In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that much of Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. He also repeated attacks on Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, calling her one of the many scammers. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth, Trump wrote.
Move comes after a conservative YouTuber claimed daycare centres run by Somali Americans were defrauding the state. United States President Donald Trump's government has frozen childcare payments to the state of Minnesota and launched audits of immigration cases involving Somali Americans, intensifying a campaign that critics say uses fraud investigations to target immigrant communities.
President Trump continued verbal attacks on Minnesota's Somali community on Wednesday. During a tirade, Trump while discussing alleged fraud in Minnesota's social services systems called immigrants from Somalia "garbage" and said "they've destroyed our country." He also talked about deporting Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who represents the largest Somali American population in the U.S. Omar, who immigrated to the U.S. at age 12 and is now a U.S. citizen, joined Morning Edition to discuss the president's remarks.
