Omar Fateh

I think it's both hurtful and at the same time, it's flat out not true.

And what I mean by that is we have the president of the United States who has made it very clear that he is targeting an entire community based off who they are and how they identify.

And now we're having

ICE agents in our communities, in the Twin Cities, because of that to fulfill his agenda.

And what that is, is that he is targeting the Somalis, not because of immigration status or because he thinks that some are committing crime.

He literally said, I want all of them gone.

Like, I do not want them here.

And so what we've been seeing in the community right now is folks that are even U.S.

citizens being detained.

I've heard from young people that are terrified, saying that they feel they can't walk around without carrying a passport on them, even though they're U.S.

citizens.

And so that's the kind of environment that he's created.

But what we know is that this is all just political theater.

It's a distraction.

It is to rally his base for the midterms, but at the same time to distract from his own failures as president.

Absolutely, yes.

And again, that entire operation is not only a distraction, it is a distraction away from his failures, but at the same time, it is pitting Americans against one another.

Our immigrant communities, whether they're Somalis or Latino or Afghan or what have you, we are a nation of immigrants.

The immigrant communities participate in our local economies.

They are entrepreneurs.