Democrat ‘Squad’ member Rep. Illhan Omar does not care if she is deported.
During an interview on The Dean Obeidallah Show, Rep. Omar addressed calls for her to be deported back to her home country of Somalia.
She said she has no concerns because “I’m not the 8-year-old who escaped war anymore. I’m grown, my kids are grown. Like I could go live wherever I want if I wanted to.”
Watch for yourself:
Ilhan Omar says she doesn't care if she gets deported: "I am grown, I can live wherever" pic.twitter.com/0pANq8hIlk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 9, 2025
Rep. Omar’s comments came after President Trump essentially told her to GTFO of America last week.
The Western Journal provided some background:
President Donald Trump encouraged Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota in a social media post over the weekend to return to her native Somalia after she referred to the country as her home.
In a video speaking to a Minneapolis crowd in the Somali language, she called Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud “our president,” according to a translation.
The lawmaker added that she has a “special relationship” with Mohamud, and that she refers to him as uncle and he calls her “his girl.”
“We are very happy that Hassan is our president,” Omar said. “Somalia is our home… Somalia is our heart. It is in our hearts. We always think about Somalia.”
Trump responded to the video on Truth Social, posting on Saturday, “She should go back!”
Rep. Omar has faced repeated calls to go back to Somalia, since she loves it so much.
Politico has more:
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that the president has suggested Omar should be removed from the country.
“You know I met the head of Somalia, did you know that?” he told reporters at the Oval Office in September. “And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. He said ‘I don’t want her.’”
Trump also called out Omar multiple times during his first term, in one instance accusing her of “telling us how to run our country” during the final months of the 2020 campaign.
Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the four-term lawmaker told a radio host Friday that she isn’t concerned by rhetoric around her immigration status.
“I have no worry, I don’t know how they’d take away my citizenship and like deport me,” she said on The Dean Obeidallah Show. “But I don’t even know like why that’s such a scary threat. Like I’m not the 8-year-old who escaped war anymore. I’m grown, my kids are grown. Like I could go live wherever I want if I wanted to. It’s a weird thing to wake up every single day to bring that into every single conversation, ‘we’re gonna deport Ilhan.’”
Rep. Omar may not care if she is deported, but the rest of us do!
Keep in mind that this woman (allegedly) committed marriage fraud, with her own brother.
That’s enough cause for de-naturalization and subsequent deportation.
Make it happen!
Take a look at these replies calling for Rep. Omar to go back to Somalia:
Then she should self-deport. After all, this country is so terrible to hear her tell it… why would she want to be here anyway? Oh, right…. money laundering.
— Ana (@ana_in_tx) November 9, 2025
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye …
— Malcolm Reynolds (@MacnetX) November 9, 2025
Sounds like if she gets deported it’s just the end of a mission for her … pic.twitter.com/j07EJa1U9S
— Ridiculous Takes (@rwordtakes) November 9, 2025
It may happen sooner than later…
As for how, Ilhan, 18 U.S.C. § 1425 would like to have words with you.
— Progressing California (@ProgressingCali) November 9, 2025
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