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12/27/2025

Irony: Daughter of first generation immigrants put in charge of banning immigrants to US

President Donald Trump has installed an attorney and part-time beauty salon owner to decide which foreigners are allowed to enter the United States. The State Department announced that Mora Namdar has been promoted from her post working on U.S foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa to be...

12/17/2025

Things to do in the Twin Cities this weekend: Kao Kalia Yang reads her children’s books at the Ordway; the Guthrie stages a West Side Story-inspired play; and two exhibits put the American dream under a microscope.

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

The International Institute of Minnesota condemns the harmful rhetoric that is being used by the president and others in power to dehumanize, vilify, and demean immigrants and refugees.

We support the Somali community in Minnesota and stand with all immigrants and refugees.

The contributions of immigrants continue to strengthen our state and country.

12/17/2025

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who can travel and emigrate to the U.S. The Trump administration incl...

12/12/2025

The end of international travel?

Here's what legal and tourism experts want you to know about the new proposed border policies.

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

Yesterday, the president made some of his most incendiary and vitriolic remarks about the Somali community in Minnesota while his administration is purported to be planning a targeted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation against the community.

The International Institute of Minnesota condemns the harmful rhetoric that is being used by those in power to dehumanize, vilify, and demean immigrants and refugees. While this is not the first instance of the president or his allies targeting immigrants, we know that their attempts to scapegoat entire communities are not based in fact and only sow division to further separate our nation.

We also oppose the anti-immigration policy changes and immigration enforcement operations that have accompanied the persistent verbal attacks on New Americans by the president’s administration.

We stand with the Somali community, and all immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and across our country, and we are asking you to do the same.

Please reach out to your elected officials and let them know you stand with immigrants and refugees and do not agree with the president and his administration’s hateful rhetoric and policies targeting the Somali community.

Read our full statement and find a sample script to contact your elected officials: https://iimn.org/news/statement-on-presidents-attacks-on-somali-community/

12/11/2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies and consulates to use Times New Roman font for diplomatic communications, reversing the Biden administration’s switch to Calibri.

The Biden-era switch, Rubio said, stemmed from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

12/11/2025

According to a leaked Department of Justice memo obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the FBI to compile a list of U.S. groups and entities that express “anti-American” views.

This would implement Trump’s controversial National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, an executive order that potentially defines as a “domestic terrorist organization” any group that espouses “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

In her memo, Bondi includes a laundry list of laws, which could conflict with First Amendment rights, for which groups can be targeted. Human rights experts have described NSPM-7 as the Trump administration’s continued attempt to silence organizations that oppose his extreme policies on immigration and attempts to reverse gains of the labor and civil rights movements.

12/03/2025

Republican bill targets 40 million dual citizens in US:

"It’s time to end dual citizenship for good,” Moreno said."

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill to establish that citizens of the United States "must have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S."