“I don’t want to curse, but those of us who escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is the US [sic] goddamn states,” Omar said at a Democratic field hearing.
Ilhan Omar compares ‘US goddamn States’ ICE raids to her native Somalia
Politics
January 19, 2026
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