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Dude ICE got $70+ Billion from the Big Beautiful Bill. They’re giving out $50,000 hiring bonus and start pay at 100K, with minimum qualifications.
All ICE detention are private jails, charging more than state, federal, and county jails.
This whole illegal immigration crackdown is a money grab for Trump lobbyists.

Look at this interactive map showing current ICE raids happening in the country.
Notice how California, Florida, and Texas have hardly any ICE activity?

Those 3 states are the top 3 states for illegal immigrants. Yet hardly any ICE activity in those 3 states. Trump admin is only creating a circus for its base. It’s not doing anything meaningful.

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Here is an interactive map tracking ICE enforcement actions.
California, Texas, and Florida are the top 3 states with largest illegal immigrants.

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They picked Native Americans and arrested them in Minnesota based on them looking like Mexican. You can find videos of that interaction online.

They’re targeting immigrant truck drivers based solely on their Truck company name being foreign. Here is a video of such interaction. This not a targeted immigration enforcement.

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Find a Hawala place, there have Dahabshill in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Lots of Somalis in Zimbabwe and Zambia run businesses there. Anywhere in Africa you will find a Hawala ran by Somalis, they have agents all over Africa.

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We are Somali not Somalians, get it right.

Let’s check in with ICE and see how Somalis are handling them.

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It’s both in this case.
Somali Hawalas are both informal and formal.
This post was in response to a post regarding Somali men moving millions of dollars through American airports.

Somali Hawalas in America were made illegal in 2001 after 9/11. When that happened, Somali Hawalas adopted the method you described, using merchants and businessmen, until the American government gave them back their license.

Now Somali Hawalas collect the money physically and move it through airports to Banks in Dubai. American Banks still refuses to bank Somalis Hawalas, so the cash is moved physically. However they do it legally and are given approval letters from the US treasuries.