Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent continues on two domestic financial approaches to block banking services for illegal aliens and simultaneously target use of the financial system by those engaged in fraud of the U.S. government.
Secretary Bessent has extended the Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) within Minnesota that covers two counties, Hennepin and Ramsey.
All financial transactions over a $3,000 limit are subject to increased reporting requirements and scrutiny from the U.S. treasury. {citation}
The measure is intended to identify any person who attempts to transfer funds obtained by fraud who operate in the region to take advantage of HHS funding programs. “Treasury promised to follow the money, and that is exactly what we are doing,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “We will continue to give law enforcement critical tools to trace criminal networks that siphon taxpayer dollars and move them overseas. The Trump Administration will not allow criminals to profit from programs intended to help vulnerable Americans.”
Additionally, the Treasury Department has now concluded the 90-day assessment laid out in an executive order titled “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System,” on May 19 and directed the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC, National Credit Union Administration and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to strengthen customer identification and due-diligence rules and to reassess how banks weigh credit risk for borrowers without work authorization.
Bessent is now giving banks and payroll companies additional guidelines and rules to ensure that illegal aliens are not exploiting the U.S. banking system. Bessent is following a path that is predicted to eventually require banks to verify legal citizenship or legal status. The guidelines are the first steps toward that process.
ARIZONA – […] The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency followed with an advisory on lending to borrowers not authorized to work in the U.S., instructing banks to weigh a borrower’s “willingness and capacity to repay” as part of standard underwriting.
Bessent said Arizona’s compliance programs, employee training, suspicious-activity reporting and information-sharing reflect the kind of partnership the executive order envisions.
In return, Bessent said, the Treasury Department is committed to giving banks better tools to catch fraud early, and he promised officials in Washington would listen more closely to community bankers.
Legal and tax analysts caution that the order’s effectiveness will depend on how the regulations are written. In a June 3 client alert, law firm Debevoise & Plimpton noted the order doesn’t impose new compliance obligations on banks, though it does start agency actions that could reshape anti-money-laundering compliance, customer due diligence and lending standards.
The CFPB is also weighing whether borrowers’ risk of deportation and lost wages should be factors in determinations of their ability to repay loans. The firm noted the order stopped short of an earlier, more sweeping proposal that would have required banks to verify citizenship status for all customers. (more)
During the Biden era our nation was forced to import 10 million people who are non-functioning in a first world system. The illegal aliens are generally uneducated; most cannot speak the language; almost all don’t understand simple American customs and norms; they need housing, medical treatment, transportation and basic services. At the same time people wonder why housing costs, insurance rates and general commodity prices skyrocket.
We do not need more H1B workers, or any visa workers at all. Cancel them all, then watch what happens to the wages and job opportunities of young tech Americans.
Deport 1 million illegal aliens per month; shut down all welfare systems and safety nets for illegal aliens; eliminate all healthcare services and taxpayer funded education for illegal aliens; make all systems for immigration status originate from consulate offices outside the United States – effectively eliminating the process within America; ban illegal aliens from access to banking and remittance payments, and begin the process of filing criminal charges against any/all employers who have illegal alien workers in their organizations.
Immediately suspend the business and regulatory licenses for any employer caught using illegal alien labor and watch the wages of blue-collar workers jump faster than the 30+ million empty houses and apartments can hit the market.
The unemployment rate in July dropped from 4.20% to 4.10% because the labor force dropped by 257,000 in the same month of July. That’s illegal alien workforce deportations in action. We need this to continue only at a much faster pace.
We need 1 million forced deportations every month to turn the economy around. If we can deport those illegal alien workers, then cancel all H1B and visa programs, American wages will rise. American employers will compete for American talent. American benefits will expand with employment competition. American housing and insurance costs will drop very quickly. American overall life will improve, and Generation Z will flourish.

Yeeeaah…. Mmmm.
The biggest and most effective selling point is:
“The benefit to you is…”
Black markets exist because there is a market. Even in brutal communist Russia the black markets thrived.
Look at prohibition. It just drove drinking further underground and created a thriving, very profitable underground of lawbreaking cohorts, working to together subvert law and order.
Human trafficking exists because cheap labor is a benefit. Like prostitution, drugs, alcohol, you can mitigate it but never eliminate it.
I think it would be better to do all the things Sundance lined out EXCEPT I think you incentivize hiring American citizens.
The trillions we would save on welfare could be repurposed to incentivize hiring American citizens, using payroll deductions, tax breaks and subsidies to make it cheaper for businesses to hire verified citizens than it is to hire illegals.
I could go on about how this would ease the transition but clearly it would prevent the resistance and violence that would occur if ICE raids suddenly hit homes, school, hospitals, nursing homes, etc.
The benefit to the businesses is that it becomes more advantageous to hire citizens, not illegals. Start there while dropping the hammer on welfare benefits to the illegals.
If there is no benefit to being here, they will go home. Dry up the benefits and the grift for our Senators will be found in helping American citizens.
ICE can continue to selectively deport, but most illegals will be able to see that without jobs or benefits, it’s to their advantage to take Trumps payment to return home on their own.
To make my point, imagine if all the hotels, restaurants, construction co.’s and ALL the businesses suddenly informed their employees that in six months, the businesses will be receiving thousands of dollars for verified American citizens that are employed in targeted categories. And, illegal welfare benefits will stop and enforcement efforts will be increasing.
The smart ones will make plans to go home. The stupid ones will lose their jobs and benefits and will take the payment to go home, because there will be no financial incentive for anyone to help them stay.
All of it….especially benefits going to illegals was suppose to happen months ago……Where the H has Trump been. All that smoke he blew up the Coal mining Industry was…..well smoke.
Give me a heeelll yeah for Sundance !
Good place to start is with Congressmen/women who hire illegals to work in their homes and businesses.
Isn’t this the same area where the FBI had an op related to counterfeit money? And a connection to George Floyd and his counterfeit $20?
No. George Floyd was a convicted felon with a 15 year prison sentence. He was paroled 5 years early which meant if he violated his parole, ie, use or possession of drugs he would have violated parole and be returned to state prison for the remainder of the sentence. Floyd didn’t want to go back to prison. The “counterfeit” $20 was a nothing burger.
The $20 OP was real, it was the imitative of the whole incident on that day.
Little noted in the media was the allegation that Floyd and Chauvin had worked security at a club that was the center of the counterfeiting that led to the $20 counterfeit bill incident. It seems to me that the source of that $20 might have shed a lot more light on that unfortunate incident. Was Chauvin acting as a cop for the city, or was he an enforcer for a crime syndicate? Hmmm?
If he was acting, he sure paid the price for it, being locked up for 20 yrs.
Fall guy?
Yep!
I think you are conflating this with Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri notoriety.
Yes from another Minnesotan.
Love it!!!
Live here in Minnesota and no one else is really doing anything.
Walz, Ellison….where are their shackles??
They are being protected by the Republican Congress and Courts.
Would be nice if it was poof .. voila off to jail you go.
Then there are still actors with the DoJ who refuse to do their jobs.
I just want to know when Ilhan Omar is going to be thrown out. Her performance today was the last straw.
“We do have, fortunately, partners in the Senate.” 😝
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/watch-ilhan-omar-applauds-republicans-blocking-save-act/
Yeah, I can’t say I forgot about her but, yeah, throw her out with the bath water.
Glad to see there are still authorized paths still open to the Executive Branch to combat at least some of fraud, waste, abuse, crimes etc.
Still waiting to see how the Republican Sponsored (Susan Collins) reconciliation package is handled by the House and President. The Senate added clauses that essentially prohibit Executive Branch Offices responsible for disbursing State Grant Money from taking any overt Fraud, Waste and Abuse actions involving those Grants as well as implementing any of the accounting actions recommended by DOGE.
Minnesotan here. It’s not just those 2 counties. Farmers have hired hundreds of thousands of illegals.
What prevents illegals from hopping into their Rolls-Royces, driving 20 minutes to the next county and remitting their fraudulent proceeds to the s**thole country of their choice?
Sounds good. Departures will speed up if we cut off all benefits to illegal aliens, stat!
Should shut down western union.
There are all kinds of ways to send money now. I’ve seen advertisements on tv, my son (citizen) uses Cash App and a whole host of money apps online these days. The farm near me used to drive their workers to western Union on pay day.
All sitting in line at Walmart customer service waiting to send stolen money back home.
Suddenly the Left will object to de-banking and redlining, but only when illegals get de-banked, never when conservatives get de-banked.
If we can do all those things … yes, it would improve everything. Including the safety of Americans.
One can’t read this without wondering why we ever decided to largely ignore American workers in favor of aliens, legal and illegal, in the first place.
Ans: Demmunists
I hate when people use the word “crisis” in politics, but right now the western states are having severe water issues. The 1920 Colorado River compact between the states has expired, and no state wants to sacrifice. Yet western cities are still building housing, still trying to be sanctuary cities . Does everyone think these illegals don’t require water?
Suck on it, Timmy & Keith.
Find another revenue stream for your grift.
Black market tampons?
Will this stop the ca$h leaving in luggage at MSP going through TSA?
Pretty sure he stopped that last week.
I do hope POTUS Trump is getting this info from SD!
I never thought a former associate of Soros would be such a great MAGA Sec of Treasury!
He is really a joy to watch work. Everyday the man makes me smile.
Right from the old school playbook.
Can we call him a Rhino from the other side?
During the Biden era, our nation was forced to import ten million people? Chose to import, we the people watched it happen, doing nothing. Fauci, far to many of we the people believed the lies. Some, thankfully knew better. “A republic, if we can keep it.”
It is precisely these points that clearly demonstrate how quickly we could lose it, our republic.
Without a shot being fired and in full view of the entire world, a single mentally deranged tyrant named Anthony Fauci, had us USELESSLY masking up, standing 10 feet apart, getting INJECTIONS of basically poison if we were to maintain employment or travel on a plane while further forcing our elderly to die needlessly ALONE as he shut down schools, churches and even ocean beaches while keeping bars and lottery offices open. And the sheeple complied with nary a peep. Had he required that people say “quack, quack” every time they took a step I’m sure most would have complied with that nonsense as well.
Things to think about.
As we celebrate the 250 year anniversary of this country, Ben Franklin was most astute in his observation and short quip, “A republic, if we can keep it.”
There are aleady enough Franklins involved in all this. thank you very much.
Banking is really a pain in the ass right now even for normal people. That is 100% down to the invaders.
I’m beginning to think of Bessent as a genius.
Kinda late?
Jobs numbers were a great success. Pedal to the metal, President Trump!!
from your lips to God s ears sundance
Deport everyone who came across the border illegally and ban them from ever returning, legally.
No forgiveness. No exceptions.
A million a month is a good start. Send back to their home country and let the door hit them in the a** on the way out.
I copied this sentence: “We do not need more H1B workers, or any visa workers at all. Cancel them all, then watch what happens to the wages and job opportunities of young tech Americans.”
But as I read on, I realized that Sundance covered most (all of?) the bases.
Mega Ditto’s
Get the leaching deadwood out of this country.
I would support tax breaks to companies that manufacture robotics for farm work. Use 21st century tech rather than 11th century slave labor.
Outstanding! I grew up in Ramsey County and it has always been a corrupt shitshow. Thankfully I live 40 miles away and raised the kids in the ‘country’. Cidiots, all of them. The Scamdemic was the worst.
Hennepin is worse. My company has been HQ’d in MPLS since 1926 and we moved our HQ outstate. The city council didn’t even reach out even though they are now losing $300,000,000 annualy on the 10% corporate taxes. They are going to build ‘pack and stack’ apartments for illegals on the riverfront property.
Then why in the world Trump and his economic advisors are not following this exact plan? Surely they are aware of the things that need to be done and these things are under PT direct control? What gives? PT is still telling everyone that things are great when we all know they are not.
Non-medical version of Operation Warp Speed.
Perfect! Remove the SCATTERS from our country.
And those U.S. citizens scatting, revoke their citizenship and offer them a one way ticket to Iran.
I always loved the Pontiac GTO.
The wasp-waist ’67 version was so cool. I was a grade school kid then.