Chanel Rion is criticizing Democratic politician Amy Klobuchar over her past outreach to Minnesota’s Somali community, using a 2017 appearance by Klobuchar as the starting point for a broader attack on immigration policy, welfare use, fraud, and cultural integration in both the United States and Britain.

Rion opened by playing a clip of Klobuchar at an event connected to the Somali community.

"Here is Democrat Amy Klobuchar, now running for governor of Minnesota, back in 2017, on a stage celebrating Somalia, bragging about how she is making it easier for Somalians to send U.S. dollars back to Somalia. She even goes so far as to speak Somali. Listen," Rion said.

Klobuchar then briefly addressed the audience.

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"Oh, thank you. Okay, very good. And I have three things to say: Danka Dalta, and Dadka," Klobuchar said.

Rion followed the clip with a series of claims about welfare participation among Somali households in Minnesota, contrasting those figures with other Minnesota households.

"According to the Census Bureau's own surveys, 81% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on some form of welfare. 81% 54% on food stamps, 73% on Medicaid," Rion said.

She further claimed that assistance rates are even higher among Somali households with children and used those numbers to argue that Democratic politicians have supported policies that make Somali immigrant communities heavily dependent on government programs.

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Rion also pointed to child poverty and fertility figures, arguing that the combination of welfare use and rapid population growth creates a long-term burden for taxpayers.

She then connected those concerns to the Feeding Our Future fraud case, which she described as an example of public money being diverted through fraudulent programs.

"Feeding Our Future, Exhibit A. This scam exposed just this year by itself was a quarter billion dollars in child nutrition money, invented meal sites, invented children, and a defendant list that reads like a Mogadishu phone book," Rion said.

Rion also cited alleged fraud involving autism clinics, housing programs and medical billing as part of what she characterized as a recurring pattern.

She next turned to female genital mutilation, citing Somalia’s reported rate and a 2017 federal prosecution involving two seven-year-old girls from Minnesota.

"If there were an Olympics event for a country with the most genital mutilations in young girls-a barbaric practice unfit to describe for TV-Somalia would take the gold medal. Somalia's rate of female genital mutilation is about 98 percent, and this is according to the United Nations," Rion said.

She claimed that after the 2017 case, prosecutions disappeared and pointed to a February 2026 Fox review that she said found no prosecutions under Minnesota’s felony statute.

Rion replayed Klobuchar’s brief 2017 remarks before widening her argument to Britain, where she claimed large-scale migration has produced similar social and economic pressures.

"How did this work out in the past? Well, the British have already run the experiment: import the third world, hope for the best, and dare anyone to publish the numbers," Rion said.

She then cited HIV diagnoses in Britain, arguing that migration from Africa had contributed to rising numbers after 2020.

"Consider this: In 2020, the UK was well on its way to eradicating HIV. Then they started importing African migrants, and between 2020 and 2023, just three years, HIV rates doubled," Rion said.

According to Rion, African-born migrants now account for about half of new HIV diagnoses in Britain, while 2023 saw a 15-year high in diagnoses.

She also criticized Britain’s handling of migrant boat arrivals, describing police escorts and transportation for arriving migrants while pointing to arrests of protesters and people accused of communications offenses.

"The welfare boats get an escort. The citizens paying the welfare bill and providing the houses get a jail cell," Rion said.

Rion then raised concerns about empty dwelling management orders, saying British authorities can take over homes that have been vacant for six months and rent them for up to seven years while legal title remains with the owner.

She argued that the combination of immigration, taxpayer-funded assistance, speech enforcement and housing policies shows what she believes could happen when governments continue expanding migration without addressing its consequences.

"You import the failure, you subsidize the failure, you criminalize noticing the failure, and you hand over the spare bedroom to make the failure permanent," Rion said.

She concluded by returning to Minnesota and Klobuchar, arguing that the senator’s longstanding outreach to Somali voters reflects a broader Democratic approach to immigration and welfare policy.

"Minnesota is the brochure. Klobuchar has been courting these Somalis for years, so has the entire Democratic Party, and it's emblematic of everything that's wrong with that party," Rion said.

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