Ilhan Omar Hits Back at DHS After They Claim She’s Lying About Her Son
Rep. Ilhan Omar just called the Department of Homeland Security’s bluff after it denied that ICE agents ever arrested her son.
EDS claimed As of Tuesday, the agency had “an absolutely ZERO record” of federal agents arresting Omar’s son, according to the Minnesota Democrat. revealed over the weekend, her son was in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown targeting the Somali American community in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.
“In the absence of evidence, it is shameful that Congresswoman Omar would make accusations intended to demonize ICE as part of a publicity stunt,” DHS said in a statement. statement about. The department denied engaging in racial profiling and said federal law enforcement used “reasonable suspicion” to make arrests.
But the Somali-American congresswoman doubled down and asked DHS to provide receipts.
“The congresswoman’s son and others were arrested by ICE, racially profiled, and forced to prove their citizenship with a passport. ICE has long operated as a dishonest agency beyond reform,” she said in a statement. statement. “It’s not surprising that an agency known for disappearing people also can’t keep its records up to date. ICE now claims to have records of all stops, and our office would welcome the opportunity to review them.”
It is quite ironic that ICE balks at allegations that they engaged in racial profiling after begged the Supreme Court for allow them to profiling individuals based on race, ethnicity, and language in efforts to detain immigrants. And of course, there are also many well documented reports of ICE and Border Patrol agents engaged in racial profiling.
Earlier this month, a federal judge governed that the Trump administration illegally lowered the standards for immigration-related arrests by instituting a policy of “reasonable suspicion” instead of “probable cause.” The judge barred federal agents from making arrests without a warrant unless the person was in the country illegally and was at risk of flight.
