Trump Doesn’t Want Somalis in The US — ICE Plans More Deportations

US President Donald Trump has said he does not want Somali immigrants in the US, telling reporters they should “go back to where they came from” and “their country is no good for a reason”.
“I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,” he said during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Trump said the US would “go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”.
His disparaging comments came as immigration authorities were reported to be planning an enforcement operation in Minnesota’s large Somali community.
Officials in the state have condemned the plan, arguing it could unfairly sweep up American citizens who may appear to be from the East African nation.
Minneapolis and St Paul, which together are known as the Twin Cities, are home to one of the largest Somali communities in the world and the largest in the US.
Trump’s comments represent an intensification of his recent attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community, whose decades-long protected status in the US he recently pledged to revoke, and its Democratic politicians.
Trump has also recently expanded his months-long immigration crackdown in the wake of last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in Washington DC, which was allegedly perpetrated by an Afghan who moved to the US. Trump did not refer to that incident while speaking about Somalis.
During his comments, which came at the end of an hours-long televised cabinet meeting, Trump said: “I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK.
“Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country.”
He also said: “With Somalia, which is barely a country, you know, they have no, they have no anything. They just run around killing each other. There’s no structure.”
He then turned to criticising Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat and the first Somali-American to be elected to Congress with whom he has clashed repeatedly for a number of years.
“I always watch her,” Trump said, adding that Omar “hates everybody. And I think she’s an incompetent person”.
“His obsession with me is creepy,” Omar responded in a social media post. “I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.”