SOMALIS ‘MOB’ Minnesota Airports… as Trump “Marks Them All” as ENEMY COMBATANTS

Minnesota's fraudsters better think about leaving town before it's too late.

ICE agents now going out in full force in Minnesota's Twin Cities communities as the Trump administration steps up the fight against illegal immigration.

Operation Metro Surge is in full swing. Hundreds have been taken off the street.

Now Minneapolis has been a sanctuary city since 2003.

Wow.

Just send the money out of the country.

Just some of the discoveries found in dozens of files and photos.

Defendants, get this, took taxpayer money.

Oh, they're driving Porsches.

That was obviously meant to feed hungry kids during the pandemic. And instead they used it to buy fancy cars, property, jewelry. This is crazy. In some instances they were on video popping champagnes at an opulent Maldives resort. Wow, beach vacation. In one text a message said to one of the fraudsters, you're going to be the richest 25 year old, inshallah, which means God willing.

Now the documents also feature exhibits from a recent federal trial and they include confirmation

of that Maldives. God's not okay with stealing from

sick kids. A lakefront property in Minnesota bought again with your money, wire transfers to China and East Africa. To China? It's incredible. One set of defendants spent about $3 million in cash and then sent that money over to Kenya. Another group conspired to basically build the state out of $47 million, claiming to have served millions of kids during the pandemic. They didn't distribute a single meal.

Now, so far, federal prosecutors have convicted 61 people, Sean, and this probe is widening and the scandal continues. The investigations are ongoing.

And the money didn't just go to one overseas country, it went to every overseas country. arresting criminals of all backgrounds.

Operation beginning before dawn.

The frigid temperatures, that means that people aren't out and about.

That's a good plan, they'll be at home, staying warm.

It makes it a little tougher.

We were given exclusive access to see firsthand why 100 federal agents ice who say you don't always go after the worst of the worst

I say that on top of the worst of the worst that we our job is to after the worst of the worst. I say that on top of the worst of the worst, that we, our job is to enforce the immigration laws.

ICE agents swarming this home outside Minneapolis. Looking for a suspect charged with criminal conduct.

Okay, whoever's in that home is hanging out

with the worst of the worst. Not their original target, but also an undocumented immigrant, ICE says. We're also searching for immigrants with criminal histories from Somalia. Minnesota has the largest Somali community in the country.

The vast majority are here legally and many are US citizens.

home and they find people who aren't the dangerous criminal but are living with them, possibly conspiring with them and they're also here illegally, why would anyone be against that type of collateral arrest?

That hasn't stopped President Trump from railing against their African homeland.

We always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster.

The president's escalating rhetoric follows convictions involving members of Minnesota's Somali community who stole millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

The mistakes of a few individuals can never be used to generalize or stereotype an entire community.

It is not an operation targeting the Somali community. Right. We're not looking for any certain type of person. We're looking for people that are here illegally.

Exactly.

The local officials are sounding the alarm saying US citizens are being wrongly detained they're not

full speed he tackled me push me like the restaurant what did he do to get targeted this in what is going on he didn't see much hair but he must have

done something must have attacked agent on that specific incident overnight, but have not yet heard back.

It is not clear how long this federal surge will last.

It's going to last for a long time because local leaders are doing everything they can

to stop it.

I'm in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood and I wanted to speak to you about what we've been seeing here in the Twin Cities area as well as- What have you been seeing? Throughout the state of Minnesota. President Trump has the full force of the federal government targeting the Somali community. That's not true. Our neighbors have been detained, at times even American citizens and families have been torn apart.

Okay, that's because American citizens like to throw themselves in the middle of an immigration operation that is not their business.

I'll know that it does not have to be this way and that you do have rights and I want

to run them by.

Oh, what are the rights?

First, when ICE or an ICE agent comes to your door, you have the right not to open and to request information. You can ask for a judicial warrant that's signed by a judge if they have a judicial warrant and not an administrative warrant uh... we we saw that play out earlier today uh... in the f building by the powers behind me

uh... in which an ice agent came saying that they had uh... warrants

uh... these elected officials really want to protect something here

investigators are tracking the web of fraud to other minnesota democrats such as congresswoman ilhan omar many of the suspects linked to the scheme live in her district, including a restaurant owner who hosted events for her.

So these folks live in her district.

She has since been convicted of stealing $12 million in COVID funds.

Meanwhile, representatives who were supposed to be working for the good of America think more than half the country is stupid.

with any of these people because the level of stupidity that they are displaying every single day is frankly embarrassing, not just in Congress- Intellectual stupidity. As Americans, and the fact that these people are allowed to say just the most ridiculous things tells you that the the dumbing of the United States has arrived. Wow.

How else do we get a Trump presidency again?

So if you agree with President Trump and you think fraud is bad and you want to come out and talk about how people like this should have known better and could have done something, you're an idiot. There's something wrong with you. You're part of the dumbing down of America according to her. Meanwhile the mayor of Minneapolis says he's going to Somalia. A few months from now in the next year I would very

but to be there with my friends to be there together. But these are people who

fled Somalia. My brothers and sisters I'm learning.

This whole thing is gonna be a photo op. If he goes, he's gonna go over there and get his picture taken, be surrounded by a security detail. The president says they don't even really have police in Somalia. It's very sad, the humanitarian disaster going on over there. But what's crazy is opposite of whatever President Trump stands for. President Trump comes out and says, you know what, we're going to crack down on fraud. There's been a lot of fraud in Minnesota. And what are they doing?

Certain parts of the country are deciding to hoist the Somali flag as a symbol of their resistance. But why is there resistance?

This would make Minnesota a magnet for more illegal immigrants. If I went to Russia, would I be expecting to get the sorts of benefits that Minnesota taxpayers are giving to people who are here illegally? will be given $7,000 worth of benefits.

That's crazy.

$7,000 per person.

In an era of unaffordability.

In the form of Minnesota.

This is just making things less affordable.

Paid for by Minnesota tax payers. That's crazy.

Over 17,000 people who have already enrolled for this program here in Minnesota in fiscal year 2025 alone, that is going to equate to at least $107 million

in this fiscal year.

That's fraud too, because if people aren't supposed to be in America, if they're here illegally and their government willingly gives them state benefits, that is fraud. That is state sponsored criminal activity. That is robbing Americans and legal residents

giving it to people who aren't even supposed to be here. And they're doing it in what, the name of compassion? The name of resisting the president?

That's terrible.

Noise where ICE agents are apparently- Oh, they're making noise.

We're ISIS. Oh, the frogs. This is crazy.

The noise and the signs and this protest, the group appearing outside of the Homewood Suites by Hilton- Oh, they Edina last night. Where ICE agents are staying. They believe ICE agents are staying there

while taking part in the U.S. impact on this.

Don't these people have jobs tomorrow morning or is this their job?

They want the hotel to stop collaborating with ICE. Plenty of police officers were in that area. It's right near Southdale Center.

Look at these people. This person right here has one of those Palestine related scarves that they're wearing. This person has a whole bunch of pins. They got some no king stuff. This is a hodgepodge of socialist causes

all rolled into a bunch of people standing at an ice hotel, freezing their butts off at 2am just to make noise and save America? This is like the fakest opposition I've ever seen. They say the incident ended

peacefully and no arrests were made. A Minneapolis City Council member says ICE has detained more than 400 people since that crackdown began. Wow, they're moving quick. There are roughly 80,000 Somalis in the metro and many we spoke with say they're feeling

singled out by ICE. Why? ICE said they're not after people who are from one particular place.

Showcasing their professions and their humanity on TikTok. Salma Hussein is a Somali-American elementary principal.

No one has a problem with folks who come here legally and become part of America. That's not what this is about at all. This is not about people being singled out. This is about fraudsters and criminals who've committed crimes being tracked down. We heard the ICE agents say, look, we're not looking for anybody in particular, only people who are here in violation of immigration law. And it's

the same thing with the federal government and all these investigations. They're not looking for

if they did their job to try and deal with potential welfare fraud within the Somali community. Our next guest says there's more to the fraud story and he's a Somali American refugee

and naturalized US citizen who lives in Maine.

There are much deeper issues. I've moved into the US and in Maine about 11 years ago and basically the first question that members of my community asked me which tribe you know I belong to and when I mentioned so I fell into that category so there's a there's a deeper tribal rivalry going on in the community much larger than anybody can actually imagine.

if elements of their old life keep them down in a country that is on the other side of the world. That's just a bizarre circumstance right there.

Interestingly enough, even though I spoke very good English, one of the things that I was told to do is go find Discounted Housing Section 8, which I didn't know what actually it was.

Weird.

And my response was, I'm actually here to work and build you know basic and become part of the American fabric which is that's crazy I'm pretty much what I've been incredibly fascinated by what you're having to say so much so that I'm sorry to interrupt but I just want to clarify so when you felt that pressure and you were told to go join you know public welfare programs once you moved here where was that pressure coming from are you saying it's like cultural like neighborhood like neighbors telling you this is what you should do?

That's weird.

How were you pushed in that direction?

That's a bad system, if that's the advice people are given.

Well, it was coming from the community that actually thought that that was just a way of life. Right? I, you know, instead of being asked about what kind of school I want to go to, what subjects I would love to study, and those interesting conversations weren't there at all.

But this is what the socialists in America want. They want people here to look at them and government handouts as the only way to get ahead or survive in this country, because you know what that means? them in ever-increasing numbers, they can only vote in one direction if they want

their lives to improve. It's a trap. It's the socialist government handout trap that they want to capture as many people in so they can control the country.

My response was, you know, can we do better things? Can we as a community actually integrate? And let's listen to that word, interestingly, because that that had got me a huge backlash many, many years ago that many, actually many people thought, no, no, no. Let's not talk about integration. And I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for a pushback against this idea of

Sort of melting into america becoming part of america Let's just be very clear that I haven't arrived here as a young young man. I mean I came here at age 29 So I was well Informed about my culture my community growing up in the civil war Remain here in America. That's that I showed I'm curious. That's crazy

So after fleeing a country that has gone through civil war and coming to America You have factions inside America that say hey, you should you should line up with your tribe It's not what America's about at all. I mean, America's about people coming here to pursue peace, prosperity, and happiness as they personally define it in a free society

that doesn't care about those things.

Obdi, about the percentage of the Somali population on some form of welfare, 80%, and stays that way. Stays that way over a 10-year period. Does that surprise you in some ways it does not you know, I let me give you one example if that's what they're telling when I was in Somalia a

Huge part of the population in Somalia. We're talking about 20 million people in Somalia a huge number of that has unfortunately actually evolved and became part of our way of life for 30 years.

Wow.

we're actually shut down every time we try to speak out. Yeah. Wow. So

apparently there's resistance to the American way of life so to speak that people come here for a better future that they're going to work on and build themselves. That's what this gentleman seems to be saying.

You don't have to let people in. They're guests in our country.

...and other programs that let people in. We're not bound to do it.

America's generous.

We don't have to do it. We don't have to do any more of it.

In the rush to defend the Somalis in the wake of the scandal about the fraud, there were some people out there saying the Somalis contribute $67 million in taxes to the state of Minnesota. of what Minnesotans pay. Minnesotans pay about $8,000 per person in taxes. Then you look at the social programs, right? How can we point to that community at large?

And I admit, I guarantee you you can find success with people.

I don't know. Do the same thing in Appalachia. Do the same thing in rural Alabama.

Correct.

100%.

No, but for real, like why are you... Let me finish.

Listen. The point I'm trying to make is... Noah just made the point. We don't do collective guilt here.

What he's basically saying is okay, you may have individuals in certain states in America where there are a high level of folks on government benefits. The point here is huge. If you've got American citizens who need

the social help of the state that is different than deliberately giving benefits to people who are in the country illegally.

The individuals, the individuals ought to have an opportunity to prove themselves. When you give blanket TPS or open the border, the southern border, you're not vetting people. You're actually not evaluating people based on their

right to be successful.

No vetting.

There's probably a lot of Somalis, I know there are,

that are doing very good things.

He's right.

So then why are you making a broad claim about the group as opposed to dealing with any-

Okay, CNN is descending into madness. But Tim Walz says he's now going to fight fraud.

Help from Waypoint will strengthen oversight across high-risk programs.

He's ready to fight.

And the government also will name a new director of program integrity. The recent immigration crackdown was ordered in large by part by the Trump administration's renewed focus on the Feeding Our Future scandal here in Minnesota. We know it's the nation's largest COVID fraud scheme. And federal prosecutors say recent charges

are just the beginning.

Yep.

It's an iceberg of fraud. Right. An iceberg far greater than-

But Tim Walz says he's gonna fight it now.

We're not even at the end of the beginning

it. Good. Get that money back. And remember, some of that money has ended up with terrorist organizations in Somalia. So every state has a problem here. And the Secretary of Agriculture simply asks, show us your data, each state.

Wisconsin should do the same. Our governor refuses to do that. He refuses to give the people of the state of Wisconsin the transparency that they deserve so they're not being ripped off by fraudsters. Every state should turn that over, Wisconsin included,

so that we get the fraud rooted out of the food stamp program here.

So apparently the fraud has spread, it has spread and fred, but Governor Walz, he's come out and he said, you know what, we're gonna stop fraud in my state. He's come out, he's gonna crack down now. Now that he knows about it, now that it has been brought to his attention, now that he's aware that it's happening, because remember he didn't

know that this was going on. He didn't know that people were stealing billions of dollars from his state, but now that Trump has come along and said that it's happened, now he knows. Now he's aware and he's the governor. He's gonna crack down. He's gonna clean up his state. He's gonna do it so quick. We're all gonna think that this never even happened. I mean, are we really supposed to believe this? What do you think about what's even happened. I mean, are we really supposed to believe this? What do you think about what's going on here? I'll see you in the next video.