GOP’s Brandon Gill Calls For Deporting Ilhan Omar Back To Somalia

Freshman Republican Representative Brandon Gill of Texas has urged the Trump administration to deport Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota back to Somalia.

“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill posted Tuesday on X.

Gill’s post included a video clip of Omar, in which she appears to be advising Somali immigrants in the U.S. — potentially those without legal status — on how to handle encounters with federal immigration authorities. The video, originally shared by conservative influencer Greg Price, claimed: “Ilhan Omar is now hosting workshops for Somalians living in the country illegally to advise them on how to avoid being deported.”

Gill's remarks gained traction among X users.

“100%! She’s as 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 person commented.

“Isn’t this against the law? Expel her!” another user asked.

A different user asserted: “She is committing federal crimes by telling illegal immigrants how to avoid ICE. She deserves to be investigated and prosecuted.”

Later, Gill added, “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 video, Omar provides guidance on what Somalians who are “undocumented or who their documentation might have lapsed” should do if approached by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

“You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,” Omar explained. “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 comments come as President Donald Trump’s administration moves forward with its pledge to enforce mass deportations, initially targeting illegal immigrant criminals. Border czar Tom Homan, a longtime Border Patrol officer and senior immigration official, has made it clear that while criminal aliens are the priority, anyone in the country unlawfully is at risk of 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 stated in December, before Trump officially 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” Trump takes office, he continued.

“Twenty-four [ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations] field offices — some cover two or three states,” Homan elaborated. “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.”

In December, Homan also had a heated exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins regarding the administration’s mass deportation strategy.

During an interview on “The Source,” Collins pressed Homan about ICE agents apprehending illegal immigrants in locations such as schools, churches, and hospitals where they seek refuge.

“What is the standard, I guess, to go into an elementary school?” Collins questioned. “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.