The welfare fraud scam engulfing Minnesota’s Somali community is “the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for policy Stephen Miller declared.
Miller, who also serves as a homeland security advisor to President Trump, said the fraud operation apparently carried out by numerous Somali migrants to the state will “rock the core of Minnesota politics and American politics.”
“We believe that we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes,” he said in an appearance with Sean Hannity on Fox.
Prosecutors have already charged dozens of state residents with ripping off a program designed to provide food for children during the pandemic.
So far, 59 people have already been convicted in wide-ranging frauds totaling $1 billion.
Trump in an online post has vowed to send Somalis “back to where they came from,” and on Tuesday unloaded on Somalis migrants to the country.
“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting. “Their country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don’t want them in our country.”
