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Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis

Minnesotans gear up to fight Trump ending Somalis’ temporary protected status

Woman in head scarf holding Black Lives Matter sign kneels with fist raised.
A Somali American protester after the murder of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 1 June 2020. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images

In the days since the president said he would be ending a legal immigration status program for Somalis in Minnesota, local elected officials and community members said they will fight back.

On Truth Social on Friday, Trump wrote that he would be “terminating, effective immediately” temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota. Trump wrote that Minnesota was a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity”. “Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!” he wrote.

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