Jan. 5 (UPI) — The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it is sending more than 2,000 agents to Minneapolis as it cracks down on the region over allegations of fraud by people who live there.
Roughly 1,500 deportation officers and 600 Homeland Security Investigations officers started to arrive Sunday to investigate a welfare-fraud scandal that has grown in recent weeks, law enforcement officials told CBS, NBC and the Wall Street Journal.
The deployment, which is the first expanded immigration crackdown of 2026, will be led by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino, who has also led enforcement efforts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans.
“This is a massive resource allocation,” one officials said, comparing the number of officers being sent to Minneapolis to the entire HSI staff in Arizona and is similar in scale to immigration deployments in Chicago…