All posts tagged "Somalis"

A newly surfaced recording shows one of President Donald Trump's most powerful aides fixating on a single group during an official call.

Stephen Miller, then serving as deputy chief of staff, repeatedly pressed Trump administration officials during a December 2025 call to produce evidence of fraud tied to immigrants, Minnesota and the state's Somali population, according to a recording obtained by The Washington Sun and reported Friday. By the outlet's count, Miller raised it nine times in about 10 minutes.

The report landed the same day Trump named Miller his new White House chief of staff, handing formal power to an aide who has long steered the president's domestic agenda....

A Trump official on Wednesday struggled to defend the Trump administration's racist attack on Somalis.

CNN anchor John Berman asked Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, "Exactly how much of the Somali American community in Minnesota, an estimated 40,000 of whom were born in Somalia, could be considered garbage," The New Republic reported.

Berman was referring to President Donald Trump's rant Tuesday in which he claimed that Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her entire community are "garbage."...

A Democratic lawmaker gave President Donald Trump a verbal tongue-lashing Tuesday over his xenophobic rant against Somali immigrants living in Minnesota.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that the president's rant during the Cabinet meeting and press conference on Tuesday against the Somali immigrant community, including Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), was absurd.

"What a what a sick and diseased guy!" Kaine exclaimed. "'They contribute nothing?' You know, I have friends and family in Minnesota who talk about the Somali community with a lot of pride and affection. If there's bad apples in that community or any community, they ought to suffer legal consequences justified by their actions. But to use a broad brush to paint Somalis as negative..." ...

The humanitarian situation in Somalia remains "highly critical," as the war-torn nation struggles from drought and famine, theInternational Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned Wednesday.