Overview
- At a Mount Pocono event, Trump mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar’s hijab, repeated the unproven claim she “married her brother,” and prompted chants of “Send her back.”
- He described Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting” and told supporters he does not want Somali migrants in the United States.
- The administration has moved to end Temporary Protected Status for Somalis and initiated ICE’s Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, which has resulted in at least 19 arrests, including eight Somalis, according to reports.
- Trump told the crowd he has paused migration from countries including Somalia as prosecutors in Minnesota pursue dozens of pandemic‑era and social‑service fraud cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has denied the marriage allegation, and separate reporting in Maine details whistleblower claims of Medicaid billing fraud at Gateway Community Services involving figures in that state’s Somali community.