TSA Agents’ Shocking Revelations About Ilhan Omar and This Arizona Airport Just Exposed an Ongoing Crime

The Minnesota fraud scandal just took an ominous turn.

Federal investigators thought they were dealing with past crimes.

But TSA agents' shocking revelations about Ilhan Omar and this Arizona airport just exposed an ongoing crime.

Current TSA agent reveals active cash smuggling operation

A TSA agent working at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport sent a message to Libs of TikTok that should set off alarm bells across America.

"A Somali man with a Minnesota DL flies through Phoenix every 7-10 days with a suitcase of around $250k cash," the agent reported.¹

Every 7-10 days.

That's not a one-time transfer or an isolated incident from years ago.

This is an active, systematic operation happening right now while federal agents investigate billions in Minnesota welfare fraud.

The courier told TSA agents he's a "registered" money courier sending cash from Minnesota families back to Sudan and Somalia through Dubai.¹

He provided his name to investigators.

But here's the kicker – he was cleared to fly.

Just like always.

"I have the passenger's name if anyone from the transportation dept or FBI want to investigate you can reach out for me," the TSA agent added.¹

The message confirms what a former TSA agent already exposed about operations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during the heart of Minnesota's fraud epidemic.

Former TSA agent watched a billion dollars leave the country

Liz Jaksa worked security at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from 2016 to 2021.

What she witnessed at those checkpoints reveals a pattern of cash smuggling that went on for years with federal officials doing nothing to stop it.

"I saw suitcases filled with millions of dollars of cash, and the couriers were always Somali men traveling in pairs," Jaksa told Alpha News investigative journalist Liz Collin.²

The scale was breathtaking.

Jaksa estimates she personally witnessed roughly $1 billion leave the country through the airport during her five-year tenure.²

"It certainly seemed like it happened every week," Jaksa explained.³

The process was always identical – two Somali men, often with Minnesota driver's licenses, carrying luggage packed with cash.

TSA agents would pull the bags, take them to private screening rooms, and document the money.

Law enforcement would photograph their identification.

Then they'd wave them through.

Every single time.

One particularly alarming incident involved a suitcase "filled with brand new passports," according to Jaksa.⁴

That traveler was also cleared to board his flight.

"So where he went with those passports is anybody's guess," she said.⁴

Former Homeland Security Investigations agent Scott Christenson tried to get the U.S. Attorney's office to investigate years ago.

"I did call the U.S. attorney's office, and tried to get a criminal referral for bulk-cash smuggling, explaining I believe this is nefarious money," Christenson recalled. "It's going out. It's from illegitimate sources, and I was politely told no, and they're doing everything legal."⁵

"I don't buy it," Christenson added. "Illegal money is still illegal money."⁵

Jaksa said both Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should "resign in shame" over the fraud that happened on their watch.²

She's right.

The money trail leads straight to terrorist networks

Federal counterterrorism sources confirmed to City Journal that millions in stolen Minnesota welfare funds wound up in the hands of al-Shabaab, the Somali-based Islamic terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.⁶

"The largest funder of al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer," one confidential source told investigators.⁶

Glenn Kerns, a retired Seattle Police detective who spent 14 years on a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, documented how Somalis were routing cash on commercial flights to hawala networks in Somalia.⁷

Hawalas are informal clan-based money traders that make it nearly impossible to trace where funds ultimately end up.

"We had sources going into the hawalas to send money," Kerns explained. "I went down to [Minnesota] and pulled all of their records and, well s***, all these Somalis sending out money are on DHS benefits."⁷

The cash smuggling is just one piece of Minnesota's massive fraud crisis.

Federal prosecutors have convicted 70 people in connection with the $250 million Feeding Our Future pandemic food fraud scheme.⁸

Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program exploded from a projected $2.6 million to paying out $104 million before state officials finally shut it down in August.⁹

An autism services fraud scheme saw providers mushroom from 41 statewide in 2020 to 328 by 2025 – with one in every 16 Somali four-year-olds in Minnesota "diagnosed" with autism, triple the state average.⁹

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson called it "staggering, industrial-scale fraud" and said up to $9 billion in federal Medicaid funds may have been stolen from Minnesota programs since 2018.¹⁰

The Phoenix TSA agent's message proves the smuggling operation didn't end when investigators started looking into Minnesota's welfare programs.

It's still happening today.

Rep. Ilhan Omar represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, which includes Minneapolis where much of this fraud originated. She's been conspicuously silent as billions in taxpayer dollars were stolen from programs meant to help vulnerable families. Omar hasn't called for investigations, hasn't demanded accountability from Walz's administration, and hasn't acknowledged the scope of fraud happening in her own backyard. Her silence is deafening when her constituents needed her voice most.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced federal agents are surging into Minnesota to investigate, and the Trump Administration froze federal childcare payments to the state.

Now Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy needs to answer why TSA agents are documenting cash smugglers and then clearing them to fly.

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¹ "I just received a message from a TSA agent in Phoenix," Libs of TikTok, X, December 31, 2025.

² Liz Collin, "EXCLUSIVE: Former TSA agent recalls millions in cash flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport," Alpha News, December 12, 2025.

³ Ibid.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Joe Kovacs, "'Absolutely blew my mind': Watch TSA agents spill the beans on Somali men flying potentially billions of dollars out of U.S. in carry-on luggage," WorldNetDaily, December 31, 2025.

⁶ Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo, "Minnesota Welfare Fraud: Some Funds Went to Al-Shabaab," City Journal, November 19, 2025.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ "Minnesota fraud allegations: Gov. Tim Walz, state officials and day care manager refute viral video," NewsNation, December 30, 2025.

⁹ John Binder, "Report: MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link," Breitbart, November 20, 2025.

¹⁰ "Federal payment freeze puts some Minnesota families in danger of losing child care amid investigation into alleged fraud," CNN, December 31, 2025.