The Wounded Blue founder Randy Sutton joins ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss Vice President Harris’ crime record. Critics of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was recently named Vice President Harris' running mate on the 2024 Democrat presidential ticket, are highlighting his liberal stance on immigration in spite of Somali gang issues that have plagued the Twin Cities over the last two decades.
Somali gangs began growing in Minneapolis in the late 1990s and early 2000s as refugees escaped a civil war in their home country. "Minnesota has always been a welcoming place for new immigrants, and we have no problem with that, but back in 2008 [through] 2012 to the beginning of Walz's administration, the refugee population continued to grow and grow and grow," retired Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, a 38-year law enforcement professional and Minneapolis native, told Fox News Digital. "And it went unchecked.
" Stanek, who retired in 2019, testified about Somali gangs before Congress in 2012, saying they are unique compared to "traditional" American gangs because they don't deal in narcotics as much as other organized criminal groups. BACK IN OMAR'S DISTRICT, POLICE DEAL WITH GANGS, RELATIONS WITH TIGHT-LIPPED SOMALI COMMUNITY 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 pr.