President Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he was ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota prompted outrage and fear from Minnesota Somalis and their allies over the weekend.

In a Truth Social Post, Trump said that he was terminating the TPS program for Somalis in Minnesota “effective immediately,” citing concerns about money laundering and gang activity.

“We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen to end the Somali TPS program in Minnesota, a legal lifeline for families who have built their lives here for decades,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Minnesota, said in response. “This decision, fueled by harmful misinformation campaigns that we believe have external political motives,

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