President Donald Trump had his eyes on Minnesota on Thursday morning. Not because of the shooting, by an ICE agent, of Renee Nicole Good, on Wednesday. Rather, he was calling to “arrest them all,” in reference to Minnesota’s Somali-American community.
Trump was linking to a news story from the right-wing site Just the News, by notably Trump-shilling reporter John Solomon, which alleged “the cash moved overseas in luggage by Somali couriers from the Minneapolis airport was 10 to 100 times larger than the total foreign exodus of money at other larger American airports the last two years.” The story was sourced to “officials.”
“Arrest them all. They are criminals!!!,” Trump declared on Truth Social, before sharing the headline.
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It’s not clear who “them all” refers to, whether it’s the entirety of the Somali community in Minnesota, or merely those sending money overseas. But sending money overseas is not a crime; immigrants from all sorts of places are known to do so.
It has been alleged over the years that some amount of money has gone from Somali-Americans in Minnesota to the terrorist group al-Shabab, but the veracity of that reporting has been questioned.
Trump’s attack on Somali-Americans has been criticized as racist, with The Guardian describing it as “a shocking new low” last month.
” Donald Trump unleashed a wave of bigotry against the area’s Somali population in a moment of vitriol that was shockingly racist even by his own very low standards. Rousing himself to animation at the tail end of a televised 2 December cabinet meeting during which he sometimes appeared to be struggling to stay awake, the president disparaged Somali immigrants, many of whom are refugees from the country’s long-running civil conflict, as ungrateful and unfit for residence in the United States,” columnist Moira Donegan wrote.
There was also some pushback on social media to Trump’s call for arrests.
“Arrest them all. They are criminals”
Was every single person in “The White House” looking in a mirror when you posted this?
YOU. ARE. THE. CRIMINALS.
ICE. ARE. MURDERING. TERRORISTS.
Abolish ICE. Abolish The White House. Abolish Trump.
— Luke Hamilton 🏴 #JB17 #AH19 (@xLukesterx) January 8, 2026
Trump’s. Gestapo murdered a woman as the body count goes up weekly. It’s illegal to fire at unarmed civilians fleeing. So the superior courts across the USA have ruled. ARREST them all on site as cohorts in crime https://t.co/mKLJ7uquV4
— Glenn Wall (@GlennWall17) January 8, 2026
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