February 18, 2026

Ilhan Omar Watch

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A bombshell undercover recording has exposed what critics are calling a deliberate federal cover-up of massive Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota, with an FBI agent admitting that no one will ever be arrested despite billions in taxpayer dollars being looted.

On Tuesday, the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) released undercover footage showing FBI agent Justin Devine telling a covert reporter that investigations into Somali-run daycare fraud schemes in Minnesota will quietly die without charges.

“I don’t think anybody [daycare fraud criminals] would ever go to prison,” Devine said, referring directly to investigative reporting by independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose work has exposed widespread fraud across Minneapolis.

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Tuesday’s CBS Mornings sought to give viewers a look at “how things turn[ed] chaotic” in Minneapolis with correspondent Lilia Luciano, but she muddied the waters by blaming conservative journalist Nick Shirley for the deadly chaos and refused to acknowledge Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) had removed dangerous criminals from the Twin Cities.

Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers had a similarly biased lead-in, including downplaying the reality of criminals taken off the streets:

Many Americans have been shocked by the images and stories coming out of Minneapolis these last few weeks. The White House says the surge in Homeland Security agents to the area was about combating fraud along with deporting criminal undocumented immigrants. But here’s the thing, many arrested people have no criminal record. Some say they were stopped at random. So, how did things turn chaotic?

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Nick Shirley — the 23-year-old investigative journalist who exposed day-care fraud in Minnesota with a video that has now surpassed 140 million views — is back with part two.

“It’s a whole other aspect to the fraud scheme,” says BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler, who invited Shirley to “The Liz Wheeler Show” to share his latest discoveries.

In the first video, Shirley exposed numerous Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota as fraudulent operations. Despite receiving millions (or even billions overall) in taxpayer-funded government subsidies through programs like CCAP and Medicaid, these centers provided no actual child-care services. Footage captures Shirley visiting multiple empty facilities with locked doors, blacked-out windows, no visible children, and sketchy “staff members.”

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Federal agents probing a Somali immigrant cash-courier operation that funneled massive sums through Minneapolis have uncovered a new stop along the route: Columbus, Ohio.

Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers have tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash packed into outbound luggage at passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.

Officials said the cash was carried by U.S. citizens of Somali origin flying out of Columbus en route to Minneapolis or Atlanta. The couriers declared the money as required on federal forms.

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Investigative journalist Nick Shirley blew up the internet the day after Christmas with a video that pulled the curtain back on massive Somali childcare fraud in Minnesota. In a single day, Shirley laid out evidence of an estimated $110 million in fraud, a bombshell that rocked the state and torpedoed Tim Walz’s political future, resulting in thousands of federal agents being sent into Minnesota, and HHS freezing more than $185 million in childcare payments.

 

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Hey, you know those Somali immigrants who just stole a few billion dollars from taxpayers up in Minnesota? They’re not going anywhere.

Well, OK, maybe prison — but likely for sentences that make slaps on the wrist look painful by comparison. And then they’ll be back in the Minneapolis area, likely with the same contacts in the grift community that they had before and with the same rights as any other convict.

Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other Republicans want to change that.

The growing Somali Fraud scandal has already triggered Tim Kain, the Progmerican governor of Minnesota to declare he is not running for re-election and appears to be threatening Minnesota’s Islamist anti-Americanist Progmerican representative Ilhan Omar. Nick Sherley, an independent reporter, broke the story of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of U.S. tax dollars being stolen through fake dare centers run by Somalis.

Now Ilhan Omar’s recent effort to earmark $1 million for an ISIS-linked Somali ‘Non-Profit’ has triggered a call to investigate the organization and Omar’s connections to it. Trump has responded by suspending Somali immigration and revoking the legal status of thousands of Somali “asylum seekers.” More action is being taken to strip new Somali naturalized citizens involved in the fraud, which includes Ilhan Omar.

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Republican Sens. Joni Ernst and Mike Lee are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to probe a Minnesota-based non-profit that “exhibits a troubling pattern of red flags around its legitimacy” and is run by a Somali man whose brother was arrested for allegedly trying to join ISIS.

Ernst and Lee are asking Bondi to “initiate suspension proceedings to protect ongoing federal interests pending full investigation” and to refer “relevant matters to other DOJ components for further inquiry” in relation to Generation Hope MN, a tax-exempt organization founded in 2019 that is focused on addiction recovery and substance abuse disorder, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by The Federalist.

Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith tried to earmark $1 million in congressionally appropriated Department of Justice funding to Generation Hope MN. The funding was exposed by Ernst and Lee, and removed by the House.

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President Donald Trump’s administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia, ordering thousands of Somali migrants to leave the United States by March 17, including hundreds currently living in Minnesota.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the designation no longer meets the statutory requirements under federal law.

Noem emphasized that TPS was never intended to be permanent.

“Temporary means temporary,” Noem told Fox News.

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The State Department is freezing all immigration from Somalia after an internal investigation found that the “vast majority of Somali migrants take welfare once present in the United States,” the Daily Caller has learned exclusively.

The freeze is expected to remain in place while the State Department reassesses immigration processing procedures. The effort is meant to “prevent the entry of foreign nationals who would become a public charge on the American people,” the State Department shared with the Caller.

The State Department will freeze immigration from approximately 75 countries, including Somalia, on Jan. 21.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is in a very special category: black, Muslim, and a refugee from Somalia.

It’s a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian, and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It’s a born-on-third-base situation in national politics and media.

So, when Omar submits herself to television interviews from liberal networks, she knows she can say inflammatory things and not be seriously challenged.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is joining Democratic colleagues for a press conference on Wednesday morning in a new effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The press conference in Washington is set to begin at 11 a.m. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) is introducing articles of impeachment against Noem, and will be joined by Omar, as well as Reps. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).

The impeachment effort was sparked by the Department of Homeland Security’s response to the killing of Renee Good last week in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

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Minneapolis is once again at the center of a storm over law enforcement use of force after a fatal shooting by an ICE agent last week.

Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has shifted her stance on the incident involving the death of 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good.

Good was killed by ICE agent Jonathan “Jon” Ross during a protest against the planned detention of Somali migrants.

The anti-ICE activist used her SUV to block federal immigration operations before using her vehicle to ram an agent, forcing him to open fire in self-defense.

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House Republicans were fuming Tuesday after their bid to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) collapsed, with several members accusing GOP leaders of cutting a quiet deal with Democrats to shield Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from facing the same punishment.

Republicans initially held the line and blocked a move to table the censure against Plaskett. But hours later, the effort fell apart, as three GOP lawmakers voted against it, three voted “present,” and four skipped the vote altogether.

Democrats were ready to hit back if the Plaskett measure passed. Their plan was to force a mirror censure vote on Mills, who has faced allegations of stolen valor, financial misconduct, and domestic abuse. He denies all the accusations.

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House Republicans tried and failed last night to censure Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands. The move came in the wake of revelations about Plaskett texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing.

Three Republicans voted against the measure, along with House Democrats who voted unanimously against it, and three Republicans voted present.

Great work guys, really great.

FOX News reports:

House Freedom Caucus bid to censure Democrat over Epstein links goes down in flames

A House Freedom Caucus-led bid to strip a member of the House Democratic Caucus of her role on a high-profile committee after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed earlier this month failed on Tuesday night.

Lawmakers voted against censuring Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., the Virgin Islands’ nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives, over newly surfaced text messages between her and Epstein that were exchanged during the February 2019 congressional testimony of Michael Cohen.