Mamdani-Trump WH Bromance, MTG Resigns from Congress, MN Somali Fraud Allegations： AM Update 11⧸24
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Trump rolls out the red carpet for a man he recently referred to as a "100% communist lunatic." But comments from Mayor-Elect Zoran Mamdani yesterday could reignite the feud. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation from Congress. A new poll examines Americans' appetite for an escalation between the U.S. and Venezuela. And a shocking new report leads President Trump to revoke legal status for some Somalis in Minnesota.
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It's Monday, November 24th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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He really ran an incredible race against a lot of smart people.
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President Trump rolls out the red carpet for a man he recently referred to as a, quote,
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But comments from mayor-elect Momdani yesterday could reignite the feud.
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And I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation from Congress.
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But the president has already indicated he's ready to make up.
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A new poll examines Americans' appetite for an escalation between the U.S. and Venezuela.
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And a shocking new report leads President Trump to revoke legal status for some Somalis in Minnesota.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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President Trump on Friday meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani.
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The highly anticipated sit-down coming after months of name-calling between the two.
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President Trump surprising many by offering the incoming leader of America's largest city a warm welcome and kind words.
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He really ran an incredible race against, you know, a lot of smart people.
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And as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City.
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And the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers.
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I look forward to working together to deliver that affordability for New Yorkers.
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You know, we had some interesting conversation.
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And some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.
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Despite the rosy opening, the press jumping straight to Mr. Trump's past comments describing Mamdani as a communist.
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But the president now expressing an open mind about what to expect from Mamdani.
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I mean, he's got views that are a little out there, but who knows?
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I mean, we're going to see what works or he's going to change also.
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I'm not going to discuss what they were, but I feel very confident that he can do a very good job.
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I think he's going to be, I think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually.
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And some very liberal people, he won't surprise them because they already like him.
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The diplomatic approach continuing throughout the half-hour event,
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including this moment when President Trump stepped in to diffuse a question
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over whether Mamdani thinks President Trump is a fascist.
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Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
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President Trump previously floating the idea of sending in the National Guard to aid in New
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York City deportations, a familiar play for the non-cooperative cities across this country.
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However, on Friday, Mr. Trump again focusing on shared goals rather than issuing threats.
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Mr. President, you've threatened to send federal troops to New York City.
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You both have differences when it comes to ICE agents in New York City.
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Mr. Mamdani, you've called ICE a rogue government entity.
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I wonder how you reconcile your differences on both of those issues.
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And I think that if we have known murderers and known drug dealers and some very bad people,
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We discussed this at great length, actually, maybe more than anything else.
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Ultimately, a safe New York is going to be a great New York.
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And I spoke about how the laws that we have in New York City allow for New York City government
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to speak to the federal administration for about 170 serious crimes.
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On Saturday, President Trump remaining consistent in his soft-handed approach to New York,
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though keeping the National Guard option on the table.
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Do you still plan to deploy the National Guard in New York City?
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But if they need it, we had a very good meeting yesterday.
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Yesterday on Meet the Press, Mamdani, who in 2020 called for defunding the police,
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doubling down on plans to cap the number of NYPD officers at 35,000
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and shift calls relating to mental health crises and homelessness
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Mamdani also asked again about his thoughts on President Trump
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following their momentary bromance in the Oval.
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Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?
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And after President Trump said that, I said yes.
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And that's something that I've said in the past, I say it today.
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And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president
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was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought
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And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver
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on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.
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You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote,
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Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?
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Everything that I've said in the past, I continue to believe.
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On Friday night, one of MAGA's biggest stars, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, or MTG,
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announcing her resignation from Congress, effective January 5th, 2026.
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The announcement coming one week after President Trump withdrew his endorsement of MTG,
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Mr. Trump pulling his support for the Georgia Firebrand in a November 14th Truth Social Post,
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just hours after Greene questioned whether Mr. Trump was being true to his America First
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pledge by spending so much time on foreign policy.
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I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and
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I missed precious time with my family that I can never get back.
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Meanwhile, most of the establishment Republicans who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in
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the back and never defended him against anything have all been welcomed in right after the election.
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And I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against
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me by the president that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans
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will likely lose the midterms and in turn be expected to defend the president against impeachment
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after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.
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Greene railing against what she calls the, quote, political industrial complex,
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which she says focuses more on dividing Americans than it does on solving problems.
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President Trump reacting to news of the resignation early Saturday morning in a truth social post,
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quote, Marjorie Trader Brown, because of plummeting poll numbers and not wanting to face a primary
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challenger with a strong Trump endorsement where she would have no chance of winning,
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For some reason, primarily that I refuse to return her never-ending barrage of phone calls,
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Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie and thank her for her service to our country.
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We're not sure why he's calling her Marjorie Trader Brown, but he did post something on
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True Social suggesting her last name is like grass, good when green, but then when it goes
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On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Trump characterizing things this way to reporters.
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Mr. President, are you willing to vote with Congresswoman Taylor Green?
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No, we just, I just disagreed with her philosophy.
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She started backing perhaps the worst Republican congressman in our history, this, you know,
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And once I left her, she resigned because she would have, she would never have survived
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I know that before you had a fight with Union Mosque and you guys were able to work it out.
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We see the same thing happening between you and Congresswoman Taylor Green?
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The resignation would take effect halfway through her term.
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In 2024, Green won Georgia's 14th district with 64.4% of the vote, the Cook Political
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is required to set a date for a special election to fill the
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seat within 10 days of Green's resignation taking effect, making the deadline approximately
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The chair of the Paulding County Republican Party, which makes up part of MTG's district,
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telling a local news outlet that he expects the special election to actually occur in
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With MTG stepping down, the balance of power in the House narrowing to 218 Republicans versus
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Coming up, President Trump reportedly weighs increasing action against Venezuela, but are
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And a bombshell fraud investigation prompts the president to revoke protected status for some
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U.S. Senator from Michigan, Democrat Elisa Slotkin, continuing to warn the military to disobey
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a hypothetical illegal order from President Trump as the administration reportedly considers
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Senator Slotkin and five other Democrats last week putting out a video aimed at U.S. military
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members and the intel community, encouraging them to ignore illegal orders without even hinting
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Many critics accusing the group of potentially sowing chaos in the ranks, causing confusion
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and creating situations that could become dangerous, all in pursuit of political points.
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President Trump writing a series of posts on Truth Social.
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The traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming
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the fake news networks, trying to explain that what they said was okay.
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It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime.
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Senator Slotkin, Sunday on ABC, pressed on whether President Trump has actually
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issued any illegal orders and what they might be.
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Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?
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To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some
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legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to
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And it is very clear that no one should follow an illegal order.
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But it's very murky when you look at what is an illegal order.
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And if you go into morally, ethically, that's a pretty tough thing to look at and say, how do
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I don't, I mean, look, if you're going back to Nuremberg, right, that, well, they told me to
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do it, that's why I murdered people, is not an excuse.
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If you look at popular culture, there's like, you watch, you know, A Few Good Men.
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Like, we have plenty of examples since World War II in Vietnam where people were told to follow
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illegal orders, and they did it, and they were prosecuted for it.
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This is her evidence of troops following illegal orders?
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There wasn't actually any code red, and Tom Cruise is not in the U.S. Navy.
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As for Venezuela, their drug boats are trafficking narcotics into the United States,
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The military taking out at least 21 boats, killing at least 83 suspected drug traffickers
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The Trump administration defending the strikes as part of the president's broad national
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President Trump taking out Venezuelan drug dealers bringing poison to kill Americans?
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Or President Obama droning American citizens, including minors, overseas without a trial?
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Because the same leftists didn't seem to have a problem with that.
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Four U.S. officials telling Reuters over the weekend, the U.S. is, quote, poised to launch
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a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, end quote, reportedly including
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This, as a new CBS YouGov poll, finding 70% of Americans would oppose taking military action
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According to the poll, 76% of Americans believe the Trump administration has not clearly explained
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the U.S. position on military action in Venezuela versus 26% who say it has.
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A poll from 10 days ago by Reuters showing Republicans favor drug boat strikes, 58% to 24%, three-quarters
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President Trump on Friday announcing the immediate termination of temporary protected status,
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TPS is a federal program granting legal status and work authorization to people from unstable
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The announcement following a new report from the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, headlined,
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quote, the largest funder of al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.
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Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-aligned militant Islamist organization based in Somalia.
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From the report, quote, at least 28 fraud scandals have surfaced since Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh
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Most of the large-scale fraud rings, according to two former FBI officials who spoke with
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City Journal, have been perpetrated by members of the Somali community.
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The Somalis accused of taking millions in welfare payouts and funneling it back to Somalia,
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A retired Minnesota Joint Terrorism Task Force official telling City Journal, quote,
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for every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, al-Shabaab is taking a cut of it.
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Minnesota under Governor Tim Walsh is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.
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Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great state, and billions of dollars are missing.
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Governor Walsh, a Democrat who ran for vice president on Kamala Harris's ticket last year,
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responding to President Trump's announcement Friday, posting to X, quote,
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It's not surprising that the president has chosen to broadly target an entire community.
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The most famous member of Minnesota's Somali community, Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
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I am a citizen, and so are the majority of Somalis in America.
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really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate.
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CBS News reporting there are 705 total Somali immigrants in the U.S. under the TPS program,
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a small fraction of the more than 42,000 foreign-born Somalis living in Minnesota.
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Any Somali in the U.S. as a permanent resident or even as a citizen who commits fraud
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could potentially be subjected to a denaturalization process or, more likely,
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Although President Trump's announcement said the temporary protected status
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would be terminated immediately, legal experts say the Somalis are entitled to 60 days notice,
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meaning March 17th is the earliest date Somalia's protected status may end.
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where we will feature our in-depth interview with Erica Kirk.
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Live on SiriusXM's The Megan Kelly Channel, 111 at noon east,
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and on youtube.com slash megankelly, as well as all podcast platforms.