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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is ending temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in the United States, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on X on Tuesday, requiring them to leave by March 17.
“Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17,” Leavitt wrote on X, quoting a Fox News article that first broke the story.
đ¨đ¨đ¨NEW: President Trump ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US<br><br>’Somali migrants with TPS will be required to leave the country by March 17′<a href=”https://t.co/Bth3c5xDlF”>https://t.co/Bth3c5xDlF</a>
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“Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the lawâs requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” the report cited Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as saying. Representatives for DHS could not be immediately reached to confirm the report.
Trump in November said he was immediately terminating temporary deportation protections for Somalis living in Minnesota, accelerating the end of a program that began in 1991 under former Republican president George H.W. Bush.
Trump has previously called Minnesota a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, an apparent response to unverified media reports, shared by several Republican lawmakers, that the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia had benefited from fraud committed in Minnesota.
In the last few days, tens of thousands of people have marched through Minneapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an federal immigration agent.
There are 2,471Â Somalis nationals in the United States under TPS, with another 1,383 with pending TPS applications, Fox News reported, citing U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services sources. According to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, 2025 data showed 705Â Somali-born individuals nationwide have TPS status.
Officials in Minnesota are suing the federal government over what they call a ‘dangerous’ immigration enforcement, looking to stop the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to the state.
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