President Trump announced Friday that he will end temporary protected status for “Somalis in Minnesota” over rampant fraud in the state, which he attributed to “Somali gangs.”
“Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota,” the president added. “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing.
“Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER! President DJT.”
Since the 1990s, the TPS program has granted humanitarian relief to the migrants from several disaster-plagued countries.
The federal program allows migrants to enjoy temporary legal status in the US and obtain work permits.
The Biden administration extended the TPS designation for Somalis in the US in July 2024, through March 17, 2026.
As of March, there were 705 Somalis enrolled in the program. It’s unclear how many of those individuals are in Minnesota.
In an X post aimed at a detractor, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Somali American, noted the limited impact Trump’s announcement will have on Minnesota’s roughly 37,000 Somali-born residents. --->READ MORE HERE
Millions of dollars in taxpayer money stolen as part of a series of massive Minnesota welfare fraud schemes may have been funneled to Somalia-based terror group al-Shabab, according to a report.
The radical Islamic terror group, which is a longstanding ally of al Qaeda and considered a threat to US interests, has likely been the beneficiary of money stolen in a spate of scams and sent to Somalia by the criminals defrauding the North Star State, City Journal reported Wednesday, citing federal counterterrorism sources.
“This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of al-Shabab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” a source who worked on a federal investigation into Minnesotans attempting to join overseas terror groups, told the outlet.
“There is an issue here that is real, and if there is ever an event that is traceable back to these funds, or to people from this area, then this situation will take on a whole new set of optics,” the source warned.
Minnesota has been plagued by several high-profile fraud scandals in recent years, the largest being the Feeding Our Future scheme, for which prosecutors have racked up 56 criminal convictions in what they allege was a plot to steal $300 million from a federally funded program meant to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic.
In recent months, the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office has uncovered multimillion-dollar fraud schemes targeting the state’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program and a federally funded autism services for children program.
The state’s top prosecutor believes “billions of dollars in taxpayer money” has been stolen as a result of fraud.
“To be clear, this is not an isolated scheme,” acting US Attorney Joseph Thompson said in September when announcing the first charges in the autism fraud scheme. “From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money. --->READ MORE HERE
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