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Ted Cruz: “Welfare fraud, fraudulent collection of welfare payments, an…”

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And millions of that money sent back ends up directly in the pockets in the coffers of Al Shabaab. And it is the Minnesota state taxpayers. So we detailed this on Monday how Welfare fraud, fraudulent collection of welfare payments, an entire welfare system set up seemingly on the face of it to encourage fraud, to facilitate fraud, is resulting in Minnesota taxpayers sending millions of dollars to radical Islamic terrorists. This is the same ideology. Like what do you do if you happen to be a white kid at the University of Minnesota? (30:26–30:45)

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