North Dakota Travel Alert

"I am Tony Montana, a political refugee, and I want my human rights-just like Jimmy Carter promised me."



Omar Mohamed Kalmio-Political refugee


If you are thinking of traveling to North Dakota (as I was) anytime soon, be forewarned. It's a dangerous place. Though the state had a grand total of 10 homicides in all of 2010, one man has now been charged with 4 committed in 2011.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/somali-man-charged-murders-north-dakota-16415085#.T8pQutU7WAj

Meet Omar Mohamed Kalmio, political refugee (just like Tony Montana). Once again, we see an example of our State Department's misguided refugee program, in this case, Somali. In the 1980s, as Somali wallowed in civil war and whatever else that hellhole wallows in, the suits in Washington thought it would be a grand idea to import some 80,000 of them to the US. They were mostly re-located in the upper Midwest, in places like Minneapolis, the Denver area and even in the Dakotas. The results have been catastrophic. Many have returned to Somalia to join the terror group al Shabab, have alienated people in their newly-adopted communities as cab drivers by refusing to carry passengers carrying alcohol or even seeing-eye dogs, and have caused the crime rate to surge. Now this.

"Brilliant!"

Way to go State Department.

I personally don't care where our immigrants come from as long as they are good folks who will contribute to the US. We have plenty of nice African immigrants here. How about a few doctors from Zambia? Could not one genius in the State Department back in the 1980s have said, "Wait a minute. 80,000 Somalis? This is a bad idea."?

And don't think we are the only country stupid enough to do this. Ask the Norwegians. Step off the train in Oslo and you are in Mogadishu. We're not talking about doctors either because they don't hang around the train station looking for patients. Check out the crime rates in Oslo.

But more importantly, here are some fun facts from here at home.

http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/2011-national-gang-threat-assessment

"East African Gangs

Somali Gangs

Somali gang presence has increased in several cities throughout the United States. Somali gangs are most prevalent in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; San Diego, California; and Seattle, Washington areas, primarily as a result of proximity to the Mexican and Canadian borders, according to ICE, NGIC, and law enforcement reporting. Somali gang activity has also been reported in other cities throughout the United States such as Nashville, Tennessee; Clarkston, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; East Brunswick, New Jersey; and Tucson, Arizona. Unlike most traditional street gangs, Somali gangs tend to align and adopt gang names based on clan or tribe, although a few have joined national gangs such as the Crips and Bloods. 

NGIC reporting indicates that East African gangs are present in at least 30 jurisdictions, including those in California, Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

Somalian gangs are involved in drug and weapons trafficking, human trafficking, credit card fraud, prostitution, and violent crime. Homicides involving Somali victims are often the result of clan feuds between gang members. Sex trafficking of females across jurisdictional and state borders for the purpose of prostitution is also a growing trend among Somalian gangs. 

Figure 3. Somali Outlaws set in Minneapolis, MN

Source: Minneapolis Police Department

• In November 2010, 29 suspected Somalian gang members were indicted for a prostitution trafficking operation, according to open source reporting. Over a 10 year period, Somalian gang members transported underage females from Minnesota to Ohio and Tennessee for prostitution.⁸
• In February 2009, five Somali gang members were arrested for murdering drug dealers in Dexter and Athens, Ohio, during home invasion robberies, according to law enforcement reporting.⁹

Although some Somali gangs adopt Bloods or Crips gang monikers, they typically do not associate with other African-American gangs. Somali nationals—mostly refugees displaced by the war(s) in Somalia and surrounding countries—tend to migrate to specific low-income communities, which are often heavily controlled by local Bloods and Crips street gangs. The Somali youth may emulate the local gangs, which frequently leads to friction with other gangs, such as Bloods and Crips, as well as with Ethiopian gangs."

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Isn't that great?

                                                     "Ah wunnerful, ah wunnerful, ah."

(Lawrence Welk was from North Dakota.)