President Donald Trump talks after assembly with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump mentioned Friday night time that he is “instantly” terminating non permanent authorized protections for Somali migrants dwelling in Minnesota, additional focusing on a program looking for to restrict deportations that his administration has already repeatedly sought to weaken.
Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali neighborhood. Many fled the lengthy civil battle of their east African nation and had been drawn to the state’s welcoming social applications.
However what number of migrants can be affected by Trump’s announcement that he desires to finish non permanent protecting standing might be very small. A report produced for Congress in August put the variety of Somalis coated by this system at simply 705 nationwide.
Congress created this system granting Momentary Protecting Standing in 1990. It was meant to forestall deportations of individuals to international locations affected by pure disasters, civil strife or different harmful circumstances.
The designation may be granted by the Homeland Safety secretary and is granted in 18-month increments.
The president introduced his resolution on his social media web site, suggesting that Minnesota was “a hub of fraudulent cash laundering exercise.”
“Somali gangs are terrorizing the folks of that nice State, and BILLIONS of {Dollars} are lacking. Ship them again to the place they got here from,” Trump wrote. “It is OVER!”
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations mentioned Trump’s resolution “will tear households aside.” Government Director Jaylani Hussein mentioned in an announcement late Friday, “This isn’t only a bureaucratic change; it’s a political assault on the Somali and Muslim neighborhood pushed by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric.”
Trump promised whereas campaigning to win again the White Home final yr that his administration would deport hundreds of thousands of individuals. As a part of a broader push to undertake hardline immigration insurance policies, the Trump administration has moved to withdraw varied protections that had allowed immigrants to stay in the USA and work legally.
That included ending TPS for 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who had been granted safety beneath President Joe Biden. The Trump administration has additionally sought to restrict protections beforehand prolonged to migrants from Cuba and Syria, amongst different international locations.
