Just now when I posted that New York Times piece on the Somali sex trafficking, I was reminded that I had meant to post this much more useful analysis of what is going wrong in the Somali “community” in Minnesota. It is from the Star Tribune and I recommend reading it all, but this small section (Family Secret) caught my eye and adds further proof that there was enormous fraud in the refugee resettlement program involving Somalis.
Hidden behind many mother-daughter rifts is a family secret dating back to their escape from Somalia’s civil war: A girl’s “mother” is often not her biological mom.
She may be an aunt or an older sister or a cousin. [Or, perhaps no relation at all?–ed]
As the girls come of age, they resent the strict rules set down by the mother figure and fights ensue.
“A lot of people came to this country with distant relatives,” Fahia said. “The kids are not with their proper family. They rebel against their distant family and they might turn to these other young men and women to have that kind of support.”
In other cases, the girls are not so much rebelling as escaping. Forced to cook, clean and baby-sit while their friends go to football games or to the mall, they run away.
We have told you on many occasions that Somalis entered the US illegally especially through the family reunification program—a program that has been closed for 2 years until the State Department could figure out how to re-open it with DNA testing. So, perhaps the “secret” is now out.
This one little section also answered another question I had. I have seen statements made over and over again about how there is no activity to keep teenage Somali girls active and engaged, and I wondered, don’t they have middle/high school sports, clubs and such that they can participate in? Don’t mosques have anything for girls? I guess not, I guess they are too busy being the slave laborers for “family” that isn’t really family.