Who Gets to Be an American? Trump Has an Answer  

President Donald Trump made quite the stir in recent days after declaring he does not want Somalis in the U.S.  

Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country,” according to the president, who added that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is Somali, is “garbage.”  

Trump’s comments come after news broke that a fraud scheme among Minnesota’s Somali population cost taxpayers over $1 billion. Authorities are investigating multiple plots in which Somalis are alleged to have stolen taxpayer money by claiming social services benefits.  

“Nonprofits tied to the Somali community claimed to have fed tens of thousands of nonexistent hungry children, claimed to have provided services to non-existent homeless, and claimed to have provided therapy for nonexistent autistic Somali children,” according to the White House. “Kickbacks were paid, lavish lifestyles were funded, and money was sent overseas–some of it even allegedly funneled to a terror group.” 

Additionally, Trump has paused all visas for Afghan nationals. This happened after a man from Afghanistan, who has been living in the U.S. since the fall of Kabul in 2021, shot two National Guard members near the White House the day before Thanksgiving, killing U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom.   

And after Trump vowed to pause immigration from “developing nations countries,” the U.S. has frozen all immigration applications for foreigners from 19 counties, and is reviewing applications that were approved during the four years of the Biden administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Fox News Thursday that the list will be expanded to “over 30” nations, but did not specify.  

For now, the list includes: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen.  

On today’s edition of “Problematic Women,” we discuss Trump’s heightened immigration crackdown, and why assimilation is nonnegotiable.  

Plus, what is going on with the narco-terrorist boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific? We break it down. And Sabrina Carpenter is mad at the White House for using her music in an immigration enforcement video. All this and more on this week’s show!