Racial Targeting: Somalians
2025 November
2025-11-27 Trump claimed Somali refugees were taking over Minnesota and called Minnesota a money-laundering hub. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar said, “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 Trump said about Somali immigrants, “We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”. He also said, “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 Operation Metro Surge, a task force designed to specifically target Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
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 claimed on Fox News that 80% of crimes in Minnesota were committed by Somalis.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1996231534542512489
2025-12-26 Right-wing vlogger Nick Shirley alleged widespread childcare fraud involving Somali communities. The claims prompted investigations, funding freezes, and harassment directed at Minnesota childcare centers. Both JD Vance and Pam Bondi publicly praised Shirley. Did You Know? The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 page 482 and 486 mandate defunding and dismantling childcare?
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
https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764911427731459?s=20
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20260107/118796/HHRG-119-GO00-20260107-SD091.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118871/documents/HHRG-119-JU08-20260121-SD032.pdf
2025-12-27 JD Vance praised 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. 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 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” while JD Vance and Mike Johnson laughed and applauded.
2026 June
2026-06-10 A World Cup referee from Somalia was denied entry into the U.S. days before the World Cup.
[https://www.espn.com/soccer/story//id/49016259/us-official-somalia-omar-artan-suspected-terror-ties](https://www.espn.com/soccer/story//id/49016259/us-official-somalia-omar-artan-suspected-terror-ties)
2026-06-25 During a Faith & Freedom conference Congressman Tom Ember said Somali immigrants who fail to assimilate into American culture should “go the hell back to where they came from”.
https://www.inforum.com/news/minnesota/tom-emmer-somali-community-comments-criticism
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/jun/27/emmer-says-somalis-should-go-the-hell-back-to/
https://www.kttc.com/2026/06/26/rep-emmer-criticized-comments-about-somali-minnesotans/