00:00we are here to respond to a number of credible reports from several media
00:15outlets relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be
00:22deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali
00:27community to our Somali community we love you and we stand with you that
00:34commitment is rock-solid Minneapolis is proud to be home to the largest Somali
00:40community in the entire country they've been here for decades targeting Somali
00:48people means that due process will be violated mistakes will be made and let's
00:55be clear it means that American citizens will be detained for no other reason
01:00than the fact that they look like they are Somali that is not now and will never
01:06be a legitimate reason and by the way there are more than 80,000 Somali people
01:14living in many in Minnesota almost all of them are both documented and citizens to
01:22to again villainize an entire group is ridiculous under any circumstances and
01:28the way that Donald Trump is consistently doing it I think calls into question major
01:35constitutional violations and it certainly violates the moral fabric of what we
01:41stand by in this country as Americans just earlier today we saw sadly the
01:50president of the United States open his mouth to take a whole group of people a whole country of
01:57people and denigrate just based on where they come from the Twin Cities is not a
02:04place that tolerates or embraces hate to say that the hateful and damaging rhetoric that
02:11we're hearing from Washington DC right now is reprehensible and it is not something that represents who our
02:18community is or who our country can be the words that founded this country the words that launched
02:25this American experience start with we the people and I believe that the sacred moments in American
02:34history are the moments we've had to decide who the we is who gets to be included in the we do we mean
02:44black people do we mean women do we mean immigrants do we mean gay and lesbian teenagers what we we have to
02:53decide who is a part of the we when we say we the people we the people and so when we talk about attacks
03:03racist Islamophobic xenophobic attacks on our Somali community and you compete you combine that with what
03:13mayor fry just said the vast majority of our Somali community are citizens so what he who he just attacked
03:20isn't just Somalis who he attacked is Somali Americans who he attacked is Americans and so if the president of the
03:28United States is telling you out loud that he hates Americans then I can't imagine a greater confession of
03:36incompetence to do the job that you've been hired to do than to say you don't believe that Americans
03:43belong in America that's what Donald Trump said to us today and so what you heard the president say
03:48today was that he is incompetent and incapable of being a president for the people of the United States
03:55because he just said out loud that he despises Americans thank you I am proud to say I'm Somali American
04:03this country welcomed me my family 26 years ago it has provided me a life that I did not have in Somalia
04:14we came here and we are thankful to be here I've been educated here got the opportunity to serve my
04:22community to be a council member I know many families are fearful tonight they are obviously everyone
04:32knows that our president is racist xenophobic Islamophobic and we are gonna fight that America has a history of
04:43fighting and stopping those kind of individuals who continue to divide people and divide communities
04:53I just want to be clear we are not confirming anything that has been in any of these reports and
05:00we don't have any official information ourselves I also ask that if demonstrations do happen around any type of
05:10immigration raid that they remain non-violent so that we can keep everyone in our communities safe so that we minimize the risk of any
05:20tragedy happening or the immigrant communities that are already suffering to suffer that much more if there is destruction in our
05:28neighborhoods
05:40and here is to stop jumping into the nation
05:46and toпов
05:47and to example
05:48with video
05:49we are seeing the polamine
05:51is decir
05:53with video
05:54that we have to preserve radiation
05:55and hear vaccine
05:55that
05:56they are спасибо
05:57that we have to prove it
06:01that we have to emphasize
06:03we have to react from the Sonic
06:04this
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