Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said during a Sunday interview that her son was recently “pulled over” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — and that they had only let him go because he was able to produce his passport and confirm his identity.

Omar spoke to local CBS News affiliate WCCO in Minnesota, telling interviewer Esme Murphy that her son always carries his passport for just such an occasion.

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Ilhan Omar confirms her son was pulled over and detained by ICE.

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“Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go,” Omar explained.

“So your son went to Target last night with his passport?” Murphy asked.

“He always carries it with him,” Omar said.

“In case he gets pulled over?” Murphy clarified. “Which he did, by ICE.”

“Yes,” Omar replied, saying that ICE agents had also come into a mosque where her son was, but that they had left without detaining anyone. Following that incident, she said she’d “had to remind him just how worried I am, because all of these areas that they are talking about are areas where he could possibly find himself in and they are racially profiling, they are looking for young men who look Somali that they think are undocumented.”

Omar’s interview comes just days after she wrote a letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, demanding answers about ICE activities in her home state and claiming that they were driven by President Donald Trump’s “racist comments.”

“Constituents, advocates, and local officials have documented blatant racial profiling, an egregious level of unnecessary force, and activity that appears designed for social media rather than befitting a law enforcement agency,” she wrote in part. “I am demanding answers on behalf of my constituents whose constitutional rights are being violated on a daily basis.”

“It is clear to me that this surge came in direct response to Trump’s racist comments about Somali people, and about me in particular. Earlier this month, Trump called Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ and ranted that he does not want us in this country,” she added.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) wasted no time on Sunday in blaming the horrific Brown University shooting — which had occurred less than 24 hours earlier — on President Donald Trump.

Murphy joined CNN anchor Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” where he claimed that the uptick in violence was the direct result of a president “engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

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“Donald Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

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“It’s not shocking, because over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” Murphy began, clearly insinuating that the Trump administration was encouraging violence.

“He’s restoring gun rights to felons and to people who have lost their ability to buy guns, he eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection, and he has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 bill,” Murphy continued.

“He has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely, and I think you’re unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America,” Murphy said.

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Bash pressed him on his assertion, saying, “That’s a pretty big statement, he’s in a campaign to make violence more likely?”

“Of course! I mean, he’s knowingly restoring gun rights to dangerous people. He is cutting off grants that have bipartisan support to try to interrupt violence in our cities, or to try to get necessary mental health resources to families and children in need,” Murphy claimed. “The evidence tells you that when you stop funding mental health, when you stop funding community anti-gun violence programs, when you give gun rights back to dangerous people, you are going to have increase in violence. That is knowable and that is foreseeable.”

Murphy was referencing a proposed rule — published by the Justice Department in July — that would restore Second Amendment rights only after evaluating whether or not someone actually poses a threat.

“For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms—a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion—irrespective of whether they actually pose a threat,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi at the time. “No longer.”