Political pressure from Somali community hampered Minnesota fraud probes, whistleblower says - "concerns about Minneapolis daycare centers go back at least a decade, according to the whistle-blower, Scott Dexter, who worked as an investigator at the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) from 2013 to 2019. He told Just the News that his team uncovered evidence of fraud in the state’s taxpayer-funded daycare system almost immediately after he started his work. “The very first [daycare] that we investigated [...] had received about $3.75 million in one year, and so it was obvious that they were committing fraud,” Dexter told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Tuesday. “And the number of these childcare centers would be owned by the same owners, or there'd be, you know, intertwined people involved in it. So one daycare center was involved with another daycare center, so it was obvious that it was a coordinated fraud scheme,” said Dexter. In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this year, Dexter said that he was hired after a 28-year law enforcement career to be part of a new investigative unit in the Office of the Inspector General at the Minnesota DHS tasked with identifying fraud in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). Dexter testified that what his team uncovered was “deeply concerning” regarding daycare centers operating out of commercial spaces “with windows covered, no visible play areas, and very few children ever present.” After reviewing records and surveilling locations, they found “documented patterns of overbilling, nonexistent attendance, and in some cases, children being signed in for hours they were never actually at the center.” The investigators noticed a further trend “many of the centers receiving the highest levels of CCAP funding were owned and operated by Somali individuals, and the families served were predominantly Somali.” Dexter said that was also one of the reasons that state officials used to curtail the teams’ work, accusing them of being racially biased. The whistle-blower stringently denies that the investigations were in any way based on the racial or ethnic identity of the daycare center owners. He suggested, rather, that politics may have played a role in undermining the investigations. “Our investigations were based off of the dollar amount that they were receiving. So, the more money in CCAP funds they were receiving, those were the ones that we looked into,” Dexter told Just the News... “Minnesota was really proud of the fact that they had the largest Somali community. They had the Somali refugee resettlement program, and so that was a big political hot button back then, and we were being accused of disproportionately targeting the Somali community, even though that's not the basis of our investigations,” said Dexter. Because of this, the investigator and law enforcement veteran said he resigned from his role at the Department of Human Services in 2019. “[It] became harder and harder for us to actually try to stop the fraud,” he told Just the News... Swanson said the investigators “routinely uncovered large scale overbilling” and estimated the fraud rate in the program was likely as high as 50% of the total disbursements. According to the official, his team found that a large percentage of the highest paid daycare centers in the state raised significant fraud concerns for investigators – as many as 72 of the top 100 recipients of state money bore concerning markers. Investigators found that it appeared many daycare centers were opened entirely for the purpose of defrauding CCAP, noting one Office of Inspector General study from 2017 found there “was an excess of 320 child care centers” receiving money from the program in Hennepin County — home to Minneapolis — alone. Swanson also told the legislature that his investigators determined that some childcare centers recruited mothers eligible under the state’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) by offering kickbacks using government funds. Minnesota’s DHS pushed back on Swanson’s assessment, telling lawmakers there was no evidence to support the investigators’ claims that fraud exceeded $100 million a year or that money was sent overseas. However, the agency acknowledged there was a “great deal of work to do to improve the integrity of CCAP and our investigation processes.” Despite this, the legislative auditor ultimately concluded in its final report that the evidence that it had gathered pointed to a large fraud problem inside the CCAP program, even if it could not directly substantiate the claims, noting that it would be “extremely difficult” to do so, Just the News reported. The office in 2019 released the results of a separate investigation into the Department of Human Services’ fraud controls and found them “insufficient to effectively prevent, detect, and investigate fraud in Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).” The Minnesota DHS moved in 2019 to revamp the office that investigates childcare fraud after Swanson’s letter. But, this was before the Feeding Our Future scandal rocked the agency in subsequent years, raising questions about the efficacy of the reforms. The Trump administration has sought to keep up the pressure on combating welfare fraud across the country, in part inspired by the prosecutions in the Feeding Our Future case and the renewed attention on Minnesota."
I still see left wingers deny there was large-scale fraud
Left wing logic: refuse to investigate fraud or don't do it properly, then proclaim that there is no evidence for major fraud and branding those who claim that as spreading misinformation
Minnesota fraud: Man charged with stealing $11M skips court date, whereabouts unknown - "Authorities are searching for a man accused of being the "principal actor" in a Medicaid fraud scheme that defrauded Minnesota taxpayers out of nearly $11 million after he failed to appear in court. Abdirashid Ismail Said, 50, is one of three people facing theft by swindle charges for alleged Medicaid fraud that took place from May 2019 to May 2023. He was due to appear in Hennepin County court on Wednesday, April 8, but didn't, forfeiting $150,000 bond... Said avoided being ordered to surrender his passport by paying the unconditional bond amount of $150,000. The conditional bond, which would have required him to surrender his passport, was set at $50,000. The criminal complaint shows investigators raised concerns over his family ties outside the country, including a wife and child in Nairobi, Kenya. The detective who filed the complaint wrote, "Given the nature and severity of the charges, and SAID’s familial ties outside the jurisdiction of Minnesota, I believe there is a potential SAID may flee, hide, or otherwise prevent the execution of the warrant."... Two others involved in the alleged scheme, Ali Abdirizak Ahmed and Said Awil Ibrahim, were each charged with racketeering and aiding and abetting theft by swindle... Minnesota law prohibits Said’s agencies from receiving any Medicaid funds at all, but the agencies received over $10.9 million while Said operated them without disclosing involvement, charges allege."
Minnesota fraud: Man charged with stealing $11M skips court date, whereabouts unknown : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "The courts definitely knew and they don’t care. You have to remember stay in local governments, including court districts allowed for this to happen."
"Maybe it made their life easier if he skipped?, ie wanted him to skip"
Minnesota fraud: Man charged with stealing $11M skips court date, whereabouts unknown : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Wow, how could he have the money to skip town. Totally not a flight risk......"
"Impossible, there’s no way he’d have the money. Or that anyone would help him in, you know, some sort of way."
Daniel Friedman on X - "Here is an excellent example of how media often used extremely deceptive statistics that are technically true, but elide crucial context. Nicholas’s graph charts the percentage of asylum claims granted by year, but does not tell you the number of asylum claims each year, allowing you to assume the number of people seeking asylum each year is roughly static. But it’s not! Up until Obama’s first term, very few people claimed to be refugees and the Executive Office of Immigration Review assessed between 25 and 50 thousand applications per year. But then, migrants realized that “asylum seekers” were allowed to remain free in the US pending their asylum hearing, which could be delayed years if millions of people suddenly started applying for relief from a system that is only equipped to handle a few tens of thousands. Nicholas’s chart tells you that the percentage of asylum applications that are granted has fallen, but he doesn’t tell you that there was never a year with more than 50k asylum seekers prior to 2015 and that there were 900,000 in 2024. Of course the percentage should be much lower! Nearly all the claims are frivolous."
MatrixMysteries on X - "“My immigrant parents are in a hospital in LA — and neither of them speaks English.” There was no interpreter on staff, so the doctors asked her to translate. “This is Los Angeles. DONT tell my parents to learn English — that’s your problem, not ours.”"
Clearly, immigrants' worse health, employment and general outcomes are due to racism and xenophobia. America needs to do better!
Carlos Turcios on X - "🚨 FRISCO, TEXAS 🚨An Indian resident says the U.S. is “stolen land” and defends the influx of Hindu Indians through the H-1B visa program. She also argues that America is an economic zone. Why is a Republican county allowing this demographic collapse?"
Thread by @xwanyex on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’ll never understand why so many people are so reflexively impressed by the statement, “they come here for better lives.” Why else does anybody do anything? Everybody does literally everything because they think it’s better for themselves. That’s literally all human behavior. Literally everybody moves from one place to any other place because they think it’s their best option at that moment. That’s literally all migration, whether internal or across borders. It’s literally impossible to use words to say something less interesting than, “they come here for better lives.”"
The Everyman on X - "What bothers me most about this is just the entitlement. Sure, we're all looking to "better our lives" but no one owes you this. No gratitude. Just, this land is stolen, so yeah, cheap labor and tribalism are good. Probably a top ten student at her school saying this as well."
Rich 🐺 on X - "The guy who mugged you just wanted a better life too. we want a better life. Are we justified in doing anything at all to make it happen?"
Rep. María Elvira Salazar on X - "READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. Calling the DIGNITY Act “amnesty” isn’t just wrong. It’s a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you’ve defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago. No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That’s law and order. That’s DIGNITY."
Ursa Major on X - "I actually read her bill, and she’s absolutely right. It’s not just “amnesty,” it’s so much worse ⬇️
1. Sec. 2303(d): Prohibits DHS from deporting any illegals who simply applies for her “dignity” program.
2. Sec. 1502: Opens the flood gates to asylum seekers by decreasing processing times and mandates DHS ensures “contact with legal counsel” (free lawyers for illegals).
3. Sec. 3202: More than doubles per-country immigrant visa caps (more indian immigration).
4. Sec. 3112: Allows the next Democrat AG to terminate removal proceedings against illegals who are family of U.S. citizens.
5. (A cherry on top) Sec. 1516: Mandates STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS for immigration lawyers.
These are just a few of examples of the unconscionable nonsense in this treacherous bill. I’m very glad you killed your own bill with your temper tantrum, though. Saved us a headache on the floor!"
Wall Street Mav on X - "The Dignity Act gets EVEN worse than I thought. It allows every illegal alien deported by Trump since January 2017 to return to the USA. They can apply for their new "dignity status" from their home country and then return to the USA."
varrock on X - "The "DIGNIDAD" act has a section dedicated to making sure illegal immigrants flagged as criminal gang members can still get green cards"
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after ANOTHER Minnesota fraudster gets a short prison sentence — "Zamzam Jama" gets just SIX MONTHS She was involved in a $5.6M scheme that included her family, and was directly responsible for around $500K What a FREAKING DISGRACE! This only ENCOURAGES more fraud if all you get is six months."
Libs of TikTok on X - "Meet Nancy Brasel, the U.S. district judge who sentenced Feeding Our Future fraudster Abdul Abubakar Ali to ONLY 1 year in prison because he showed "genuine remorse" for his crimes. Steals millions. Gets caught. Says sorry. Only gets 1 year in prison. The “Justice” system"
End Wokeness on X - "Justice KBJ: "If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws….. in a sense, it's allegiance." Her case for birthright citizenship:"
Bugman Hegel on X - "The fundamental reason why they are watering down and attacking the concept of citizenship is because they want to attack the notion of duty. If you attack the concept of “allegiance” by construing it as a mere a question of procedural jurisdiction, you thereby erode the question of what duty a citizen owes to their nation. The answer to that question is likewise merely procedural: you pay your taxes, you obey the laws, and that is the end of the matter. The citizen becomes indistinguishable from the resident alien, the resident alien indistinguishable from the tourist, and the tourist indistinguishable from the invader who has simply not yet been processed. Citizenship, on this rendering, is a legal status rather than a moral condition, and this distinction is everything. The liberal legal tradition, having absorbed the Kantian error of treating persons as essentially interchangeable bearers of abstract rights, cannot in principle distinguish between the man whose grandfather bled at Belleau Wood and the man who arrived last Tuesday. What is quietly abolished in this framework is the older republican and even the older natural law understanding, that political obligation is not just contractual but is rooted in something prior to any contract, namely the inheritance of a particular civilization, a particular people, and a particular way of ordering human life together. To be a citizen in this richer sense is to be the living trustee of something you did not create and cannot own, only transmit or betray."
Deranged doctor tries to bait ICE agents at JFK airport -- see their flawless reaction - "A doctor who is a lefty TikToker tried to rile up Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at JFK Airport with some obnoxious insults — but they wouldn’t bite. Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, an OB-GYN doctor and who has more than 2.8 million followers on the social media app, approached the ICE officers in vests in the Queens airport terminal and initially appeared to be thanking them before pulling out the rug and berating them, a video she posted Thursday shows."
Mentally ill left wingers keep trying to provoke ICE to get a reaction and make them look bad.
Weird, we're told ICE is untrained and shoots people at the slightest provocation
Libs of TikTok on X - "Connecticut State Rep. Maryam Khan (D) appears to have replaced her American flag with a PAKISTAN flag. DEPORT"
If you talk about dual loyalty among those with a migrant background, you're racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic
Meme - The Other 98%: *Fat kid uselessly punching pro-ICE student*
"After shrugging your shoulders at hundreds of school shootings, you don't get to wail "but teh v-v-violence!" when a teenage boy punches a Nazi between classes."
"I would like somebody to honestly without calling me a Nazi explain to me what in the right mind makes them think that Republicans and Nazis are anything similar"
Left wingers celebrating violence again. Clearly right wingers are the violent ones and anyone who doesn't support the left wing agenda is a "Nazi" and punching "Nazis" is "self defence" and not violence
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat: “We did not come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah.” Thoughts?!"
If you criticise him, that's Islamophobia and hate speech
Meme - The Other 98%: "After shrugging your shoulders at hundreds of school shootings, you don't get to wail "but teh v-v-violence!" when a teenage boy punches a Nazi between classes."February 16 @OO You and 169k others 144K @ Haha Qecomment Share revan tome I would like somebody to honestly without calling me a Nazi explain to me what in the right mind makes them think that Republi... 'See more Uke Reply sruce Rundberg Why didn't the kid just take 10 steps back and make the aggressor tire himself out? Like Reply Most school shooters are trans, your people so maybe, just maybe you should clean up those messes yourself. eee One - iFunny
Official Layoff on X - "To hire an H-1B worker, companies must sign a federal form saying they can't find qualified Americans. We pulled 15 years of filings. Analyzed the top 5. 314,100 times they said no Americans available. 99,000 times they fired Americans. Signed under oath. Exposed by data."
LA\/ENDER on X - "People straight out of collage who know the job market has basically abandoned them for cheap labour is joining the one organization still offering them viable, fast track careers and motivation to remove those who even people in government openly, gleefully say they want replacing them in the job market. It's a real mystery why so many young people sign up when elected officials say "who is going to do (so and so) jobs" they never say "our youth" because they've abandoned them. Why is this always the playbook. Absolutely strangle young peoples opportunities, tell them they have no future, they have an entire planet and AI to contend with in local job markets and you do not care what happens to them as long as you get cheaper roofers. Don't even attempt offering them any viable solution to struggles you caused them and then when your enemy is the only one offering them one, you go "Heh, always knew the youth were fascists in waiting""
On mocking young ICE agents
Greg Brady on X - "Always good when the Mayor of the biggest city in Canada is a laugh-out-loud punchline in a massive paper. She said more about ICE in an 18 second video than the fact her police force is embroiled in the largest corruption scandal any North American police department has faced in over a decade."
Geiger Capital on X - "In 2025, the United States had negative net immigration for the first time in 50 years… They don't teach that from 1924-1970 we had negative net migration for half a century. Yet, America saw unprecedented success and the middle class thrived."iZsf5IoL5J" / X
Of course, left wingers blame Regan's tax cuts
Meme - *Clown putting on makeup*
"DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH
IMMIGRANTS ARE THE FABRIC OF MINNESOTA
IT WAS ONLY $9 BILLION STOLEN
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU ARE A RACIST"
Dominick Dozer Mendoza | Facebook - "YOU TOO CAN BE ICE IN ONLY 8 WEEKS!!! FALSE, JUST KIDDING!!
The "8-Week ICE Agent" Myth: Let’s Look at the Facts: There’s a meme going around suggesting that ICE officers are "untrained" because their academy is only about 8 weeks long. While it’s true that training for ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) was recently condensed to roughly 47 training days, the idea that any random person can become a federal officer in two months is a massive oversimplification that ignores how federal law enforcement actually works. First, you don’t just walk off the street and into the academy. The vetting process alone takes 6 to 12 months before a recruit even sees a classroom. Applicants generally need a Bachelor’s degree or high level military or police experience. They must pass a comprehensive background investigation, a psychiatric evaluation, and a rigorous physical fitness test. In fact, despite the short academy, the failure rate is staggering. Recent reports show that up to one third of recruits fail to even pass the basic fitness and academic hurdles at the academy. They aren't just handed a badge for showing up, they are often sent home when they can’t meet the standards. Second, we need to distinguish between HSI and ERO. People often lump all ICE Agents together, but HSI Special Agents, who handle human trafficking and cartel cases, still undergo about 22 to 27 weeks of intense federal criminal investigator training. The 8 week figure applies specifically to ERO officers, and even that short window is a high pressure, 6 day a week program that packs the same number of work hours into a shorter calendar. It focuses almost exclusively on the Immigration and Nationality Act, constitutional rights, and tactical safety. If they fail the legal exams, which even include testing on the Fourth Amendment, they are fired. Third, a huge percentage of ICE hires are crossover recruits. These are veterans or former local police officers who already have years of street experience, firearms training, and de-escalation skills. For them, the 8 week academy isn't Police 101, it’s a specialized add-on course designed to teach them the specific legal complexities of federal immigration law. They aren't learning how to be cops, they are learning the specific authorities granted to them by the federal government. Fourth, the reduction from 22 weeks to 8 weeks for ERO wasn't about cutting safety, it was about efficiency. The agency removed the mandatory 5 week Spanish language block, favoring recruits who are already proficient, and moved to a 6 day training week. This means recruits are essentially doing 12 weeks worth of work in 8 weeks by giving up their weekends and training for longer daily hours. Finally, graduation is not the end of the road. Once an officer finishes the academy, they enter a mandatory Field Training Officer program. They are shadowed and evaluated by veteran officers in real world scenarios for months. They aren't just handed a gun and a set of keys, they are under a microscope until they prove they can handle the legal and physical demands of the job. Social media loves a 10 word explanation for a 1,000 word reality. Being an ICE officer requires a security clearance, a clean record, and specialized legal knowledge that most people couldn't pass on a written exam."
As usual, left wingers don't understand anything
Black Americans Harmed When ICE Can't Do Its Job - "sound immigration policy is essential to national cohesion and economic stability. Consistent enforcement protects labor markets, preserves public resources and reinforces the rule of law that undergirds civil rights."
"When immigration enforcement is weak and labor markets become oversaturated, wage growth slows, and job competition increases in the very sectors where many black working families are striving to advance."
"Illegal immigrants replace black workers and remove tax revenue from our economy. Uncontrolled immigration allows people to enter our country unvetted. Hence we also see a noticeable increase in violent crime and gang activity. Such activities are far more prevalent in minority communities. Also, when people are not held accountable for acting unlawfully to prevent our immigration and border patrol agents from doing their jobs, it signals incorrectly that these unlawful actions and protests are okay."
"Unchecked illegal immigration suppresses wages, undermines public safety and turns our communities into collateral damage for political experimentation."
"In 1853 Frederick Douglass said: “Every hour sees the Black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived immigrant whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place.” Yet 173 years later we have political pundits and leaders pretending like immigration doesn’t have a detrimental impact on black wealth in the nation of our ancestors. Fighting against ICE is an act of Negrophobia and domestic terrorism that should not be tolerated in the United States."
"President Trump’s campaign promise was to remove the 15M illegal immigrants. Joe Biden did not run on allowing 15M unvetted illegal immigrants into the nation. We don’t have an ICE problem; we have a Joe Biden problem that President Trump is cleaning up."
