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Dems and Newscum trading billionaires for welfare bums. Something our mythical MBA Tugtard learned at his matchbook business school.

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Leftards lie and love to be lied to. When you need to lie to make your point, maybe you don't have a point.

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ICE and Urban Legends​

I gave an interview to a reporter from the New York Times today on–what else?–immigration enforcement in Minnesota. I told him, among other things, that there has been a series of myths or lies about alleged outrages committed by ICE locally. In each case, the story has been debunked, but only after it has been spread far and wide. The truth never catches up.

The latest instance is the tale of the five year old boy who was “arrested” by ICE. This story has not just gone national, it has become international news. Thus, the front page of the London Times carried this headline:

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This is the first paragraph of the Times story:

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The story is a lie. What actually happened is that ICE agents were in the process of apprehending an illegal alien; when the illegal immigrant saw the agents coming, he fled and abandoned his five year old son. What were the agents supposed to do, leave the poor kid to freeze to death on the sidewalk? (A very real possibility.) No: they briefly took him into protective custody.

After the initial lie that the boy was “arrested” or “seized,” there were follow-up claims, all of which proved to be false. You can read the actual facts here.

One of the Left’s most absurd urban legends about ICE in Minneapolis was the claim, widely asserted and believed by many despite its facial improbability, that ICE was raiding schools. The genesis of the claim was an incident where ICE agents were pursuing an illegal who fled to an area near a school, where he was apprehended. That was it. No kids present, let alone an ICE raid on school children. But the rumor was enough to cause the Minneapolis School District to cancel all classes.

What we have here is a calculated campaign of misinformation in which pretty much all of the liberal media are complicit. Meanwhile, I ask myself: if ICE is doing all kinds of bad things in Minnesota, why do liberals have to keep making stuff up?
 

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I have no idea how rational Americans can vote for a democrat. Our leftards have absolutely no concern about the massive fraud and waste in government from the feds down to state and local governments. You will get some like the dazzler to say he is opposed to fraud and yet he voted for the dementia patient and then Headboard and Walz who fight any attempt to have honest government. Others like Ugly have a great concern about Trump mislabeling Greenland but then ignore every big issue facing the country.

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Medicaid Administrator Dr. Oz: We Tried to Investigate Fake Businesses Bilking the Taxpayers and We Were Followed, Harrassed, and Intimadated by a Gang of Somalis​

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He doesn't say "Somalis," but it's implied by circumstances.

From David Strom at Hot Air, digesting this interview at Alpha News.

 It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Griggs building was a textile factory, became an office building. It's not a nice part of town. I wouldn't take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business, but somehow they had 400. Medicaid, uh, offices doing business with Medicaid, charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer.
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I think he means that there are 400 different "businesses" in the one building.

That means basically each of those business made a million dollars. You wouldn't walk in this building in the seedy part of Minneapolis. And so I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening. Certainly, uh, collaborating with these folks, maybe even, I wonder, you know, folks who in the building, the neighborhood, I mean, someone knew.

Then you start getting into the broader issue. We just talked to whistleblowers, which is chilling. You see the retaliate, the, the re retaliatory tactics, the shuffling around of people who are trying to put their hands up and say, I see a problem. But at its very core, there has been a, a confusion about what it really means to work in healthy human services in Minnesota.

It's not a partnership with vendors. You are the regulator. It is your job to make sure there are limited opportunities that the fraud, the taxpayer, or if you create services, and these are Minnesota nice services and Minnesota nice people, services don't have a lot of guardrails. You know, you don't have to attest to very much.

You have to just say you're trying to do things. You don't have to put your name in any forms. It's hard to regulate that and then the people doing the regulations aren't comfortable doing it. What they found in this document is that the, the majority of folks didn't think they could do the job and in over half the cases there was suspicion.

There was rule, you know, reason for caution. Things didn't seem what, what they're supposed to be. That's half to more than half the cases from the state government's auditor telling us this. So anybody out there in the legislators, a average citizen, we were chased out of buildings by car, honking people, giving us the finger, you know, following us, following us, following us, trying to intimidate us.
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