Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there.

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.

Federal lawmakers are digging into the massive fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota, where Somali foreign nationals have been arrested.

Chuck Schumer remains silent on Minnesota fraud case involving Somali constituents, despite his 2013 immigration reform proposals.

President Donald Trump’s contemptible remarks, which targeted Somali Americans, have been headline news for the past few days. I don’t want to dignify those comments with a response. Instead, I want to focus on the Minnesota we are building together.

A Somalian Minnesota college student has come under fire for threatening to “pop” ICE agents in an expletive-laden viral social media rant.