President Donald Trump ended temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis living in the United States, ordering them to leave the country by March 17.

“Temporary means temporary,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital Tuesday. “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”

“Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,” Noem said. “We are putting Americans first.”

Roughly 2,471 Somali nationals currently live in the U.S. under temporary protected status, according to Fox.

An estimated 600 of them are living in Minnesota.

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DHS is ENDING Temporary Protected Status for Somalians in the United States.

Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves. pic.twitter.com/moTA5BnCpM

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 13, 2026

There are also 1,383 Somalis living in the country with pending applications for temporary protected status, the outlet reported.

If Somalis who are subject to the order refuse to leave the United States by March, they will likely become targets of federal immigration authorities.

The policy change comes just one day after Minneapolis and St. Paul announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its mass deportation sweeps in Minnesota.

The lawsuit seeks to “end the unlawful, unprecedented surge of the federal law enforcement agents into Minnesota,” state Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a press conference on Monday.

“The obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” he said.

The feud between the Trump administration and officials in Minnesota boiled over after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, who was reportedly tied to a radical ICE Watch organization tracking the agency’s whereabouts.

The president has accused Good of committing an act of “domestic terrorism” after she was seen in footage blocking a road the ICE agents were trying to pass through before she ignored their commands to get out of the car. Good was then seen putting her car in reverse and backing up, before driving forward.

One video appears to show the agent taking a hit as he stood in front of the vehicle before shots were fired.

The Trump administration has also zeroed in on Minnesota’s Somali community after federal authorities revealed last month that an estimated $9 billion in taxpayer funds may have been stolen as part of a massive fraud campaign that’s largely been tied to the population.

The fraudsters are accused of funneling cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported last month.

New economic data rolls in with good news for Americans’ wallets, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether states can bar males from competing in women’s sports, and how did Minnesota get here? We speak to former GOP governor Tim Pawlenty to learn more.

It’s Tuesday, January 13, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:

Trump’s Wins

Nearly one year after retaking the presidency, the White House says President Donald Trump’s economic and domestic agenda is starting to pay off. When Trump launched his trade war, the consensus among most economists and Democratic lawmakers was that it would tank the economy and stall GDP growth. But each month, the data continues to defy those expectations. At the beginning of 2025, the U.S. GDP shrank by half a percentage point. That set off alarm bells in Washington that a recession was looming. But in Quarter 2, GDP grew 3.8%; by Quarter 3, it was up to 4.3%, and based on the latest projections from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, GDP growth in the final quarter of 2025 was a stunning 5.1%. On Monday, gas prices fell for the seventh straight week. On housing, mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time in nearly three years, while rents declined for the fifth straight month. Inflation has trended in the right direction for months.

SCOTUS Weighs Women’s Sports

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Tuesday in two high-stakes cases that could have sweeping consequences for women’s sports and state authority. The paired cases come from Idaho and West Virginia and center on whether states can enforce laws banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. In Idaho’s Little v Hecox, Lindsay Hecox, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, is challenging Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. In the West Virginia case, a male middle school athlete known as BPJ is asking the court to invalidate a similar law. The Court consolidated the two cases because they raised nearly identical legal questions.

Former Gov Tim Pawlenty Talks MN Fraud And ICE

The protests gripping Minneapolis over the last few days have come amid federal investigations into widespread fraud, which President Trump is now sending even more agents to investigate. Former Minnesota Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty joined Morning Wire to discuss the issue rocking his state. The former governor blamed the tense standoff between local leaders and federal law enforcement on the state’s sanctuary policies. The extent of social service fraud in the state could be as high as $9 billion or more, which “could be the largest theft or fraud of public money in the history of our country,” Pawlenty said. On the chances that Democratic Governor Tim Walz could have known about the massive amount of fraud in his state prior to the recent media attention, Pawlenty said that the Minnesota state government has quashed fraud investigations before, simply by bureaucrats refusing to work with investigators.