You would assume that when foreign couriers are transporting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country right under the noses of federal officials, somebody would be curious about where all that money comes from.
Right?
Right?!
Yeah, well, no. For years, Somali and other foreign couriers have been packing suitcases full of cash, declaring them at airports legally, and going their merry way with nobody seeming to be curious about where all that money came from.
Somali Daycare Fraud couriers moving luggage packed with over a MILLION in cash, through the MSP airport daily, moving up to $350 MILLION dollars a year.
The worst part is that this broke 7 YEARS AGO, and they were tipped off 12 YEARS AGO about it. Our greatest enemy is from… pic.twitter.com/kkEI9m1PVa
— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) January 8, 2026
Somali Daycare Fraud couriers moving luggage packed with over a MILLION in cash, through the MSP airport daily, moving up to $350 MILLION dollars a year.
The worst part is that this broke 7 YEARS AGO, and they were tipped off 12 YEARS AGO about it. Our greatest enemy is from within, and they are also robbing us blind.
These people need to be removed from office and the ones in the Somali community deported, NOW! This is a huge nationwide issue. We the people have had it!
Carrying cash of any amount is not, in itself, illegal, although many an American has had his or her money seized as potentially being the proceeds of illegal activity if they don’t fill out all the proper paperwork. It can then take years of legal wrangling to get the money back from the feds in a civil forfeiture case.
Apparently, that’s not the case if you are classified as a refugee, who one would assume would be less likely to have millions of dollars lying around to fly out of the country in suitcases. In that case, the feds aren’t even curious about where that money came from, even after investigations are opened and convictions have been made in massive fraud cases.
BREAKING: TSA data reveal nearly $700 million in declared US cash flagged in luggage by Somali couriers departing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and yet the Biden The White House told TSA to stand down.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security… pic.twitter.com/yTONUFUbRl
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) January 12, 2026
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Administration (TSA) flagged approximately $692 million ($342.4 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025) in declared U.S. currency detected in passengers’ luggage departing from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)—roughly $1 million per day over the two years—John Solomon, the editor-in-chief of Just the News reports.
The investigative reports state that most of these cash transports were carried by Somali-American couriers on flights to Somalia or other Middle Eastern destinations. The cash was legally declared (as required for amounts over $10,000 under U.S. law), so no immediate seizures or arrests occurred at the airport. However, federal authorities are now probing these movements as potentially linked to money laundering and the export of proceeds from large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota.
Federal investigators suspect fraud proceeds were converted to cash and exported via couriers (often using informal hawala networks common in Somali culture for remittances). Some probes have allegedly linked funds to regions in Somalia controlled by al-Shabaab (a terrorist group).
Source: The Tennessee Star
A million dollars a day has been flown out of the Minneapolis airport for years and the TSA has been carefully documenting it to ensure all the paperwork is done, while at the same time federal prosecutors have been plodding along convicting Somalis of billion-dollar frauds.
Make it make sense.
We’re at the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of millions in cash were openly shipped overseas through our airports. As Homeland Security Chair, I’m launching an investigation because Americans deserve to know where this money went.https://t.co/8N0i7KkiLX
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 14, 2026
The cash didn’t just come from the Minnesota frauds, but from Somali communities around the country.
Federal agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio airport.
Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.
The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin who flew out of the Columbus airport en route to either the airports in Minneapolis or Atlanta, and the couriers always declared the cash as legally required on documents, officials said.
“Typically, when they go to Minneapolis, they drop off the cash and then a subsequent courier travels abroad from Minneapolis to Dubai through Amsterdam,” one official familiar with the investigation told Just the News on Tuesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
Multiple Somali communities involved
The officials said they appear to have uncovered a massive cash movement operation that gathered money from multiple Somali immigrant communities in the West, Midwest and South that eventually brought luggage filled with currency to Minneapolis for flights overseas.
Just the News reported exclusively last week that TSA detected nearly $700 million in cash in luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport in 2024 and 2025, frequently headed on a route to Amsterdam and then Dubai where U.S. officials lost the tracking. The TSA agents routinely alerted investigators during the Biden years, but there was little interest in probing the money movements further until President Donald Trump took office last year.
The cash movements out of Minnesota’s largest airports by the Somali immigrant couriers were 90 to 99 times larger than the total amounts moved out of major international airports like John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City or Seattle and Atlanta, officials said.
No doubt there is an innocent explanation that has nothing to do with the massive fraud scandals. It may be true that about 80% of Somalis in America are on some form of welfare, but surely there are honest Somali billionaires who like to employ people to fly a million dollars a day in cash abroad.
What else could explain this? Obviously, nobody in the federal government was suspicious until recently, so it must be legit, right?
Because the alternative explanation is that our government officials are involved, as they were with the Somali frauds that have sucked up 50% of Minnesota’s Medicaid spending, and God alone knows how much else around the country, such as Lewiston, Maine, or in this case, Ohio.
It wasn’t even the TSA that ignored the cash. They appropriately flagged it and were told to just ignore it. People higher up the ladder clearly told them to.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., has taken note of the Just the News reporting, revealing to popular podcaster Joe Rogan this week he is launching an investigation to see if the exports of cash were tied to the fraud.
“The Somalis were so good at it that they were sending hundreds of millions of dollars back overseas,” Paul told Rogan in a podcast that aired Tuesday. “So I think we are at the tip of the iceberg.”
“You have to check off a box when it goes through the airport, and they weren’t even hiding that they were sending it back. So the poor Somalis sent like $700 million over the last couple of years,” he added.
The revelations of a massive money movement operation based in America’s Somali immigrant communities come amidst an investigation by federal prosecutors in Minnesota into a fraud scheme estimated to have fleeced taxpayers of as much as $9 billion in welfare that predominantly went to Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis area.
How does $700 million go out the door in two years from one airport alone, with nobody looking into it? Especially when the people moving the money are associated with others who are known to be committing welfare fraud on a scale unknown in the entire world?
I leave it to you to speculate. I know what I think.
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