Racial Targeting: Somalians
2025 November
2025-11-27 Trump posted on social media, claiming that “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”. He also made similar posts roughly a week prior. As part of this post, Trump made it a point to attack Governor Tim Walz, calling Minnesota a “hub of money laundering”. During an interview on CNN, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar stated “…this is what he does, and he tries to stoke division and make people hate each other”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625429081411360
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115590786862216464
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/walz-klobuchar-trump-attack-minnesota-00671132
2025 December
2025-12-02 During a press conference Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” and said they should be sent back home, stating “we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”. One news outlet quoted the president as saying, “These are people who do nothing but complain…they complain, and from where they came from they got nothing…when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-somali-immigrants-minnesota
2025-12-03 The Trump administration announced a task force specifically targeting Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The DOJ called it Operation Metro Surge.The surge of agents being sent to Minneapolis occurred right after a right-wing podcaster harassed local Somalian daycares.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5631530-trump-targets-minnesota-somali-community/
https://www.house.mn.gov/members/Profile/News/15535/41031
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/ice-somali-immigrants-minneapolis-st-paul/
2025-12-03 Tom Emmer went on Fox News claiming 80% of crimes being committed in Minnesota were being committed by Somalis.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996231534542512489
2025-12-26 (context) A right-wing shock vlogger Nick Shirley demanded entry into daycare centers and accused Somali residents of $9B in childcare fraud. The viral video prompted DHS to conduct a massive investigation in Minnesota. Shortly after the investigation started, Trump politicized the issue by freezing childcare funds to Minnesota. Later, Trump decided to extend the funding freeze to five (5) Democrat-led states. Several media outlets including Fox News featured investigative reporting disproving the vlogger’s claims and showed security camera footage of parents showing up to drop their children off at the center. It was shared that there had been fraudulent activity in the past, but most of it had been addressed, people had been placed in prison, many of the offenders where white (not Somali), and when Tim Walz requested more legislation so he could do more work to come after these criminals, he was denied. And now daycare centers across the State of Minnesota are receiving numerous harassing phone calls, threats, and other content creators banging on their doors.
It is also important to note – for context – that the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 has a mandate in their text to dismantle and defund childcare, so demonizing childcare in this country isactually partof the Trump and Heritage Foundation agenda. Pages 482 and 486 outlines a plan to completely dismantle availability to childcare so women will be forced out of the workplace. That includes single mothers that they love to demonize.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-nick-shirley-video-day-care-investigation/
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g-s1-104049/trump-minnesota-child-care-funding-freeze-fraud-schemes
2025-12-27 JD Vance tweeted about Nick Shirley “This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 @pulitzercenter prizes.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/2005064947437650251?lang=en
2026 January
2026-01-09 The Mississippi Free Press published an article reminding readers that former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services was arrested six years prior for diverting millions of federal welfare dollars, giving those fraudulent funds to people like former WWE wrestlers and other athletes for personal use. For context, this article was published shortly after the Trump administration launched its attack on Minnesota for welfare fraud, specifically targeting Somali residents.
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/01/09/disgraced-welfare-director-takes-stand/
2026-01-13 The Trump administration stated protection for Somali immigrants would be stopped and immigrants were expected to leave the country by March 17 2026.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/somalis-temporary-protected-status-trump-administration-ending/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0p9ld5egjo
2026 February
2026-02-24 During the State of the Union, Trump stated, “The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA, and it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.” Representative Ilhan Omar looked on in horror, while JD Vance and Mike Johnson laughed and applauded.
2026 March
2026-03-21 Trump threatened to send ICE agents to airports starting Monday March 23rd if Democrats didn’t agree to fund DHS ICE agents. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “…ICE agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia…”. The Washington Post in their article wrote, “Border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents will be at airports to help TSA agents…”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116267892671497457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObltrGAQQS8&list=WL&index=8