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Many of President Donald Trump’s moves since taking office could be char-acterized by upheaval and unpredict-ability, but at least one set of policies has resulted in an entirely unsurprising outcome: Members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation who repre-sent the Twin Cities area have seen a substantial increase in the stream of constituents seeking help with immi-gration cases.
“We have experienced a noticeable increase in … more complex cases involving prolonged detention, de-portations of long-term U.S. residents with U.S. citizen families [and] delayed applications,” Jamie Long, Rep. Keith Ellison’s deputy chief of staff, said in an email.
During the first three months of 2016, for instance, Ellison’s Minne-apolis office received 24 immigra-tion-related requests from constituents.
Over the same period this year, the number grew to 60. Sens. Amy Klo-buchar and Tina Smith likewise have seen an increase in the number of immigrants and refugees searching for answers regarding many of the policies implemented by the Trump admin-istration, though both offices were
As policies shift, immigrants and refugees in Minnesota turn to congressional offices for help
By Ibrahim Hirsi | MinnPost
Where to Turn?
By Ibrahim Elmi
In 1998, when John Keller joined the St. Paul-based Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota(ILCM) as an immigra-tion attorney, he would often drive to Worthington, where hundreds of low-income immigrants and refugees depended on the organization’s free legal services.
“We would do workshops, answer a bunch of questions, do in-takes and represent whoever we could help,” said Keller.
Then one day in 2006, a year af-ter he was named ILMC’s executive director, federal immigration agents raided a meatpacking plant in the
southern Minnesota city, picking up more than 200 workers — an incident that frightened foreign-born residents in the area.
To effectively respond to the raids, Keller needed to hire a full-time attor-ney, increase staff presence in the city and take on more legal cases to help detainees and their families. But doing
Sheeko Soomaali, page 3
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Soomaali-dii hore waxay ragga u bixin jirtey naaneys ay ula jeedaan hadba ninkaasi Sida uu u egyahay ama wakhtiga uu dhashay. Tusaale:
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Demonstrators the administration’s stance on immigration and particularly its policies toward children of immigrants has people demanding help from their congressional representatives.
Immigration reduction page 2
Expanding immigrant access to help and services, page 4
Somalis + Minnesota = Making History
Page 8
Ask a Muslim Scholar Q & A
Page 7
Why so many Twin Cities immigrant organizations are branching out to exurbs and beyond
Immigrant Law Centers spring up in outstate Minn.
Autism rate is double national average
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Immgrants clamor for help from congress, page 2
A new study conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that 3.8 percent of Somali children in Hennepin and Ramsey County are diagnosed with Autism. The national average is cur-rently at 1.7 percent. Researchers at the U said the findings highlight the need for reli-able services to help identify and treat people with autism spectrum disorder. On the other hand, Somali community leaders are calling for more extensive research done solely on the Somali community in western countries since the Somali community in Minnesota alone is not large enough for a robust study.
Autism is a developmental disability that causes significant social, commu-nication and behavioral complications.
Autism has been a major concern in the Twin Cities Somali-American com-munity. It has become the talk of most dinner tables in the Somali community in MN. Unproven fears that the mea-sles vaccine leads to autism helped fuel a large measles outbreak that mostly sickened unvaccinated Somali-Amer-ican Children. There are also mul-
Sheeko Soomaali
Eid Mubarak
Abdirahin Hussen, regional manager of the African Development Center, in his office in Willmar, Minn.
A program dedicated to help
So-
mali youth participate in Scie
nce and
technology education is getti
ng an
extension. Kajoog, a Somali
nonprof-
it alongside University of Min
nesota
are giving kids from Cedar R
iverside
neighborhood an introductio
n into
the STEM field. STEM is a cu
rriculum
based on Science, technology
, engi-
neering and mathematics. In
today’s
very competitive job market,
STEM
majors are becoming more d
esirable by
innovation driven companie
s but less
desirable by the general popu
lation.
That is why the unemployme
nt rate
among graduates with STEM
degree is
below 2%. The demand is sig
nificantly
lower than the supply, hence
the rea-
son for the low unemploymen
t rate.
The 4-H STEM program was
started
in March of 2016 by Kajoog,
a non-
profit who secured a $50,000
grant
through the Minneapolis city
council.
The program has been so su
ccessful
that it has opened locations i
n Saint
Paul and Eden Prairie as well
. Over 50
kids are registered for the ye
ar 2017
and has a growing waitlist.
Farah, executive director of
Kajoog
said, “every parent wants the
ir kid to
be the next engineer and the
next doc-
tor, We’re able to expose thes
e poten-
tial careers to these kids by t
hem being
involved in the 4-H world.”
4-H is normally a program th
at funds
agriculture but in this case a
science
and technology mentorship p
rogram
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Construction Delayed for
Samatar Crossing
Somali-U.S.
Olympian is
against Trump
“Travel Ban”
Images of Somalia page 5
Ka Joog 4-H STEM page
4
Hassan Mead page 5
Images of Somalia page 5
Caruurta Iyo
Macalamiin
Ta Maxaa Kala
Hayst?
March 2017 « VoluMe 1, Is
sue 2
Page 7
Ask a Muslim
Scholar Q & A
Bogga 6
Taarikhdi qorida
afka Somaaliga
Jornaalkan waxa soo gaarey
caba-
shooyin ka imanayaa macalim
iinta
skoolada Minnesota oo
sheegaya in ardeyda Soomaa
liyeed
ay u taag la’yihiiin sidii ay ula
qabsan
lahaayeedn ardeyda
kale ee Minnesota wax ku ba
rta.
Macalimiintu waxay sheegaya
an in
walidiinta iyaguna
aysan garaneynin habka ay u
shaqeeyaan iskuulada Amerik
a. Wax
yaabaha cabashada keenaya
waxa mid ah qaylada badan e
e caruu-
tu sameyso inta ay fasalka ku
dhex
jiraan ee macalinku wax
dhigayo. Caruurta Soomaaliy
eed
intooda badan waxa lagu kar
i la’yahay
in ay edeb u fariistaan inta
duruustu socoto oo macalink
u wax
dhigayo. Kolba meel bay u b
oodayaan.
Tani waxa ay inta badan kee
ntaa
dagaal iyo buuq aan loo baah
neyn.
Macalinkii la rabey in sacadd
iisa
caruurta uu wax baro, waxa
wakh-
tigii ka qaadaya rabshadaha c
aruurta
Soomaaliyeed fasalka dhexdi
isa ka
wadaan. Intaas waxa sii dhee
r aqoonta
yar ee caruurteenu ay u leey
hiin afka
Ingiriiska oo aasaasi u ah wa
x-barasha-
Around the
DiasporaPage 2
Hassan MeadU.S. Olympia
n, Minnesotan,
Somali; speaking out again
st
controvercial ban PAGE 4
An effort to turn an old 94 e
xit ramp
into a pedestrian friendly cro
ssing has
been postponed amid concer
ns from
surrounding businesses and
residents
alike.The crossing w
ill be called “Samatar
Crossing”, named after the lat
e Hus-
sein Samatar, the former He
nnepin
county school board member
who
passed away unexpectedly in
2014 at
the age of 45. It was champio
ned by
former city Mayor R.T. Ryba
k who
started working on it before
he left
office in 2014. Rybak said, “t
he original
idea was to have a pedestrian
-only area
so residents of the West Ban
k could
feel more a part of downtow
n, I know
there were some adjacent pro
perty
owners who wanted car traff
ic but I
never thought that was as im
portant as
having a rare oasis in a car-do
minated
Hassan Mead, 26, is a South
Minne-
apolis high graduate, a gophe
r and a
2016 Olympian. Even thoug
h he is not
a household name in Minne
sota, he
should definitely be more cele
brated
among the Somali American c
ommu-
nity in Minnesota. Hassan is
a long
distance runner that went to
University
of Minnesota and ran for team
USA in
the Rio Olympics 2016 after f
ailing to
qualify for the 2008 Olympic
s. He is a
nine-time Big Ten Conferen
ce Cham-
pion winning two in cross co
untry,
(2008, 2009) and seven in tra
ck, sweep-
ing all distance events in the 2
009
indoor and outdoor seasons.
Mead is
currently running with the O
regon
Track Club in Eugene, Oreg
on. Has-
san graduated from South M
inneapolis
high school in 2007.
4-H program is a twist
on American tradition
www.thesomaliamerican.comFinding Somalia in America
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Media look
ing to place
blame in a
ftermath of
Justine Dam
ond’s shoo
ting by a So
mali-
American M
inneapolis
police offic
er
Somali We
ek
festival dra
ws
thousands
Media bac
klash from
shooting,
page 2
Boqorkii F
arta La’aa ,
page 7
Police slay
ing strain
s
fraught So
mali/medi
a
relationsh
ip
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50,000 attend
Somali Week
This year’s Somali Week
at the begin
-
ning of July
was filled w
ith festivitie
s
and activitie
s staged by
local organiz
a-
tions. The fe
stivities bega
n with a soc-
cer tournam
ent, followed
by a spoken
word event
at the Minn
esota Histor
ical
Society, a ba
sketball tour
nament and
the Somali I
ndependenc
e Day festi-
val. The So
mali-Americ
an newspap
er
set up a boo
th at the int
ersection of
Nicollet Ave
nue and La
ke Street wh
ere
we were abl
e to capture
a lot of spe
cial
moments.
Somali Wee
k began a de
cade ago in
2007 as a si
ngle-day par
ade that gre
w
to an activit
y-filled wee
k, The Soma
li
Independen
ce day festiv
al attracts
around 50,0
00 people,
spans 3 blo
cks
on Lake Str
eet and bloc
ks traffic fro
m
11am to 10
pm. The eve
nt is attende
d
mostly by So
mali Americ
ans, but ma
ny
non-Somali
s show up as
well.
One of the m
ain attractio
ns of the
Somali Ind
ependence D
ay parade is
the children
’s play area
which inclu
des
a large infla
table slide, f
ace painting
,
henna desig
ns, tradition
al animals an
d
The week-l
ong celebr
ation of So
mali culture
and indep
endence to
ok place du
ring the we
ek of July 9
through 16
.
When the M
inneapolis p
olice officer
involved in
the shooting
of Justine
Damond wa
s identified
last week as
Mohamed N
oor, Suud O
lat’s iPhone
lit
up with call
s and texts f
rom journali
sts
around the
country.
Most of the
m came from
news orga-
nizations tha
t were alrea
dy familiar
with the 25
-year-old So
mali-Americ
an,
who has ma
de a name f
or himself as
an advocate
for refugee
communitie
s
during the
three years
he’s lived in
Minnesota.
This time, t
hough, the j
ournalists
didn’t want
him to talk a
bout refuge
e
issues; they
wanted info
rmation abo
ut
Noor, a Som
ali-American
who shot D
amond afte
r she called
911
to report a s
uspected se
xual assault
.
Olat talked
to reporters
from sever
al
local and na
tional medi
a organizatio
ns
— including
the Star Tr
ibune, Min-
nesota Publi
c Radio, Th
e Associated
Press, Voice
of America a
nd CBS New
s
— about the
one-time b
rief interact
ion
he had with
the officer
some month
s
ago in Minn
eapolis.
Later, when
his commen
ts appeared
in the news
, Olat’s iPho
ne started t
o
blow up agai
n. This time
, though,
the calls did
n’t come from
journalists;
they came f
rom people
he knew fro
m
the Somali-A
merican com
munity,
ILA QOSOL
BOQORKII
FARTA LA’
AA
(Sheeko)
Cause for C
elebration
, page 4
A Questio
n
of Charact
er
Page 3
Around th
e
Diaspora
Page 4
Crossword
Page 6
Ask a Musl
im
Scholar Q
& A
Page 7
Diyaariye: M
axamed Ax
med-bedd
el
X.Maxamu
ud
The week-lo
ng celebrat
ion
culminates
in the
Independen
ce Day par
ade
Waxa jirey
nin boqor ah
oo aad u
kibir badnaa
. Dadka iyo
duunyadab
a
wuu ku ama
r ku taaglee
yn jirey. Qo
f
la doodi jire
y ama hada
l ku celin ka
rey
muu jirin. W
ax alaale wx
ii maskax
diisa ku soo
dhaca ayuu
ku dhaqa-
aqi jirey. La
aakiin wuxu
u lahaa nin
wasiir ah oo
aad u aqliba
dan. Taloo-
yin wanaags
an ayuu siin
jirey. Wixii
ceeb ah ee u
u leeyahayn
a wuu dabo
oli
jirey. Wasii
rkalagama a
gwaayi jirin
bqorka agtii
sa. Gacantiis
a midig ayu
u
ahaa. Safar
hadduu u b
axayo wuu
raaci jirey.
Bqorku nink
an wasiirka
ah aad buu
ugu kalsoon
aa. Talooyi
nkiisa iyo w
ax
kasta oo uu
u sheego w
uu u
dhega nugla
a. Boqrku h
addii uu u
sheego wasi
irka wax dh
ibaato ah am
a
dhiilo ah, w
asiirku mark
a uu talada
siiyo wuxu o
dhan jirey o
o uu hal hay
s
u lahaa “in a
y khayr inoo
tahay ayaa
dhici karta.
”
Maalin maa
lmaha ka m
id ah, boqo
rkii
waxa soo ga
aray dhaawa
c. Far baa k
a
go’day. Wa
siirkii mark
ii uuarkay w
axa
ku dhacay b
oqrkii ayuu
aad u naxay
.
Boqorkii ayu
u warestay
sida ay wax
u
dhaceen iyo
sababta ay f
artan u go’d
ay.
Boqorkii aya
a u waramay
wasiirkii.
Borkii siduu
talo iyo du
co u sugaye
y
ayuu wasiir
kii yiri, “wa
xa dhici kar
ta
in ay khayr k
uu ahayd bo
qorow.” Bo-
qorkii baa y
aabay. Wux
u wasiirkii k
u
yiri, “ bal ku
celi waxaad
tiri.” Wasiir
kii
ayaa hadalad
ii uu hal hay
ska u lahaa
more. This
year’s event
was held on
July 1, a ple
asant Saturd
ay, a week
after Ramad
an, and mos
t people wer
e
in a celebrat
ory mood. A
s participan
ts
waved Soma
li flags, the
parade kick
ed
off in high g
ear around
2pm.
At the inters
ection of La
ke Street an
d
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