Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) is demanding answers from the Trump administration after she discovered that an undercover ICE agent was stationed outside of one of her town hall meetings, raising fears of intimidation by the agency just days before the state’s primary election. Last Thursday, local law enforcement who were coordinating security for the event in Richfield, Minnesota…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has introduced legislation urging the U.S. to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), pushing back against Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s campaign to “dismantle” the institution. The move comes as Rubio has been slapped with a new lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally sanctioning the court’s officials and a UN human rights expert. Earlier this week…
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We are in a health care crisis. Our system of care is beyond dysfunctional, driven by profit, and unable to serve the Americans who are the most vulnerable. In my congressional district, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), the state’s largest safety net hospital, narrowly avoided closure last month after the Minnesota legislature reached a one-time funding deal to bring it back from the…
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In a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Donald Trump used racist language to deride Somali people in Minnesota, blanketly describing the entire community as criminals. “They’re all crooks, the Somalians,” Trump said. “What they’ve done to Minnesota, the Somalians, they’re crooked as hell.” Trump then targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), saying, “They’re all crooks.
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The U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week. “We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed…
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Capitol Police brutalized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minnesota) guest to the State of the Union address, Aliya Rahman, so badly that she needed to seek care at the hospital afterward — all because Rahman stood up in protest during President Donald Trump’s speech. As Trump made heinous remarks about Somalis on Tuesday night, Rahman silently stood up in protest, she told Democracy Now!
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