WebsterMark wrote on 01/31/26 at 11:03:31:I don’t think the recent Somalian fraud had been exposed yet, but I could be wrong about that.
Let's talk about this, as it pertains to ICE's mission.
Nick Shirley posted his Youtube video on December 26, 2025.
ICE operations commenced in Minneapolis on January 6 and had their 2000 to 2400 agents active by mid January.
In his viral video, Shirley had alleged fraud at various day care centers, based on things like observing there were no cars in the parking lot 3 hours before the facility opened, and also published the $ numbers of the financial aid that various day cares received from public sources.
Nick Shirley is a Youtube content creator, from Utah, who started out with prank and stunt videos, like disrupting celebrity weddings, then spent some time as a Mormon missionary, and most recently has focused on producing right wing biased Youtube content. He has a high school degree from Farmington High School in Utah and no journalistic qualifications.
When investigated by local TV stations and other entities, no signs of fraud were found.
I think that the targeted facilities were owned by Somalian immigrants, but nobody has proven, or perhaps even alleged, that any of these people were ILLEGAL immigrants.
Certainly fraud is a bad thing, and a drag on society, and should be eliminated, but how is it any concern of ICE or Border Patrol to enforce laws concerning fraud? What does ICE or CBP have to do with this alleged fraud, even if it were proven to be factual, which it has not?
Shouldn't these agencies be first demonstrating involvement of illegal aliens, then arresting those individuals for violation of the immigration laws they have jurisdiction over, and leave the fraud investigation and enforcement to those agencies that have valid jurisdiction over those areas?
In a world run by rational adults, allegations would turn into investigations, investigations would become charges, charges would become convictions. Now, we apparently don't need any of that, we can go straight from a high school kid making a Youtube video, to secret police being rushed into an area.