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"This decision, fueled by harmful misinformation campaigns that we believe have external political motives, will tear families apart and se
Olivia Rosane at Common Dreams:
President Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he was ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota prompted outrage and fear from Minnesota Somalis and their allies over the weekend. In a Truth Social Post, Trump said that he was terminating the TPS program for Somalis in Minnesota “effective immediately,” citing concerns about money laundering and gang activity.
“We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen to end the Somali TPS program in Minnesota, a legal lifeline for families who have built their lives here for decades,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Minnesota, said in response. “This decision, fueled by harmful misinformation campaigns that we believe have external political motives, will tear families apart and send individuals to a country they have not known for over 20 years.” “This is not just a bureaucratic change; it is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric. We strongly urge President Trump to reverse this misguided decision,” Hussein continued.
Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali population at over 26,000. Many have become citizens or are permanent residents, and only around 430 are in the Minnesota TPS program. Further, immigration law experts say that it would be difficult legally to revoke protections before they are already set to expire in March of next year. “There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not a presidential power,” wrote Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council advocacy group, on social media. “TPS by law cannot be terminated early. Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.” He added that while the Department of Homeland Security “may make an attempt to do this... it would be immediately struck down.” Further, TPS would have to be revoked nationally, and not for a single state.
“There’s no legal mechanism that allows the president to terminate protected status for a particular community or state that he has beef with,” Heidi Altman, policy director at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told the Associated Press. [...] Somalis were first granted TPS status in the US in 1991 when civil war broke out following the removal of leader Said Barre. Since then, it has been renewed 27 times. Today, the militant group al-Shabab still controls parts of the country. “Sending anyone back to Somalia today is unsafe because al-Shabab remains active, terrorist attacks continue, and the [Somali] government today is unable to protect anyone,” Jabane said.
The Trump Regime’s announcement that he was ending TPS status for Somalis in Minnesota is all about xenophobia and Islamophobia, and punish a blue state also.
A President cannot legally terminate TPS early, nor can such a revocation apply to just a single state.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — More than 300 such youths who had traveled to Somalia for training as jihadists had been rescued and brought back to the country.
Who controls what in Somalia at the end of 2019? Subscribers can find all the answers in our December Somalia map report, including a carefuly-researched timeline of the recent political turmoil surrounding the federal government’s relations with Galmudug and Jubaland federal states.
More info: https://www.polgeonow.com/2019/12/map-of-control-in-somalia-end-of-2019.html
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Somalia: Car bomb explodes near Mogadishu airport
At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, according to security officials.
The al-Shabab armed group claimed responsibility for Monday's attack near a busy security checkpoint outside the Afrik Hotel.
"A suicide bomber drove the rigged car into a security checkpoint ... at the highway road leading to the airport," Ahmed Bashane, police officer, told DPA news agency.
"We have collected and confirmed the bodies of 17, including the suicide bomber," he added.
Nura Hassan, a nurse at Mogadishu's Madina hospital, said the health facility received 27 people with injuries. About 17 of them suffered critical wounds, she told Reuters news agency.
The attack comes just over a week after 26 people were killed and 56 wounded in a 12-hour attack by al-Shabab fighters on a popular hotel in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo.
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the Medina hotel on Friday before several heavily armed gunmen forced their way inside, shooting as they went.
Source: Al Jazeera
Key CBC members involved in watering down the resolution had participated in, what was described as, an "unpublicized strategy session" with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Can you imagine if Republican members of the House had participated in a strategy session with the KKK and then worked to shut down a resolution condemning one of their own for racist comments?
As the controversy burned, Omar joined Bass and another CBC member on what she described as, “the first American delegation to Eritrea in decades.”
There’s a good reason for that.
Eritrea was sanctioned until last year for supplying weapons to the al-Shabab jihadists in Somalia. Al-Shabab is an occasional Al Qaeda ally and was responsible for many brutal terrorist attacks, including the massacre of shoppers in a Nairobi mall in which the terrorists killed anyone who couldn’t name Mohammed’s mother, using that technique to single out non-Muslim targets from Muslim comrades.
One theory has been that the Nairobi mall was targeted because of the presence of Israelis.
Eritrea’s regime has also been accused of hosting an Iranian presence that supplies weapons to Hamas in Israel and to the Houthi jihadis in Yemen whose motto is, “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam."
Bass and Omar’s surreal visit to Eritrea, a place described as the North Korea of Africa, took place even as its totalitarian regime continued holding American embassy employees and citizens in captivity.
After arriving there, Rep. Bass claimed that she had no idea until then that a member of her own district had been detained.
Why visit Eritrea? It may be an obscure place to most Americans, but its dictator, Isaias Afwerki, was the leader of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, a Marxist armed group popular with black nationalists. When the EPLF took over, Israel had evacuated Ethiopians living in the area who identify as Jewish.
A short time after 9/11, media reports claimed that there was only one Jewish family left in Eritrea.
