President Trump has dispatched federal agents to the Twin Cities to crack down on illegal immigrants. But Trump is overreacting, critics contend: the Somali immigrant population, they claim, does not have particularly high crime rates. Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there. Somalia is bounded by the Gulf of Aden to the north, by the Indian Ocean to the east, by Kenya and Ethiopia to the west, and by Djibouti to the northwest. Somalia’s western border was arbitrarily determined by colonial powers and divides the lands traditionally occupied by the Somali people. While the alleged ringleader was white, many of the defendants were Somalis, and most of them were U.S. citizens. Somalia is named for the legendary father of the Somali people, Samaal (or Samale). The Somali people share a common language, Somali, and most are Muslims of the Sunni sect. Somalis also live in northern Kenya; in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia; and in Djibouti, to the northwest of Somalia. Somalia is a predominantly Muslim country where beliefs are based on the fact that Jesus Christ was merely a prophet of Allah. Thus, the beliefs and traditions that go with the celebrations of Christmas are not found in the country. About 2 million Somalis live outside of Somalia, largely in the neighboring countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Yemen. In Kenya many Somalis live in the Dadaab Refugee Complex, which was established in 1991 and subsequently grew to comprise three camps and an integrated settlement. Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The. Samaale, the legendary common ancestor of several Somali clans, is generally regarded as the source of the ethnonym Somali. One other theory is that the name is held to be derived from the words soo and maal, which together mean literally go and milk . Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. Somalia has an estimated population over 19 million, of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. As one of Africa's most ethnically homogeneous countries, around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis.