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'Tip of the iceberg': Venezuelans accused of stealing over 100 identities for massive welfare fraud scheme
Somali fraudsters apparently have some competition from other migrant communities.
A pair of Venezuelan nationals were charged along with two other migrants this week for allegedly stealing and using the identities of over 100 individuals to obtain millions of dollars in federal welfare.
The Venezuelans, both of whom previously enjoyed Temporary Protected Status — Roman Vequiz Fernandez, 32, and Coralba Albarracin Siniva, 24 — and Joel Vicioso Fernandez, a 42-year-old Dominican national and permanent resident of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to use, transfer, acquire, and possess Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
'It is not particularly hard to identify these scams.'
Joel Fernandez's brother, Raul Fernandez Vicioso — a 37-year-old Dominican national and naturalized U.S. citizen who also lives in Fitchburg — was charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, SNAP benefit fraud, aiding and abetting, and money laundering.
Charging documents allege that the men and their co-conspirators used 117 stolen identities from individuals in six states and Puerto Rico to create 24 "households" in SNAP applications. The "households" were said on average to contain four to five people, and all of the fraudulent "households" were listed as living in two single-family apartments in Providence, Rhode Island.
While there was already ample cause for the Rhode Island Office of Internal Audit to suspect something was off, the alleged fraudsters also used the same bogus lease agreement in support of 17 of the 24 applications and routinely submitted and accessed the online applications using the same out-of-state IP address.
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The charging document noted that Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance records identified the theft of approximately $115,000 in SNAP funds in relation to this scheme; however, the state agency did not appear to bother informing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General or any other law enforcement agency.
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley hammered this point again during a press conference on Tuesday, stating that the USDA OIG "is not aware of the Massachusetts DTA making any referral report to the USDA concerning this theft."
Apparently eager to steal even more, the Dominican nationals allegedly used their own personal information to create additional fraudulent SNAP benefit accounts, which involved the alleged use of fake passports and passport cards.
Investigators found that metadata from images of the counterfeit documents indicated they were taken in Leominster, Massachusetts, at the site of El Primo Restaurant, an establishment operated by the younger brother.
The suspected fraudsters had allegedly been using the stolen welfare benefits to purchase bulk food items for retail sale at the restaurant.
Federal agents raided the restaurant and Vicioso's residence on Sept. 24, 2025, and found approximately 20 fraudulently obtained Rhode Island and Massachusetts EBT cards, fraudulent documents, a handwritten list of identities, SNAP-related mailings, and a machine that enables stolen EBT card information to be loaded on a physical payment card, alleged the charging documents.
The Justice Department noted that in addition to allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $440,000 in SNAP benefits from Massachusetts and Rhode Island between December 2023 and September 2025, the defendants allegedly also fraudulently secured over $700,000 by submitting bogus applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits in Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington from 2020 to 2021.
For the alleged PUA fraud, at least 29 different identities were used on the applications, not including Vicioso and Fernandez, who also allegedly issued applications in their own names.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Foley told reporters on Friday. "We are investigating many more benefit fraud cases in my office, and today is just the beginning."
In December, Foley's office announced the arrests of two men — Antonio Bonheur, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Saul Alisme, a Haitian national — who allegedly engaged in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars' worth of SNAP benefits through small retail stores they ran in Boston.
The duo are also accused of selling donated food product intended for starving children overseas.
"It is not particularly hard to identify these scams, but if you don't even care to look or prosecute those involved, essentially allowing criminals to steal vast amounts of taxpayer money with impunity, the scams will continue to proliferate unabated," added Foley.
The U.S Government Accountability Office noted in a September 2024 report that an estimated 11.7% or $10.5 billion of SNAP benefits paid out by the USDA in fiscal year 2023 "were the wrong amount or otherwise should not have been made."
Last year, the USDA indicated that the national payment error rate for fiscal year 2024 was 10.93%.
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Springfield officials, Ohio activists brace for end to Haiti's Temporary Protected Status designation
Springfield, Ohio, featured prominently in 2024 election-time debates as a case study in the fallout of the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous immigration policies — a place where President Donald Trump suggested migrants were "eating the pets of the people that live there."
The blue-collar city, which had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020, was flooded in subsequent years by tens of thousands of Haitian migrants — migrants whom Springfield Mayor Rob Rue admitted "taxed" the "infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools." According to the city, there are upwards of 15,000 migrants presently residing in Clark County alone.
'Temporary means temporary.'
Many of the Haitians who overwhelmed Springfield and other American cities initially entered the U.S. illegally but were spared deportation on account of Haiti's Temporary Protected Status. That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and roughly 350,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, is set to expire on Tuesday.
In anticipation of a potential immigration crackdown following the designation's expiration date, Mayor Rue and members of the Springfield City Commission approved a resolution on Tuesday urging federal law enforcement to "comply with city policies on masks and officer identification to preserve the public peace within the community."
Blaze News has reached out to Mayor Rue for comment.
Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reinstated Haiti's TPS in 2021, then doubled down in subsequent years, expanding eligibility for protection along the way.
The Trump Department of Homeland Security announced in July, however, that Haiti's temporary status was coming to an end.
"After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Haiti no longer continues to meet the conditions for designation for TPS," said the announcement in the Federal Register. "The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the TPS designation of Haiti as required by statute."
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While DHS initially sought to terminate the TPS designation for Haiti on Sept. 2, 2025, the termination was blocked and the status preserved until Feb. 3 by the New York-based U.S. district court judge overseeing the case Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump.
In November, the DHS noted that "in compliance with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York's final judgment, the current Temporary Protected Status designation period for Haiti ends February 3, 2026."
The loss of status would not only mean that previously covered Haitians will lose their work authorization but that they could be given the boot.
Emily Brown, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Immigration Clinic Director, told the Ohio Capital Journal, "At that point, they could potentially be arrested, detained, or put in removal proceedings unless they have already applied for some other form of relief they have in addition to TPS, or that they are applying for in addition to TPS."
The ACLU of Ohio is among the liberal activist groups panicking over the prospect of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeting Haitian migrants in Springfield starting on Feb. 4.
"This despicable surge in lawless ICE officers descending upon Springfield will ignite swells of fear within the Haitian community, terrorize our black and brown neighbors, and cause considerable damage to citizens and non-citizens alike," stated J. Bennett Guess, executive director of the ACLU of Ohio.
"The ACLU of Ohio urges state and local elected officials to do everything in their power to protect the 30,000 Haitians living in Central Ohio," he continued.
Prior to Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a Biden-appointed lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration's immigration policy — could decide to suspend the expiration of Haiti's TPS.
Reyes may be emboldened, after all, by a ruling on Wednesday from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The panel — comprising three Democrat-nominated judges — suggested Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when ending the TPS for Venezuela and Haiti.
The appellate court's ruling won't have an immediate effect, as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Noem in October to revoke temporary legal statuses while litigation proceeds.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the appellate court's ruling, "Temporary means temporary, and this is yet another lawless and activist order from the federal judiciary who continues to undermine our immigration laws."
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Exclusive: GOP Senate candidate Wesley Hunt pushes bill barring education benefits for illegal aliens
Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas is moving legislation on Capitol Hill to ensure taxpayers are actually prioritized over illegal aliens.
Hunt, who is running for U.S. Senate in Texas, introduced the American Dream Protection Act on Thursday to disincentivize states and educational institutions from providing educational benefits to illegal aliens. Hunt's legislation would require federal financial assistance to be withheld if states are found to provide taxpayer-funded education to illegal aliens.
'Too many American resources have been used to benefit illegals.'
“For years, the left and a select few Republican senators have pushed for mass amnesty and benefits for illegal aliens," Hunt told Blaze News. "In 2003, the Dream Act, which was voted favorably out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, created an incentive to provide illegals with in-state tuition rates intended only for legal residents."
"The American Dream Protection Act of 2025 will eliminate federal and state funding to universities that continue to support illegals."
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Educational institutions across the country offer in-state tuition and other higher education benefits to illegal aliens, leaving American taxpayers to foot the bill. To counteract these inequities, Hunt's bill withholds federal funds for schools that charge illegal immigrants lower tuition as well as states that provide them financial aid.
"Too many American resources have been used to benefit illegals while American citizens suffer," Hunt told Blaze News.
Hunt is currently running in the Texas Senate primary against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Republican primary winner will face off with one of two Democratic candidates, Rep. Jasmine Crockett or state Rep. James Talarico.
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If America Can’t Get Immigration Right, Nothing Else Matters
If Somalis and Afghans and other unassimilable immigrants are allowed to remain here, they will metastasize into a national fifth column of hostile saboteurs.'Begin repatriating': German chancellor admits it's time to give Syrian migrants the boot
The Alternative for Germany party has spent over a decade sounding the alarm about the fallout of mass migration in Europe. For its efforts, the German political establishment has sought to ban, vilify, disarm, debank, and criminalize the party and its members.
Now that imported crime has become too much to bear — such that Berlin is once again a dangerous place for Jews and homosexuals — and the AFD has become too popular to ignore, a leading German official has joined the chorus of those seeking to repatriate so-called asylum seekers from Syria.
'41.8% of all people suspected of crimes in Germany last year — a year that saw a nearly 6% increase in year-over-year violent crimes — were foreign nationals.'
Chancellor Friedrich Merz — whose center-right coalition consisting of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union parties is neck and neck in the polls with the AFD — struck a new tone last week, suggesting that the bulk of the over one million Syrians who flooded into the country over the past decade should hit the road.
Merz suggested further that he'll work with Syria's terrorist president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to help facilitate the return, reported Politico.
"The civil war in Syria is over," said Merz. "There are now no longer any grounds for asylum in Germany, which means we can begin repatriating people."
The chancellor noted further that the Syrians temporarily dwelling in Europe have a responsibility to rebuild their war-torn nation.
"Without these people, reconstruction will not be possible," said Merz. "Those in Germany who then refuse to return to the country can, of course, be deported in the near future."
Marc Bernhard, an AFD lawmaker, recently told PBS' "Frontline" that of the 1 to 1.2 million Syrians now in Germany, "Most of them don't have jobs. Most of them are not well integrated. That's exactly the issue."
Fewer than 290,000 Syrian nationals were reportedly employed in Germany last year.
So-called asylum seekers from Syria receive over $500 a month under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act as well as other benefits, including housing support, dental care, and health insurance.
'These people must return to their homeland.'
In addition to draining citizen resources, Syrians in Germany are also grossly over-represented in crime statistics.
Mass migration to Germany from the Middle East has coincided in recent years with a massive spike in rape and other violent crimes.
A government-commissioned study revealed in early 2018 that there was a 10.4% increase in violent crime at the height of the immigration crisis. Deutsche Welle reported that 90% of this violent crime increase was attributable to immigrants, predominantly males between the ages of 14 and 30.
Foreign nationals have continued to commit an alarming number of crimes in the years since. Federal police crime statistics indicate that 41.8% of all people suspected of crimes in Germany last year — a year that saw a nearly 6% increase in year-over-year violent crimes — were foreign nationals.
The top five nationalities of non-German suspects in 2024 were: Syrian, 114,889 suspects; Turkish, 93,253 suspects; Ukrainian, 55,669 suspects; Romanian, 65,041 suspects; and Afghani, 49,427 suspects.
The imported crime problem became so bad last year that Olaf Scholz, the former German chancellor who long championed predecessor Angela Merkel's open-borders policies, acknowledged that criminal noncitizens should be deported.
Speaking a month after an Afghan migrant butchered a police officer at an anti-jihad demonstration in Mannheim, Germany, Scholz said, "It outrages me when someone who has found protection here commits the most serious of crimes."
"Such criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan," added Scholz.
Just weeks after Scholz dared upset the open-borders leftists in the Bundestag, a 26-year-old Syrian migrant butchered three people — two men ages 56 and 67 and a 56-year-old woman — and left another six grievously wounded at a Christian music festival in Solingen.
The situation has deteriorated further in the months since, prompting Scholz's successor and other German establishmentarians to echo the AFD's calls for action; however, they appear unwilling to fully embrace mass deportations. Instead, they are reportedly entertaining the prospect of deportation of criminal Syrian nationals.
Merz indicated last week that he would speak to al-Sharaa about deporting Syrians convicted of crimes back to their homeland.
The AFD clearly isn't interested in such half-measures.
"We say quite clearly: Syrians must now have their protected status revoked because the reason for their fleeing no longer applies," AFD co-leader Alice Weidel said two days after German authorities arrested a Syrian man suspected of preparing a jihadist attack in Berlin. "These people must return to their homeland."
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Scottish axe girl was defending beaten 13-year-old, witness claims
Witnesses have given conflicting stories surrounding the axe-wielding Scottish girl whose story has captured headlines.
After a 12-year-old Scottish girl was charged with weapons possession, rumors swirled that she was fending off the pursuit of an unruly migrant, forcing her to wield both an axe and a large knife.
Now, the accused immigrant has spoken out and provided a conflicting account that seemingly reveals one side is not telling the truth.
'She has a severe concussion and swelling inside of her head.'
"I never touched her. I didn't hit her, I swear on my life, I have a baby now. I would never hurt someone," Fatos Ali Dumana told the Daily Mail.
Dumana, a 21-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, wondered why the 12-year-old girl was "messing" with him while possessing weapons.
"If I did hurt the girl, why didn't the police arrest me? They have done nothing to me," Dumana insisted. "They saw from the CCTV cameras from Farmfoods [supermarket] that she was stopping me go on my way to the shop."
Dumana also alleged that another bystander witnessed him being attacked and labeled a "f***ing migrant."
"I did not hit them; I am a human not an animal," he added.
Police Scotland had previously told Blaze News through spokeswoman Lisa Smith that "no adults" were "arrested or charged" in relation to the same incident.
However, a reporter claiming to have spoken to the 12-year-old girl's family, as well as another alleged independent witness, has provided an incredibly contradictory take on what happened that day.
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An X user who goes by the name Aesthetica claimed to have spoken to and worked directly with the family in order to set up a fundraiser for to pay for the hospital bills of one of the girls allegedly present at the scene.
According to the story attached to the fundraiser, the 12-year-old in question is named Lola and was accompanied by her sister Ruby, 13, and friend Mayah, 13. The story describes "foreign nationals" directing "inappropriate sexual remarks at Lola."
After telling the "migrants" to leave them alone, one of the girls was "viciously attacked" by an adult female, the story alleged, who pulled her to the ground by her hair as "both migrants proceeded to kick Ruby in the head on the ground."
It was at this point Lola allegedly retrieved an axe and knife to scare off the attackers, prompting the "foreign national" to film the aftermath.
Ruby was allegedly hospitalized after the attack with a "severe concussion," but the migrants were not arrested, even though Lola was, leaving her as the alleged 12-year-old girl who was charged by Scottish police.
Days later, a young girl purporting to be Mayah posted videos on TikTok corroborating the story from the fundraiser.
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TikTok user Mayah Anderson said she, Ruby, and Lola were present when a man made inappropriate remarks toward the 12-year-old. They told the man to stop, as he was speaking to a minor.
As the altercation escalated, the alleged witness said that the man's sister attacked Ruby, allegedly causing head injuries.
"This is his sister. For everybody saying his wife, it's not his wife," the young girl claimed. "His sister then grabs my friend Ruby from behind, and both of them, the male and the female, jump on my friend, start kicking her in the head, punching her in the face. And she actually had to get sent to hospital. She has a severe concussion and swelling inside of her head."
The girl claimed that the man told police and stated on social media that the woman is his sister.
Anderson said that after she called police, Lola pulled out her weapons — which she had, unbeknownst to the group — and soon fled.
The teen also alleged that the man in question acted violently while in police custody and even spit on them.
X user Aesthetica told Blaze News that the family, including mother Elaine Thomson, has received threats and now fears speaking out publicly. The family has also run into problems obtaining hospital records, Aesthetica claims.
Blaze News has reached out to Scottish police and asked about the claims regarding a man assaulting police and the child's alleged hospitalization, as well as access to any CCTV footage.
Police Scotland had previously told Blaze News that revealing any information from the police report would violate Scottish law.
Blaze News also attempted to contact Mayah Anderson, but the messages were not deliverable through social media.
The fundraiser has reached over $115,000 USD at the time of this writing.
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Scottish police blame axe-wielding girl for altercation, reveal nationality of migrant
Western countries were rocked this week by footage of a young girl wielding an axe and large knife as she was allegedly approached by migrants.
After the video garnered over 20 million views, Scottish police apprehended the young girl and charged her for having a "bladed weapon" in St Ann Lane, Dundee, Scotland.
Rumors circulated that the girl and her younger sister were approached by a Muslim man when she is seen screaming on the video, "Don't f**king touch us."
"Get the f**k away from us," the other girl yelled.
Now, Police Scotland have seemingly placed blame on the young girl and revealed the nationality of the adult involved.
'A 12-year-old girl has been charged with being in possession of offensive weapons.'
In a statement provided to Blaze News, Chief Superintendent Nicola Russell said police were "aware of misinformation being shared on social media."
The apparent misinformation was in relation to "an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday, 23 August, 2025."
The young girl was originally reported to have been 14 years old, but police said they were given false information and that she is actually 12.
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"A 12-year-old girl has been charged with being in possession of offensive weapons. She will be referred to the relevant authorities, and our enquiries are ongoing," the statement continued. "We would like to thank the local community for their help with our investigation and would urge the public not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances."
Police Scotland had previously told Blaze News through Spokeswoman Lisa Smith that "no adults" were "arrested or charged" in relation to the same incident.
The troubling footage came from the Lochee area of Scotland, which the Daily Mail described as "one of the most poverty-ridden areas" in all of Scotland.
Scottish content creator Robin Alderslowe corroborated those claims in a comment to Blaze News, saying, "These kind of areas have a lot of violence, and I've seen weapons brandished several times like this before."
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Space X owner Elon Musk reacted to the story on his platform on Tuesday, saying on X that he wanted to help fund legal actions against Britain's "corrupt officials" who have aided in the "rape of Britain."
Lewis Brackpool, the director of investigations at Restore Britain who originally commented on the story, reiterated his previous statement to Blaze News and asked, "When will liberals and progressives concede that multiculturalism has failed?"
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