President Donald Trump is facing mounting criticism after referring to Somali immigrants as “garbage,” singling out Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who arrived in the United States in 1995 after her family fled Somalia’s civil war.
Trump made the comments during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday while discussing the situation in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who was former Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate last year.
Minnesota is confronting a massive fraud scandal within its social services agencies, with many of those implicated being of Somali descent. The state has the nation’s largest population of Somalis.
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