Omar who? I thought she got deported? On Sunday, January 11. 2026 the Independent Journal Review published an article headlined, “DHS Fact Checks Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Claim ICE Is ‘Disappearing’ US Citizens.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “disappearing U.S. citizens” a “ridiculous lie,” in a statement shared Sunday with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
While at an anti-ICE protest with fellow Democratic Minnesota Reps. Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison, Omar accused the agency, under the Trump administration, of “disappearing” people, including U.S. citizens. The Somali-born congresswoman also claimed this “is a brand new policy” which “hasn’t happened before.”
“When people are disappeared in the darkness, American democracy dies, and it is really important for every single person in this country to understand that they are not only disappearing people who have committed crimes, who are in this country undocumented. They are disappearing U.S. citizens,” Omar told reporters Saturday, three days after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in Omar’s district.
“ICE does not ‘disappear’ people. This is a ridiculous lie that the media is peddling to demonize ICE law enforcement who are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the DCNF, referring Sunday to statistics her agency cited in a Thursday press release. ICE is an agency of DHS.
“ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens,” McLaughlin continued. “If a U.S. citizen is arrested, it is because they have obstructed or assaulted law enforcement. Every day the men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens. This violence against ICE must end.”
“Here we have a Congresswoman that is even more fraudulently in office than Joe Biden was. At least Joe Biden was an American citizen!” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, centrally based in Harrison, Arkansas. “Ilhan Omar as far as I’m concerned is NOT a United States citizen, at least to the laws that our forefathers set. I don’t know why Ilhan Omar hasn’t been stripped of her job and deported. There’s proof she married her own brother to gain entry to the United States and it has come out of her own mouth that to her, Somali comes before the United States, and that her allegiance was with Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somali. Now you tell me, what information does she have on someone that not only is she still in office, she still remains in America? Ilhan Omar is pushing for the deaths of ICE officers that are simply trying to keep Americans safe from criminals. Ask yourself, how many people do you know that ICE made ‘disappear’ that were here lawfully, following our laws? If anyone should pull a disappearing act it should be Ilhan Omar.”
