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Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...
Minnesota authorities’ investigations into fraud schemes tied to members of the Somali community span several years and involve multiple large cases that federal prosecutors have said amounted to “hun...
Estimates of the taxpayer cost of “illegal immigration” vary widely: a 2024 FAIR study puts the annual fiscal burden at roughly $151 billion and calculates a per-taxpayer hit near $1,156 ($957 after a...
Estimates of how much "illegal aliens" cost U.S. taxpayers diverge sharply because researchers measure different things: one line of work finds undocumented immigrants paid roughly , while other analy...
Undocumented immigration presents a net-positive impact on the U.S. economy in aggregate under most mainstream models, but significant mean impacts vary across groups and policies. Widely cited empiri...
Public reporting shows specific, documented incidents of racist language by some Republican-affiliated individuals — notably leaked Young Republicans group chats containing racial slurs, antisemitic c...
There is no single, authoritative count in the available sources of how many “major riots” took place in the U.S. during Barack Obama’s presidency (2009–2017). Contemporary reporting and retrospective...
Multiple independent analyses find that undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars a year in federal, state, and local taxes—estimates cluster around $90–$100 billion for 2022–2023—while ...
Available reporting shows multiple 2024 rankings and federal datasets that can be used to identify the “safest” states, but there is no single authoritative list in the supplied sources that explicitl...
New York City’s official reports show notable declines in many major crime categories through 2025 — the NYPD reported historic lows in shootings and murders for early 2025 and multi-month declines wi...
Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes in multiple ways and recent estimates place their combined federal, state, and local tax contributions near $100 billion for 2022, though alternate methodologies y...
Academic and policy analyses disagree sharply on whether undocumented immigrants are a net fiscal drain. Some advocacy and congressional reports put annual costs in the hundreds of billions and indivi...
A Supreme Court decision, once issued, cannot be “appealed” to a higher judicial body because the Court is the nation’s highest tribunal, but it can be revisited through narrow legal and political pat...
The best empirical measure for "social services" directed specifically at undocumented immigrants in the United States is , and multiple recent state-level expenditure analyses place that share at abo...
Undocumented immigrants play significant roles in U.S. labor markets and public finances: several analyses find immigration supports labor-force growth and reduces long‑run budget deficits overall (EP...
Federal rules and recent analyses show , with specific estimates placing non-citizen SNAP recipients at about 1.764 million people and emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants at under 1% of sta...
Longitudinal polling and survey research consistently show that older Republicans have been more likely than younger Republicans to approve of Donald Trump’s performance, while belief in 2020 election...
Estimates of the annual fiscal cost of undocumented (unauthorized/illegal) immigrants to federal, state and local taxpayers vary widely—from roughly $66–$182 billion in some advocacy calculations of a...
Available reporting shows conflicting patterns depending on the unit of analysis: at the state level several analysts and think tanks find higher homicide and violent-crime rates in “red” states, whil...
Nationwide, Democrats today include a substantially larger share of college-educated voters than Republicans: recent analyses find roughly half of Democrats hold four‑year degrees while Republicans re...