Blue State Blues: 500 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Minnesota, 1,000 Immigration-Fraud Cases Investigated
2nd January 2026
As additional investigators surge to fraud-plagued Minnesota, federal agents have already arrested 500 illegal immigrants and probed 1,000 immigration-fraud cases during the past two months, a Homeland Security official estimated.
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Fraud was substantiated in about half of the immigration-fraud investigations, she said, and many of the arrested illegal immigrants were from Somalia.
Somalis dominate the list of nearly 100 people federally charged in various schemes to defraud the government, authorities have said.