Ilhan Omar’s Dangerous Neo-Confederate Rhetoric |
Much like the Confederate South attempted to nullify federal law ahead of the Civil War, Democrats have pulled out the stops to vilify the enforcement of federal immigration law. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Somalia, is the most recent figure to echo this dangerous rhetoric.
On Sunday, Omar demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement as an “occupying force” and suggested that ICE has no authority anywhere except on the United States’ borders.
“Federal law enforcement is being sent as an occupying force into Minneapolis,” Omar said Sunday on MSNOW (the network too ashamed of its past to still go by the name MSNBC).
While she acknowledged that previous administrations had carried out immigration raids, she claimed they only deployed small groups of agents.
“There is no reason to be roaming the streets, stopping people, stopping cars, trying to go door by door in a neighborhood,” she said. “The American people know that ICE agents and Border Patrol agents have no jurisdiction over them. … They’re only supposed to interact with them if they’re crossing a border, or if they are doing something that relates to immigration and customs.”
Omar claimed that the Department of Homeland Security sent ICE “to create fear” and “terrorize our communities.”
She further claimed that the........