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A Vermont school district is receiving racist and threatening messages after raising a Somali flag at a school building last week
In Minnesota, Somali Americans have been in fear since President Trump called them “garbage.” ICE raids across the state have led to over a dozen arrests, prompting many to carry their U.S. passports to protect against wrongful arrests.
Leaders of Muslim and Somali organizations applauded a resolution brought forward by Green Bay's mayor supporting Somali community.
Somalia’s location on the Horn of Africa made it a strategic ground for empires throughout history. In the 19th century, British and Italian colonial regimes made pacts with local sultanates. The resulting protectorates, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, lasted until 1960, when Somalis merged the two states into the Somali Republic.
A 20-year-old Minneapolis resident, joined by Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O'Hara, detailed what he calls an "erroneous arrest" by ICE.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown targeting the community.
A US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent.
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Twin Cities Latino, Somali businesses struggling amid ICE's Operation Metro Surge: "What did we do?"
Some members of the Twin Cities' immigrant community say Operation Metro Surge is not only striking fear in the Latino and Somali communities, but it's also harming their small businesses.