President Trump in recent days has taken aim at Minnesota's Somali community with xenophobic remarks and calls for removal from the U.S.

It coincides with a new ICE operation in the Twin Cities that's resulted in at least five arrests of Somali immigrants.

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has this report on the community's response and how we got here, including a sweeping fraud scandal that's gripping the state.

At Carmel Mall, a hub for Somali life and culture in South Minneapolis, business has been slower than usual this week.

It's very scary, especially small business owner for us, for me, all the business

Carmel Mall.

We're not making any money.

Concern rose here after word of an increase in federal immigration enforcement targeting

Minnesota-Somali community.

The state is home to about 80,000 people of Somali descent, the largest such population

in the country, most are citizens, and many were born here.

The stepped-up enforcement, dubbed Operation Metro Surge, follows President Trump's repeated attacks

on Minnesota-Somali community.

They contribute nothing.

I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you.

Their country stakes.

The president also singled out Ilhan Omar, the progressive Somalia-born Minnesota congresswoman,

who he's long criticized.

Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's criticized. Elon Omar is garbage.

She's garbage.

Her friends are garbage.

These aren't people that work.

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