What angers me most about the Minnesota situation is not even the fraud, but the sheer ingratitude behind it. I just spent several weeks in Vietnam, a country where people genuinely love America. History makes that fact almost surreal, but it is absolutely true. For so many people, their greatest dream is to see the United States, not even to immigrate, just to visit. Take the night watch guy at the studio I rent in Saigon. Every night he sat there reading English books. But he was not studying English. He had already mastered that. He was studying American history, culture, and customs, preparing himself for a visit that may never happen. I have heard versions of that story countless times, not just in Vietnam, but across the world. There are hundreds of millions of people, maybe billions, for whom America represents hope and aspiration, and most of them will never come close to it. Having seen that reality so often, the ingratitude by people who actually made it is so infuriating. You see it in the open hostility of some of these figures, who resent the country that gave them everything. But you also see it in the silent betrayal by those who defraud the system. That fraud is theft from the hosts themselves, from taxpayers, from real human beings who worked hard, acted generously, and welcomed others in good faith, only to be exploited. For me, it is that contrast, between those who revere America from afar and those who loot it from within, that makes this so unforgivable.

It is striking how many people fixate on fraud enforcement while missing the forest for the trees. When you engage in mass migration from low-trust societies into high-trust ones, you inevitably produce corruption and industrial-scale abuse of public systems. You cannot have state-funded welfare without a high-trust culture, and you cannot preserve that culture while importing large numbers of people who do not share its basic assumptions. No amount of audits or enforcement surges will fix that.

The notion that people can come to the United States and defraud taxpayers of a sum approaching the entire GDP of their home country is the most damning illustration of failed immigration policy imaginable, exposing a system that is broken at every level and in every respect.