Overview
- Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said DHS and the State Department are looking at denaturalizing naturalized participants in alleged welfare and childcare schemes in Minnesota.
- Leavitt said DHS teams are conducting door-to-door investigations at potential fraud sites as part of a wider, multi-agency effort.
- The White House said immigration files for suspects will be audited, with any denaturalization actions limited by federal law.
- Since 2022, the Justice Department has charged about 98 people in related cases, with reports indicating most defendants are of Somali descent.
- Prosecutors have linked 13 earlier charges to St. Paul’s Midway Building, and coverage notes the convicted Feeding Our Future leader, Aimee Bock, is white.