DHS sweeps Twin Cities, arrests 400 as feds blast Walz for ‘failing to protect Minnesota’
EXCLUSIVE: As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faces a burgeoning fraud scandal involving the Twin Cities' Somali community, the Department of Homeland Security announced it had made 400 arrests as part...
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EXCLUSIVE: As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faces a burgeoning fraud scandal involving the Twin Cities' Somali community, the Department of Homeland Security announced it had made 400 arrests as part of its " Operation Metro Surge" in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Walz recently urged DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to review recent arrests, and pointed to reported incidents of U.S. citizens being swept up in the raids. DHS has rejected those claims, noting that a woman named "Sue" that Walz highlighted had been arrested on charges of assaulting a federal officer. "Tim Walz and Jacob Frey failed to protect the people of Minnesota," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in regard to the hundreds of illegal immigrants who have been arrested. "They let these monsters and child predators roam free." NUTRITION PROGRAM’S LAWSUIT TRIGGERS MN EDUCATION DEPT TO EASE OVERSIGHT, OPENING DOOR TO MORE FRAUD McLaughlin said that among the 400 arrests were illegal immigrants charged with or convicted of rape, pedophilia and other violent crimes . The top illegal immigrant on the "worst of the worst" list shared with Fox News Digital was Burmese national Ban Du La Sein. Sein was previously convicted of criminal sexual conduct using force or coercion in Nobles County; not far from the border with Noem’s South Dakota. Sein had been under an order of removal for more than 10 years when he was apprehended in the Twin Cities’ sweep, DHS said. MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME UNEARTHS MILLIONS IN LUXURY PROPERTY, CARS: DOJ Vannaleut Keomany, a Laotian illegal immigrant, was convicted on two counts of rape in Ohio and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He also was under a longstanding order of removal stretching back to 2009. One of the Somali nationals caught in the operation was Liban Ali Osman, who was convicted of robbery in Ohio. Other illegal immigrants netted in the operation thus far include Somvang Phrachansiry, from Laos, who was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual co…