After arriving in the United States from Somalia back in 2009, Fiqy never expected to be contacted by a major political campaign—yet Trump’s team reached out, asking him to help energize Somali-American voters before the election.

He took on the task with pride. But now, as a sweeping ICE operation targets Somali communities across the Twin Cities—and after hearing the president repeat harsh, blanket remarks about Somalis—Fiqy says his support has collapsed.

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      This person believes that Americans are a very wise and fair people who can see that Somalis are nothing like Haitians and no way would Americans just consider them both to be scary foreign black people. This is pretty much how all naive immigrants view the USA before they get a rude awakening.

      Edit: Nevermind this person was here since 2009? They’re just a shill who was paid to trick his own people into voting for their tormentors.

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      He literally did similar comments DURING HIS FIRST TERM about Somalis as well… But…people have the attention span of a TikTok Video these days.