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Despair engulfs the Somali diaspora in the US and East Africa as the Trump administration revokes Temporary Protected Status (TPS), giving thousands of refugees 60 days to pack up or face force.

The news hit Minnesota like a blizzard. In a move that rights groups have branded "cruel and calculated," the Trump administration has officially terminated the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali nationals living in the United States. The directive gives thousands of refugees, many of whom have lived in the US for decades, a chilling ultimatum: leave within 60 days or be hunted down by ICE agents.
The Department of Homeland Security argues that conditions in Somalia have "improved sufficiently" to allow for repatriation—a claim that contradicts the US State Department's own travel advisories, which list Somalia as a "Do Not Travel" zone due to terrorism and instability. For the Somali community in Minneapolis, Columbus, and Seattle, the announcement is a catastrophe.
"This is a death sentence," says Ilhan Omar, the US Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district. "We are sending people back to a country where Al-Shabaab controls vast territories and where the government cannot guarantee their safety." The panic is palpable. Families are scrambling to consult immigration lawyers, fearing separation as parents with TPS face deportation while their US-born children remain behind.
For Trump, this is a campaign promise fulfilled—a nativist strike against a community he has repeatedly vilified. For the Somali grandmother in Minneapolis who has never known peace in her homeland, it is the end of the American Dream. As the 60-day clock begins to tick, the fear is not just of leaving America, but of returning to a ghost.
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