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<\/p>\n Tony Karumba\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n JOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2014 This week, after saying he was cutting down on immigration from “third world countries” in the wake of the deadly attack on two National Guard members by an Afghan national, President Trump turned his wrath on people from Somalia, calling them “garbage.”<\/p>\n He advised Somali Americans to go back to the Horn of African nation and “fix it,” calling it “hell.”<\/p>\n Somalia has been plagued by clan-based conflict for decades and is currently fighting the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab.<\/strong><\/a> The country collapsed into anarchy after the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in 1991. In the thirty years since, millions of Somalis fled the country, ending up all over the world, including in the U.S.<\/p>\n