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Offline rangerrebew

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‘Minnesota nice’ enabled immigration fraud to flourish in Twin Cities for decades, ex-sheriff says: ‘It’s all about votes’
Story by Alex Oliveira • 11h

A former Minneapolis sheriff says an excessive helping of “Minnesota nice” enabled the egregious spread of immigration fraud uncovered by federal officials in the Twin Cities last month.

“Minnesota has always been a very welcoming place,” said Rich Stanek, who spent 12 years overseeing Minneapolis law enforcement as Hennepin County Sheriff.

“But when people say ‘Minnesota nice,’ they simply didn’t ask. Or they ignored it.”
 
It’s those midwestern manners that Stanek believes led directly to the immigration crisis US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) discovered across Minneapolis and St. Paul in September: of 1,000 immigrant households visited during a two-week period, nearly half were engaged in some form of immigration fraud.

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500 households engaged in fraud? Sounds like an industry. Just the tip of that iceberg.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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