Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is banning migrants who are on government assistance from sending any U.S. dollars outside the country.
\n\nThe secretary is making his move as part of a crackdown on federal social benefits abuses in Minnesota, which includes audits by the Internal Revenue Service on some banks under suspicion of money laundering.
\n\nBessent has been concerned that money sent back to Somalia by the Somali community in Minnesota has ended up in the hands of the Muslim terror group al-Shabaab. Bessent has now suggested these funds — called remittances — should come under closer scrutiny.
\n\n“If you are wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true: you’re either getting too much money and your benefits must be cut, or you’re part of this conspiracy. Where did that money come from? We’re gonna find out,” Bessent said during an interview on Fox News.
\n\n“From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance,” he said.
\n\n“And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the…
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