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2026年1月24日，美国华盛顿特区联邦应急管理局国家响应协调中心展示的美国国土安全部徽章。路透社/内森·霍华德/档案照片 购买授权，打开新标签页
摘要
特朗普政府将该问题列为优先事项
欺诈是广受谴责的移民潮激增的一个借口
华盛顿4月28日路透电 – 美国执法机构周二在明尼苏达州搜查了20多处场所，作为该州社会福利项目欺诈调查的一部分，这是唐纳德·特朗普总统政府高度关注的领域。
美国司法部发言人表示，隶属于国土安全部的联邦调查局和国土安全调查局在该州执行了22项搜查令，主要针对商业场所，“作为一项 ongoing 欺诈调查的一部分”。
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在特朗普授意下领导欺诈专项工作组的副总统JD·万斯表示，本届政府“将毫不留情地揭露这些欺诈者，无论他们藏在何处”。
此次突袭表明特朗普政府仍在追查明尼苏达州的福利欺诈问题，这也是去年12月开始向该州派遣大批联邦特工的既定理由之一，该行动因移民特工的执法手段和两名美国公民的遇害遭到广泛谴责。官员周二表示，当日行动与移民执法无关。
特朗普试图将该州的索马里裔美国人和索马里移民社区与涉及窃取旨在用于社会福利项目的联邦资金的长期丑闻联系起来。在讨论这些丑闻时，特朗普去年12月称明尼苏达州的索马里移民“垃圾”，并表示他希望将他们“遣返回他们的原籍国”。
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司法部已从2022年以来的相关被告身上获得至少63项定罪，这些被告涉及“喂养我们的未来”一案——这是一家声称向学童分发膳食的非营利组织，但被卷入大规模欺诈计划。据当地新闻报道，这些案件中的许多被告都是索马里裔美国人。
司法部一直在加强对联邦资助项目中欺诈行为的关注，成立了新部门并任命了经参议院确认的助理司法部长牵头这项工作。
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US agents raid 22 Minnesota sites in social-welfare fraud probe
April 28, 2026 4:51 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago / Reuters
By Andrew Goudsward
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Summary
Trump administration has prioritized the issue
Fraud one justification for widely condemned immigration surge
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement agencies searched more than 20 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of investigations into fraud in social-welfare programs in the state, an area of intense focus by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, part of the Department of Homeland Security, executed 22 search warrants in the state, mostly at businesses, “as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Justice Department spokesperson said.
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Vice President JD Vance, who is leading a fraud task force at Trump’s behest, said the administration “will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding.”
The raids show the Trump administration is continuing to pursue benefits fraud in Minnesota, one of the stated justifications for sending a surge of federal agents to the state beginning last December in an operation that drew widespread condemnation over the tactics of immigration agents and the killings of two U.S. citizens. Officials said Tuesday’s operation was not related to immigration enforcement.
Trump has sought to connect the state’s Somali Americans and Somali immigrant communities to long-running scandals involving the theft of federal funds intended for social-welfare programs. In discussing those scandals, Trump in December called Somali immigrants in Minnesota “garbage” and said he wanted them sent “back to where they came from.”
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The Justice Department has secured at least 63 convictions, dating back to 2022, from defendants facing charges related to Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit that claimed to distribute meals to schoolchildren, but has been implicated in a large-scale fraud scheme. Many defendants in those cases were Somali Americans, according to local news reports.
The Justice Department has sought to sharpen its focus on fraud in federally funded programs, creating a new division and a Senate-confirmed assistant attorney general to lead the effort.
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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