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Is Our Diversities Learing?

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Is Our Diversities Learing?

Daily Wire;

Federal investigators have made yet another discovery of a sophisticated fraud scheme involving a work authorization program for foreigners.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday that the Operational Practical Training program, known as OPT, has “become a magnet for fraud” with foreign students claiming employment from “highly suspect employers,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said. He described the controversy at a press conference, noting the program allows foreign students to work in their area of study for up to one year while attending school.

Federal investigators say OPT fraud has exploded nationwide, reporting shocking discoveries upon visiting the alleged worksites claiming to employ the foreign students.

Poltico tracks down the real villains: The findings are likely to embolden those on the right calling for changes to these visa programs…

Is Our Diversities Learing?

His president’s salary a tidy $601,684 in 2025, he was the highest paid in Ontario;

When John Tibbits abruptly resigned as president of Conestoga College on Jan. 14, he walked away with an exit package worth more than $3 million.

Details of that exit package have been kept secret from the public — even members of the board who voted to grant it to him. […]

Between 2019 and 2024, Tibbits guided Conestoga on a massive expansion of their international student program. They went from 13,000 international students in 2019 to more than 38,000 international students by the end of 2023.

Conestoga wasn’t just the school with the most international students in Ontario, according to federal records — they were the school with the most international students in all of Canada. With international students paying significantly more in tuition, Conestoga was able to rack up a surplus in the 2023-24 fiscal year of more than $250 million.

The Ford government has fired the board and installed an administrator. Curious.

Is Our Diversities Learing?

I was in Columbus last month. We saw it. I pulled a U turn through the parking lot of a child learing center on Cleveland Ave that had few signs of life, grass growing long and trash littered all around the building. When you began looking around the area, the signs were everywhere.

As people have realized the United States government will pay them to hang out with their own families, northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid. And Columbus, a city with the second largest Somali population in the country, has become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet.

“Well if the government is going to pay you to do it,” one home health operator told me. “People see it as lucrative, so they just jump on it.”

The new welfare queens aren’t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They’re the companies getting rich off them.

Driving down Cleveland Avenue, in less than 40 seconds you come across endless home health companies. Capital Home Health; Continental Home Health; Dynamic Home Healthcare; Ohio Senior Home Healthcare. Entire buildings throughout the city are filled entirely with what appear to be identical businesses.[…]

Pick the owner of a Columbus home health care company at random and look him up in public records, and you are likely to go down an endless rabbit hole: years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they make from Medicaid are just a side gig.

Thankfully, such a thing could never happen here.

Is Our Diversities Learing?

Daily Mail;

Jay Swanson, a former state trooper who ran a fraud investigations unit within Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) from 2014 to 2018, delivered the bombshell testimony on Tuesday.

His revelations came on the same day that federal agents raided more than 20 businesses as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud in Minneapolis.

Swanson told the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee that the state ‘tried to cover up fraud allegations’ years before Governor Tim Walz was accused of shutting the investigations down.. […]

He said when his team reported this finding, they were ‘harassed and bullied’ by officials.

‘I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document. I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal,’ Swanson testified.

‘I can’t tell you how shocked we were to come to the Department of Human Services and learn after a few years that not only was the theft of untold millions of dollars tolerated, but those who tried to stop it would be subjected to the wrath of high-ranking department officials.’

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