday.

If she was born in 1981, she would have been 18 or 19 in 2000, potentially making her ineligible for automatic derivative citizenship as a minor and requiring her to go through the adult naturalization process instead. Critics argue this raises the possibility of misrepresentation on immigration paperwork.

This revelation lands amid an active federal criminal investigation. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar’s Washington, D.C.-area home early Monday morning, seizing boxes of evidence.

The probe focuses on immigration documents completed by her late father when she was a child, with officials examining whether false statements were made that could support denaturalization proceedings.

Omar, meanwhile, has condemned the federal investigation as political retaliation by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Following Monday’s search, she issued a defiant statement:

“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced.”

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Grand Jury subpoenas have been issued in the federal criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar, according to The New York Times.

As previously reported, federal agents raided the DC-area residence of far-left Democrat Muslima Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) early Monday morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork.

Federal HSI agents arrived at Ilhan Omar’s home at 6 am and removed boxes of evidence.

The Justice Department secured a search warrant for Ilhan Omar’s home amid a years-long investigation into her immigration fraud.

Federal investigators have been probing the immigration paperwork filed by Ilhan Omar’s father.

However, the scope of the federal criminal investigation is much wider than previously reported.

On Monday, the Associated Press and NBC News reported that according to sources, federal investigators were also probing Ilhan Omar’s financial records.

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro confirmed this on Tuesday morning during an appearance on Fox News.

President Trump lashed out at Ilhan Omar over her financial records on Tuesday evening:

Why did Ilhan Omar report a Net Worth of up to 30 Million Dollars just a short time ago, and then immediately say, “Oh, I made a mistake! It’s really $100,000.” Could it be that her highly paid accountant actually reported the money that was stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota? Would something like that be possible? Do you think the accountant actually gave the right number the first time, 30 Million Dollars, and then she was forced to disavow because she never would have been able to report where that much money came from? She must have freaked out when she saw that money! Where did her house come from, where did her cars come from, and what about her lovely place in Washington, D.C.? I didn’t know that Congressmen and women made that kind of money, but I do know her husband, according to information and belief, makes almost nothing, so it couldn’t have come from him. How many people did she illegally bring into our Country from Somalia? America wants answers, and we want them, NOW!

Later Tuesday, The New York Times reported that grand jury subpoenas were issued to Ilhan Omar’s family members.

The New York Times reported:

Federal agents investigating Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, have issued subpoenas to some relatives as officials scour her family’s history for evidence of fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, according to people familiar with the matter.

A sister of Ms. Omar’s, Sahra Noor, received a subpoena, as did at least one other member of her family circle, according to people familiar with the investigation. On Monday, D.H.S. agents executed a search warrant at her home in Washington, carrying out boxes of documents, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss investigative steps.

Ms. Noor, a health care professional and author, did not reply to requests for comment sent by email and made in a call with someone who identified herself as a daughter of Ms. Noor’s.

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President Trump will deliver remarks in Wasilla, Alaska, during a midterm rally for Republican Senator Dan Sullivan tonight. 

Trump told reporters earlier while departing the White House, “the level of enthusiasm for the Republican Party is way up” as a result of his rallies, noting that Ohio Senator Jon Husted is benefiting from his two rallies in Ohio this month.

“I’m right now going to Alaska to try and help Dan Sullivan. That’s a long way away, and I would only do it if I thought he was good, and he is very good,” Trump said.

“And so I’m going to Alaska to help Dan Sullivan, and then I’m stopping at numerous places.”

WATCH:

Trump is also scheduled to travel to Las Vegas and hold rallies in Bullhead City, Arizona, and Kalispell, Montana, on Wednesday.

In a press release, the White House highlighted Trump’s tax cuts, American energy and mining agenda, pro-fishing and hunting agenda, military construction, and public safety:

Today, President Donald J. Trump travels to Alaska. He returns to the Last Frontier with a proven record of results that put Alaskans first: lower taxes, responsible development of the state’s vast energy and mineral resources, safer communities, strong support for fisheries, and major investments that create jobs and reinforce America’s Arctic security.

Tax Relief That Puts Money Back in Alaskans’ Pockets

President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts are delivering direct relief to Alaska workers, families, and seniors.

• No Tax on Tips: Approximately 14,000 Alaska workers no longer pay federal income taxes on tips.
• No Tax on Social Security: About 100,000 Alaska seniors benefit from the new senior deduction.
• Bigger Refunds: Alaska taxpayers saw average refunds of $3,690 in 2026.
• Rural Health Investments: Alaska secured about $272 million in first-year Rural Health Transformation Program funding.
• Protecting Jobs and Wages: The Working Families Tax Cuts safeguarded 11,000 Alaska jobs, $2 billion in state GDP, and $1 billion in workers’ wages.

Unleashing Alaska’s Energy, Minerals, and Economic Potential

President Trump is reversing years of restrictions, unlocking responsible development of Alaska’s oil, gas, and critical minerals.

• In October 2026, the Trump Administration secured $150 million in Defense Production Act funding for a major new power line that will lower energy costs for 75% of Alaskans.
• In September 2026, President Trump unveiled a $200 billion South Korean investment in U.S. energy that includes $54 billion to construct a new natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
• In December 2025, the Trump Administration reopened nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
• In October 2025, the Trump Administration opened 1.56 million acres of the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing, reversing Biden-era restrictions.
• In October 2025, President Trump approved the Ambler Road Project, providing essential access to the Ambler Mining District’s large deposits of copper, cobalt, gallium, germanium, and other critical minerals.
• In June 2025, the Trump Administration advanced plans to open an additional seven million federally managed acres on the North Slope to new oil development.
• In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to prioritize development of Alaska’s oil, gas, minerals, and other natural resources.

Protecting Alaska’s Communities, Fisheries, and Veterans

President Trump has moved quickly to restore historic names, support Alaska’s vital fishing industry, and expand care for the state’s veterans.

• On his first day in office, President Trump restored the name Mount McKinley, reversing the Obama Administration’s 2015 change and returning the designation that stood from 1917.
• The Trump Administration ensured Alaska groundfish fisheries opened on time, protecting a total value of $301.1 million for Gulf of Alaska fisheries and $2.64 billion for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries.
• The Trump Administration implemented regulatory and data collection reforms that allowed the timely opening of the Alaska halibut fishery.
• The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded over $4 million in grants to community organizations supporting Alaska veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• In September 2026, the VA opened a new walk-in clinic at the Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus in Anchorage.
• The Trump Administration delivered funding for critical infrastructure upgrades at the Alaska VA Healthcare System as part of a record $4.8 billion in nationwide VA spending.

A Military Construction Boom Across Alaska

President Trump and Republicans in Congress have directed major new investments into Alaska’s bases, creating jobs and modernizing facilities that strengthen U.S. security in the Arctic.

• President Trump signed the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, which included:
  • $208 million for new barracks at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.
  • $46 million for a base supply complex at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage.
  • $152 million for the next phase of the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center at JBER.
  • $45 million to complete the Air Force runway extension at JBER.
  • $6.7 million to finish planning and design for a permanent party dormitory at Eielson Air Force Base.
  • $7.7 million to begin planning and design for a new Army dining facility at Fort Wainwright.
• President Trump signed the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which delivered additional Alaska funding, including:
  • $82 million for the Air Force Joint Integrated Test & Training Center at JBER.
  • $80 million for upgraded Army barracks at Fort Wainwright.
  • $46 million for an Army Reserve Base Supply Complex at JBER.
  • $46 million for an Army Reserve Maintenance Facility at JBER.
  • $15 million for a Base Civil Engineering Pavements and Grounds Facility for the Alaska Air National Guard at Eielson.
  • $13.2 million for design of an Air Force Consolidated Munitions Complex at Eielson.
  • $8 million for design of an Army dining facility at Fort Wainwright.
  • $1.75 million for design of an Air Force Coal Thaw Shed Addition at Eielson.
• The FY 2027 NDAA, which has passed the House, includes $2.6 billion for Alaska and launches the multi-year, $7 billion “Fighter Town USA” recapitalization at JBER. The project will construct 26 modern facilities, position JBER as one of the most strategically important bases in the world, create up to 4,000 private-sector jobs, and bring additional military personnel and families to Alaska.

Safer Streets Across Alaska

Violent crime is falling in Alaska as President Trump’s law-and-order agenda delivers results for Alaska communities.

• The statewide murder rate fell 13% last year.
• Juneau recorded a 6% decline in total criminal offenses last year.

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President Trump and Republicans are delivering America First policies that put Alaska first: lower taxes, responsible resource development, safer communities, and major investments in the state’s military and economic future. Alaskans face a clear choice between continuing this progress, or returning to the higher taxes, energy restrictions, and open border policies of the past.

Trump is scheduled to speak at 7:30 pm ET.

Watch live below:

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President Trump on Tuesday went off on Somalia and Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during his rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, and the crowd began chanting, “Deport her!”

This came after Homeland Security agents raided her home yesterday morning, in an investigation into her citizenship.

“Look at what’s happening in the once great state of Minnesota. What a mess they have,” Trump said of the Congresswoman’s state.

“And that Ilhan… I don’t know what they’re doing with her, but I can tell you this: she’s a disaster. She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military — all they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country, and she says, “I have a constitutional right,” he continued.

“She’s telling us about the Constitution, and she comes from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet.”

He then highlighted the recently foiled Somali terrorist plot in Minnesota.

“Last week, savage Somali gang members shot two people in a high school parking lot in the middle of a football game. Just days later, a few miles away, the FBI arrested a radicalized Somalian who was planning to carry out an ISIS-style terrorist attack at the Mall of America, aiming to kill as many as possible in his words,” he said.

“This is not what we want in this country. We don’t want this.”

Trump paused as the entire crowd erupted, chanting, “Deport her!”

“What they have done for Minnesota, and members of the Somalian community have looted 10s of millions of dollars from Minnesota welfare programs. Your people—they came over here, and they had nothing,” he continued, railing against the third-world aliens stealing tax dollars.

“They came from a government that doesn’t exist. They come from a part of the world that only knows how to kill each other. All they do is kill each other in the streets. Then they come into the United States of America, and they tell us how to run our country. We’re not going to stand for it,” Trump said.

“They drive up taxes, they drive up healthcare costs, insurance costs, child care costs, and they cheat on everything. It’s a disaster, and we’re not going to stand for it.”

WATCH:

Omar’s Washington, DC home was raided early on Monday morning in a criminal fraud investigation that is looking at Omar’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a teen. Investigators were seen hauling boxes of evidence out of her home yesterday.

Officials believe that she may have lied on her papers, constituting fraudulent citizenship. Border Czar Tom Homan and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin have both suggested that she lied and could be deported.

However, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed earlier that Omar is also under investigation for her financial disclosures and mysterious $30 million net worth.

JUST IN: Trump NUKES Ilhan Omar Over Strange $30 Million Net Worth as US Attorney Jeanine Pirro Confirms Investigation Also Focused on Financial Records (VIDEO)

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Surveys of the native-born public show what Americans expect of immigrants who settle among them. In a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 92% of Americans said speaking English is important to being truly American, including 70% who said it is very important.

More than eight in ten said sharing American customs and traditions is important. By 2020, Pew found that the share calling English at least somewhat important had fallen to 77%, a decline driven by liberals and moderates. In Pew’s focus groups, Republican participants stressed learning English, adopting American values, and following the law.

An AP-NORC poll found that Democrats, Republicans, and independents agree that a fair judicial system, the rule of law, constitutional freedoms, and the ability to get a good job and achieve the American Dream are central to American identity. In a later AP-NORC poll, half of Americans said immigrants should adopt an essential American culture.

Public views of immigrants have long turned on work, welfare, and crime. In 1993, majorities believed Latin American immigrants often ended up on welfare and increased crime. By 2006, about eight in ten described Latino and Asian immigrants as hardworking and having strong family values.

Taken together, these surveys show that, to the native-born, a good immigrant learns English, works and supports his family, stays off welfare, obeys the law, and adopts American customs.

The data on welfare and incarceration support the pessimistic view of Latin American immigrants. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2012 Census Bureau survey data found that 73% of households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico used at least one welfare program, compared with 30% of native households. The same analysis found that these immigrant households received an average of $8,251 in welfare benefits, 86% more than native households.

Federal data show that Hispanics are arrested and imprisoned at higher rates than non-Hispanic whites. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that in 2023, Hispanic adults were imprisoned at a rate of 606 per 100,000, 2.6 times the rate of 231 for white adults. Asian adults were imprisoned at 88 per 100,000. Prison counts record ethnicity but not birthplace, so the Hispanic figure includes both immigrants and the U.S.-born.

In 2018, Hispanics made up 18.3% of the population but 21.4% of people arrested for serious violent crimes, while whites made up 60.4% of the population and 38.7% of those arrested. Per capita, Hispanics were arrested for rape, robbery, and aggravated assault at about 1.8 times the white rate. Victim surveys, which capture crimes never reported to police, identified Hispanics as 15.5% of offenders in serious violent crimes, about 1.2 times the white rate per capita. BJS noted that victims could not determine whether an offender was Hispanic in up to 12% of incidents, which may have led to some undercounting of Hispanic offenders.

A National Bureau of Economic Research study by economists Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres used Census data on institutionalized men aged 18 to 40 to separate immigrants by country of origin. It found that since 2005, immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been incarcerated at higher rates than U.S.-born white men.

At the end of 2023, non-citizens made up 22,817 of 155,972 federal prisoners, or 14.6%, about twice their share of the U.S. population. Non-citizens number roughly 22.8 million, or about 7% of residents. The federal prison count includes immigration offenses.

English proficiency among Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese immigrants ranges from 36% to 45%. Among working-age Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 58.2% speak English less than “very well,” according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2014–2023 Census data. Even among those who have lived in the United States for more than 10 years, the share is 49%.

Southeast Asian refugee groups began with high welfare dependency. A 1990 General Accounting Office report found that 58% to 73% of recently arrived Southeast Asian refugees participated in public assistance programs. The 1980 Census showed that 65.5% of Hmong families and 67.2% of Laotian families lived in poverty.

By 2017–2021, Hmong poverty in Wisconsin, home to the country’s third-largest Hmong population, had fallen to 13% from 75% in 1989. Six percent of Hmong households received cash public assistance income, compared with 2% of all households in the state.

Minnesota, which has roughly 100,000 Hmong residents, counted 359 Hmong adults on its main family welfare program in early 2016, compared with 3,696 Somali adults. The program combines cash and food assistance. From 2019 to 2023, 9.1% of Hmong Minnesotans lived in poverty, 33.9% had incomes below twice the poverty line, and 78.8% of working-age adults were employed.

Nationally, poverty rates are 14% for Hmong, 13% for Cambodians, 11% for Vietnamese, and 10% for Laotians, close to the national rate of 11.1%. Homeownership rates are 56% for Hmong-headed households, 60% for Cambodian households, 64% for Laotian households, and 68% for Vietnamese households, compared with 62% for Asian households overall.

Burmese households have a median income of $67,600, compared with the national median of $80,610 in 2023. The Burmese poverty rate is 21%.

Among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 21.6% of working-age men are without a job, compared with 17.6% of native-born men. Among adults, 37.5% live in poverty, compared with 6.9% of native-born adults. The Center for Immigration Studies analysis found that 81% of Somali immigrant households receive some form of welfare, compared with 21% of native households. Among Somali immigrant households, 54% receive food stamps and 73% have at least one member on Medicaid. Nationally, 12.2% of households received SNAP in 2023.

Census data on food stamp receipt by Asian subgroup exist, but no published source reports Medicaid enrollment for Hmong, Cambodian, or Laotian Americans.

A chart President Trump posted in January 2026 listed immigrant household welfare use at 81.4% for Bhutan, 71.9% for Somalia, and 59.2% for Burma. The chart did not identify its data source or which programs it counted.

On obeying the law, no federal dataset tracks crime by national origin or ancestry, and FBI statistics group all Asian Americans into a single category. Deportation data provide one indicator. About 14,788 Southeast Asians living in the United States have final orders of removal. According to ICE data compiled by the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, 76% of those orders stem from contact with the criminal justice system. More than 4,800 Laotian nationals, including Hmong and Mien, have removal orders, as do about 1,700 Cambodians.

In Minnesota, the CIS study found that 1.5% of young Somali men are institutionalized, which usually means prison, compared with 1.3% of young native-born men. In the $250 million Feeding Our Future child-nutrition fraud case, federal prosecutors announced the 68th conviction in July 2026, out of about 80 defendants charged. The vast majority of the defendants are of Somali descent. Roughly a dozen Somalis from Minnesota left to join the Islamic State in Syria, mostly during the 2010s.

On adopting American civic life, naturalization rates are high across the groups. Among immigrants, 85% of Hmong, 79% of Laotians, 78% of Cambodians and Vietnamese, 68% of Bhutanese, and 59% of Burmese are naturalized citizens. In Minnesota, 87% of foreign-born Somalis are naturalized, and 58% of the state’s Somali population was born in the United States.

Education, which drives earnings in the next generation, converges unevenly. Among U.S.-born Vietnamese, 59% have a bachelor’s degree, above the national rate of 37.7% and the 43.4% rate for children of immigrants. The rate is 31% for U.S.-born Hmong and Cambodians and 24% for U.S.-born Laotians.

In today’s culture of anti-ICE protests and pro-illegal-alien activism, it is considered racist to collect data based on race or national origin or to present facts that might hurt someone’s feelings. In that spirit, rather than describing immigrants as good or bad, one can objectively identify those who meet the native-born standard and those who do not.

Measured against the native-born standard, only Vietnamese Americans fit the model on every available measure: second-generation English proficiency, income above the national median, poverty near the national rate, high homeownership and naturalization rates, and second-generation education above the national average.

By contrast, Somalis fail to meet the standard. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2014–2023 Census data found that among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 37.5% of adults live in poverty, 39% of working-age adults lack a high school diploma, and 58.2% speak English less than “very well,” compared with 6.9%, 5%, and 0.7% of native-born residents, respectively.

Among Somali immigrant households, 81% receive welfare, including 54% receiving food stamps and 73% with at least one member on Medicaid, compared with 21%, 7%, and 18% of native-born-headed households. Even after more than 10 years in the United States, adult poverty remains at 32.9% and limited English proficiency at 49%, although male joblessness overall is comparatively close to the native-born rate, at 21.6% versus 17.6%.

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