On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) expressed concern that law enforcement will “pull people over that look like they might be an immigrant” to enforce deportation operations by the Trump administration.
She also stated “In Minnesota, there are so many counties where the county does not have a relationship with ICE, where they are not identifying folks through that system. So, we have to find ways to implement programs and carry out protections and boost advocacy and fight like we’ve never fought before to make sure our communities remain safe and stable.”
Omar stated, “When he talks about deportation, he’s talking about deporting people with their children who were born in the United States.”
“That is — nearly 50% of everyone who is undocumented in this country has at least one child, right? Mixed family — mixed-status families are very common in the United States.”
“That is uprooting a sixteen-year-old that is in high school, planning for the college that they’re going to go to and sending them to a country they know nothing about and have not been [to].”
“That is what he is planning to do to Americans. And that is not