WSJ: MN's Fraud Problem Isn't Immigrants

This seems silly--or at least perversely partial.

The problem seems to be:

[a] Irrational, irresponsible government largesse of the kind described by The Editors...

and

[b] Mass immigration from a failed state, bringing in a large number of people with alien sensibilities--including an insular, corrupt, tribal culture--who don't speak (and probably won't learn) English and who live in ethnic enclaves. Being Muslim is another reason to carefully vet. There's no doubt that many Muslims make good Americans. But, in general, not really so much. (Remember, according to at least one survey, 51% of American Muslims want Sharia law... If it's even half that, that's very, very bad.)

   That's to say: it's both things--though not immigration per se, of course. The error is to think that immigrants are interchangeable--and that there aren't better and worse ways for immigration to be conducted.

   Again, it goes without saying that many Somali immigrants probably make good Americans. But it's not a demographic that we should import en masse. Unless I've been extremely misinformed, immigrants from places like Somalia need to be vetted more carefully than immigrants from, say, Norway. Or, for that matter, Nigeria. And--again, unless I've been extremely misinformed--Somalians in Minneapolis have not, overall, made it a better place.