EXCLUSIVE from me and colleague
@MaryMargOlohan : A dozen foreign-born individuals were just busted for operating fake daycares in California and stealing more than $10 million from taxpayers,
@realDailyWire has learned.
More than 250 law enforcement officers arrested the accused early Thursday morning and executed search warrants at their San Diego homes, which they claimed to be using as childcare centers.Eleven of them are naturalized US Citizens, while one has a green card and a pending application for citizenship.
They hail from Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan.
Abdulrahman Ayman Alawad, a 25-year-old who was born in Syria, claimed his daycare looked after 23 children in March 2026 and 25 children in April 2026, according to the DOJ.
Surveillance recordings taken during 57 days of those two months showed just one day of children coming and going from the facility, according to federal authorities. It happened to be the same day a state inspector showed up for an unannounced visit.
Abdulrahman and the children showed up only after the inspector arrived, the DOJ said. Border crossing records also showed that Abdulrahman and several other defendants were not present in the US when they submitted attendance records purporting to care for children at their California centers.