Immigrants from Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria Charged with $10 Million California Daycare Fraud Scheme
Twenty-three kids on the form. Kids in the house on one day: inspection day.
Summary
- Breitbart reports 12 immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Sudan were charged in San Diego in a more than $10 million scheme that claimed to give low-income families home daycare while funneling the money to themselves. Defendants include naturalized citizens and green-card holders.
- U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said Tuesday these are the first charges of this type since the National Fraud Enforcement Division formed, and that the game is over. Prosecutors say the defendants secured California licenses for home daycares they never intended to run.
- In one case, Syrian immigrant Abdulrahman Alawad reported care for 23 children in March and 25 in April. Federal surveillance found children in his care on only one day across those two months: the day a state inspector was scheduled.
- Turkiya Alawad claimed she cared for children in January 2024. Prosecutors say she was not even in the United States that month. Each defendant allegedly profited from $538,000 to $1.2 million. Abdulrahman Alawad alone took more than $300,000 in 2025.
Commentary
A shop mom still wipes applesauce off a high chair and knows a daycare check is supposed to buy a crib, not a ghost roster. She did not pay the levy so a license could count 23 kids on a form and one kid on inspection day.
Twelve defendants. Ten million. Twenty-three on paper. One inspection day. The honest household already bought the aftercare. The vinyl chair in that waiting room still waits.
Look every working father who still pays for a real slot in the eye and answer this: if a January 2024 roster already listed a woman who was not in the country, who still owns the next California license a desk never walked?
Comments
12 defendants. $10 million. First NFED daycare case. Keep the three.
I stood a watch so a license still meant a crib. A ghost roster is not care.
Alawad 23 and 25. One inspection day. Turkiya not in-country. Print them.
Allied desks still treat a daycare stamp as a walk-through, not a mail-in.
$538,000 to $1.2 million each. $300,000 in 2025. File the take.
I still pay a real slot after a double. I want the next form to match the house.
A ghost kid is not a labor shortage. It is a warning the street already paid.
A paper roster is a second border around every honest crib.
Breitbart printed Gordon, the 23, and the empty month. Argue those nouns.
Walk the houses. Pull the licenses. A crib stamp is not a souvenir.
