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A tense exchange unfolded during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as Senator John Kennedy pressed witness Schwartz with blunt questions on Somali Fraud in Minnesota. Kennedy repeatedly raised the issue of whether ethnicity—specifically Somali ethnicity—was relevant to a discussion about theft and public safety. Kennedy’s remarks, framed around what he called “Minnesota thieves,” sparked immediate backlash from Democrats and civil rights advocates, who accused him of racial stereotyping and inflaming anti-immigrant sentiment.
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