A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “ garbage.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is calling for justice after the wrongful ICE arrest of an American citizen.

Somalia’s location on the Horn of Africa made it a strategic ground for empires throughout history. In the 19th century, British and Italian colonial regimes made pacts with local sultanates. The resulting protectorates, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, lasted until 1960, when Somalis merged the two states into the Somali Republic.

Leaders of Muslim and Somali organizations applauded a resolution brought forward by Green Bay's mayor supporting Somali community.

In Minnesota, Somali Americans have been in fear since President Trump called them “garbage.” ICE raids across the state have led to over a dozen arrests, prompting many to carry their U.S. passports to protect against wrongful arrests.

Organizers and attendees at a Somali solidarity protest in Lewiston say they’re standing up to hateful rhetoric and policies targeting Somali-Americans.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown targeting the community.

US (ICE) agents pulled over the son of Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the congresswoman said Sunday amid escalating scrutiny on the Somali community. "Yesterday ... he did get pulled over by (ICE) agents,