In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...
It was the words of President Donald Trump, spoken 2,300 miles away, that prompted Mikaiil Hussein — a U.S. citizen who first came as a refugee from Somalia over 30 years ago — to take steps to ...
Americans were stunned last month to learn that members of Minnesota’s Somali community had scammed state taxpayers out of hundreds of millions — possibly even billions — of dollars. The question on ...
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WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring ...
The claim jumbled details from reports from political outlets in Maine that said relatives of Abdullahi Ali, a Somali politician and businessman in Maine, threatened a journalist whose employer ...
The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis is divorced from the downtown area by a tangle of highway overpasses, and as it turns out, it’s the perfect place for Somali immigrants in Minnesota to ...
Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump ...
The Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh estimates there are 800 to 1,000 Somali people living in Pittsburgh, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens, according to the organization, ...
A Vermont school district has sparked national outrage after district leaders raised the flag of Somalia on campus. The Winooski School District — located just outside Burlington, where roughly 9% of ...
Last week, President Trump attacked Somali immigrants in the nation during a Cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” and saying that he didn’t want them in the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. Immigration and ...