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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
A viral December video alleging widespread child care fraud in Minnesota prompted federal freezes, multiple probes and national political fallout, but state compliance checks found the centers in 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...
Somali immigrants show relatively high labor force participation in recent data—often around 69–70 percent—yet they frequently register higher unemployment and lower earnings than U.S.‑born workers an...
Somali community leaders and advocacy groups in Minnesota have pushed back forcefully against broad-brush accusations, decried harassment and economic fallout from federal actions, sought meetings wit...
Somali Americans’ access to SNAP is impeded by a tangle of policy shifts, aggressive fraud investigations and data-sharing demands, and a swirl of disinformation and political targeting that together ...