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Ilhan Omar kicked out of ICE facility after DHS requires week's advance notice

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3 weeks ago

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., says she and other Minnesota lawmakers were kicked out of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis on Saturday.Omar visited ICE's Whipple Building alongside fellow Minnesota Democrat Rep. Angie Craig, saying they were fulfilling their congressional oversight role. They were asked to leave the facility after being informed about a new Trump administration rule governing lawmaker visits."We were initially invited in to do our Congressional oversight and to exercise our Article I duties," Omar told reporters after the incident. "When we made i...