TSA Flags Millions in Somali Cash That Left the Minneapolis Airport

IFA / Just the News : Jan 9, 2026
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These Somali cash flows have been reportedly well known in counterterrorism circles since 2016 due to concerns of money funding overseas terror groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab.

[IFAPray.org] Father, we pray for an end to the fraud in Minnesota. We also pray that taxpayer money will never again be used to fund terrorism! (Image: Pixabay)

As more and more continues to come out about Somali fraud in Minnesota, the Transportation Security Administration recently revealed that nearly $700 million in cash left the state in passengers' luggage over the past two years.

From Just the News:

The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers' luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport the last two years, a massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers, Homeland Security officials told Just the News.

The officials said the cash movements out of Minnesota's largest airport began about a decade ago—around the time Democrat Gov. Tim Walz took office—and has grown substantially in recent years.

Though all were legally declared according to US Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage—some as much as $1 million in a single trip—raised regular suspicions among TSA agents.

The TSA said that Minneapolis travelers left the airport with $342 million in their luggage in 2024 and $349 million in 2025, although nationwide totals are expected to be much higher. Officials also confirmed that much of this cash was being carried by Somali couriers traveling to Dubai via Amsterdam.

These couriers are believed to be part of a larger system, as, according to Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek, hundreds of billions of dollars leave the country every year through remittances to countries like China, Mexico, and more. Just the News notes that a "sizable portion" of this involved illegal immigrants, many of whom entered America under the Biden administration.

These Somali cash flows have been reportedly well known in counterterrorism circles since 2016 due to concerns of money funding overseas terror groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab. And, with what we now know about the Somali fraud in Minnesota, these fears were not unfounded. As we covered in late November, money stolen from Minnesota taxpayers through fraud is being sent back to Somalia, and some of it has even "wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab."

The Biden administration didn't seem to care about the massive amounts of cash leaving America, but the Homeland Security Investigations unit has reportedly begun investigating. Let's pray for an end to all fraud in Minnesota, and let's pray that American tax dollars would never again end up in the hands of terrorists! Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here