'This isn’t integration, it’s exploitation': Ex-Muslim blows lid on tactical migrant voting

Minnesota is the home to the largest Somali population in the United States, with approximately 80,000 to 84,000 residing in the Twin Cities.

Amid Mr Trump's crackdown, local politicians - many of whom are Democrats - have spoken out in defence of the Somali community, denouncing claims over fraud cases linked with Somali perpetrators.

But Ms Ali shed doubt on the Democrat defence, insisting the Somali culture is simply contradictory to the way of life in the West.

In a GB News exclusive interview, Ms Ali told Steven Edginton: "This is not to say that other ethnic groups do not commit fraud and any of that. It's also not to say that all Somalis commit fraud, but it's to say that the Somali culture, going as far back as hundreds of years, is radically different from the modern Western nation-state culture of citizenship and individual responsibility.

"The Somali culture is divided into clans, and it's operated by the clan code and the clan culture, and that is collective and collectivist.

"There's no property rights the way we interpret property rights in the West. There's also what's inside the clan and how the moral system that operates within the clan and governs, let's call it the insiders, the in-group.

"And then there's the code of how you are to interact with out-group people."

Describing the concept of "clan culture", the writer continued: "It is blind loyalty to the group, and it's the expectation that everyone else is doing it. And if you don't do it, you're a sucker.

"So that clan mentality meets with this crazy business model of the Democratic Party today, where they think the Democratic Party leadership think that they can control the ethnic vote.

"Then you get this symbiotic relationship between the Somalis who think, 'wow, this flow of money is great' and have no moral qualms about taking that money and abusing the system and a system that readily provides that money."

"Because you can circle it. You can bring some of the money back and donate it to these politicians. And even if you don't donate the money to them, you assure them of a voting bloc that keeps them in office.

"So that aspect of the fraud is something that I think you can't accuse the Somalis of doing, but it is an opportunity that Somalis recognise and take advantage of."

Last week, the US administration announced it would be bringing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali immigrants to an end.

The move facilitates the deportation of such individuals after the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the country conditions in the East African country had improved to the point they would no longer allow the immigrants to remain.

From March 17, approximately 2,500 Somalis will have their work authorisations and legal status snatched from them, leading them to become eligible for deportation.

"Temporary means temporary," Ms Noem told the BBC.

"Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first."

TPS was first established back in 1990 for refugees from nations burdened with war or environmental disasters.

Last month, a surge of immigration officers flooded Minnesota, which has a major Somali community and where a rolling federal fraud investigation highlighted issues within the state's childcare industry.

The Trump administration found these issues entangled with Somali immigrants.

The same operation witnessed the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Ice agent, which sparked furious protests across the nation.

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