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Joe Schaeffer
Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20=plus years’ experience. He spent 15 years with the Washington Times.
Minnesota’s leftist attorney general, Keith Ellison, may have facilitated the massive childcare fraud scandal conducted by refugees from Somalia in the Gopher State. That’s the claim made by Republicans on February 12 at a fiery Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. But are Americans aware just how essential Ellison seems to have been to the solidification of the Minnesota-to-Somalia cash pipeline that enabled the colossal theft?
“You helped fraudsters defraud your state and this government of $9 billion – and you got a fat campaign contribution out of it,” Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Ellison at the hearing. “You ought to be indicted.”
“Do you know where it went, what it was used for – the fraudulent money?” Hawley continued. “I do, because we just heard testimony about it yesterday… hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorist groups, to transnational criminal organizations, to the drug trade, to drug trafficking, to child trafficking. And you took $10,000 and helped them do it.”
None of it could have happened without the door being opened to the free flow of “remittances” to one of the most notorious war-torn, chaotic, terrorist-plagued nations on the face of the Earth.
‘Refugee Problems and US Money Transfers’
In February 2013, then-congressman Ellison made a special surprise trip to eastern Africa. Ellison “flew into war-ravaged Somalia… for an unannounced stay inside the fortified compound of the Mogadishu airport, the first visit by a member of Congress since the Obama administration recognized the new government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported at the time.
The paper explained why he was there.
“The Minneapolis Democrat, whose district includes 32,000 people of Somali descent, described it as a humanitarian trip to discuss refugee problems and US money transfers, many of them from relatives in Minnesota,” the Star-Tribune detailed.
Cue the internationalist NGO funding a US politician to further its agenda.
“Ellison’s office said his trip is being sponsored by the American Refugee Committee, an international nonprofit with a presence in Somalia,” the Star-Tribune noted. These moneyed NGOs have infamously played a vital role in fomenting the worldwide migration floodtide inundating the nations of the West today.
Guess who ultimately paid for Ellison’s visit?
The American Refugee Committee is now known as Alight. “Our work is made possible by people like you and generous support from the US government, United Nations, and other major institutions,” the group’s 2025 annual report states. Right next to that sentence is the logo of the United States Agency for International Development, the federal entity that President Donald Trump dismantled last year after it spent decades serving as a monolithic financial sugar daddy of the organized global mass migration cabal.
In its annual report, Alight, which exists to support refugee “newcomers” to America, recorded a whopping $51,288,281 in total assets for 2025. Along with USAID and the US State Department, another “partner” listed on the Alight website is none other than Blue Cross Blue Shield. How about that?
But the thievery was only half the task. They could never have packed all those US greenbacks off to Somalia without Keith Ellison.
“Another focus of Ellison’s trip is money, in particular the troubled remittance industry that war- and drought-stricken Somalis rely on to live,” the 2013 Star-Tribune stressed. “This is the lifeblood of the country,” the congressman asserted.
The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014
There were common-sense hurdles to overcome before the trainwreck could occur.
“Many Somali money-transfer companies, known as hawalas, have been forced to shut down because of the reluctance of US banks to risk doing business with them. The effects, Ellison said, have been devastating for Somalis and Somali-Americans in Minnesota, home to one of the largest Somali refugee populations in the nation,” the paper wrote.
Here comes the devastating part.
“In December, Ellison and Rep Erik Paulsen (R-MN) introduced legislation that would address the problem by simplifying oversight for money services businesses and other nonbank financial institutions.”
The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 8, 2014.
Ellison was ecstatic:
“suggests to the agencies that regulate in this area that they should have an eye toward stopping bad transactions from happening, but also making sure that in our pursuit of ending the bad transactions that we don’t cut off the good ones too, which unfortunately we’ve been doing,” Ellison said after the US Senate passed his legislation.
The cash amounts involved were staggering. “According to Oxfam International, remittances account for as much as 45 per cent of the country’s economic activity,” Minnesota Public Radio noted in 2016.
Does this sound like a recipe for assimilating a group of foreigners into the fabric of American society?
Residing in America, Living for Somalia
In 2018, Ellison, still a congressman and just one year away from becoming state attorney general, invited United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia Michael Keating to Minnesota to celebrate the success of the remittances channel.
“On a whirlwind visit to the city of Minneapolis, home to the largest Somali diaspora population in the United States, the top United Nations envoy for Somalia highlighted the valuable links between the local community and the Horn of Africa country,” the UN crowed in an article posted on its website.
“US regulations on remittances… a vital source of hard currency for the east African nation,” was described as a main topic of Keating’s meeting with local National Urban League officials. Incredibly, how to increase the flow of money out of this country was a key subject of a conversation between a UN dignitary and a leading US urban progressive organization held on American soil.
“The government in Somalia is largely drawn from the diaspora, a lot of the money that is helping people cope with the current drought conditions is coming from the diaspora,” Keating declared in Minneapolis. “A lot of the political support for Somalia from a number of countries, whether it’s the US, Europe, Canada or other places, is coming as a result of the diaspora support.”
The conclusions are beyond sobering. A fiercely tribal foreign ethnic group was transported en masse into Minnesota with no intention whatsoever of assimilating as Americans, and the globalist power players who dumped them there planned it to work that way all along. That they were able to enlist a sitting member of Congress in the grand subversion speaks volumes about the grave peril the US nation-state finds itself in today.
This article was originally published by Liberty Nation News.
