MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minnesota's growing Somali community, including a city council member, tore into President Donald Trump and his administration when speaking with Fox News Digital after Monday's raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., residence. "Somalis — we all feel attacked by President Trump," Jamal Osman, the Somali-born Vice President of the Minneapolis City Council, said of the impact of the raid was carried out by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents.
"Our president has broken the law many time times. "ICE [is] terrorizing our community... and we're not surprised such action has taken place," Osman continued in reference to the search of Omar's home. FEDERAL AGENTS RAID ILHAN OMAR’S DC HOME AMID IMMIGRATION FRAUD INVESTIGATION "We have seen the threats, the horrific language he uses against my community.
It's unacceptable and we're hoping this could stop," Osman said. A 37-year-old social worker and Minneapolis resident named Abdi, who declined to give his last name or be interviewed on camera, had even harsher words for the president. He, like Osman, said he was born in Somalia.
"I feel like raiding a congresswoman — it feels like Donald Trump and his regime wanted to use their power to dehumanize and also humiliate someone that is part of the Congress," Abdi said. He claimed that Trump "hates Somali people because of Ilhan Omar." Abdi said Trump created "hate" and a "fight" with Somalis in America, and claimed that they are being followed and harassed in the streets because of the president. TRUMP RALLY CROWD CHANTS 'DEPORT' AS PRESIDENT RIPS ILHAN OMAR AFTER FEDERAL RAID "It's personal," he said.
"And Ilhan Omar — he doesn't treat her as a congressmember — he treats her as someone who's below him." "If they take the citizenship away from her, then I will say, 'Are we in a dictatorship? That's using power to use against an American citizen, then maybe the thinking we have for the United States is completely different." Osman said the raid is proof of what the Trump administration is willing to do. "We live in the United States, which is the land of the laws.
I don't expect Trump or anyone in this matter to break the U.S. Constitution," he continued. He can, of course, threaten, but there's a court process, there's due process.
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