In deep blue Minneapolis, many Somali voters withheld support for Harris [View all]

[nmmi]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/11/23/in-deep-blue-minneapolis-many-somali-voters-withheld-support-for-dems-presidential-pick

Farah said he couldn’t accept that the Biden-Harris administration failed to produce a ceasefire, continuing to send taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel, which then showered them down on Gaza, where the death toll has surpassed 40,000. He couldn’t ignore the images of decimated villages and hospitals, of dead women and children and babies broadcast for more than a year.

... he is noticing increased grievances with the Democratic party in his own community, particularly with those opposed to the “liberal agenda.” He said many Somalis hold conservative religious and family values that have more in common with Republicans than Democrats.

. . . that they were “sick of the status quo” and of feeling “taken for granted by the Democrats.”

... Nearly 20 stood behind a podium, pushing their priorities — the fentanyl crisis, school choice, public safety, the economy and peace — as more aligned with Trump.

... as a result of public schools teaching what he says goes against many of their cultural and religious values.

“The last 10 years, the Somali community has been voting with Democrats with no return on investment in the community,” Ismail said. “They took their vote for granted.”

... “You’re telling us you’re doing something about the genocide in Palestine. You promised all these things, but you guys never kept it.”

added emphasis by nmmi

Sounds logical until one considers the face-eating leopard party's declarations and actions.

“They wanted Trump, the guy who came to Minnesota in 2016 and called Somali resettlement a ‘disaster?’ ( https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/11/07/trumps-comments-on-mn-somalis-draw-sharp-response )   The guy who enacted the so-called ‘Muslim ban’ on several countries, including Somalia?” (https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/28/us-judge-bars-deportations-under-trump-travel-ban)

From the "Somali resettlement a disaster" link above :

the GOP presidential candidate told supporters that Minnesota had "suffered enough" for taking in thousands of Somali refugees.

He said Minnesota had seen first-hand the problems caused by what he described as faulty refugee vetting, "with large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval, and with some of them then joining ISIS and spreading their extremist views all over our country and all over the world."

and from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946

President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" countries ... and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.

"The economy" - just wait.

As for "no return on investment in the community", see my reply to this post for what the Democratic trifecta has done in the last 2 years at the state (MN) level, tons of which benefits the MN Somali community.

Minnesotans will benefit for generations from Legislature’s work, MN State Senator Ann Rest, -- see my reply to this post