Crowds usually press shoulder-to-shoulder at Karmel Mall, a sprawling Somali shopping center in Minneapolis, where people often greet each other by name, speak Somali more than English and gather to browse for new hijabs and shop from hundreds of vendors lining the narrow hallways.
On Wednesday night, however, only a handful of people milled around the mall after U.S. President Donald Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said that “they
