Doug Gaasvig

Dad, Husband. Retired FAA Air Traffic Controller. Lifelong Learner.

[Z @insatiablevine]

Stop dancing around the topic. End the H1b program -burn it to the ground. It cannot be salvaged.

Give every American their jobs back and send the H1bs home.

Otherwise this is all BS.

[Doug Gaasvig @douggaasvig]

@RevTChristopher What a crock of shit. Black church. lol Christian churches are Christian churches. It was a whole lot of conservative Christians that went along with this. I was born and live in Minnesota and a Christian. I don’t deflect accountability and responsibility.

[Old Stock Appalachian 🇺🇸 @TheAmRev]

We told a generation to study STEM, pay 10x the cost of an Indian degree, and take on debt.

In 2025, 228,000 US computer/math workers were unemployed, while Washington approved 252,000 computer related H-1B petitions, new and continued.

Politicians sold out our youth.

[Doug Gaasvig @douggaasvig]

@BWLH_ You can thank the Lutheran and Catholic Church members for all of this. They brought them here initially. The churches should be forced to pay the costs of policing and deporting all of these criminals, not just our tax dollars.

[Minnesota McMurphy🦮🐾🦴 @DogDad_MN]

2010 - Best small city in America

2018 - Best place to live in MN

2021 - Number one suburb in MN

2026 - Somali gang takes over homecoming.

[Liberty4All @LibertyUSA37]

Why did we not have this problem before we had Somalis imported into the state?

I don’t recall all the Norwegian gang shootings happening back in the day.

[Doug Gaasvig @douggaasvig]

@Shookout @BrentSteinmann @annbauerwriter They were brought here by the Lutheran and Catholic churches in Minnesota initially. Ironic and tragic among other things.

[Doug Gaasvig @douggaasvig]

@robketterling It was the churches that brought these people to Minnesota in the first place. They should be held accountable as well. People seem to have forgotten that their decisions have consequences.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“A list of Benefits Israeli 🇮🇱 residents get that Americans 🇺🇸 don’t… while we send them billions.”

[Rob Ketterling @robketterling]

Minnesota’s Somali settlement is a case of compassion without a standard. It is failing and we are at a critical moment. It is what happens when a low-education refugee population from a clan-based, low-trust society is settled in one metro, given immediate access to a generous welfare state, and told that maintaining a separate culture is the goal.

There are about 80,000 to 110,000 people, most already citizens, concentrated in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Cloud with new enclaves and concentrations building in neighboring counties. There are too many to undo and that is not a legal option as well so let’s look for real solutions. We need to stop feeding the problem.

**What has failed**

Equal rules were dropped. Students see Somali classmates skip the punishments everyone else gets.

About 12 gangs, roughly 300 kids with an additional Halo of perhaps 1000 more young men and thousands that will not cross them. There are a known 14 homicides and 100-plus shootings in two years, plus incredible amounts of carjackings, ongoing fights and physical altercations, and mall robberies.

Welfare is the norm. About half the children in poverty, weak English after a decade, food stamps and Medicaid in most households. (79% are on some form of welfare.

Fraud used the same nonprofits that did the welcoming. Meal, autism, and housing cases were overwhelmingly this network.

No Western country with a dense Somali population has closed the gap. Sweden is worse.

** Send them back is not a real option.**

Most are US-born or naturalized. Citizens cannot be deported for failed integration.
Some are removable, non-citizens after serious convictions, status fraud, and the few thousand who never naturalized. That is a slice and not a realistic solution.

**What would work**

Same offense, same consequence in schools and courts. No racial suspension targets.

Federal gun charges, adult charging for carjacking, trespass bans, witness support.

English and work required for cash and food aid. Contract bans after fraud convictions.

Stop new placements and chain migration into Minnesota.
Deport the removable slice. Offer paid exit to anyone who will take it. Do not pretend the citizens are leaving.

Churches: quit the resettlement pipeline, back one standard, help individuals who will live by it. Stop the feel good compassion that is actually hurting not helping. In the Muslim community, Imams need to stop making an apology from leaders naming Somalis a condition for helping. They must stop defending the wrongdoing otherwise they are a veto to any progress.

Electing new leaders that will not allow the corruption to continue. Holding all of our elected leaders, principles, administrators, and religious leaders accountable. Many of our current leaders are in on the grift and cover up and it’s time for this to end. Others live in fear of retribution for breaking with the ranks.

** If there’s a model we can follow, it’s Denmark, not Sweden. **

Denmark already has done the version people called cruel: lower benefits, temporary status, breakup of the enclaves, mandatory early learning of Danish. They cut the inflow of Somalis. It did not remove the citizens. Minnesota has not done even the mild version of that. “Minnesota Nice” is the perfect environment for the problem to continue, we need to toughen up. If not, the neighborhoods and the schools are in huge trouble. It’s way past time to take this problem seriously and we need everyone to work together to turn things around in Minnesota.

[Jason DeRusha @DeRushaJ]

Here's Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges talking about the latest gang problem, and what makes Somali gangs different from the gangs we stereotypically think about.

[Brent A. Williams, MD @BrentAWilliams2]

Just a reminder that the main reason that Colleges are so expensive in this country is that they are filled with useless administrators.

[Doug Gaasvig @douggaasvig]

@NicHulscher @1ConcernedCtzn2 You are omitting significant detail here. Treatment of pneumonic plague must be started within 24 hours of first symptoms. This is not realistic for many people. Even then, there is a fairly high mortality rate.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

The two-party system rewards conformity and cowardice - a terrible combination.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Maybe we should have some basic cognitive test for elected officials?

This is getting crazy …

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

For those who apparently were unaware, the Smoot Halley Tariff Act was considered a principal trigger of the world economic collapse that we call the Great Depression.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Just a reminder that Elon Musk has never had a single relative wear the uniform or bleed for this country. If he wants to threaten a veteran, he should try doing it to their face.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Call me crazy, but shouldn’t we take the same standard FBI background check required for every federal employee or contractor seeking a security clearance — and apply it to ALL cabinet nominees?

If you fail the background check, you’re eliminated.