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Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar

U.S. Representative, Minnesota's 5th District

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Notable Quotes

We were initially invited in to exercise our congressional oversight duties. Shortly after being let in, two officials said they received a message we were no longer allowed to be there.

I want people to understand that this is an Administration that is trying to provoke enough agitation in Minnesota so that they can declare martial law.

Stories

ICE blocks congressional oversight after fatal Minneapolis shooting

Force in Play

Leading congressional oversight effort after being denied ICE facility access

Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.

Updated May 20