WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants Tuesday, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the United States in an outburst that captured the raw nativism that has animated his approach to immigration.

Even for Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. And it comes as he started a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeting Somalis in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region.

“These are people that do nothing but complain,” Trump said at the tail end of a Cabinet meeting at the White House, during which he sometimes appeared to be fighting sleep. But when the subject turned to immigration, Trump made a point of las

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