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Somalis push Minnesota officials to help after bank halts money transfers
StarTribune.com ^ | 2/7/15 | ALLISON SHERRY

Posted on 02/07/2015 6:08:27 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Somalis living in the Twin Cities are begging Minnesota’s elected officials to help find a way to safely wire money back to families living in the Horn of Africa after a California bank abruptly ceased wiring cash to the troubled country over the weekend.

The decision by Merchants Bank to stop that part of its operations last Friday caught Somalis, who use money service businesses to wire money abroad, off-guard in communities across the United States.

Of the more than 30,000 Somali immigrants living in the Twin Cities, 80 percent of them use money service businesses to send money abroad, according to the Somali American Money Service Association.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banks; misusewelfare; money; pushy; somalis; stealing; theft
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To: Pox

that would disrupt The Obama Miracle Transformation of AmerOca.


21 posted on 02/07/2015 8:28:48 PM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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To: tenger

I agree with you Jsanders, send them all back, but first strip them of their money, clothing, and any accumulated real estate or possessions. Good call. Glad you see the light. You’re a True Conserv’....


22 posted on 02/07/2015 8:30:38 PM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Sì!


23 posted on 02/07/2015 8:38:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Ain’t multiculturalism great?


24 posted on 02/08/2015 2:17:36 AM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Have Uncle Sam send the welfare checks back home, and go there to make sure the checks are arriving.


25 posted on 02/08/2015 2:55:54 AM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If they have enough money left over from their welfare payments to send to Africa then they are receiving to much Welfare paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

Businesses are a different deal, but really now... how many of them are there?


26 posted on 02/08/2015 6:01:25 AM PST by The Working Man
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Well someone has to pay for their khat.


27 posted on 02/08/2015 3:35:48 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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