Fact-checking Trump’s verbal attack on Somalis

Ohio Has the Second Largest Somali Community in America. Trump’s Racist Rant Puts Them in Danger

"When the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, attacks a community he knows is not in a position to fight back, it’s hard not to be scared.”

Rampant fear in this red state shows the true danger of Trump's vile racist attacks

Will we be next? Ohio’s Somali community, the second largest in the U.S. after Minnesota, is terrified that President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis will spread to Columbus, where an estimated 60,000 Somali Americans live.A surge in ICE activity and racial profiling targeting Somalis in the Twin Cities followed Trump’s racist rant last week against the entire Somali community in America that among them includes an o…

Somali Americans under threat as Trump ramps up racist rhetoric

Somali Americans are facing growing hostility as US President Donald Trump ramps up his derogatory comments towards the community. In recent days, he has referred to them as "garbage" and "filthy" and has said he doesn't want them in the United States.  Trump’s remarks came days after the New York Times reported on a welfare fraud scheme involving Somalis in Minnesota and around two weeks after National Guard members in Washington, DC, were shot…

AFL-CIO joins defense of Somali-Americans after Trump hate attack

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Minnesota AFL-CIO has joined the mass defense of the state’s 80,000-person Somali-American community—the largest in the U.S.—after a hate-filled xenophobic and racist attack by President Donald Trump. Trump launched his rant against Somalis after an Afghan refugee who had worked for the CIA in his home country, and who was an interpreter for U.S. forces there, drove across country and shot two West Virginia Nation…

Fact-checking Trump’s verbal attack on Somalis

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. In a disparaging attack on Somalia in which he said he didn’t...

Rochester's Somali community pushes back on Trump’s rhetoric

ROCHESTER — When President Donald Trump lashed out at the Somali-American community at a cabinet meeting last week, it was extraordinary even by his stridently loose rhetorical standards. Trump trained his megaphone on a population of 260,000, a people that make up less than 0.1% of U.S. population. Trump said, “I don’t want them in our country,” and “their country stinks.” He called U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Somali-American, “garbage.” “I do…