The wave of vitriol against Minnesota’s Somali community during the Trump administration’s continued nationwide immigration crackdown has been met with an opposing wave of solidarity.

ICE arrested a Somali illegal immigrant convicted of fraud and connected to several high-profile Minnesota politicians, including former Dem vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.

President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country.

Border czar Tom Homan defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recent crackdown in Minnesota after President Trump raged against the Somali community there in response to a

Minnesota fraud schemes involving hundreds of millions in stolen taxpayer money spark House investigation and intense scrutiny of Tim Walz administration.

In light of the aggressive anti-Somali stance put forth by Trump and other anti-immigrant rightwingers, a meme has popped up revolving around the idea that Minnesota is the land that was promised to the Somalis thousands of years ago. A group of Somali explorers discovered Minnesota It belongs to us now pic.twitter.com/JN8Gv8snST

Rep. Ilhan Omar told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that if allegations of a connection between tax dollars and terrorism are true, "that is a failure of the FBI and our court system."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (also the acting IRS commissioner) told CBS's "Face The Nation" that the recent prominent cases of welfare fraud in Minnesota's Somali community were not discovered by state authorities,