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

First-term Republican Representative Brandon Gill from Texas is urging the Trump administration to deport Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) back to Somalia.

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

Gill's tweet included a video clip of Omar appearing to instruct Somali immigrants in the U.S. — potentially those residing illegally — on how to evade federal immigration authorities. The footage was originally shared by conservative influencer Greg Price, who commented: “Ilhan Omar is now hosting workshops for Somalians living in the country illegally to advise them on how to avoid being deported.”

Several users on X supported Gill’s remarks.

“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 user wrote.

Another responded, “Isn’t this against the law? Expel her!”

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

Later, Gill further commented 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 U.S. citizen to facilitate the invasion of our country by illegal alien Somalis.”

In the video, Omar explained what Somalians who are “undocumented or who their documentation might have lapsed” should do if questioned by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

“You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you 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 guidance comes as President Donald Trump’s administration begins executing his campaign promise of mass deportations, initially targeting illegal migrant criminals. Border czar Tom Homan, a former senior federal immigration official, has emphasized that while criminal aliens are the priority, anyone unlawfully present in the country 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 stated in December, before he and Trump assumed 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 declared.

“Twenty-four [ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations] field offices — some cover two or three states,” Homan explained. “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 had a heated exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during an interview about the administration’s deportation plans.

During an appearance on “The Source,” Homan firmly defended ICE's operations when Collins questioned agents targeting illegal immigrants who seek refuge in places like schools, churches, and hospitals to avoid deportation.

“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.