Max Nestorak

And that's something that has been repeated by the governor and members of Minnesota's congressional delegation is that they don't want ICE conducting this enhanced enforcement operation in Minnesota.

A few weeks ago, DHS began ramping up

immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.

And on Sunday, we received reports that about 2,000 more officers and agents were coming to the state in what DHS is calling its largest operation ever.

And so this has really created a standoff between Democratic leaders who say they are not getting any coordination or communication from the Trump administration and federal agencies who are carrying out these operations.

All right.

So as all of this is happening in the streets, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz announced this week that he's not going to run for reelection.

That announcement was tied to the scandal that I mentioned.

Can you explain what happened here?

Yeah, so this goes back a number of years with the prosecution of people for stealing funds intended to feed hungry children during the pandemic.

The story has reached the national news and the Oval Office just in recent weeks, but it really began in 2022 when US Attorney Andy Lugar, a Biden appointee, charged nearly 50 people with stealing $250 million from this pandemic-era program.

And so now this has been known as the Feeding Our Future scandal after one of the nonprofits at the center of it.

It now includes more than 90 indictments across multiple social service programs.

So the fraud is no longer contained just to this meals program, but to other programs aimed at serving the most vulnerable Minnesotans.

And there is a very important detail here, which is that a majority of the people charged and convicted are of Somali descent.

That's right.

And now we're seeing the Trump administration use that to justify vicious attacks on the entire Somali American population in Minnesota of roughly 91,000.

Most of whom are American citizens.

If local media have been on this story since 2022, why did it boil over in late 2025?

So Christopher Ruffo, a conservative journalist, writes a piece in City Journal with this bombshell quote from a confidential source that the largest funder of al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.