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A Vermont school district is receiving racist and threatening messages after raising a Somali flag at a school building last week.
Leaders of Muslim and Somali organizations applauded a resolution brought forward by Green Bay's mayor supporting Somali community.
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Twin Cities Latino, Somali businesses struggling amid ICE's Operation Metro Surge: "What did we do?"
Some members of the Twin Cities' immigrant community say Operation Metro Surge is now only striking fear in the Latino and Somali communities, but it's also harming their small businesses.At Plaza Mexico on Lake Street,
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Friday that the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota centered around Somali immigrants could make for the “greatest financial fraud” in the history of the United States.
Somalia’s location on the Horn of Africa made it a strategic ground for empires throughout history. In the 19th century, British and Italian colonial regimes made pacts with local sultanates. The resulting protectorates, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, lasted until 1960, when Somalis merged the two states into the Somali Republic.
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ICE agents wrongfully detained U.S. citizen in Minneapolis for looking Somali, city leaders say
Minneapolis city leaders say a U.S. citizen was wrongfully arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents because he looks Somali.
A 20-year-old Minneapolis resident, joined by Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O'Hara, detailed what he calls an "erroneous arrest" by ICE.
In Minnesota, Somali Americans have been in fear since President Trump called them “garbage.” ICE raids across the state have led to over a dozen arrests, prompting many to carry their U.S. passports to protect against wrongful arrests.