Immigration Fraud Explodes: Trump Terminates Somali Deportation Protections in Minnesota Amid Terror Funding Crisis
The political and legal landscape in Minnesota has been rocked by the announcement from President Donald Trump that he is terminating
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali nationals residing in the state, effective immediately. The drastic measure follows a series of damning federal investigations that have exposed unprecedented levels of immigration and welfare fraud in Minneapolis, with millions of stolen taxpayer dollars allegedly being funneled to the Somali terror group,
Al-Shabaab.
The decision by the President puts the spotlight directly on the alleged widespread criminality within Minnesota’s sizable Somali population and the political establishment—including Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—that has failed to curb the schemes. The federal government’s action marks a significant escalation in the battle against corruption and foreign entanglement.
President Donald Trump initiated the action with a blunt statement, framing the enforcement as necessary to combat systemic fraud and associated security risks.
The Executive Order:
“Minnesota under Governor Tim Walz is a hub for fraudulent money laundering activity… I am as president of the United States hereby terminating effective immediately the temporary protection status for Somali in Minnesota.
Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of the great state and billions of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s over.”
The termination of TPS—a program allowing temporary legal status due to dangerous conditions in the home country—is a direct response to the documented abuse of U.S. social systems.
The Terror Link: The order is underpinned by a new investigation from the Manhattan Institute, which alleges that millions of stolen funds from programs like Feeding Our Future and the
The Minneapolis/St. Paul area has been revealed as the center of an epidemic of fraud, spanning both welfare and immigration systems.
US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow announced the findings of a massive operation involving over a thousand site visits in the Minneapolis area.
The results were shocking:
High Incidence of Fraud: Officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly 50% of the cases interviewed.
Blatant Schemes:
The operation uncovered blatant marriage fraud (marrying U.S. citizens solely for immigration purposes), visa overstays, people claiming to work at non-existent businesses, and forged documents.
Extreme Cases:
Officers found an individual who had overstayed his visa, who was the son of a suspected terrorist on the no-fly list. They also discovered a case where an individual obtained a
fake death certificate in Kenya for just $100 to fraudulently obtain a divorce, despite his wife being alive in Minneapolis.
The largest single case remains the Feeding Our Future scheme, which the DOJ has identified as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country.
Scale of Theft: The scheme involved claims of more than
The 77th Defendant: Ouzman Kamara, the 77th defendant charged, was previously disqualified from the SNAP program in 2015 for suspected fraud but was able to re-enroll his grocery store in the Federal Children Nutrition Program in 2020. Kamara fraudulently claimed to be serving
This systemic fraud, involving individuals previously flagged for theft, directly contributed to the federal government’s decision to take unprecedented enforcement action.
The investigations suggest that the political and civic structures of Minneapolis were either complicit or utterly incapable of monitoring the welfare programs they administered.
The Money Trail: The fact that individuals like Kamara were able to wire hundreds of thousands of dollars abroad raises crucial questions about the validity of the Manhattan Institute’s claim: that so much of the fraudulent money is being funneled to Al-Shabaab, a group that would certainly benefit from hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars. Given that the 77th defendant alone sent over $100,000 overseas, the sheer volume of such transfers from dozens, if not hundreds, of conspirators is immense.
The Lack of Controls: The ease with which criminals could enroll and exploit these programs—like the defendant who claimed to feed twice the number of students enrolled in the entire Minneapolis public school district—demonstrates a disastrous lack of fiscal oversight. The fraud continues to mount, with charges being filed daily, showing that the system is hemorrhaging taxpayer dollars.
The termination of TPS status for Somali nationals in Minnesota is framed as a necessary measure to stop this cycle of systemic theft and to enforce the integrity of U.S. immigration and welfare laws. The legal challenges to this order are anticipated, but the President’s explicit linkage of the TPS status to fraudulent activity marks a significant escalation in the federal government’s enforcement strategy.
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Bears are powerful, incredibly intelligent creatures. Studies on American black bears have even shown they can count.
Just the thought of keeping them captive for our entertainment is heartbreaking — but forcing one to wear a torture vest is beyond cruel.
Bear Caesar spent the first part of her life in a kind of hell on earth. She lived on a farm in China that harvested ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine.
She was cruelly forced to supply the farm with bile from her gallbladder. Her captors drained her of the fluid 24 hours a day and bound her in a restrictive metal vest. She was confined to a small room where he could barely move.
But just as it appeared her life would never improve, kind-hearted animal advocates came to Caesar’s defense… and changed everything.
Like thousands of other bears in China, Caesar grew up in what could best be likened to hell on earth.
She was forced to live in a small confined space and had what could only be described as a torture west strapped onto her. Like a medieval torture device, the breastplate constricted her body, while a spike aimed at her neck prevented Caesar from attempting to bite or remove the apparatus.
Even worse, Caesar had an open wound on her side. She was forced to supply them bile from her gallbladder, which they used to make traditional Chinese medicine.
Animals Asia
“It’s the worst imaginable bile farm torture,” Animals Asia, who saved Caesar, said about the vest.
Caesar suffered immensely in her terrible living conditions, and it’s incredible that she was able to survive. But amidst the darkness, without hope for an end to the torture, everything changed for Caesar in 2004 when she was one of several lucky bears rescued by Animals Asia.
By this time, she was frustrated, miserable, and seriously wounded. But thanks to Animals Asia, she was finally able to break free of the awful vest and get the love and care she needed and deserved.
She completely transformed into a strong, majestic bear with a beautiful, radiant coat. Just like the Roman general from whom she took her name, Caesar was a symbol of respect. Weighing in at 300 kg, she possessed a physical strength and stature that made her an extraordinary presence.
“Caesar’s scars have all but disappeared and today she is an astonishingly beautiful (and formidable) bear, ” the organization wrote back in 2016.
After being saved, her favorite activities included swimming and sunbathing, as well as digging — especially when the weather was nice and cool in the fall.
”She has now spent a dozen happy years with Animals Asia in Chengdu, enjoying swims in the sunshine as well as indulging her natural digging instincts – particularly when the weather cools in the autumn,” Animals Asia said.
”Seeing a bear shake themselves like this is always a moment full of awe – they’re such incredibly beautiful, powerful animals and none more so than Caesar,” Nic Field, director of the group’s China bear and vet team, said in a statement. ”To see her out in the sunshine – a dozen years on from her rescue – it’s hard to imagine her existence back then.”
Although Caesar was saved, it’s important to remember how much work still needs to be done to end animal torture.
In China, there are an estimated 10,000 bears locked up. Hopefully, Caesar’s story will serve as a wake-up call so that animal lovers the world over will band together and help put a stop to this.
”These metal jackets are now illegal so less common, but it’s likely that there are still some out there,” Steve Jackson, head of communications for Animals Asia, told The Dodo, in 2016.
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Caesar’s rescue may have been just one small step against the bile industry, but it completely transformed the life of this once-suffering brown bear. After years hidden in darkness, she finally got to enjoy swimming, climbing, and running freely through the grass — making up for lost time.
Tragically, the harsh conditions she endured on the gallbladder farm eventually caught up with her. A very aggressive tumor developed, a cruel reminder of the cellular damage and infections caused by repeated gallbladder extractions—a common reality for many rescued bears.
Shortly after the tumor was discovered, Caesar passed away, leaving Animals Asia and her caretakers heartbroken. Her story stands as a poignant update on the ongoing struggles faced by bears like her, and a somber reminder of the resilience and courage of animals who survive unimaginable cruelty.
If brown bear Caesar’s tragic life taught us anything it is that we cannot rest until every bear is freed from the remaining bile farms in China and Vietnam – and that any opportunity to rescue a single bear cannot be passed up. They need us more than we can ever know. We can never turn away.