President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota, claiming the state has become “a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.”
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In response, Governor Tim Walz pushed back, writing on X, “It’s not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject.”
According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services website, the TPS designation for Somalia is currently listed as active through March 17, 2026. The move to terminated TPS status for Somalis follows efforts by the Trump administration to remove protections for migrants from Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, and South Sudan, which have faced legal challenges. (Read more: The Post Millennial, 11/21/2025) (Archive)
The terror group reportedly takes a cut of money fraudulently obtained in the US and smuggled to Somalia. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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. (Read more: New York Post, 11/20/2025)