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

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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.

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Ask a Muslim Scholar Q & A

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Why so many Twin Cities immigrant organizations are branching out to exurbs and beyond

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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

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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

August 20

17 « Volu

me 1, Issue

7

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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