Somali immigrants in Minnesota are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s claim that they don’t work and contribute nothing, pointing to decades of labor and entrepreneurship. At Hamdi ...

They run child care centers, health care agencies, salons, restaurants, consulting firms and retail shops. Many work two jobs ...

Somali Minnesotans have a higher labor participation rate than the general population. They work as truck drivers, nurses, manufacturing workers and entrepreneurs.

Federal immigration authorities this week began conducting enhanced operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a U.S. official told CBS News, targeting a region with a large population of the Somali ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Many in Minnesota’s Somali community — even those who are citizens — say they are fearful after Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched an operation in the region and after ...

Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation on Somali immigrants in Minnesota, as reported by the Associated Press, but President Donald Trump's rhetoric is ...

In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country’s largest Somali community. “They ...