Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed that her son was was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents over the weekend.
“Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go,” Omar told WCCO, a local radio station.
The infamous “Squad” lawmaker noted that her son “always carries” his passport as a precaution.
In addition to the weekend incident, Omar claims ICE previously went into a mosque where her son and others were praying, before exiting.
“I had to remind him just how worried I am, because all of these areas that they are talking about are areas where he could possibly find himself in and they are racially profiling, they are looking for young men who look Somali that they think are undocumented,” she added.
The news of ICE’s alleged questioning of Omar’s son comes on the heels of the agency’s crackdown in Minnesota, which was inspired by a $1 billion fraud scandal that had rocked the blue state.
She has blamed the fraud scandal in Minnesota on a failure to put up sufficient guardrails on social safety net programs in the state.
President Trump recently told the press that the massive fraud scandal involves members of the Somali community and has railed against their presence in the US, insisting “we don’t want them.”
Omar was born in Somalia but immigrated to the US in the mid-1990s, becoming a US citizen in 2000. She has since become a favorite target of President Trump, with the Republican calling her “garbage.”
Omar inked a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and acting ICE director Todd Lyons, accusing agents of “blatant racial profiling” and “an egregious level of unnecessary force” in her home state.
ICE officials have not commented on Omar’s claims at the time of publication.