1 week ago - A video by a right-wing content creator accusing several Somali-owned child care centers in Minnesota of fraud went viral and led to compliance checks by Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The agency says they were operating normally, except for one that was not yet open when investigators arrived.

1 week ago - Shirley's viral video prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to freeze federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, which receives roughly $185 million in federal support for child care. President Trump has largely blamed the Somali community, calling Somali immigrants "garbage" who "contribute nothing," which has incensed Minnesota lawmakers, who have accused him of demonizing the community at large.

4 days ago - "Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years," says a January 1, 2026 post on X. "They didnt even try to hide the money trail."

1 day ago - Here's a fact check. Children sleep during nap time at Minnesota Child Care in Minneapolis on December 30, 2025. A viral video showed a YouTuber knocking on doors of Somali run daycares and claiming there were no children there, accusing the ...

1 week ago - Quality Learning Center, a focus of a video looking at Somali businesses in Minneapolis, has a history of code violations, but none that suggested fraud.

1 day ago - KMSP reported that some day care workers felt harassed by the calls they received. Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown said that he had received reports of Somali-run "daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking" in his state.

6 days ago - It is notable DHS — the overarching ... Shirley claimed in the viral video child care centers run by Somalis in Minnesota were committing fraud but did not provide the identities of the owners of most of the centers...

1 week ago - This is mega YouTuber Nick Shirley back at *** daycare in Minnesota he alleged was *** fraudulent facility in *** now viral video. People are going to say this is *** left or right issue, but no, fraud is fraud, so I'm not out here trying to put *** twist on things. Shirley's viral video released over the weekend in which he says he's uncovering. Of millions of dollars in fraud at Minneapolis daycares run by the Somali community was retweeted by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

1 week ago - Somali American childcare center operators in Minnesota report that they have received violent threats and seen vandalism after right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video alleging fraud at their establishments.

1 week ago - Shirley’s video establishes, from the opening moments, a clear thesis: Somali daycare owners are committing fraud at scale, and the system enables it. Viewers are not invited to explore a question; they are walked through a conclusion.

4 days ago - Snopes readers wrote in and searched the website asking whether Minnesota day cares had actually donated $35 million to political campaigns over the last two years. We found no evidence to support that claim. The post was false.

2 days ago - In December 2025, the independent ... that day care centers in Minnesota run by Somali Americans received millions of dollars in fraudulent payments of taxpayer money without providing actual child care services....

8 hours ago - A video by right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley purports to show that various Minneapolis day cares run by Somali Americans are not providing services to children despite receiving public funding.

1 week ago - But President Donald Trump has used those charges as justification for his disparaging remarks attacking Somali people as a community. And right-wing influencers have run far beyond prosecutors, flooding social media with amateur sleuthing of their own that often has thin evidence and is missing context. The videos gained traction in right-wing social media circles after Nick Shirley, a conservative content creator, posted a lengthy video on Dec. 26 purporting to show child care facilities in Minnesota that weren’t operational but were receiving state and federal funds.

2 weeks ago - Earlier in December, the White House said the fraud involved "a massive, complex network of nonprofits and affiliates" linked to the Somali community, with nonprofits claiming to be helping thousands of hungry children, providing services to homeless people, as well as providing therapy for autistic Somali children. "Kickbacks were paid, lavish lifestyles were funded, and money was sent overseas -- some of it even allegedly funneled to a terror group," according to the White House. President Donald Trump recently called Minnesota "a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” and announced he was terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota, a legal safeguard against deportation for immigrants from certain countries.

2 weeks ago - A conservative influencer’s viral video alleging widespread fraud at taxpayer-funded child care centers in Minnesota’s Somali community kicked off a political firestorm that was years in the making.