Minnesota has been beset by a series of complex, overlapping fraud investigations that have stretched over several years and involve potentially billions of dollars in wasted federal funding.
President Donald Trump pointed to the scandals as justification for launching a massive immigration crackdown that he initially said would focus on the state’s large Somali community, but most of the over 4,000 people arrested were Hispanic. While the administration claimed it was arresting “the worst of the worst,” most of those caught up in the dragnet had no criminal records.
