Opinion

Trump right about Somali refugees

To the Editor;

The BDN should be mindful or should have known there is a Somali terrorist threat from some members of this immigrant group in this country. In April 2015, five Minnesota teenagers and one 20-year-old of Somali descent in Minneapolis were accused of “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”

They planned to reach Syria, and they were charged with conspiring to support Islamic State. So Donald Trump, as wrongheaded as he is most of the time, is correct when he says radical Islamic terrorists wishing to do harm to the U.S. can be recruited from this group. Whitewashing an entire group to bash Trump is wrongheaded, too.

It is one thing to daily bash Trump as not fit for president, but another matter to ignore known threats to all Americans in an editorial.

Bob Roxbrough
Greenville

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