Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE

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Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said national migration agents pulled implicit her lad connected Saturday and asked him to beryllium his citizenship.

"Yesterday, aft helium made a halt astatine Target, helium did get pulled implicit by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and erstwhile helium was capable to nutrient his passport ID, they did fto him go," Omar said successful an interrogation with Esme Murphy connected WCCO Sunday Morning.

WCCO has reached retired to ICE astir the incident.

The congresswoman said her lad "always carries" his passport with him.

Omar said ICE besides antecedently entered a mosque wherever his lad and others were praying, but near without incident. After that, she said she "had to punctual him conscionable however disquieted I am, due to the fact that each of these areas that they are talking astir are areas wherever helium could perchance find himself successful and they are racially profiling, they are looking for young men who look Somali that they deliberation are undocumented."

Earlier this month, federal agents surged into the Twin Cities with the stated extremity of targeting undocumented Somali immigrants. The enhanced absorption connected the Somali assemblage came aft President Trump said helium doesn't "want them successful our country" and called Omar herself "garbage."

On Friday, Omar sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Todd Lyons, acting manager of ICE, accusing national agents of "blatant radical profiling" and "an egregious level of unnecessary force" successful the Twin Cities.

"It is wide to maine that this surge came successful nonstop effect to Trump's racist comments astir Somali people, and about maine successful particular," Omar wrote.

U.S. Census Bureau information amusement Minnesota has the largest Somali colonisation successful the country, and Omar notes that "over 90% of Somalis successful America are U.S. citizens."

Omar was calved successful Somalia, came to the U.S. arsenic a kid and earned her citizenship successful 2000.