A Minnesota county has quietly canceled a fund meant to help businesses that have been impacted by the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the fund became inundated by fraudulent claims.
\n\nOfficials of Hennepin County, home to the left-wing Mecca of Minneapolis, has ended its $2 million fund meant to help businesses that supposedly lost money due to ICE’s Operation Metro Surge after only being able to verify 82 out of 300 claims filed to the fund.
\n\nOperation Metro Surge was launched in December and ended with more than 4,000 illegal migrants arrested across Minnesota.
\n\nThe county entertained about 300 applications for the reimbursement funds, but while trying to verify the filings, officials found that most of the filings are blatantly fraudulent.
\n\n“The fact that people, after all this fraud, felt that they could apply and get away with it, I think it’s a problem because clearly there’s no fear out there,” Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said, according to KARE-TV. “Until we get it where people fear things, then they’re gonna keep doing it.”
\n\nOfficials found that many of the applications had false addresses or had information scripted by AI and then cut and pasted on other…
Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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