🚨Just in: President Trump is terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.
Trump said: “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and Billions of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s Over!” pic.twitter.com/PrqlaErSkB
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Nov. 21 that he was immediately terminating the temporary deportation protections for Somalis living in Minnesota.
“Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing,” Trump said on Truth Social. “I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.”
Trump’s move to remove protections for Somalis comes after years of targeting Somali immigrants in every campaign cycle in Minnesota since he first ran for president in 2016. The state has become a destination for Somali immigrants in recent decades dating back to the 1990s.
United States Census Bureau data from 2023, opens new tab say 63,192 people in Minnesota had Somali ancestry – the highest concentration in the country – with the next highest in Ohio, where nearly 30,000 people reported Somali ancestry.