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Abib’s account painted a picture of an institutional problem, not one rooted primarily in racial or ethnic identities, and he said that most Somali immigrants living in the U.S. do not participate in or benefit from fraud schemes, even as narratives sometimes blur lines between individual culpability and broad community generalizations.
But before delving further into Abib’s perspective, it’s important to ground this conversation in what has been happening in Minnesota itself.
