One Thing: Understanding Trump's Seismic Assault on Legal Immigration
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and immigrating to the U.S. was never easy. |
| 0:04.8 | But now, depending on what country you're from, critics say it's basically impossible. |
| 0:10.3 | Anytime you throw a hurdle in what's already a system full of hurdles, it's just going to get more complicated and difficult for people who are, quote, unquote, trying to do it the right way. |
| 0:23.3 | Stick around. |
| 0:29.1 | Like spicy or do you like the sauce? |
| 0:32.4 | Hmm. How spicy is it? |
| 0:35.0 | You add tamarind so sweet spicy? |
| 0:36.9 | Let's do that. The 24th Somali Mall in Minneapolis is usually bustling. |
| 0:43.3 | The Minneapolis-St. Paul area is home to the largest population of Somalis in the entire country, |
| 0:49.3 | and a lot of them come here on a regular basis. |
| 0:51.3 | It's filled with barbershops, offices, boutiques, and restaurants |
| 0:55.4 | serving classic Somali dishes like Jabadi. |
| 0:58.0 | Have you bag it up for you? Sure, yes, please. |
| 1:00.0 | But when my colleague Rob Kozni has stopped by on Wednesday afternoon, he saw fewer people, |
| 1:06.0 | empty shops, and a lot more fear. |
| 1:09.0 | You see the mall now, people are scared. No one wants to come outside. |
| 1:12.6 | I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you. |
| 1:17.6 | Somebody would say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care. |
| 1:20.6 | I don't want them in our country. Their country's no good for a reason. |
| 1:24.6 | Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. |
| 1:28.2 | I could say that about us. |
| 1:29.2 | This was just one day after President Donald Trump went on a xenophobic rant against Somali |
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