Ilhan Omar likens Stephen Miller’s feedback on migrants to Nazis describing Jews

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Rep. Ilhan Omar , D-Minn., in contrast White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller's remarks about migrants to the way in which Nazis described Jewish individuals throughout an interview on Sunday.

CBS host Margaret Brennan requested Omar to reply to a press release Miller made about migrants. He wrote on social media , "No magic transformation happens when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the situations, and terrors, of their damaged homelands."

Omar stated it was "White supremacist rhetoric" earlier than evaluating it to Nazis describing Jewish individuals.

"It jogs my memory of the way in which the Nazis described Jewish individuals in Germany. And you understand, as we all know, there have been many immigrants who've tried to come back to america who've turned again, you understand, one in all them being Jewish immigrants. We know how that folks have been described who have been coming from Eire, Irish immigrants," Omar stated.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks throughout a mark-up assembly with the Home Price range Committee on Capitol Hill on Might 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

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"We know how by which individuals have been described again then, when there have been Italian immigrants. And to me, you understand, we're, we're, sure, in fact, ethnically Somali, we're on this nation as People, we're residents, we're a productive a part of this nation, and we are going to proceed to be," she added.

The White Home didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.

President Donald Trump has disparaged the Somali neighborhood in Minnesota because of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme within the state. As of November 2025, greater than 75 people have been charged in reference to the scheme, in line with federal prosecutors.

A few of the people are a part of Minnesota's Somali diaspora, which is the most important within the U.S., although the ringleader of the scheme just isn't.

White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller speaks on the each day press briefing within the Brady Press Briefing Room on the White Home on Might 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

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Omar responded to Trump's statements concerning the Somali neighborhood through the interview on Sunday.

"It is disgusting. It is utterly disgusting. These are People that he's calling rubbish. And we really feel like there's an unhealthy obsession that he has on the Somali neighborhood, and an unhealthy and creepy obsession that he has with me. I believe additionally it is actually essential for us to do not forget that this sort of hateful rhetoric and this stage of dehumanizing can result in harmful actions by individuals who take heed to the president," she stated.

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Omar was pressed to clarify how the fraud received so out of hand in Minnesota throughout a current interview on CNN.

"I believe what happened, um, is that, you understand, when you have got these, type of new applications which can be, um, designed to assist individuals, you are oftentimes counting on third events to have the ability to facilitate. And I simply assume that lots of the COVID applications that have been arrange — they have been arrange so rapidly that lots of the guardrails didn't get created," Omar stated.