ST. PAUL — President Donald Trump’s criticism of Minnesota’s Somali community quickly became the focus of Minnesota’s biannual state budget forecast on Thursday, Dec. 4.

Gov. Tim Walz started his address Thursday by denouncing Trump’s language on Monday, Dec. 1, during which Trump called Minnesota’s Somali community "garbage" and said he didn’t want Somalis in the U.S.

“We've got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage. This shouldn’t be that difficult of trying to conflate. If you commit crimes, you go to jail. Doesn't matter what your race is, what your ethnicity, religion,” Walz said. “But demonizing the entire group of people by their race and their ethnicity, a very group of people who contribute to the vitality economic culture of the state,

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