New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- US President Donald Trump's latest denunciations of Somali immigrants have sent tremors through Minnesota's large Somali diaspora, prompting sharp political backlash and renewed anxiety over potential federal enforcement actions. For a community that has endured years of rhetorical targeting, the ferocity of this week's remarks marked a new escalation.

Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump delivered one of his harshest assessments yet of Somali Americans.

"They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country," the US President told reporters. "We can go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country."

Donald Trump followed the comments with an e...