#news 5 days before her m*rder, Melissa Hortman cast the deciding democrat vote to remove illegal migrants from MinnesotaCare health benefits - which would put an end to an entire arm of fraud that we now know is happening in the Somali migrant community. #Minnesota Nearly 100 Somali migrants have been charged, with dozens already convicted in the massive welfare fraud happening in Minnesota, under the watch of Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar and AG Keith Ellison - all three who have been implicated in the fraud that officials say totals $8 billion. Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman voted to yank illegal migrants from MinnesotaCare – the state's subsidized health insurance lifeline – back in June. Conservatives say with her vote, she struck the heart of the massive fraud empires that were operating in the migrant heavy state. By severing access to this $550 million gateway program, effective January 1, 2026, Hortman had a goal of starving the very networks implicated in the over $8 billion in welfare scams, from bogus autism therapies to terror-linked meal frauds. Experts say her vote dismantled entry points for exploitation, forcing fraudsters to scramble while it exposed deeper vulnerabilities in Governor Tim Walz's open-benefits regime. The expansion of MinnesotaCare to illegal migrants under Walz's watch, ballooned enrollment funneling state funds into a system conservatives say is a magnet for abuse. House Oversight Chairman James Comer's September letter to Walz blasted a "commingling" of funds between Medicaid's Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) and MinnesotaCare as a recipe for waste, with federal dollars indirectly bankrolling coverage for illegal migrants. Restricting access, per conservative analysts, would have rippled through interconnected schemes, eliminating money for migrants and the fraud schemes that were running rampant. In a state where Somali migrant communities – now under federal immigration crosshairs – dominate fraud h