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'We always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right?' he said in December. 'Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime,' he told reporters at a cabinet meeting. 'They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I will be honest with you.” He added, 'Their country stinks.'
But Trump’s animus toward Minnesota seems to be driven by something even deeper. The state is a political outlier in the Upper Midwest; the five states that surround it voted for Trump at least twice. On paper, Minnesota might look like friendly territory for MAGA: It is significantly whiter than the national average, and it has a substantial rural and exurban population.
Trump is convinced that Minnesota belongs in his column, insisting that he won it all three times he ran for president but that his victory was snatched away by devious local election officials. His administration seems to think that riling up resentment against the state’s roughly 100,000 residents of Somali origin is a ticket to luring the state’s white supermajority into his xenophobic camp.
But Minnesotans are unlikely to take the bait. The state has a long tradition of welcoming refugees, and Somalis — along with Hmong, Cambodians, Ethiopians and Ukrainians — have become part of the fabric of the state. "
'Minnesota represents everything that the administration hates,' said Mukhtar Ibrahim, a Somali American journalist and entrepreneur who came to Minnesota as a refugee 20 years ago. 'If he can do this in Minnesota, nothing else will stop him. This is, I think, ground zero. If Minnesota falls, the country will fall.'
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