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These are Americans that he is calling garbage, and we feel like there is an unhealthy obsession that he has on the Somali community, and an unhealthy and creepy obsession that he has with me.

But demonizing an entire group of people by their race and their ethnicity? A very group of people who contribute to the vitality − economic, cultural − of this state, is something I hoped we'd never have to see.

I think it is also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the President.

if that is the case, if money from U.S. tax dollars is being sent to help with terrorism in Somalia, we want to know.

You commit crimes, you go to jail. Doesn't matter what your race is, what your ethnicity, religion.

If there was a linkage in the money that they have stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out.

We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen.

Do your job. Get the criminals out, secure our border, but do it with dignity and respect to the American tradition of respecting immigrants and refugees as a beacon of hope.

You can use that word. Sure, you can use that language. But you shouldn’t. And that's something Donald Trump fails to realize.

This is what Donald Trump has done. He has normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language.

Many times, it’s just about being decent to people and making them feel included.

At first, I think it’s just because he’s not a good human being. But secondly, (it’s) to distract from his incompetency.

They bring the diversity and the energy to a place like Minnesota and for him to just randomly decide to do this, it makes no sense.