President Trump says he doesn’t want Somalis in the US

The Associated Press reports that President Donald Trump yesterday said he did not want Somali immigrants in the United States. Somalis have been coming to Minnesota and other states, often as refugees, since the 1990s.

AP noted that "Trump for years has criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who emigrated from Somalia in 1995 as a child."

The report recounted that the President Trump vowed last week in a social media post to send Somalis “back to where they came from,” and alleged Minnesota, home to the largest Somali community in the United States, is “a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.” Yesterday, the president said Somalis in the United States should “go back to where they came from and fix it.”

“We can go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way, if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said. “Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.”

There are news reports that immigration operations will soon begin in Minnesota, with Somalis the targets.