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WATCH: Experts reveal how ‘racism’ allegations helped fuel Minnesota fraud

Fox News Digital spoke to State Sen. Mark Koran, former prosecutor Joe Teirab, and columnist Dustin Grage about how claims of ‘racism’ shielded fraud within the Somali community in Minneapolis.

The ongoing investigations into fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota have another chilling angle: possible links to jihad.

President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy wants to move on from the days when the Middle East dominated foreign policy. But the Minnesota welfare fraud schemes are a warning sign. Closing the door on radical Islam’s ideology – and its greedy tentacles here in America – may be harder than it looks.

EXPERT REVEALS KEY FACTOR THAT LED TO MASSIVE MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME

Treasury Secretary Scott BessentScott Bessent was worried enough to launch an investigation into whether money was transferred from Minnesota to the infamous al-Shabaab jihadist group in Somalia.

"A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud," Bessent told Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" earlier this month. Much of that money "has gone overseas, and we are tracking that both to the Middle East and to Somalia to see what the uses of that have been," he said.