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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 walked into a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10, were allowed entry, then were ordered out minutes later. They'd come to inspect conditions after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head three days earlier during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS cited a seven-day notice rule that a federal judge had already blocked as illegal—a policy DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed the day after Good's killing. When Democrats sought emergency court intervention, Judge Jia Cobb refused to block the policy on January 20, ruling on procedural grounds while explicitly declining to find the policy lawful.

Updated Jan 30