{"id":326755,"date":"2025-12-02T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326755\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:30:11","slug":"trump-says-he-doesnt-want-somalis-in-the-us-urges-them-to-go-back-to-their-homeland-and-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326755\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he doesn&#8217;t want Somalis in the US, urges them to go back to their homeland and fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump during a lengthy Cabinet meeting on Tuesday said he did not want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s comment came days after his administration announced they are halting all asylum decisions following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington. The suspect in last week\u2019s incident is originally from Afghanistan but Trump has used the moment to raise questions about immigrants from other nations, including Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88% or something. They contribute nothing. I don\u2019t want them in our country,\u201d He said. \u201cTheir country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don\u2019t want them in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump during a lengthy Cabinet meeting on Tuesday said he did not want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10908,23,3505,12,793,790,1576,3,111,28488,57672,21,19,22,20,25,24,800,965],"class_list":["post-326755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-afghanistan","tag-america","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-immigration","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-somalia","tag-u-s-national-guard","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326755","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=326755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}