Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
“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 said in an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning.
The congresswoman said her son “always carries” his passport with him.
Omar said ICE also previously entered a mosque where his son and others were praying, but left without incident. After that, she said she “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.”
“My son always carries his [German] papers”
Some mother a 100 years ago
PAPERS PLEASE
Yeah, really feeling the 1939 Nazi Germany vibes.
TIL congresswoman Omar is old enough to have a driving child and I must finally acknowledge I don’t understand the space time continuum bc that ain’t right
Trump first became president in 2017. Omar’s son would have been much younger then; that’s usually the time people think of when they think of her.
We need to protect this woman and her family. She’s a true patriot
Her arrest and detainment by ICE is inevitable; she is brown and Somali, and it doesn’t matter that she’s a US citizen and a sitting member of Congress, Trump’s SS will eventually arrest her once he feels it’s the right time. That will be a breaking point in this whole affair; if the people of this country allow the President to arrest his political enemies just for being his enemies, we are truly lost. If we allow that act to stand, it will have a domino effect as then he will feel emboldened to arrest any political enemy, no matter their race or citizenship or political party.
True but I am anticipating a Franz Fertinand moment and then civil war
Oooh! Maybe NOW they’ll do something more than just “SLAMming” them in the news.
I’m surprised they asked for and accepted ID.
