Sunset 2-14-26

A former foreign service officer told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Somali nationals lied about nearly every detail on their immigration applications — names, ages, marriages, jobs, finances, and intent to return home — in what he described as systemic, routine fraud stretching across his career at U.S. consulates.

Simon Hankinson, who served at consulates in Ghana and Nairobi and now serves as a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, didn't mince words in his testimony before Senate Republicans.

"It's an unfortunate fact: People lie to get visas and immigration benefits. The more corrupt and poor a country is, the more visa fraud."

And Somalia, by virtually every international measure, sits at the bottom of both lists. More than eight in ten Somali households in the United States are on one or more forms of welfare. A population that arrived through a fraud-riddled system now draws on nearly every federal benefit program that exists — immediately upon arrival. [Breitbart]

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