{"id":314028,"date":"2026-01-30T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/on-the-frontline-with-somalis-standing-up-to-ice-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:00:09","slug":"on-the-frontline-with-somalis-standing-up-to-ice-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/on-the-frontline-with-somalis-standing-up-to-ice-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"On the frontline with Somalis standing up to ICE in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/xU-vl3a5oss\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"On the frontline with Somalis standing up to ICE in Minnesota\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xU-vl3a5oss\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has the largest Somali population of anywhere in the United States and they&#8217;ve become the target of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p> 80,000 Somalis live there, most of them American citizens or legal residents.<\/p>\n<p>Our Africa correspondent Jamal Osman, himself a former refugee who fled Somalia in the 1990s has spent the week with people from the Somali community in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota has the largest Somali population of anywhere in the United States and they&#8217;ve become the target of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration crackdown. 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