The Trump administration will revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the United States in the face of White House claims that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.

Noem told Fox News that Somalis with temporary protected status would be required to leave the country by March 17. She argued that conditions in Somalia have improved and added that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest. We are putting Americans first.”

In a separate social media post, the Department of Homeland Security wrote: “Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves.”

The move would affect thousands of Somalis in the United States, though not the majority of the U.S. Somali community, many of which are already permanent residents or U.S. citizens. Yet the announcement comes as the federal government ramps up its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, the state with the largest Somali population in the United States.

  • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    Do you have any actual arguments, or are you just here to spout verbal abuse and baseless accusations?

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      I’m not here to debate you. I’m here to let you know that no one fucking wants you and this shit you dumped here on lemmy. You wanna get your knob slobbed cause you can parrot some pseudointellectual garbage you picked up from a grifter that told you your intuition on a subject that neither of you know anything about was correct and perfect? Well LLMs and reddit exist, so just go there and get the fuck out of here.

      You wanna be a grown-up and actually learn about shit instead of giving yourself a participation trophy in smarts that no one respects? Learn shit so you’re beyond a “third-grader in white suburbia” level of understanding on how the world works before you try to engage others in an intellectual way. I’ll give you a hint, start with the people your grifters bash but watch their videos without the grifter telling you what to think first. You might actually learn something. It might seem like a scary thing at first, being challenged on how you think the world works, but in time you’ll grow to like actually knowing things instead of the mastubatory shit you’ve been doing up till now.

      Who knows? You might even end up being something more than a mouth-breathing racist with all of the intellectual prowess of a clam. I mean, it’s unlikely, but human potential can surprise you.