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Trump Administration Targets Somali-Americans in Fraud Audits
The Trump administration targets Minnesota's Somali community amid allegations of billions in social services fraud, freezing $185 million in childcare funds as part of broader immigration enforcement.
- On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced audits of immigration cases involving Somali-American citizens to detect fraud, while the Department of Health and Human Services froze child-care payments to Minnesota and requires receipts for all ACF payments nationwide.
- Earlier this month investigators began probes after federal prosecutors charged more than 90 individuals, mostly Somali, in alleged theft from Minnesota Medicaid programs.
- Evidence includes indictments and convictions; federal filings show 98 defendants, 85 of Somali descent, and 57 convictions over $300 million in diverted grants.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump wants every Somali convicted of fraud in Minnesota to lose their U.S. citizenship, while denaturalization remains a rare, lengthy legal process requiring high proof.
- James Comer, House Oversight Committee chairman, scheduled a January 7 hearing, immigrant-rights advocates say probes target Somali immigrants broadly, and Ohio and Washington residents began childcare checks after Nick Shirley's viral videos.
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For some days now, it has been the new whim of the Trump administration, to believe account X of the White House. Washington announced on Tuesday that it was controlling the immigration records of US citizens of Somali origin, reports Reuters this Wednesday. The aim: to detect possible frauds that could lead to the denaturization of Americans born in this country of the Horn of Africa."Under American law, if a person obtains citizenship on a fra…
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