GOP Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas called for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to be deported after a clip of her surfaced advising illegal immigrants how to not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on social media platform X in response to the video.
America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia. https://t.co/ABjBQX9DXx
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) February 4, 2025
He added in a second post, “We should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.”
Omar came to the U.S. with her family as a war refugee from Somalia in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old, according to The Hill.
She was first elected to Congress in 2018.
In the clip that Gill shared, English subtitles indicated that Omar, speaking Somali, told a reporter what Somalians who are in the country illegally should do when speaking with ICE officers.
“You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you were advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,” Omar told the reporter.
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