Are US Plans Targeting Somali Immigrants?

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00:00And Jargruti, following Trump's remarks on Somalian immigrants, reports are now suggesting

00:05U.S. immigration officials are planning an operation in Minnesota. What more do we know

00:11about this? Yes, this is reporting initially from the New York Times saying that this is going to

00:18primarily, it says, target undocumented Somali immigrants in the twin cities of Minneapolis and

00:24St. Paul. And this is an effort that apparently is going to begin this week. We're seeing

00:31actually other efforts underway. The Department of Homeland Security has announced ICE agents

00:36will be being sent to New Orleans for similar crackdowns that we've seen in cities like

00:45Chicago, Los Angeles, all Democrat-run cities. Again, it's part of this sweeping anti-immigration

00:51crackdown that President Trump has presided over. The New York Times is also saying that

00:57those who are living under final deportation orders are the ones who are going to be affected. But

01:06it could be that other undocumented migrants are swept up in this as well. This is unsurprisingly

01:11causing a lot of fear and concern in Minneapolis, in Minnesota, in the state itself. And local

01:18officials have come out in support of Somalis. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who presides

01:26over the largest community of Somalis in the United States, he said that to our Somali community,

01:31we love you, we stand with you, and we aren't backing down.

01:35you