{"id":306457,"date":"2025-11-22T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:30:08","slug":"trump-targets-minnesotas-somali-migrants-with-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306457\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump targets Minnesota’s Somali migrants with policy change"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday night that he\u2019s \u201cimmediately\u201d terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has already repeatedly sought to weaken. <\/p>\n

Minnesota has the nation\u2019s largest Somali community<\/a>. Many fled the long civil war in their east African country and were drawn to the state\u2019s welcoming social programs. <\/p>\n

But how many migrants would be affected by Trump\u2019s announcement that he wants to end temporary protective status could be very small. A report produced for Congress in August put the number of Somalis covered by the program at just 705 nationwide. <\/p>\n

Congress created the program granting Temporary Protective Status<\/a> in 1990. It was meant to prevent deportations of people to countries suffering from natural disasters, civil strife or other dangerous conditions. <\/p>\n

The designation can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary and is granted in 18-month increments.<\/p>\n

The president announced his decision on his social media site, suggesting that Minnesota was \u201ca hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s OVER!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Trump\u2019s decision \u201cwill tear families apart.\u201d Executive Director Jaylani Hussein said in a statement late Friday, \u201dThis is not just a bureaucratic change; it is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump promised while campaigning to win back the White House last year that his administration would deport millions of people. As part of a broader push to adopt hardline immigration policies, the Trump administration has moved to withdraw various protections<\/a> that had allowed immigrants to remain in the United States and work legally. <\/p>\n

That included ending TPS for 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who were granted protection<\/a> under President Joe Biden. The Trump administration has also sought to limit protections previously extended to migrants from Cuba and Syria, among other countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Friday night that he\u2019s \u201cimmediately\u201d terminating temporary legal protections for Somali…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1926,23,12,793,790,3319,152186,6429,6661,3,111,3766,28488,42786,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,800],"class_list":["post-306457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-africa","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-minnesota","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-race-and-ethnicity","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-government","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}