After years of Trump’s attacks on Somalis in Minnesota, ICE zeroes in on the Twin Cities. Here’s what’s fueling the operation

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When President Donald Trump was asked about how Afghans legally in the United States might feel about his decision to pause issuing visas for them after the suspected shooter of National Guard members was identified as an Afghan national, he took aim at another country in the same breath: Somalia.

“They can’t be happy because what’s taking place between that and, if you look at Somalia, they’re taking over Minnesota,” Trump said in remarks to reporters following his call to service members on Thanksgiving Day.

Moments later, he clarified the alleged shooter had nothing to do with Somalia. But the president has nonetheless continued pushing hostile rhetoric toward the Somali