Federal agents were forced to deploy pepper spray and other crowd control measures after a sizable mob of Somali and far-left rioters surrounded them as they conducted deportation operations in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
Immigration agents have increased their presence in the state of Minnesota after President Donald Trump moved to terminate temporary protected status provisions for millions of Somalis. Minnesota currently has the largest Somali population in the United States.
Tuesday’s disturbance occurred when a group of far-left agitators blocked federal agents with their vehicles as they checked identification in a heavily Somali neighborhood. This tactic has been commonly used by left-wing groups seeking to block deportation efforts in the nation’s largest cities.
“Thank God so many people showed up there,” said City Council Member Jamal Osman, a Somali American who represents the neighborhood and witnessed the disturbance. “[The agents] couldn’t get out of there because people showed up with their cars and whistles.”
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The president has also been heavily critical of the population, as well as the state’s Democrat leaders, due to a string of public welfare fraud scandals that have resulted in billions of dollars in stolen revenue. The most notable among them was the Feeding Our Future scheme, for which prosecutors have racked up 56 criminal convictions in what they allege was a plot to steal $300 million from a federally funded program meant to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the New York Post.
“These aren’t people that say, ‘let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain,” Trump said of the state’s Somali community while speaking with reporters last month. “They complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from paradise, and they said, ‘this isn’t paradise.’ But when they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but b**ch, we don’t want them in our country.”
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