CAIR: Trump’s Revocation of Somali Deportation Protections Is Part of ‘Israel First’ Campaign
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) lashed out against President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota, blaming the move on an “Israel first” campaign that it says is also targeting podcasters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
“We believe this is an Israeli-first public campaign targeting a very vulnerable community—the Somali-American community—and a very vulnerable congresswoman—Ilhan Omar—as an effort to try to win back the many young Americans who believe that America should not be getting into wars for other countries,” CAIR-Minnesota executive director Jaylani Hussein said during a Monday afternoon press conference. He went on to praise Owens and Carlson, warning that “Israel first” Americans have also come after them.
“I know for sure that this campaign mirrors the same campaign targeting Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, major influencers on the conservative side, who have gained tremendous support in the younger generation of Republicans who are refusing to accept—refusing to accept—that America will continue to take the wars of Israel, destabilize the Middle East, lose their own tax dollars while committing carnage and lossage in the lives of Muslims, and many of these young generation today have woken up,” Hussain continued.
CAIR’s press conference came in response to Trump’s announcement that he would rescind Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State,” the president said, turning it into a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.” Trump’s decision came on the heels of a City Journal report from Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo detailing how Somali-American criminal networks help redirect welfare money out of the country and back to Somalia. Millions of taxpayer dollars, the report states, have ended up in the hands of the Al-Shabaab terrorist network.
Hussein condemned an “article” during the press conference, saying CAIR believes it is “based on false information that is being wrongfully connected,” without naming the specific story. He told the Washington Free Beacon he was referring to the City Journal piece.
The CAIR-Minnesota executive director also said his organization would like “the federal government to monitor funding that is coming directly from Israel into the pockets of social media influencers to do their foreign bidding.”
Owens and Carlson—whom Hussein referred to as “factual,” “clear,” and the voices of “the overwhelming majority of young Republicans”—have made news lately, with Owens spending the past day sounding the alarm about an alleged French-Israeli plot to have her assassinated.
“Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government … In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination,” Owens wrote on X before stating that the “assassination squad” includes French troops and one Israeli.
“I have informed people in the Federal government and the White House of the France and Israeli assassination plot and am willing to provide full details, as well as the name of the assassins and international accounts in France and Canada through which money was exchanged,” she wrote in another post.
She continued to post about the alleged plot on Monday, asking, “When everything is said and done, and the public learns that Macron allegedly moved 1.5 million dollars for my assassination, how will the world respond?”
Owens is currently facing a defamation lawsuit from French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for repeatedly insisting that the French first lady is actually a man.
The press conference also came a day after the national CAIR organization eulogized convicted cop-killer Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, best known as H. Rap Brown, who died over the weekend while serving a life sentence in federal prison.
“To God we belong and to Him we return,” CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “Imam Jamil Al-Amin was a hero of the civil rights movement and a victim of injustice who passed away in a prison, jailed for a crime he did not commit. We pray that God rewards him with paradise for his good deeds and the injustices he suffered.”
Awad came into prominence in his own right in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel, which the CAIR leader said he was “happy to see.”
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