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@Koppernicus @StarTribune 80% of asylum seekers from Ecuador are sent back to E. There’s no war there. They should have been turned back at the border.

@StarTribune @DocMomMN Am I supposed to feel sad about this? Because I don’t.

UPDATE: The attorney representing the family of Columbia Heights 5-year-old detained by ICE confirmed that an immigration judge has denied their asylum claim. startribune.com/liam-conejo-ra…

Good to see some enforcement on deadly high potency THC.

New data show just how bad drugs are for your cardiovascular system thedrugreport.org/2026/03/11/new…

Minnesota taxpayers paid Optum a seven-figure sum to make recommendations for eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. However, the report is heavily redacted and completely useless. Senator Rasmusson spoke with KSTP about his bill to fully unredact the report and make it public.

Presidential Message on the Feast of Saint Joseph whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…

Little evidence that cannabis products are effective treatments for mental health conditions, finds largest study to date. Explore the research in The Lancet Psychiatry 👉 spkl.io/6019ALn1U

Looks like DHS lawyers need to pull their heads out of the concrete. Kickbacks=fraud

.@RonforMNAG Keith Ellison claimed ignorance of HALO laws today at a town hall about immigration. Very disappointing. Such a law may have saved the life of Alex Pretti and protected other protesters and officers from harm.

DHS refused to investigate autism kickbacks because they didn’t think it was fraudy enough. auditor.leg.state.mn.us/sreview/pdf/20…

Very disappointed with attorney General Keith Ellison claiming ignorance of HALO laws. A 25 foot buffer around ice officers may have saved Alex Pretti‘s life. #mnleg

Dozens of states have PTSD and mental health disorders as qualifying conditions for “medical marijuana.” This new gigantic study echoes the findings of hundreds of previous studies, indicating all of that is false. reuters.com/business/healt…

The report also says Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) claimed they did not have the authority to investigate kickbacks in state autism program. However, the OLA says DHS has had the authority to investigate those kickbacks "since the late 1990s."

@LouNewsMan Incompetence x 100

How is a kickback not fraud? A new audit found that Minnesota’s DHS would not investigate allegations of kickbacks in welfare programs, wrongly believing it was not authorized to do so. The cases didn’t get referred to law enforcement either!

It's the kind of stuff that makes you bang your head against a wall. From auditor's report about why DHS failed to investigate kickbacks in autism program, "DHS cited the incorrect federal statutes in its 1995 amendment to the rule, and it has remained the same ever since."

The fraud just kept mushrooming under Tim Walz. Why? No internal controls at DHS, low guardrails in these programs, and a lot of money going out the door.

WATCH: Four weeks ago, a frustrated ICE agent in the sanctuary city of Boston contacted me, telling me a group of anti-ICE agitators had just blown their operation to arrest a Salvadoran fugitive who is wanted in his home country on an arrest warrant for child rape & had been living near a Boston elementary school. He told me while he & his team were in their vehicles surveilling the target's residence in East Boston & waiting for him to come out, the ICE team was quickly surrounded by activists who blew whistles, cursed at them, and said they were traumatizing children at the nearby school down the street. Their cover was blown, the whole neighborhood was alerted, and the child rapist wasn't arrested. The agent provided me several videos of the activists interfering that day (February 12th) as they unknowingly protected the child rapist from ICE arrest due to blind opposition to ICE. The agent asked me to sit on the videos until they were able to arrest the target. I’m told that fugitive target is now in ICE custody four weeks later (arrested March 10th). The agent says the target, a child rapist, was on the streets four weeks longer than he should have been because activists interfered without having any clue who they were protecting - and they dealing with this almost every day. I’m told his the target’s name is WALTER ROBERTO VIDES-ORTEZ, a Salvadoran national who crossed the Texas border illegally in 2016, the same year that El Salvador issued an arrest warrant for him for the offense of child rape.

In 2024, 32% of Americans aged 12 or older who used marijuana in the past year had a cannabis use disorder (CUD), also known as marijuana addiction. thedrugreport.org/2026/03/05/fri…