Somali Americans

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Buck and I are better humans than you, better Americans than you.

My challenge, get your ballots in.

Make it happen.

Taking your analysis, are we likely to see then a sort of flood away from MAGA towards the sort of republicanism that someone of my generation would be more familiar with, because there's the whole issue of who could be a presidential candidate for the republicans, and that would suggest that people start positioning themselves immediately after the midterms.

I think a lot of Americans feel very differently about the political issues that exercise them.

I think that what Trump ran on was actually quite popular, which is, you know, America first.

It is no more global sheriff, no more forever wars, certainly not the presence in the Middle East, not the support.

And then it turned out that with the exception of him being tied at the border, that most of what he said he was going to do, he ended up not doing.

You know, I mean, it was not just no draining the swamp, but enriching himself beyond the wildest dreams.

of anyone out there and also being in the pocket of deep moneyed interests in the private sector, which the Americans can't stand.

And it was not only no forever wars, he's now started a war of choice in Iran, which is going on for, you know, coming up on a year that's costing Americans and everyone else around the world a lot of money.

Yeah, it's part of his

campaign against Somali Americans.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of extraordinary and just unbelievably appalling, the record of Trump's comments about Omar.

I mean, if you...

Embattled Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar is fighting back against the DOJ's investigation into alleged immigration fraud and questions about her financial disclosures.

But not all Somali Americans in Omar's district support their congresswoman.

Faith Eden is a nurse and student who immigrated to the U.S. from Somalia 30 years ago, kind of like Omar.

Eden tells Fox that if Omar defrauded citizenship, she should resign.

Her constituency... is represented by who she is.

You know, I mean, you have a lot of Somali Americans in her district, and they're going to support her pretty much no matter what.

I think she knows that.

Did you see that she did a podcast interview the other day with Hassan Piker? Sure.

Again, who's to say whether this is true or not, but follow along because you'll see why, even if this is a false allegation, why this is important.

Rosiak reports that same day, a prominent Somali-American wrote that he was with, quote, representative-elect Ilhan Omar and her lovely sis, Leila Elmi.

Her lovely sis, Leila Elmi.

Well, there's that last name again, that last name that appears on the document from the U.S., the U.S. attorney for the District of Washington, D.C., as Ilhan Omar's real name.

Admitting that Ilhan Omar or Ilhan Omar admitting that she's part of the Elmi family is kind of critical to one of the tentacles of this scandal, whether or not she committed marriage fraud and immigration fraud by, you know, using a Christian minister, though she's a practicing Muslim, she claims using a Christian minister to marry her brother while she was religiously married to another man in order to gain her.

brother or the man alleged to be her brother access into the united states a green card specifically well this report from luke rosiak is when people talk about this they often focus on whether or not the hate crime actually occurred whether or not a cab driver actually called her isis i find that a little bit hard to believe given my experience with cab drivers that seems unlikely that a cab driver would make that accusation um however the important part is the comment.

A prominent Somali-American wrote that he was with representative-elect Ilhan Omar and her lovely sis, Leila Elmi, which gives another layer, another layer of evidence to the growing perception that the reality is that Ilhan Omar probably did marry her brother.

Okay, Leila Elmi, we talked about on Monday, because Leila Elmi got married and on her marriage certificate, which we showed on Monday and it's on the screen right now for you to see, um, you can see the Layla Elmi's entire name.

This is a test of our democracy, and even Republicans should be speaking out about it.

If we don't defend the rights of Ilhan Omar, Somali Americans, immigrants, and Trump's political targets, we lose everything.

all right so that's the article as a whole right on half an hour lovely stuff and um the crazy thing about all of that is that um i actually saw the the um uh marjorie taylor green of all people actually defended

ilhan omar um which i don't know what kind of bizarre universe we're at at the moment but that's just that that that that's crazy to me that's absurd um so yeah

Yeah.

During Operation Metro Surge, Somali Americans experienced that first and foremost, they were the target.

The Operation Metro Surge didn't happen just because we have Minnesotans here.

They were specifically focused on Somali American community and agency that also knew 98% of Somali Americans had pathway to citizenship.

Not only that, 68% of Somali Americans are born here.

So the overwhelming community here would have never been a subject of any ICE raids because of the overwhelming majority being U.S. citizens.

And the reality is that the fear and the impact of Operation Major Surge meant businesses like this lost 70 to 80 percent of their customers for months on end because people were just afraid about being picked up.

Yeah, and so, Adam, thank you.