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| Sham marriages, elder 'exploitation,' fake death certificates uncovered in massive Minnesota immigration bust | ||
| 2025-10-01 | ||
| [FoxNews] Operation Twin Shield targeted 1,000 cases in first large-scale investigation under new USCIS enforcement powers The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office conducted an unprecedented large-scale investigation in Minneapolis this month, focused on those who were committing marriage and asylum fraud. Under a mission known as Operation Twin Shield, officers targeted 1,000 cases, knocking on doors at more than 900 sites to conduct interviews and review immigration criteria. Coordinating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI, they found fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in 275 cases.
In 44 of those cases, the immigrants were referred to ICE or given a notice to appear (NTA) in court. Two were detained on-site. The rest are still being investigated. In one example, an immigrant engaged in a sham marriage with an elderly U.S. citizen and subjected the citizen to "elder abuse and exploitation," according to USCIS. Another immigrant admitted to fabricating a death certificate from Kenya for $100 to falsely claim the termination of a marriage — the spouse in question was alive, living in Minneapolis and the mother of five of his children. Other cases included a petitioner who confessed to marriage fraud just hours after swearing under oath that her marriage was legitimate, and another involving an immigrant who had overstayed a visa waiver, was the son of a suspected terrorist, and had previously been denied benefits for fraud.
The operation was conducted between Sept. 19 and 28 across the Minneapolis–St. Paul region. USCIS said it is the first time the agency has committed resources on this scale to a single geographic area and signaled more such crackdowns could follow. Officials expect the number of NTAs, referrals to ICE and adverse adjudications to increase as investigations continue. The agency pointed to Executive Order 14161, which directs federal agencies to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other public safety threats, as the framework guiding the operation. Officials emphasized that unlike during the Biden administration, USCIS officers are now empowered to thoroughly vet applicants and aggressively pursue fraud wherever it is encountered. The Minneapolis surge marks the first time USCIS has deployed resources at this scale in a single region. Related: USCIS: 2025-07-21 Agency [DHS] Imports 85,000 White Collar Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs USCIS: 2025-06-02 Mohamad Soliman, the Muslim man who carried out the Islamic terrorist attack in Colorado today, appears to be an immigrant from Kuwait; he burnt six badly with Molotov cocktails USCIS: 2025-05-26 FBI Breaks Pakistani Migrant Smuggling Network in Texas Related: Minneapolis: 2025-09-27 Candace Owens: Jean-Michel was a participant in the Stanford Prison Experiment Minneapolis: 2025-09-12 US Indicts Somali Brothers on Charges of Fraud and Money Laundering for $40mil Feeding Our Future Scam Minneapolis: 2025-09-12 Rep. Ilhan Omar cruelly stomps on conservative activist Charlie Kirk''s legacy: ''Full of s--t'' | ||
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