Like Country Highway and City Journal, Alpha News has been sounding the alarm on Minnesota\u2019s fraud long before the rest of the country bothered to notice. Well before Nick Shirley\u2019s videos exposing Somali-linked daycare fraud exploded online, Alpha News was already connecting the dots.<\/p>\n
In early December, Liz Collin Reports interviewed Liz Jaksa, a former Transportation Security Administration employee who worked at Minneapolis\u2013St. Paul International Airport from 2016 to 2021. During her time there, Jaksa noticed a recurring pattern\u2014specific individuals, frequent trips, and behavior that didn\u2019t sit right as they passed through TSA checkpoints.<\/p>\n
Only years later did the picture fully come into focus. What Jaksa was witnessing in real time wasn\u2019t random at all\u2014it was the early footprint of the same fraud networks now blowing up across Minnesota.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince all this fraud came out, the connection\u2019s been made,\u201d Jaksa told Collin. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel good about it then, and now it certainly all makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jaksa said she was shocked to see \u201csuitcases filled with millions of dollars cash. And the couriers were always Somali men traveling in pairs. And they got through the checkpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jaksa stated that this scenario appeared to happen at least weekly. She claimed that during her five years with TSA, she likely observed over a billion dollars transacted through the airport:<\/p>\n
So, it certainly seemed like it happened every week. The suitcases came in, and it was always, the MO was always two Somalian men, traveling in pairs. Sometimes they both had suitcases. And, so, the process was as a TSA agent, we would pull the bag, then we would bring them to a private screening room. And we would open the suitcase and make sure that that\u2019s all there was, which was stacks of cash.<\/p>\n
And a LEO [law enforcement officer] would come, and maybe question them, and for sure take a picture of their identification and I\u2019m assuming their plane ticket, I\u2019m not sure. So, there is a trail out there, between that, it has to be documented somewhere. And all the cameras in the airport, I would imagine that if they\u2019d like to find all this cash, they should start at the airport. Because in the five years I was there, I believe a billion dollars went through the airport.<\/p>\n
That sure sounds like the kind of investigation Kristi Noem ought to be authorizing\u2014immediately. And it wasn\u2019t just cash that raised red flags. Jaksa also described seeing Somali men breeze through TSA checkpoints carrying bags stuffed with passports, without so much as a second look:<\/p>\n
There was another instance, again, a Somali man, that had a carry-on luggage filled with brand-new passports. And he was allowed to get through the checkpoint. So, where he went with all those passports is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n
While she was on the job, Jaksa said she was deeply uncomfortable with how routinely this behavior was allowed to occur without any scrutiny. According to her account, it happened often enough to feel normalized\u2014despite being an obvious red flag\u2014and no one seemed interested in asking basic questions or slowing it down:<\/p>\n
[U]ncomfortable because at the time it seemed so lackadaisical that these people could get through the airport with all that cash. Time, after time, after time, it wasn\u2019t a one-time thing\u2026<\/p>\n
It is so frustrating. It was frustrating when I was a TSA agent, and it\u2019s certainly frustrating now watching the state\u2019s administration doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
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\nJaksa didn\u2019t mince words. She told Collin that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-06) should both \u201cresign in shame.\u201d And frankly, you can add Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) to that list as well.<\/p>\n
If Jaksa\u2019s observations are borne out, this wasn\u2019t an isolated lapse\u2014it was systemic. That means everyone from frontline law enforcement to TSA supervisors either ignored glaring red flags or actively helped bury them. Either way, it points to a cover-up culture that protected bad actors while taxpayers got fleeced and security risks piled up.<\/p>\n
As this scandal continues to unravel, accountability is long overdue. Minnesota\u2019s corruption problem didn\u2019t appear overnight\u2014it spans decades and was allowed to fester because the people in charge refused to confront it.<\/p>\n
Predictably, the legacy media and Democrats are already screaming \u201cracism\u201d and claiming an entire community is being unfairly targeted. That line only works for so long\u2014especially when the documented cases show that many of the key defendants charged in these schemes are, in fact, Somali individuals operating specific organizations and shell entities.<\/p>\n
Take just one example from the 2024 Feeding Our Future trials: prosecutors revealed that defendants attempted to bribe a juror with cash, explicitly trying to inject race into the deliberations to force an acquittal. They were caught\u2014but that episode raises an uncomfortable question. If that\u2019s what surfaced in open court, how many additional shell companies, fake nonprofits, or front operations are still out there, quietly moving money and trying to dodge accountability?<\/p>\n
Pointing this out isn\u2019t \u201ctargeting a community.\u201d It\u2019s following the evidence. Law enforcement isn\u2019t indicting ethnic groups\u2014it\u2019s indicting people, businesses, and networks accused of stealing taxpayer money.<\/p>\n
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There has to be mulitple prosecutions of these people followed by convictions and substantial jail time. And denaturilization of any Somali involved, following by mass deporations.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full Jaksa interview:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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