Posted on 12/03/2025 4:42:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Officials in Minneapolis on Tuesday said they were not aware of imminent federal immigration raids targeting the area’s Somali community, which has come under blistering attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump in recent days.
Anti-immigration rhetoric was a major part of Trump's campaign and since taking office in January he has overseen an aggressive campaign by masked federal agents across the country that has instilled fear in immigrant communities and prompted protests and backlashes in the cities targeted.
During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump ratcheted up his inflammatory rhetoric about Somalis, saying they had contributed nothing to the U.S. “I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,” Trump said. “Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the president was "absolutely right to highlight the problems caused by the radical Somali migrants that the Democrats let invade our country and steal from American taxpayers." Trump has long used incendiary rhetoric, as well as racist and sexist language, saying on several occasions that immigrants in the U.S. illegally are "poisoning the blood of our country." St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, the first Black mayor of his Twin City which is also home to many Somalis, said Trump’s attacks on that community were “racist” and “xenophobic.”
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No bias found in this reuters reporter. /s
Walz and his Democrat cronies have ruined the Twin Cities, busted the state’s budget, and are taxing the citizens to pay for their blunders and fraud.
Were not, are not and plan to continue to 'not be aware.' Plausible deniability now stands directly next to implausible deniability.
The world of the Democrat Party in its various formats and names is arrived at Idiocracy.
This is how The Democrat Crime Syndicate rolls.
Minnesota morons proud of their stupidity it must be hell for the normal people there.
Hey Melvin... Breathing is “racist” and “xenophobic”, what else you got?
Real title:
Corrupt Democrat Officials Shelter Illegals in Order to Protect Voting Block and Kickbacks From Widespread Fraud on Taxpayers
Robs the public Treasury with fraud and leaves the taxpayers with tampons as IOU’s.
DJT is doing exactly what I voted for.
Minnesota officials = The Vichy French
Minnesota has surrendered to the Saracen hordes of hell. Now let’s see how little Mogadishu survives without federal dollars. /spit
‘anti-immigration rhetoric’, huh? Eff you Roto-Reuters
Give the writer credit for restraint, he managed to one full sentence before the bias
It’s not hyperbole or being dramatic to say that we are at war right now on a few fronts, with the most dangerous being radical Islam. We cannot coexist with them on their terms (control, submission, subjugation, etc.). Look at what is going on right now in the UK, and then look at Somalians in Minnesota. Shariah communities in Texas. Protests across our country for palesswine,
It’s a give an inch take a mile relationship. It’s not what we fought for in the Revolution and not what we defended in the wars that followed. So yes, take out the trash in Minnesota. It’s the first of many places in and outside our country to win back.
Minn legislators are antiAmerican.
Reuters manual if approved word and phraseology usage for its reporters really puts a limit on what can be said about whom. Any decent journalists with principles would resign.
It isn’t “Minnesota officials”, it’s MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS who need their votes.
I have acquaintances in the Twin Cities area that are hardly bigoted racists, but they have nothing good to say about the Somali community at large, based on their own personal experiences.
“Trump’s attacks on that community were “racist” and “xenophobic.”
Lazy woke defense of Somali pirates. The Somalis threatened to brand MN government officials who denied funding to pirates as racists. Despicable.
Apparently, your typical Minnesota DIM is compromised on many levels. However, the fraud-loving Minnesota somalians had a lot of money to line politicians’ pockets from their multi-billion dollar fraud. What a pathetic criminal joke that state is.
Yeah right!
Nobody is going to give those dopes a time and date of the immigration sweeps...........
So, the next time you feel like complaining about crowded schools, crowded emergency rooms, crowded jails and higher property taxes to pay for it all, remember how these political “leaders” supported the illegals at your expense.
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