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New reporting based on statements from Homeland Security and TSA personnel says that nearly $700 million in U.S. cash was flagged in passenger luggage leaving Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airpor...
There is no contemporaneous, sourced reporting among the documents provided that was just stopped at –St. Paul International Airport carrying $800,000; the coverage instead documents a broader federal...
Yes — federal immigration agents have been present and active at multiple U.S. airports in recent months: routine ICE flights operate out of some airports and agents have been conducting document chec...
Federal officials are investigating roughly $700 million in U.S. cash that the Transportation Security Administration flagged in passenger luggage leaving Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport ...
Federal reporting shows that Transportation Security Administration screening flagged nearly $700 million in U.S. cash detected in passengers’ luggage leaving Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airpor...
No — the arrests of roughly 100 clergy at were carried out by airport and local police during an demonstration, not by ICE, and officials say the clergy were detained for trespassing or failing to com...
saw dozens of protest-related arrests during January 2026 demonstrations against an enforcement surge — reporting cites roughly 29–30 people arrested over a single weekend and about 100 clergy detaine...
Federal agencies flagged roughly in currency carried in passenger luggage departing over 2024–2025 — about $342.37 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025 — prompting an / inquiry into whether thos...
Reporting does not produce a single, authoritative total for money transferred from Minneapolis to Somalia; available sources document a mix of legal remittances, licensed transfers through services l...
Federal records that reporters have cited about massive cash movements out of in 2024–2025 are chiefly screening totals obtained via FOIA and statements to reporters from officials; those records show...
Reporting from multiple outlets shows two related but distinct phenomena: law enforcement arrested roughly 100 clergy members who were at airport (those arrests were carried out by airport and local p...
-clergy-arrests-january">Roughly 99–100 clergy were arrested during the demonstration and were issued misdemeanor citations for trespassing and failure to comply with a peace officer, then released fr...
Community members in physically and digitally confronted during the January by blocking access roads and airports, trailing and documenting agents in neighborhoods, and directly interposing themselves...
The reporting indicates that the principal "official" documents behind the are screening records obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests and statements from officials who confirmed that TSA h...
Federal immigration agents have ramped up enforcement activity at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP), conducting document checks on jet bridges and detaining airport employees while the ...
Federal law enforcement has acknowledged nearly $700 million in cash flagged in luggage at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport over the past two years and is examining those flows as part of br...
Documentation from prosecutors and news outlets shows that large amounts of money tied to Minnesota fraud schemes have been moved offshore through wires, foreign bank accounts and complex laundering c...