Somalis in Minnesota ...

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/ice-somali-migrants-minneapolis-st-paul.html

The Trump administration is launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-somalia.html

[Trump] said Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country.” He described Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who came to the United States from Somalia as a refugee and became a citizen 25 years ago, as “garbage.”

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

Wonder what the sentiment on the ground is when it comes to the Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

[jon-nyc]

My own bias showing here but removing undocumented Somalis is probably better for the country in the long run than removing a similar number of Latin American nannies or Home Depot day laborers.

[Mik]

I'd have to agree. They've made a godawful mess of their own country.

[jon-nyc]

Not to mention Islam above a certain percentage becomes a threat to western civilization and small-l liberal values. Latinos not so much.

[89th]

I always found it funny that folks from such a hot place migrated to such a cold place. FYI the main "hub" (similar to Little Italy, China Town, etc...) is the Somali group you see here:

[Mik]

Balkanization.