The US Department of Health and Human Services says it has frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota, as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigate allegations of fraud, including at child care centers, in the latest show of federal force in the state — home to the country’s largest Somali population.Deputy Secretary of HHS Jim O’Neill announced the funding freeze on X Tuesday, weeks after ICE launched operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to specifically target undocumented Somali immigrants, precipitated by revelations about widespread fraud against the state as well as President Donald Trump’s comments that he “doesn’t want” Somalis in the country.The stepped-up effort also comes days after YouTube content creator Nick Shirley, who has created anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos in the past, posted a viral video in which he claimed to find widespread fraud at Somali-run child care centers. The video, which includes limited evidence for the creator’s allegations, has received more than 2.5 million views on YouTube as of Wednesday and was retweeted by Vice President JD Vance and former Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk.
You really can’t overstate how poorly the media has handled this situation, though their response is entirely predictable. As surely as night follows day, they’ve resorted to race-baiting because the alleged fraud involves Somali individuals, focused their attacks more on independent journalist Nick Shirley than on the fraud itself, and run cover for Democrats at every turn (driven, as usual, by their hostility towards the GOP) while inevitably finding a way to blame Trump. But if Shirley continues to stick to the facts, ignores partisan noise from both sides, and practices real, genuine journalism, he’ll be doing a real service to Minnesota taxpayers who are exhausted by this ongoing mess in their own backyard (and he may well deal a serious blow to Gov. Tim Walz’s chances of reelection in Minnesota or any future presidential ambitions).
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