MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (WCCO News) – Homeland Security agents are in Minneapolis on Monday “conducting a massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.
Two DHS officials tell CBS News that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations branch are expected to inspect over 30 sites in the city on Monday alone.
HSI has historically investigated criminal activity with an international or immigration nexus, such as child exploitation, drug smuggling, identity theft and fraud. Under the second Trump administration, many HSI agents have been assigned to work alongside ICE’s immigration enforcement branch to find and arrest immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally…