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Metropolitan area in Minnesota, United States
Available reporting does not show a reliable national percentage of Somali Americans on welfare; advocates say “most Somalis are not on welfare” , while some critics point to concentrated poverty and ...
A Hmong man identified as Saly was detained by federal immigration officers in the Twin Cities area during a January enforcement operation; photos and videos circulated showing him brought out of an a...
Minnesota is consistently reported as the U.S. state with the largest Somali population (World Population Review and multiple analyses show Minnesota at about 61,000–64,000 Somali residents in recent ...
Available reporting does not give a single, definitive number for how many Somali Minnesotans in the Twin Cities are on “some form of welfare.” Census and local reporting place roughly 80,000–84,000 p...
Most reporting and census-based summaries say the vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota are U.S. citizens or legal residents: estimates put Minnesota’s Somali-descended population between about 76,000...
Christina Rank, a 25-year-old paraprofessional at Concord Education Center in Inver Grove Heights, was stopped and taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an incident that...
Yes — multiple local, national and federal outlets report that DHS and ICE have deployed a large surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities and that agents have been conducting door‑to‑door enforcemen...
Estimates of how many Somalians (Somali Americans/Somali-origin residents) live in Minnesota vary widely in reporting: U.S. Census–based sources and data aggregators give figures in the 61,000–64,000 ...
Minnesota hosts by far the largest Somali community in the United States—estimates in recent reporting put the state’s Somali population between roughly 64,000 and 107,000, with multiple outlets citin...
Available reporting and public-data summaries in the provided sources do not give a clear, single percentage for how many Somali Minnesotans receive SNAP/EBT in 2024–2025; sources instead provide stat...
No single individual “brought” Somali immigrants to the U.S. in 2025; arrivals have resulted from U.S. refugee, asylum and humanitarian programs and longer-term migration patterns shaped by conflict a...
Estimates of Minnesota’s Somali population vary widely across reputable and partisan sources: recent mainstream reporting and research groups put the figure between about 61,000 and nearly 110,000, wi...
Available sources disagree widely on counts but consistently report that Minnesota hosts the largest Somali community in the United States; recent estimates cited range from "more than 32,000" (Census...
Minnesota is widely reported as home to the nation’s largest Somali population — U.S. Census/ACS–based aggregations place the state’s Somali population around 61,000–64,000 in recent 2025 compilations...
Renee Nicole Good had recently relocated to the Twin Cities region and was living in Minneapolis with her partner when she was shot and killed during an ICE operation; local officials, family and mult...
ICE does not conduct random, door‑to‑door sweeps of the general public as a routine enforcement practice; instead, federal records and reporting describe targeted enforcement operations and investigat...
President Trump has publicly attacked Somalis and announced enforcement actions targeting Somali migrants, saying “I don’t want them in our country” and calling Somalis and Rep. Ilhan Omar derogatory ...
Videos and local reporting show federal agents detaining two people at the Richfield Target on Jan. 8–9, 2026, which prompted protests demanding Target bar ICE from its property without judicial warra...
Somali Americans show mixed employment and poverty signals: survey-era U.S. figures report roughly 58% employment for working‑age Somali Americans and 5.1% self‑employment nationally (62% and 5.9% in ...
Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the U.S., concentrated in the Twin Cities, where Somalis own hundreds of small businesses and a network of community nonprofits and advocacy groups . R...