Like Country Highway and City Journal, Alpha News has been reporting on Minnesota's fraud for longer than people have been paying attention. In early December, before Nick Shirley's videos exposing Somali daycare fraud went viral, Alpha News' Liz Collin Reports interviewed a former TSA employee named Liz Jaksa. Jaksa worked for TSA at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport from 2016 to 2021. In her tenure, Jaksa noticed a consistent pattern and particular people coming through the TSA checkpoints. Years later, Jaksa recognized that this was the now-exploding fraud happening in real time during her time with TSA.
"Since all this fraud came out, the connection's been made," Jaksa told Collin. "I didn't feel good about it then, and now it certainly all makes sense."
Jaksa said she was shocked to see "suitcases filled with millions of dollars cash. And the couriers were always Somali men traveling in pairs. And they got through the checkpoint."
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Jaksa also said that it seemed as though this scenario occurred on at least a weekly basis. Jaksa alleged that in her five years with TSA, she probably saw upwards of one billion dollars go through the airport.
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's all there was, which was stacks of cash. And a LEO would come, and maybe question them, and for sure take a picture of their identification and I'm assuming their plane ticket, I'm 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'd 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.
Sounds like an investigation that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem needs to authorize. But it wasn't only cash. Jaksa also saw Somali men with carry-ons full of passports pass through the checkpoints without issue.
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's guess.
When Jaksa was on the job, she said she was uncomfortable with the fact that this was allowed to occur as often as it did, without question.
[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't a one-time thing...
It is so frustrating. It was frustrating when I was a TSA agent, and it's certainly frustrating now watching the state's administration doing what they're doing.
Jaksa told Collin that she feels MN Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-06) should both "resign in shame." Add MN Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) to that list. If Jaksa's observations prove true, everyone from law enforcement to TSA supervisors was in on this cover-up. As this continues to unfold, there are a number of heads that need to be put on the chopping block. This rampant Minnesota corruption spans decades and has been allowed to linger for far too long.
Of course, legacy media and Democrats are screaming racism and targeting of a community. However, it's kind of hard to cry you're being targeted when your main perpetrators happen to be Somalians. In one of the 2024 Feeding Our Future trials, Somalis attempted to bribe a juror in CASH to pull the race card in order to sway the jury toward acquittal.
The original Minnesota Somali fraud case, the Feeding our Future scheme, was so corrupt that the indicted Somalis went around their community to collect $200k in a cardboard box to bribe a juror (the only one of color) to convince the rest of the jury the charges were racist. pic.twitter.com/sypDDdcEGY
— Sarah Bedford (@sarahcbedford) December 31, 2025
They were caught, but how many more shell companies and illegal fronts are waiting to funnel money to the Somali cause to skirt accountability and continue the fleecing of the American people? How long can Somalis cry racism and targeting when their communities are the ones perpetrating the lion's share of this fraud?
The Somali fraud story reveals a truth that liberals would prefer to ignore: when Nordic welfare-state culture and Somali piracy culture collide, the result is mass looting of the public treasury.https://t.co/8XQnkYmGMT pic.twitter.com/VuEm6e6bf8
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) December 2, 2025
The full Alpha News interview with Liz Jaksa is here.
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Editor's Note: This article has been updated for clarity.
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