Federal agents again target Minnesota amid alleged fraud crackdown at daycares

Federal raids unfold in Twin Cities amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Minnesota officials

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Federal agents under the command of the Trump administration have descended on Minnesota’s Twin Cities again to primarily target alleged fraud at daycares after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s so-called “Operation Metro Surge” all but wound down earlier in the year.

“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” the US justice department told the Guardian in a statement on Tuesday.