Minnesota’s public college system has flagged more than 7,700 suspected “ghost students” during the 2024–2025 school year, exposing yet another costly failure caused by lack of government oversight and liberal worship of minorities.
These scammers, many of whom presumably are Somali, enroll in colleges, apply for taxpayer-funded financial aid, and then vanish—pocketing federal money without ever seriously attending class. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said 1,834 ghost students in Minnesota collected $12.5 million in grants and loans.
The fraudsters reportedly sent a small portion to the colleges and kept the rest, leaving taxpayers to absorb the loss. Republicans in the House have responded by passing the No Aid for Ghost Students Act, sponsored by Utah Congressman Burgess Owens. The bill is designed to protect federal student aid from waste, fraud, and abuse while ensuring legitimate students are not pushed aside.
And this scam does more than steal money. Fake enrollments can fill online classes and block real students from getting seats. In one case cited by a fraud expert, 48 of 50 students in a supposedly full class were fake. This is what happens when government programs grow massively combined with multiculturalism bringing in hordes of alien invaders who flagrantly abuse the system and are encouraged to do so by
Democrats looking to buy their support at the expense of the taxpayer. Taxpayer money should help hardworking students—not anonymous foreign scammers exploiting a broken system. It is time to shut this scam down and to find the individuals responsible and charge them to send a message that this behavior will no longer be tolerated.
