White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday joined Fox News to discuss the Somali fraud ring in Minnesota, and she revealed plans to potentially revoke the citizenship of aliens who defraud American taxpayers and declared that arrests will be made as subpoenas and search warrants are executed at the crime scenes.
This comes after independent reporter Nick Shirley exposed the staggering scope of the corruption, centered largely in Minnesota’s Somali nonprofit ecosystem, where hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds vanished.
Billions of dollars are estimated to have been stolen by Somali fraudsters, ripping off government welfare and child care programs.
Leavitt told Fox’s Griff Jenkins on Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of State are “looking at” revoking the citizenship of naturalized Somali immigrants involved in the massive fraud.
President Trump “absolutely” wants their citizenship revoked, she said.
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Jenkins: Does President Trump want those Somalis to have their citizenship revoked if convicted of fraud?
Leavitt: Absolutely, and it’s something the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, is currently looking at right now. It’s something this administration has already done, and we know that there are liberal activist judges across the country who will try to block and tackle this administration from pursuing justice at every turn. But that’s not going to stop the President and his entire cabinet by acting on behalf of law abiding taxpaying citizens in the state of Minnesota and in states across the country, who have been ripped off by people who abused our immigration system, came to our country, do not love our country or respect our values, and now have been ripping off and stealing money from law abiding Americans. This administration is not going to tolerate it.
And again, this is a whole of government effort. We’ve surged resources. As you pointed out, the Department of Justice has already charged and prosecuted nearly 100 people. In fact, some of the buildings and some of the sites that Nick Shirley exposed in that video are under current investigation by the Department of Justice. One of those sites, the Midway building, resulted in 13 defendants already being charged earlier this year under the leadership of our Attorney General and President Trump. So, that is definitely going to continue.
In another segment of the interview, Leavitt slammed “completely incompetent” Governor Tim Walz and said that the Department of Justice is investigating the operation. “People will be in handcuffs as a result of the fraud that Governor Walz has allowed to occur for many, many years.”
Tim Walz and Minnesota State officials also need to be arrested for covering up the fraud and allowing it to happen. Otherwise, these aren’t serious investigations.
“We’re also not afraid to use denaturalization. That’s a tool at the President and the Secretary of State’s disposal, and it’s one this administration has previously used before,” she added.
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Leavitt: Governor Walz is completely incompetent. He always has been, and President Trump has long called him out for his incompetence and his poor leadership in the great state of Minnesota. I want to commend Nick Shirley for his incredible video and real journalism that went viral this past week. He epitomizes what New Media looks like, and that’s exactly why we at the White House, under President Trump’s direction, have embraced new media journalists like Nick Shirley. We’ve welcomed them in to the White House press pool. We invited Nick Shirley to brief the President of the United States at an Antifa roundtable earlier this year, and this fraud in Governor Waltz’s state in Minnesota is something the Trump administration has been working on since day one And since Nick Shirley’s journalism really brought this issue further to light, we have surged resources across the board to the state, so I want your audience to understand this is a top priority for the administration.
The Department of Justice, as we speak, is continuing to execute search warrants and subpoenas. People will be in handcuffs as a result of the fraud that Governor Walz has allowed to occur for many, many years. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting door to door investigations on the ground at potential fraud sites, and they’re also, of course, conducting continued deportations of illegal aliens in Minnesota’s communities. We’re also not afraid to use denaturalization. That’s a tool at the President and the Secretary of State’s disposal, and it’s one this administration has previously used before.
I know the Health and Human Services Department has also announced we are cutting off all childcare funding to the state of Minnesota until we get to the bottom of this fraud. The Department of Labor is investigating their unemployment insurance program. The Department of USDA, Agriculture, Secretary Rollins, weeks ago, sent a letter to Governor Walz, demanding he turn over every single name of SNAP recipients on the books in Minnesota. And the Minnesota Attorney General actually sued the Trump administration for that. What are they hiding?
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