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Jacob Frey: “A very tiny portion of [Somali people in Minnesota] aren't…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 28:46

… going to run into all sorts of constitutional impossibility that they can't be begin to comprehend again. There's more than 80,000 Somali people that live in the state of Minnesota. A very tiny portion of [Somali people in Minnesota] aren't citizens. In other words, the vast majority, almost all of the Somali people that are here in Minnesota and in Minneapolis are citizens. (28:46–28:51)

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Asserts that most Somali people in Minnesota are citizens.

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