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Hello, I'm James Reynolds.

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.

And this time, we're hearing from Somalis, after Donald

Trump said that Somali immigrants in the US should go back to where they came from.

The president's comments came after allegations of large-scale fraud in Minnesota's Social Assistance

Program. Costing the state tens of millions of dollars, several Somali immigrants

have been implicated. Whilst those accused of involvement represent only a small fraction of

Minnesota's large Somali population, Trump has repeatedly criticized the community, saying that

he doesn't want them in the country. You know, our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad. We're at a

tipping point. I don't know if people mind me saying that, but I'm saying it we could go one way

or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.

President Trump speaking to reporters. And later we'll hear from Somalia and from Somali immigrants around the world.

Firstly, though, we go to Minnesota, where the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul

are home to one of the largest Somali communities in the world.

To find out what they thought of, the president's comments,

we brought together Kosar, a graduate student, Abdi, a film producer,

and Amin, an immigration lawyer. It doesn't directly affect me personally, but it affects my

community, it affects the people that I work with. I have community members who are panicking,

and this touches them, family and friends, that this impacts directly. So instead of just the regular

practice, I am now responding to this kind of emergency situation. Yeah, there's this kind of cloud

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