MINOT — “By adding your own history and experiences to the fabric of our country, you make America stronger," U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland said at a naturalization ceremony held in Fargo earlier this year. "We become a better country, a more understanding country with diversity."

Hovland was presiding over the ceremony, which inducted some 200 people from 51 different counties as Americans.

I wish that were the sort of thing our Somali friends and neighbors were hearing right now, instead of President Donald Trump's repugnant insults. “I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason," Trump said recently, adding that

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