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To: tntpal who wrote (49570)	12/18/2025 9:38:17 AM
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Biden welcomed 18,000 ‘known or suspected terrorists’ into US in 4 years Dec 17, 2025 5 A policy of open migration is tantamount to waving a neon sign welcoming every jihadist and criminal into a country. It is an obvious intentional dismantling of a country from within to replace it with a Marxist regime. Joe Biden and his Democrats have been long exposed for their agenda. They knowingly do harm to America. But what consequences might there be from this revelation? “DNI Bombshell Report: Joe Biden Welcomed 18K ‘Known or Suspected Terrorists’ to U.S.,” by John Binder, Breitbart, December 15, 2025: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has revealed that President Joe Biden’s mass migration agenda at the U.S.-Mexico border welcomed about 18,000 “known or suspected terrorists” to the United States in just four years. The report, detailed to Congress by National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Director Joe Kent, identified thousands of known or suspected terrorists living in American communities whom the Biden administration released into the United States interior thanks to its border policies. “The number one threat that we have right now, in my view, is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders. What we have identified is alarming, and I want to share that with you today,” Kent told Congress late last week: These are individuals, who, under normal circumstances, would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to Jihadist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Yet, the Biden Administration not only let them into the country, in many cases, facilitated their entry into the country. [Emphasis added] Kent said Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome, which brought tens of thousands of Afghan nationals to the United States, often without having been vetted or interviewed in person, imported known or suspected terrorists as well. “These individuals, despite what has been reported, were not vetted properly to come into the United States. The individual terrorist who committed the attack in DC, he was vetted to serve as a soldier in Afghanistan,” Kent said. “The Biden Administration essentially used his tactical level vetting as a ruse to bring him here and to bring him into our communities, and we’ve seen the tragic results of that.” He continued: We’ve identified 2,000 of that group of 88,000 [Afghans] who have ties to terrorist organizations. We’re working right now hand in hand with DHS and with the FBI, to run down this 2,000 — the Afghans who came here under Allies Welcome who have ties to terrorist organizations — and additionally, the other 16,000 individuals of ties to terrorist organizations that Biden let into our country…..

To: tntpal who wrote (49570)	12/18/2025 2:56:03 PM
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"Fraud tourists" traveled to Minnesota - state programs "opportunity to make money," prosecutors say December 18, 2025 / 2:36 PM EST / CBS News Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented "a good opportunity to make money." Anthony Waddel Jefferson and Lester Brown are accused of siphoning millions from federally funded programs administered by Minnesota officials that were meant to help people with disabilities and those suffering from addiction. Unlike many of the individuals previously caught up in the state's sprawling fraud scandal, they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota's large Somali-American community. Prosecutors say they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota at all. "Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry — people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, who brought the new charges. "This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand." Court filings allege the men submitted up to $3.5 million in "fake and inflated bills" for Medicaid reimbursements after they set up a company intended to provide housing and other services to individuals who qualified for the program. They allegedly fleeced the housing program in Minnesota despite "living on the other side of the country and having no network in or connections to Minnesota or its communities." In a separate indictment filed Thursday, a man allegedly registered a company to help channel state resources to the families of children with autism. But the man, Abdinajib Hassan Yussef, allegedly spent some of the $6 million he took from the program on the purchase of a Freightliner semi-truck. Prosecutors said Thursday that they are investigating roughly $18 billion spent on social programs in Minnesota since 2018. CBS News asked how much they believe was fraud, and they said they've seen more red flags than legitimate providers. That revelation came as the Trump administration and its allies have stepped up attacks on Minnesota's leadership, including Gov. Tim Walz, who was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 2024 elections. Walz has acknowledged his state fell short in its fraud fighting efforts and listed a series of steps he has taken to implement more safeguards for taxpayer-funded social services. In recent weeks, the Trump-appointed heads of at least three cabinet agencies have signaled fresh investigations into the state's handling of federal funds — actions that a spokesperson for Walz called "politically motivated" in a statement on Wednesday. "While the governor has been fighting fraud, the Trump administration has spent the past month sending dozens of letters, statements and social media posts filled with threats to withhold funding and investigate the state," the spokesperson said. Minnesota is not the only state to be hit by such crimes. Yesterday, federal prosecutors indicted two men in Massachusetts for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) money meant for needy children. But Thursday's indictments in Minnesota were the latest development in a string of multimillion-dollar fraud schemes that have plagued that state. So far, federal prosecutors have convicted 62 people in connection to the scandal, which tops the list of the nation's most costly COVID-era fraud sprees. Federal prosecutors estimate taxpayer losses exceed $1 billion. The initial scheme involved a nonprofit organization that tricked state and federal officials into paying them to serve food to thousands of hungry children but never provided the meals. That group, Feeding Our Future, allegedly raked in $250 million. Additional fraud cases have since come into focus. This year, in August, state officials shut down a housing program designed to help seniors and people with disabilities, citing "large-scale fraud." In September, prosecutors charged eight people with defrauding the program by enrolling as providers and submitting millions in "fake and inflated bills." Also in September, a person was charged with defrauding another state program that provides services to kids with autism. Her company was accused of hiring unqualified "behavioral technicians" and submitting false claims to the state that indicated the staff had worked with children enrolled in the program. She also allegedly paid kickbacks to parents who agreed to enroll their children in the program. The Treasury Department announced it would investigate whether any of the alleged fraudsters, many of whom are of Somali descent, funnelled money to al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab, which is based in Somalia...