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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...
Minnesota authorities’ investigations into fraud schemes tied to members of the Somali community span several years and involve multiple large cases that federal prosecutors have said amounted to “hun...
Claims that “88%” of Somali Americans are on welfare and that Somalis stole “more than $1 billion” are widespread in recent commentary, but reporting shows a complex mix of documented fraud investigat...
Federal probes and accusations involving Rep. Ilhan Omar in current reporting center on two older immigration/marriage allegations that investigators closed without charges and a new, large Minnesota ...
Available official statewide crime data tools exist but do not break out crime rates by neighborhood ethnicity; local reporting links higher crime in some Minneapolis neighborhoods like Cedar‑Riversid...
Governor Tim Walz has publicly said fraud “undermines trust in government” and vowed that “if you’re committing fraud… you are going to go to jail,” while disputing broad blame and pushing back agains...
Allegations of large-scale fraud tied to actors within Minnesota’s Somali community have become a national story and prompted political attacks; prosecutors have charged dozens in multiple schemes and...
Available sources show a large employment gap by gender within Minnesota’s Somali community in older census-era data — for example a 2000 Minneapolis snapshot reporting 65% of Somali men employed vers...
Federal and state prosecutions in Minnesota have involved multiple large fraud investigations tied to government benefit programs; many defendants in those prosecutions are reported to be members of t...
was the governor of during the period when major investigations and prosecutions of concentrated in the state’s were publicized and escalated in 2024–2026, and his handling of the matter became a foca...
ICE’s intensified focus on Minnesota is the result of an administratively driven surge — a concentrated deployment of enforcement personnel tied to the Trump administration’s declared crackdown and sp...
ICE operations described as targeting Somali neighborhoods in Minnesota have led to multiple reported stops, detentions and arrests — including U.S. citizens — and widespread accusations of racial pro...
Reporting about the Minnesota fraud schemes points to a central organized effort around Feeding Our Future and related nonprofits, and some outlets say an “alleged ringleader” outside the Somali commu...
Prosecutors’ recent Minnesota indictments and reporting tie many defendants to Somali-owned businesses and describe recruitment within the Somali community, but available sources do not show widesprea...
Differing population figures coming from Homeland Security messaging and the U.S. Census — and the political use of those figures — reverberate through federal funding formulas, political representati...
Civil‑rights organizations and Somali community groups have warned that the wave of fraud investigations targeting predominantly Somali defendants has fueled bias, harassment and real‑world harm to So...
Fact‑checkers found that key numerical claims President Trump made about Minnesota’s Somali community — that “like 88%” receive welfare and that Somalis stole “billions” every year or were responsible...
The public record assembled in the reporting reviewed shows widespread allegations that Minnesota officials—employees within the Department of Human Services and some Republican politicians—say whistl...
Recent reporting shows Somali community organisations have faced reputational harm in the United States amid a large federal fraud probe tied to nonprofits in Minnesota, prompting local leaders and of...
Local leaders describe / enforcement in as targeted, politicized and harmful to a broadly law‑abiding community, saying operations have sown fear, disrupted businesses and at times flouted due‑process...