Political incentives enable organized welfare fraud

The author claims local political machines deliberately tolerated or protected blatant welfare, daycare and benefit fraud tied to incoming immigrant communities because those beneficiaries became dependable vote blocs. The piece frames citizen reporting as the primary mechanism now exposing the pattern where prosecution and oversight were intentionally muted. — If validated, the claim implies electoral arithmetic and census‑driven representation can distort enforcement of welfare and immigration rules, forcing urgent reforms in voting rules, benefit verification, and independent oversight.