The Trump administration is deploying around 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis, ground zero for a widening scandal over Somali fraud that has forced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to scuttle his reelection bid.
According to multiple media outlets, the beefed-up Department of Homeland Security (DHS) presence is part of a “crackdown” after explosive reporting by an independent journalist who hit the streets to uncover what appears to be rampant fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, some of which appeared to be inactive with no children despite receiving taxpayer money.
“The crackdown could involve roughly 2,000 agents and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation branch and Homeland Security Investigations, the agency’s investigative arm tasked with fighting transnational crimes,” CBS News reported, citing anonymous sources for the operation, which has not been publicly announced.
🚨 BREAKING: Up to 2,000 THOUSAND federal agents are now set to SURGE to Minneapolis MN, to arrest illegal aliens and investigate massive fraud – CBS
Border Commander GREG BOVINO will reportedly join them on the ground.
This is HUGE! 🔥
Send every Somali back. MASS ARRESTS! pic.twitter.com/abQ1YKQCZ1
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 5, 2026
Other media outlets are also reporting on the alleged deployment, including CNN and NBC News, which cited unnamed sources that said the federal presence will include DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol official Greg Bovino.
“A spokeswoman for DHS did not respond to questions about Noem and Bovino’s plans to travel to Minneapolis,” NBC News reported.
According to CBS News, “One former law enforcement official described the scale as extraordinary, noting that the number of HSI agents being sent to Minneapolis is roughly equivalent to the entire HSI workforce assigned to the state of Arizona.”
“This is a massive resource allocation,” the official stated, dubbing the city “the new Chicago,” referring to the deployments of federal immigration enforcement personnel to the Windy City. Minneapolis has been given the nickname of “Little Mogadishu” for the massive Somali population that has been imported over the last several decades, with the demographic becoming critical to the Democratic Party’s stranglehold on state and local power in Minnesota.
Even before Nick Shirley’s viral video blew up, President Donald J. Trump had criticized the state as “a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” with dozens of people already having been charged for scams that one federal prosecutor described as “industrial-scale fraud” that has been carried out during Walz’s tenure at the top of Minnesota’s government.
“They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing,” Trump said of the Somali transplants in blunt but frank terms last month. “You know, if they came from paradise and they said, ‘This isn’t paradise,’ but where they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”
With federal and congressional investigators zeroing in on the governor’s mansion, Walz unexpectedly announced that he is dropping his quest for a third term in office on Monday, defending his “fight against the fraudsters” and lashing out at Trump and Shirley.
In a December 29 DHS X post shared by Noem, the agency advised that it is on the ground in Minneapolis and sniffing out Somali fraud.
DHS is on the ground in Minneapolis, going DOOR TO DOOR at suspected fraud sites.
The American people deserve answers on how their taxpayer money is being used and ARRESTS when abuse is found. Under the leadership of @Sec_Noem, DHS is working to deliver results. pic.twitter.com/7XtRflv36b
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 29, 2025
“DHS is on the ground in Minneapolis, going DOOR TO DOOR at suspected fraud sites,” the post read. “The American people deserve answers on how their taxpayer money is being used and ARRESTS when abuse is found. Under the leadership of @Sec_Noem, DHS is working to deliver results.”
Any surge in DHS personnel in Minneapolis will be decried by Democrats who are scurrying like cockroaches as their money laundering rackets are exposed.
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