We refuse to let Trump break our solidarity

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement in response to President Trump’s threats to Minnesota’s Somali American community:

“In the Labor Movement, an injury to one is an injury to all. By vilifying our Somali American co-workers and neighbors and threatening military-style raids in Minnesota’s communities, President Trump is attacking our state’s entire Labor Movement.

“Like he always does, President Trump is trying to turn working people against one another to distract us from his own policy failures. You only need to look at prices at the grocery store to see that it’s getting even harder for working people to make ends meet.

“Somali Americans are part of our Labor Movement and have been contributing to Minnesota communities for more than three decades – just like every generation of immigrants and refugees that have decided to call our great state home. Union members refuse to let anyone, even the President of the United States, divide us based on what we look like, where we were born, or how we pray.

“President Trump and his cronies are hoping that working people will forget that immigrants aren’t standing between us and a better life – billionaires are. We refuse to let them break our solidarity.”