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Walz deputy erupts at ICE and fellow Dem, torches Laken Riley Act in fiery tweetstorm as scandals pile up

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As Minnesota’s executive branch is roiled by the burgeoning Feeding Our Future-Somali fraud scandal, Gov. Tim Walz’s top deputy has used her latest tweets to attack federal immigration enforcement – even dinging a Democratic colleague for a prior vote thanking ICE for its work.The Walz administration is facing a major social services fraud scandal in which federal prosecutors found "schemes stacked upon schemes" operated by Somali-run nonprofits that siphoned hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from child-nutrition and Medicaid housing programs.Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan initially slammed Pr...