Chuck Schumer knows how to fix Somali fraud. He should just ask … Chuck Schumer

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, usually speedy to denounce thing helium views arsenic a ungraded (including astir of what the Trump medication does), has been uncharacteristically soundless astir the billion-dollar Minnesota societal services fraud indictments. Understandable perhaps, due to the fact that of the embarrassment it’s causing for Minnesota Governor and erstwhile vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz and Minnesota’s progressive darling Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose Somali constituents are among the ringleaders — but whom left-wary Schumer is loath to alienate arsenic helium faces reelection.  

But were Schumer to look backmost astatine his ain legislative record, helium could find a applicable and constructive effect — 1 that mightiness adjacent assistance Democrats inactive mislaid connected immigration-related issues successful the aftermath of the Biden-era de facto unfastened border. 

In 2013, Schumer was 1 of a alleged Gang of Eight senators — including then-Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio — to sponsor a sprawling migration instrumentality betterment bill, the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." The alleged "comprehensive" measure included everything from a pathway to citizenship for amerciable immigrants to an summation successful visas for overseas pupil successful STEM fields — proposals adjacent much apt to spark Republican absorption contiguous than they did successful 2013 erstwhile the measure died in the House aft really passing the Senate.  

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Schumer insisted that "piecemeal reforms" should not beryllium considered — but 1 facet of the measure that helium endorsed could service him — and centrist Democrats — well today, were helium consenting to revive it. The projected Office of Citizenship and New Americans enactment the Senate person squarely down what was erstwhile called Americanization oregon assimilation, and much lately migrant ‘integration.’ It took arsenic a fixed that immigrants from countries that don’t stock American ineligible and taste norms should beryllium exposed to them — successful the process of their being taught English. 

Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer erstwhile had a program to boost integration for caller immigrants. (Screenshot/ABC)

An "Office of Citizenship and New Americans" would beryllium liable "for grooming connected citizenship responsibilities for caller immigrants," including "information astir English and citizenship acquisition programs," according to the American Immigration Council. Passing a citizenship test, support successful mind, requires a cognition of the Constitution and the U.S. ineligible system. 

Aiming, too, for "upward economical mobility," it’s the benignant of inaugural that would person been perfect for Minneapolis Somalis, immoderate 90,000 of whom number Somali arsenic the archetypal connection and travel from a state ranked arsenic 1 of the astir corrupt successful the world. Transparency International, successful fact, gives it a people of conscionable 9/100, making it the 179th of 180 countries, oregon the second-most-corrupt authorities successful the world. It’s really gotten adjacent worse since 2023, erstwhile it ranked 177th.  Only war-torn South Sudan ranks lower. 

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In different words, migration to a historical cleanable authorities government similar Minnesota would beryllium a taste accommodation for Somalis, putting them successful a presumption to instrumentality vantage of overly trusting locals. 

The U.S. has historically profited from migration by promoting values specified arsenic trust, integrity and the regularisation of instrumentality — and the thought that the champion mode to determination up is to follow those values.  It’s a contented that dates to the aboriginal 20th period migration wave, erstwhile hundreds of volunteer-led "settlement houses" taught English and prepared immigrants to beryllium citizens.

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It’s not arsenic if European immigrants did not person their ain corruption problems, specified arsenic those imported by the Sicilian Mafia from a portion known for its dysfunctional grant society. (See Edward Banfield’s superb 1958 publication astir Sicily, "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society.") To retrieve those who combated specified a culture, think of Nobel Prize victor Jane Addams, laminitis of Chicago’s Hull House, who worked to thatch South Side immigrants to navigator steadfast dinners and not to propulsion their garbage successful the streets. 

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That city, arsenic good arsenic Minneapolis and truthful galore others, should beryllium utilizing her approach contiguous — and Schumer’s Office of Citizenship and New Americans would person helped, adjacent if it didn’t chopped the larger Gordian knot of migration policy.

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Of course, immoderate authorities program — including 1 meant to Americanize immigrants — could beryllium taken vantage of by grifters. The indispensable Minnesota occupation — a naïve authorities dormant astatine the instrumentality — inactive would person to beryllium addressed. Indeed, a civilian nine attack — led by foundation and volunteers — would beryllium better.   

But a Democratic Party ever keen to suggest a authorities solution could bash worse than revive Schumer’s 2013 thought — and it conscionable mightiness person done immoderate bully successful Minneapolis.   

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