Freshman Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to her birth country of Somalia.
“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on X.
America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia. https://t.co/ABjBQX9DXx
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) February 4, 2025
Gill, a first-term lawmaker representing Texas’s 26th Congressional District, was responding to a clip another X user shared Tuesday of the Minnesota Democrat’s recent interview with a reporter.
Thirty minutes later, in another post, Gill wrote that “we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.”
Omar, came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen at 17 years old in 2000, according to The Hill.
A spokesperson for Gill told The Hill, “Representative Omar’s conduct raises questions about to whom she is most loyal- the American people or illegal aliens from Somalia. Representative Gill simply stated that it is disgraceful for a sitting Congresswoman and US citizen to facilitate the invasion of our country by illegal alien Somalis.”
In the clip, Omar, the first Somali American congressmember, outlined what Somalians who are “undocumented or who their documentation might have lapsed” should do if they are questioned by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Ilhan Omar is now hosting workshops for Somalians living in the country illegally to advise them on how to avoid being deported.
pic.twitter.com/fbQLIX1s44— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 4, 2025
“You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that your are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,” Omar told the reporter.
“Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you prefer them not to know.”
Omar faced deportation calls last year after a clip of her speech in Somali sparked heavy backlash on the right.
At the time, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) moved to censure Omar and later told reporters that “I would love to expel her; I think she should be deported, I honestly do,” over the remarks.
Elon Musk also reacted to the Tuesday clip of Omar, writing Tuesday that “she is breaking the law. Literally. Outright.”
The Minnesota progressive and “Squad” member said “it is important for people to exercise their Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent unless they feel confident that they have the legal protections that they need.”
“Nobody needs to put themselves at jeopardy by speaking to law enforcement if they do not have the advice of lawyers and we continue to tell people that,” she said on CNN.