Minneapolis Mayor fires back after Trump calls Somalis ‘garbage’

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00:00You just heard the president say that he doesn't want Somalis in the U.S. and wants them to go back to their homeland.

00:06What's your response directly to him?

00:09He's wrong and we want them here.

00:13Somali people have been an extraordinary benefit.

00:16I'll say it again.

00:18Somali people have been a benefit to our city for longer than I have been in our city.

00:25They have started businesses and created jobs.

00:28They have added to the cultural fabric of what Minneapolis is.

00:33They were welcoming to me when I first came out to Minneapolis.

00:38In fact, they were one of the first groups that I myself got to know.

00:44To, again, villainize an entire group is ridiculous under any circumstances.

00:50And the way that Donald Trump is consistently doing it, I think, calls into question major constitutional violations.

01:00And it certainly violates the moral fabric of what we stand by in this country as Americans.

01:05So that's fun.

01:23Everybody believes that I may have a training and speak, you know.