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As alarms continue to blare concerning massive fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, some federal TSA agents are now revealing details of how Somali men have been flying potentially billions of dollars out of the U.S. inside their carry-on luggage in recent years, with no one stopping them.

Liz Jaksa, a former TSA agent who worked at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from 2016 to 2021, recently spoke to Liz Collin of Alpha News, as Collin noted the practice “sounds like something out of a spy movie – people going through security and getting on planes with suitcases filled with millions of dollars in cash.”

Jaksa replied: “I’ve seen a lot of things but the most shocking is exactly that. I saw suitcases filled with millions of dollars cash, and the couriers were always Somali men traveling in pairs. And they got through the [security] checkpoint. It just really absolutely blew my mind the first time you open a suitcase and see millions of dollars of cash.”

“Typically what would happen,” Jaksa explained, is a law-enforcement officer would come, check their credentials … but their IDs were always documented and probably their plane tickets as well.

“So there is a trail of that out there, and I would believe with all the cameras at the airport, that if they started there, they could probably find each and every individual that brought money through the checkpoint.”

But it wasn’t just money making its way out of America, the former TSA agent revealed.

“There was another instance,” she said, “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 those passports is anybody’s guess.

“I don’t know how my colleagues felt about it,” Jaksa added. “Since all this fraud came out, the connection’s been made. I didn’t feel good about it then and now it certainly all makes sense.”

When asked if there were any truth to allegations the cash was funneled to the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab, Jaksa responded: “Absolutely. Knowing what I know now, absolutely, there’s no question in my mind that that money went to Al-Shabaab.”

In 2018, Fox 9 TV reported that “in 2017, more than $100 million left MSP in carry-on luggage.” It’s been reported that during a five-year period, more than $1 billion left the United States by this method.

Collin also spoke with Jeremy Christenson, a former Homeland Security Investigations agent who said he tried blowing the whistle on the bulk-cash smuggling to no avail.

“Personally, myself, 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,” he said. “It’s going out. It’s from illegitimate sources, and I was politely told no, and they’re doing everything legal. They’re money couriers and they’re registered.”

Christenson added: “I don’t buy it. Illegal money is still illegal money.”

“We just documented it for years. I don’t know the totality of the documentation because I only responded I believe three times myself personally. But our agents responded numerous times to the airport for these calls and we documented it all.”

Collin also reported: “Recently a former TSA agent wrote in a letter, he said about how his training officer said it was legal, nothing out of the ordinary. He also wrote to us to say that his training officer said: ‘The two men are runners in which they ship U.S. currency overseas and its money obtained from daycare centers.'”

The exodus of American cash is apparently continuing to this day.

On Tuesday, LibsofTikTok posted: “I just received a message from a TSA agent in Phoenix who tells me a Somali man with a Minnesota DL (driver’s license) flies through Phoenix every 7-10 days with a suitcase of around $250k cash. He told agents that families in Minnesota send cash back home to Sudan and Somalia through Dubai and he is a registered courier.

“I have the passenger’s name if anyone from the transportation dept or FBI want to investigate you can reach out for me.”