President Trump on Friday said he is ending deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

The president wrote on his Truth Social platform that he was "terminating effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota."

Mr. Trump said, without providing evidence, that "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State."

He also accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, without proof, of overseeing a state that had become a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity."

"Send them back to where they came from," he said. "It's OVER!"

The president did not provide further details on the move.

TPS is a federal program that allows migrants from unstable countries to live and work legally in the U.S.

Somalia's TPS designation runs thr

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