The exploding scandal of the Minneapolis airport

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One of my children went to college in the Minneapolis region, so I often flew into the Minneapolis Airport. One thing I noticed over the years was that the white staff were disappearing from the airport workforce. All the airport employees and increasing numbers of airline employees were Somali. I wasn’t thrilled to be using an airport with such a preponderance of Islamic staffing. After all, I haven’t forgotten 9/11.

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My travels there ended seven years ago. Today, a new analysis from Walter Curt and DataRepublican suggests that this Somali staffing may have aided the transfer of roughly $700 million through the airport in the last two years alone.

Nor was this money discreetly transported via small bags of diamonds or cashier’s checks. It was transferred in cash and amounts to approximately $1 million per day over two years. That has an actual weight: 7.7 metric tons of American cash, all of it going through the Minneapolis airport.

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Did no one notice? The TSA? Other types of airport security? The FAA?

Well, probably not, and that lack of noticing may have been willful. According to Walter Curt, that’s because a lot of other travelers noticed exactly what I noticed many years ago, something that I’m sure has become increasingly obvious: Namely, that everyone who works at the Minneapolis airport is Somali. The staff, the ground crew, the security, even the TSA. They all play for the Somali team.

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But do you want to hear something even worse? The last two years are just a drop in the bucket of American money heading out of the U.S. via the Minneapolis airport, and often ending in terrorist hands. Seven years ago, Fox News did a report on precisely the same problem:

At that time, it was $100 million per year. Some of it was likely hard-earned cash salaries sent to relatives in countries without banking systems.

However, the Fox News report makes clear that the bulk of it went to fund terrorism. So, we’re looking at well over a billion dollars in the past seven years passing through the Minneapolis Airport alone, and funding Al-Shabaab and other Islamic terrorist groups. And of course, with recent revelations about Somali fraud, we can guess that most of that money was gained through scams defrauding American taxpayers.

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Immigrants used to come to America because it lacked class or caste systems that made it difficult for ordinary people to achieve wealth, and it had a wide-open economy. You could make it in America. Even if you suffered in a tenement, your children could become working- or middle-class, and your grandchildren could become rich. Heck! If you were Irving Berlin, you could become one of the most famous people in America.

However, for the recent influx of Third World immigrants, America isn’t about breaking free of stultifying cultures that stunt initiative and ambition. Instead, it’s a cash cow to be milked, with America’s unwitting taxpayers getting sucked dry to enrich scamsters and terrorists.

America will not survive unless this is stopped—and stopped brutally with prison sentences that ensure that those convicted never again breathe free air. The problem, of course, is that these outrages take place in regions that are knee-deep in the grift themselves, whether it’s local politicians who get votes and cash (as is being alleged against people like Keith Ellison and Tim Walz) or leftist judges who refuse to let Somali scamsters experience appropriate penalties or even get convicted.