This month, President Donald Trump ended a Cabinet meeting with a vitriolic attack against Somali migrants. He called them “garbage,” said their country “stinks,” and declared that he does not want them in the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and a promise to revoke protected status for certain Somali migrants followed.

The president’s actions are a response to recent charges brought against 78 people, mostly of Somali descent, in Minnesota who are accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for social services in the state. But they mirror a broader trend of the Trump administration using the criminal conduct of individuals as a pretext to target an entire immigrant community, such as Haitians in Ohio and Venezuelans in Colorado.

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