“PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed in a post on X.

Those arrested, Noem said, “were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.”

Frey raised eyebrows on Sunday when he compared ICE’s immigration crackdown in his city to an “invasion” by the federal government on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Starting just after Thanksgiving, DHS has launched what it frequently calls the largest immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis history in recent weeks, deploying around 3,000 agents from various agencies including ICE, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations and others.

“In the last 6 weeks, our brave DHS law enforcement have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murders, rapists, child pedophiles and incredibly dangerous individuals. A HUGE victory for public safety,” Noem said, before pivoting to the multi-billion-dollar fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota.

“There is MASSIVE Fraud in Minneapolis, at least $19 billion and that’s just the tip of iceberg. Our Homeland Security Investigators are on the ground in Minneapolis conducting wide scale investigations to get justice for the American people who have been robbed blind,” she wrote.

The $19 billion figure is significantly higher than the $9 billion cited by US Attorney Joe Thompson as the amount illegal immigrant fraudsters have pilfered from the state’s human services coffers, much of it allegedly by members of the state’s Somali community, and was echoed by President Trump in a Truth Social post late Sunday night in which he blasted “Squad” member and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“There is 19 Billion Dollars in Somalia Fraud. Fake ‘Congresswoman’ Ilhan Omar, a constant complainer who hates the USA, knows everything there is to know. She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalis, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World. She could help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote.