First-term GOP Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas is calling on the Trump administration to send Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) back to her homeland of Somalia.
“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on the X platform.
Included in Gill’s tweet was a video clip featuring Omar, where she appears to be coaching fellow Somalis living in the U.S. — perhaps illegally — how to resist federal immigration officials. The video was posted by conservative influencer Greg Price, who wrote: “Ilhan Omar is now hosting workshops for Somalians living in the country illegally to advise them on how to avoid being deported.”
America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia. https://t.co/ABjBQX9DXx
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) February 4, 2025
Several X users backed Gill.
“100%! She’s anti-American as they come. She pledged allegiance to the United States and has only ever acted against it. She’s a fraud, liar, and traitor to this country!” one wrote.
“Isn’t this against the law? Expel her!” said another.
Another user offered: “She is committing federal crimes by telling illegal immigrants how to avoid ice. She deserves to be investigated and prosecuted.”
Later, Gill wrote that “we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.”
A spokesperson for Gill told The Hill, “Representative Omar’s conduct raises questions about to whom she is most loyal- the American people or illegal aliens from Somalia. Representative Gill simply stated that it is disgraceful for a sitting Congresswoman and US citizen to facilitate the invasion of our country by illegal alien Somalis.”
In the clip, Omar outlined what Somalians who are “undocumented or who their documentation might have lapsed” should do if they are questioned by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
“You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that your are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,” Omar told the reporter. “Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you prefer them not to know.”
Omar’s instructions come as President Donald Trump’s nascent administration gets to work on his campaign pledge of implementing mass deportations, beginning first with illegal migrant criminals. Border czar Tom Homan, who spent decades as a Border Patrol officer and senior federal immigration official, has said that while criminal aliens are the administration’s first priority, anyone found to be in the country illegally is subject to arrest and deportation.
“In sanctuary cities, expect a lot of collateral arrests. I mean, not priority criminal arrests. We can’t get the bad guy in jail. That means we have to go into the communities and find them, and there may be others. We expect a lot of collateral arrests,” Homan said in December, before he and Trump took office
“There’s over 700,000 criminal aliens with criminal convictions,” Homan added. “ICE is going to do what they’re good at.”
“We’re starting across the country on the same day” that Trump takes office, he said.
“Twenty-four [ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations] field offices — some cover two or three states,” Homan added. “Every field office will be given the direction that they are to begin looking for, arresting, detaining, removing those in the United States that have been arrested for a crime.”
Also in December, the border czar obliterated CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a tense interview about the administration’s mass deportation operation.
During an interview on “The Source,” Homan held his ground when Collins asked about ICE agents going after illegal aliens hiding out in schools, churches, and hospitals so they could avoid being deported.
“What is the standard, I guess, to go into an elementary school?” Collins asked. “Because what we had heard from immigration advocates is that this is going to provide a chilling effect to parents in the school drop-off line or something of that matter.”
“It shouldn’t be a chilling effect unless your child is a terrorist or a public safety threat. If they are a public safety threat, a national security threat, they should be chilled. They should be afraid, because we’re looking for them,” Homan responded.