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Minnesota investigation: The shadowy money system Somalis rely on — and terrorists can exploit
Minnesota's $1 billion welfare fraud schemes spark federal investigation into hawala money transfers potentially benefiting al-Shabaab terrorist group.
Somalia’s location on the Horn of Africa made it a strategic ground for empires throughout history. In the 19th century, British and Italian colonial regimes made pacts with local sultanates. The resulting protectorates, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, lasted until 1960, when Somalis merged the two states into the Somali Republic.
Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there.
A new video features Somali doctors, nurses and attorneys showcasing their professions and humanity, letting Minnesotans know Somalis are their neighbors.
The wave of vitriol against Minnesota’s Somali community during the Trump administration’s continued nationwide immigration crackdown has been met with an opposing wave of solidarity.
A Somalian Minnesota college student has come under fire for threatening to “pop” ICE agents in an expletive-laden viral social media rant.
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Twin Cities Latino, Somali businesses struggling amid ICE's Operation Metro Surge: "What did we do?"
Some members of the Twin Cities' immigrant community say Operation Metro Surge is now only striking fear in the Latino and Somali communities, but it's also harming their small businesses.
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz started criticizing white men on Friday in response to whether Somalis will be held accountable for a massive fraud scandal.