Replacement and Remigration in Minnesota

There are two great concentrations of Nordic people in the world. The first is in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The second is in the State of Minnesota. In fact, about 44% of White Americans in Minnesota have Nordic ancestry. In both circumstances these people of Nordic ancestry build highly developed societies (Minnesota ranks second among US states for development. The Nordic countries are all in the top 5 in Europe, except for Finland at 12^th place.) with high levels of trust, low levels of crime, and robust welfare states backed by dynamic economies. This was made possible, in part, because both Minnesota and the Nordic countries were among the most homogeneous societies on the planet.

The similarities continue. The Nordic countries are now suffering due to decades of mass migration policy. Minnesota’s own experiment in mass immigration is radically transforming that state into something unrecognizable and bereft of what made it great in the first place. It’s impossible for any American who pays attention to politics to miss the recent developments in the Somali welfare fraud scandal or the incredible rise of crime in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. This is no different than the burden on the Swedish welfare state by Islamic immigrants. Nor is it any different than the mass gang violence that rocks Sweden on a daily basis.

It was not always like this, of course. Diversity is relatively new to Minnesota.

In the year 1960, just five years before the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that would throw open America’s borders, Minnesota was 99% White American. In the year 1970, when America’s foreign-born population reached its historic low of less than 5%, the foreign-born population of Minnesota was about 4.7% and entirely European. Minnesota was not only one of the most homogeneous states in the United States but it was one of the most homogeneous societies on the planet in terms of background, faith, language, and customs. This was a characteristic that it shared with the Nordic countries of the time which were all well above 90% ethnically and religiously homogeneous. Then the era of mass immigration began.

The 1965 Immigration Act, the 1990 Immigration Act, huge waves of refugee resettlement from Africa and Asia, and the general unwillingness of consecutive administrations of both parties to enforce American borders and deport illegal aliens has led to a Minnesota that is demographically distressed. Today the White Minnesotan population – the foundational population – is just 76% and rapidly falling. In cities such as Minneapolis the share is even lower with Whites being just 58% of the city’s population in the 2020 census. All too related is the massive increase in the immigrant population that has driven this change. The foreign-born population of Minnesota is now around 10% while the illegal alien population numbers 130,000 individuals and about 2.2% of the state’s population.

These changes have occurred on the back of increasingly great resistance from the people of Minnesota. The progressive governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has come out very strongly in favor of continued mass immigration into the state, against the wishes of the population.

This is in spite of 2024 polling shows that 59% of Minnesotans opposed legislation that would make Minnesota a sanctuary state, and 69% of Minnesotans feel the Federal government is not doing enough to tackle illegal immigration.

Led by a wildly pro-immigration ruling class, the Minnesota state government has allowed immigrants, legal and illegal, to join the state’s healthcare program and receive taxpayer-funded healthcare.

The state has also become a hub of foreign lobbying. Recently the Prime Minister of Somalia visited the Twin Cities and implored the local, and large, Somali community to provide resources to their ethnic homeland to help it rebuild. This funding would not be resources of the Somali community, but of Minnesota taxpayers. 28% of all childcare and child assistance funding in the state goes to Somalis, despite the fact they are barely 1.5% of the state’s entire population. This massive level of spending should have served as an obvious warning to the massive level of welfare fraud that the Trump administration is now discovering. U.S. attorneys have charged nearly 100 people involved in an ever-escalating welfare and services fraud scandal that was systematized by the Somali community in Minnesota and may have even been tolerated and abetted by the progressive state government. Somalis, it turns out, are not the same honest hard-working Lutherans that came from Scandinavia to create Minnesota out of a largely empty and cold wilderness. It is time for Minnesota to change course.

The demographic and (some of) the social decline of Minnesota can be modestly reversed through a mix of state-level policy and concerted cooperation with federal authorities. The first step is to deal with illegal immigrants in the state, of which there are an estimated 200,000 (plus their children). By removing all welfare benefits for illegal aliens, passing mandatory E-Verify laws, and enforcing extant federal laws such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 that fines employers for employing illegals, the state can rapidly entice this population to self-deport to other more illegal-friendly locales (or preferably, their home countries). These policies should also be combined with widespread and mandatory state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE and other federal authorities to speed up the detention and deportation of illegal aliens.

The next step is to deal with the very large legal immigrant population in the state, many of whom will have committed fraud to enter the country, gain legal status, and in many cases citizenship. 70% of immigrants in the United States are admitted on the basis of family ties, not for work or school. This means that a large portion of people who have acquired US citizenship did so via fraud. The proof for this is best demonstrated by a 2008 incident wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that over 80% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as a family member of a “refugee” were not related to that individual. The US government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the US, but this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification.

Further proof can be found in the recently executed Operation Twin Shield in which immigration officers visited more than 1,000 legal migrants in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area and found that a staggering 44% had committed some form of fraud, crime, or otherwise posed a national security threat to the American people. Furthermore, the federal government has found that USCIS needs much better enforcement of H1B verification, that as many as 20% of H1B suspects investigated are involved in program violations or fraud, and it suspects that the number is even higher but, due to a lack of enforcement, we simply do not know. It is time for states to step up and begin investigating and enabling federal investigations of the massive fraud in our legal immigration system.

Were Minnesota to provide support and resources to the federal government to conduct a similar, much larger, operation in the state (including reviewing naturalizations), then it is entirely within the realm of possibility that of the 400,000 legal immigrants in the state, some 200,000 have committed a similar fraud, crime, or pose a national security threat. A further 10,000 children of immigrants can be added to this count, as they would need to depart the country with their now visa-deprived or denaturalized parents.

Were these policies to be implemented comprehensively then Minnesota could see a decline in its foreign-born population from 10% today to roughly 6.3% post-remigration. The overall state population would decline from 5.84 million to 5.36 million and the White American share of the population would increase to 82.6%, a 6.6-point increase on the current demographic.

Building further on this success would require voluntary paid remigration programs, which White Papers proposes here. If the U.S. were to implement such a program, the White share of the Minnesota population would return to about 89% assuming minimal African American departure. If African Americans took the opportunity to voluntarily depart, this share would increase to the mid 90% range.

The demographic decline of Minnesota is a policy choice that state and federal lawmakers have made for too long. Americans can decide to reverse this decline. Remigration is the start to that process and the foundation from which the revival of our nation can begin.

This is in spite of 2024 polling shows that 59% of Minnesotans opposed legislation that would make Minnesota a sanctuary state, and 69% of Minnesotans feel the Federal government is not doing enough to tackle illegal immigration.

Led by a wildly pro-immigration ruling class, the Minnesota state government has allowed immigrants, legal and illegal, to join the state’s healthcare program and receive taxpayer-funded healthcare.

The state has also become a hub of foreign lobbying. Recently the Prime Minister of Somalia visited the Twin Cities and implored the local, and large, Somali community to provide resources to their ethnic homeland to help it rebuild. This funding would not be resources of the Somali community, but of Minnesota taxpayers. 28% of all childcare and child assistance funding in the state goes to Somalis, despite the fact they are barely 1.5% of the state’s entire population. This massive level of spending should have served as an obvious warning to the massive level of welfare fraud that the Trump administration is now discovering. U.S. attorneys have charged nearly 100 people involved in an ever-escalating welfare and services fraud scandal that was systematized by the Somali community in Minnesota and may have even been tolerated and abetted by the progressive state government. Somalis, it turns out, are not the same honest hard-working Lutherans that came from Scandinavia to create Minnesota out of a largely empty and cold wilderness. It is time for Minnesota to change course.

The demographic and (some of) the social decline of Minnesota can be modestly reversed through a mix of state-level policy and concerted cooperation with federal authorities. The first step is to deal with illegal immigrants in the state, of which there are an estimated 200,000 (plus their children). By removing all welfare benefits for illegal aliens, passing mandatory E-Verify laws, and enforcing extant federal laws such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 that fines employers for employing illegals, the state can rapidly entice this population to self-deport to other more illegal-friendly locales (or preferably, their home countries). These policies should also be combined with widespread and mandatory state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE and other federal authorities to speed up the detention and deportation of illegal aliens.

The next step is to deal with the very large legal immigrant population in the state, many of whom will have committed fraud to enter the country, gain legal status, and in many cases citizenship. 70% of immigrants in the United States are admitted on the basis of family ties, not for work or school. This means that a large portion of people who have acquired US citizenship did so via fraud. The proof for this is best demonstrated by a 2008 incident wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that over 80% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as a family member of a “refugee” were not related to that individual. The US government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the US, but this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification.

Further proof can be found in the recently executed Operation Twin Shield in which immigration officers visited more than 1,000 legal migrants in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area and found that a staggering 44% had committed some form of fraud, crime, or otherwise posed a national security threat to the American people. Furthermore, the federal government has found that USCIS needs much better enforcement of H1B verification, that as many as 20% of H1B suspects investigated are involved in program violations or fraud, and it suspects that the number is even higher but, due to a lack of enforcement, we simply do not know. It is time for states to step up and begin investigating and enabling federal investigations of the massive fraud in our legal immigration system.

Were Minnesota to provide support and resources to the federal government to conduct a similar, much larger, operation in the state (including reviewing naturalizations), then it is entirely within the realm of possibility that of the 400,000 legal immigrants in the state, some 200,000 have committed a similar fraud, crime, or pose a national security threat. A further 10,000 children of immigrants can be added to this count, as they would need to depart the country with their now visa-deprived or denaturalized parents.

Were these policies to be implemented comprehensively then Minnesota could see a decline in its foreign-born population from 10% today to roughly 6.3% post-remigration. The overall state population would decline from 5.84 million to 5.36 million and the White American share of the population would increase to 82.6%, a 6.6-point increase on the current demographic.

Building further on this success would require voluntary paid remigration programs, which White Papers proposes here. If the U.S. were to implement such a program, the White share of the Minnesota population would return to about 89% assuming minimal African American departure. If African Americans took the opportunity to voluntarily depart, this share would increase to the mid 90% range.

The demographic decline of Minnesota is a policy choice that state and federal lawmakers have made for too long. Americans can decide to reverse this decline. Remigration is the start to that process and the foundation from which the revival of our nation can begin.