Ridiculous!: Minneapolis Mayor Frey Defends Somalis Against Trump’s Latest Immigration Threats | APT - video Dailymotion

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Minnesota leaders, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have spoken out in defense of the Somali community following repeated attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump. Officials said no imminent federal immigration raids were planned, emphasizing that local police will not cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. Mayor Frey called Trump’s remarks “ridiculous” and praised the Somali community for their contributions to the Twin Cities.  #Minnesota #SomaliCommunity #Trump #JacobFrey #Immigration #TwinCities

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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

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05:57that we have to prove it

06:01that we have to emphasize

06:03we have to react from the Sonic

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