Use the Minnesota Somali fraud probe as a template to create a federally coordinated, state‑deployed taskforce that traces welfare disbursements into remittances, crypto and cross‑border accounts, couples forensic financial work with local prosecutions, and publishes standardized recovery and disclosure metrics. The approach prioritizes operational financial trails over survey counts and proposes playbook replication across states.
— If institutionalized, it would shift immigration and welfare policy toward enforcement‑centered, trace‑and‑recover models that raise legal, civil‑liberties, and racial‑political tradeoffs nationwide.
Christopher F. Rufo
2026.01.15
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Scott Bessent (Treasury Secretary) in Minneapolis: quoted 'we follow the money', framing the Minnesota investigations as a model to push out to the other 49 states and recover funds.
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