Trump Ends TPS for Somalis in Minnesota After Explosive Fraud Scandal — Says State Became “Hub of Money Laundering Under Governor Walz”

President Donald J. Trump has moved decisively to confront a growing crime wave tied to Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, announcing that the Temporary Protected Status program will no longer shield Somalis living in the state.

The President made the announcement directly on Truth Social, leaving no ambiguity about the reason for the policy reversal.

“Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump added that residents of Minnesota have suffered long enough under criminal networks operating with impunity.

“Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER! President DJT,” he posted.

TPS was originally designed as a humanitarian measure to protect foreign nationals when their home countries were unstable. But Minnesota — home to the largest Somali population in America — has become the epicenter of abuse and fraud tied to the program. CBS reports that 705 Somalis in Minnesota are currently registered under TPS.

State leadership appears to welcome the President’s effort. Minnesota Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth applauded the action, saying Trump is the first national leader willing to confront the problem honestly.

“The unfortunate reality is that far too many individuals who were welcomed into this country have abused the trust and support that was extended to them, and Minnesota taxpayers have suffered billions of dollars in consequences as a result,” Demuth said.

Her remarks track closely with the findings of an explosive investigative report from City Journal, which concluded that fraud across Minnesota’s welfare system has reached unprecedented levels during Gov. Tim Walz’s tenure. According to the report:

“Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch.”

The report further alleged that fraud has been disproportionately committed by individuals in Minnesota’s Somali community — and, critically, that the stolen money has been used to finance terrorism abroad.

“In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab,” the report said.

One source quoted in the report put the situation bluntly:

“The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”

Much of the criminal activity centers around Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program — projected to cost $2.6 million annually but instead blowing through $61 million in just six months. Federal prosecutors indicted eight people tied to the scam in September — six of them from the Somali community.

That same month, prosecutors brought charges in the now-infamous $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud network, which has been linked to Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, herself a Somali immigrant. A staggering 56 individuals have already pleaded guilty.

The City Journal investigation also highlighted a $14 million autism-services scam, in which parents enrolled children for treatment and received kickbacks while fraudsters billed the state for services never rendered. The consequences were so extreme that:

“One in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism — a rate more than triple the state average.”

Additional prosecutions are expected. U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in a September statement that Minnesota’s welfare system has become a massive criminal enterprise.

“This is not an isolated scheme,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in a September news release. “From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Each case we bring exposes another strand of this network.”

With TPS now terminated for Somalis in Minnesota, Trump is signaling a major policy shift — one that prioritizes national security, taxpayer protection, and law-and-order over the mass-migration policies favored by Democrats.

Minnesota’s political establishment — long accused of tolerating fraud for electoral gain — now faces a federal crackdown unlike anything the state has seen in decades.