Trump's USA The border issue

Trump attacks immigrants: "The country stinks"

Last night, Donald Trump once again launched a fierce attack on immigrants in the United States, and specifically singled out people from Somalia. That's what AP writes.

- Their country is bad for a reason. That country stinks and we don't want them in our country, the president said.

Donald Trump has long been a fierce critic of immigration and the migration policies of previous presidents. However, the rhetoric has been turned up another notch after two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington DC last week.

The statements have been met with harsh criticism from opponents, including member of the House of Representatives Ilhan Omar, who himself was born in Somalia.

"He really needs help," she writes about Donald Trump in social media.

The US has suspended all asylum applications from 19 countries, including Somalia and Afghanistan. The same countries have previously been subject to entry bans.

Anger in Minnesota after Trump's attacks on Somalis

The state of Minnesota, with over 80,000 residents with a background in Somalia, appears to be a focal point for the White House's attacks on immigrants, reports the local television channel CBS Minnesota.

The immigration police ICE is expected to soon make a larger effort in the state, after President Donald Trump said that he does not want Minnesota's Somalis to remain in the United States, describing them as "garbage".

- Today we heard the president say that he is incompetent and unable to represent the people of the United States as president, because he clearly expressed that he despises Americans, says Melvin Carter, mayor of St. Paul in Minnesota.

At least 95 percent of Minnesotans of Somali descent are believed to be U.S. citizens. Homeland Security Minister Kristi Noem has claimed, without presenting any evidence, that at least half of those citizenship papers are fake.