The main activity at the Minneapolis airport seems to have been …
… the transport of money to Somalia.
Okay
@DataRepublican, and I did some general numbers on the SomaliFraud cash going through Minneapolis airport.According to reports, over 2 years, they moved roughly $700MM through the airport. …
That would essentially mean that the Somalis were taking a $1 million dollar duffle bag through the airport — EVERY SINGLE DAY — for two years.
Further, we can assume that this is only the money that was flagged.
And there are only something like 107,000 Somalis in Minnesota. All the money going to Somalia through the airport is not just from Minnesota, however.
But apparently a great many of the Somalis of Minnesota work at the airport:
Well, after some quick discussing with regular travelers of the MN airports.
The Somalis run the airport.
They’re the ground crews.
They’re the airport staff.
They’re friggin TSA.
I have noticed something of the sort, although not as extreme, in airports such as Logan in Boston. There seems to be a large Somali or at least Muslim (head scarves, etc.) presence in the TSA ranks there.
Here’s the original John Solomon report:
“It was like a cash ATM draining American dollars and moving them overseas, and nobody in the Biden administration seemed to think anything of it,” one official with direct knowledge told Just the News, speaking on condition of anonymity. “These couriers were openly flaunting what they’ve doing by legally declaring the cash they were taking out.”
Minneapolis travelers alone had $342.37 million in their luggage in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025, and the totals nationwide are likely to be much higher, the officials told Just the News.
The flow of the Somali couriers’ cash out of Minneapolis was 99 percent larger than the foreign cash detected or declared in 2025 moving in luggage from the airports in Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta or John F. Kennedy International in New York City, the officials said. And it was 90% larger than the amounts that left Seattle, a major hub for Asian travelers. …
Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Tuesday night that he believes the current Minnesota fraud scandal will embolden Congress to make changes to the law to give federal authorities more power to investigate the exodus of U.S. money to foreign countries, especially from illegal aliens.
I wonder whether such a bill would get bipartisan support from anyone but John Fetterman – maybe not even from him.
Of course none of this is being reported by the Left Media, nor elected officials. I don’t watch FOX either, so don’t know if they are reporting on it.
I thought there were laws about carrying a lot of money out of the country. Am I wrong?
The airport needs to be cleaned out.
I had occasion to go through that airport many times between 2010 and 2014, and while I didn’t count how many people who worked there were Somalis, it was a lot of them and I discussed this with others at the time.
Insane to believe that all that Somali hiring was anything other than ethnic favoritism.
That’s pretty funny. I also traveled through MSP several times on the way to visit my adopted Liberian son, who was living in Fargo at the time.
I wasn’t looking for Somalis, but in both airports there were a large number of Africans. There were a large contingent of Liberians living there– who had been working in the oil fields before the great recession.
It struck me as ironic that this large contingent of Africans were living in one of the coldest parts of the country. I assumed it was because that’s where the jobs were– especially in Williston. They were making good money without any particular job skills.
Apparently they were making great money in Minnesota!
@Brian E:Apparently they were making great money in Minnesota!
Churches were paid by FedGov to bring them there. That’s why they congregated there in the first place–didn’t have to do with jobs for Somalis… Once they had a critical mass, and being who they are, the rest followed.
1st;Pursue and bring to ground those who facilitated this massive theft by unsophisticated, third-world Somali ‘refugees’.
2nd; where did the billions end up? Kickbacks to facilitators in the States is a certainty.
Kickbacks…
Oh yeah.
In the form of plenty of money.
More importantly, plenty of VOTES.
(That’s no doubt the key to the TRUCKER racket, too…and who knows what else….)
Related:
“The Whining Of Jacob Frey”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whining-jacob-frey
Key graf (RTWT):
How was this ever legal in the first place?
I remember when Biden Inc wanted to flag every bank transaction over $600 for fear we would be funding something nefarious.
That was my weekly food bill when we had five boys at home!
That the Democrats ( read Marxist) Propaganda Ministry condone this fraud scam thay are happy its going on.
Makes me wonder if it isn’t %25 or more of the federal spending isn’t stolen every year.
Oh noooos, Congress might form a committee to debate this. Well, now I know they’re serious. Having Muslims on TDS duty is a sick joke that is yet another example of how unserious we are and have been.
Everyone associated with Walz and Frey or any org responsible for tax fund distribution, law enforcement and airport management and security need to be fired and investigated immediately. Bring in Feds or 3rd party to staff these positions in the interm.
This is troubling on many levels. But a couple minor quibbles:
–according to the articles I’ve read this cash was declared on legal forms (which means this is the cash we *know* of and it’s possible many more millions were basically smuggled out of the country)
–I bring that up because okay so we see many Somalis working on the airport, but this is cash being transported legally (ah but do they help cover for cash being transported which is not openly declared?)
–no not “a $1 million dollar duffle bag every day” but a whole bunch of duffle bags stuffed with cash every day (which add up to one million which is still a serious problem)
It’s legal to take cash out of the country. I’m surprised so many people think it isn’t. Depends on how much cash you may have to fill out some forms. Carefully keeping your carry-on cash under the limit that requires declaration for the purpose of evading declaration might be illegal (“structuring”), but that the limit is so low relative to the cost of a plane ticket that it might not be worth doing, and you’d be doing that like fifty times.