Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) recently claimed that immigration enforcement agents pulled over her son, but officials are pouring ICE on the story, stating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no record of any such traffic stop.
Omar made the claim during an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO this past Sunday.
The congresswoman said she had warned her son to avoid certain areas as ICE intensified enforcement operations in Minnesota in recent weeks. That's when a harrowing incident took place at the local Target ... allegedly.
"Yesterday, after he (Omar's son) made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go," she claimed without evidence.
Omar spun the tale, and then Gov. Tim Walz (D) vouched for her, posting to social media that her son had been the victim of "racial profiling."
"This isn’t a targeted operation to find violent criminals, it’s racial profiling," he wrote, also without evidence.
Two problems here. Walz's claim that Omar's son was simply "following the law" is belied by reports that he had actually been pulled over for a traffic violation, which, by its nature, is not following the law.
Furthermore, ICE officials tell Newsmax Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen that they have no record of the interaction with their agents. One could say it was ... undocumented.
"Officials [at ICE] tell @NEWSMAX the agency has no record of stopping a car driven by the son of [Rep. Ilhan Omar], as the congresswoman claimed," Rosen posted to X.
Rosen also relays that ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons described her accusations as a “ridiculous effort to unfairly demonize our law enforcement officers.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin shared Rosen's post.
Omar has been under increased scrutiny following reports of exploding multi-billion-dollar welfare fraud schemes taking place in Minnesota, allegedly perpetrated by members of the state’s large Somali community. Omar has long been a vocal advocate for the community. She moved to the United States in 1995, when she was 12, after her family fled the civil war in Somalia.
President Trump criticized Omar in comments surrounding the fraud scandal, suggesting she fix her home country and stop complaining about America.
"I don’t want to see Somalia. I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman and does nothing but complain," the President said.
"Let her go back, fix up her own country."
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/12/16/ice-officials-rip-ilhan-omar-over-ridiculous-story-about-her-son-being-racially-profiled-n2197175
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