Minnesota DHS Used DEI Hiring Policies in Offices Responsible for Fraud Oversight

WATCH: Minnesota DHS Used DEI Hiring Policies in Offices Responsible for Fraud Oversight

In the latest episode of The Patriot Perspective, host Gregory Lyakhov examined what may be one of the most staggering government failures in modern American history: more than $9 billion in fraud tied to Minnesota’s public programs, much of it involving networks operating within the state’s Somali community. 

The number alone is shocking. 

Yet what matters more than assigning vague political blame is understanding how such an enormous collapse occurred—and why it was entirely predictable.

One point must be made clearly at the outset. Whether Minnesota’s governor or individual politicians were directly complicit remains unclear. 

Proving intent or personal involvement requires evidence that investigators are still uncovering. But the absence of proven complicity does not mean the absence of responsibility. 

What is clear is that Minnesota built a system structurally incapable of preventing fraud, and that system was shaped by aggressive DEI hiring and governance policies.

For years, Minnesota’s Health and Human Services division—the very agency responsible for detecting and preventing fraud—prioritized DEI “health equity” and hiring initiatives over core oversight functions. 

Entire offices were reshaped around racial and identity-based frameworks rather than technical competence, auditing experience, or enforcement capacity. 

The result was not inclusion; it was institutional blindness.

Fraud prevention is not dependent on race. Rather, it is technical, adversarial, and uncomfortable. 

It requires skepticism, data analysis, documentation checks, and the willingness to say no—even when doing so risks political backlash. 

DEI frameworks actively undermine those requirements by reframing enforcement as discrimination and scrutiny as bias. 

When oversight staff are selected and evaluated based on ideological alignment rather than skill, accountability collapses.

The largest fraud schemes in Minnesota history were not hidden. They operated openly, year after year, while red flags were ignored and whistleblowers were dismissed. 

Billions flowed out the door because the institutions designed to stop fraud had been repurposed to avoid “harm” instead of preventing crime.

This scandal also raises a broader issue rarely addressed honestly: immigration policy. 

Lyakhov argued that banning all immigration is neither realistic nor desirable. 

The United States has a birth rate of roughly 1.7, well below the 2.1 replacement rate. Legal immigration is necessary to sustain economic growth and demographic stability.

But immigration policy must be selective and merit-based. Importing large populations from regions with weak governance, low institutional trust, and limited integration incentives—while simultaneously stripping enforcement mechanisms at home—is a recipe for disaster. 

Immigration should strengthen society, not overwhelm its systems.

Minnesota’s fraud crisis should be treated as a warning to all of America. 

When ideology replaces competence, when DEI replaces accountability, and when enforcement is treated as oppression, fraud becomes inevitable. 

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