U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, targeting undocumented Somali immigrants with deportation orders and connected to a $300 million fraud scandal involving "Feeding Our Future."Donald Trump escalated rhetoric against the Somali community and announced plans to end Temporary Protected Status for 705 Somali migrants, falsely accusing most Somalis of welfare dependency and criminality while attacking Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz.Local leaders, including
Omar Fateh,
Tim Walz,
Jacob Frey, and
Melvin Carter, condemned Trump's actions and defended the Somali community amid rising Islamophobia and the ongoing fraud investigation without proven terrorism links.