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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) is demanding answers from the Trump administration after she discovered that an undercover ICE agent was stationed outside of one of her town hall meetings, raising fears of intimidation by the agency just days before the state\u2019s primary election.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, local law enforcement who were coordinating security for the event in Richfield, Minnesota, noticed that there was a woman parked outside of the building in a suspicious vehicle, as attendees were entering, on Friday. A police officer ran the plates for the vehicle and found out that the records didn\u2019t match the vehicle, and asked her about why she was there.<\/p>\n

The woman initially claimed to be a security officer, but Omar\u2019s team said that she was not involved with their security for the event. It was then that she called her supervisor and admitted that she was an agent of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a law enforcement agency within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She left after speaking with her supervisor, Omar says.<\/p>\n

The agent claimed that she was there as part of an undercover drug enforcement operation, though local law enforcement said they received no advance notice of such an operation from HSI. Omar raised doubts about this claim, saying that the event was clearly labelled with a \u201cprominent sign\u201d for the meeting and that a reasonable person would assess that it would not be an ideal place for a drug operation.<\/p>\n

In a letter to HSI first reported by HuffPost<\/em>, Omar also raised concerns about the use of ICE agents as an intimidation tactic, especially against the Trump administration\u2019s political opponents and especially after agents\u2019 violent raid of Minneapolis in Operation Metro Surge earlier this year. She demanded that HSI answer questions on the reasoning for the agent\u2019s presence outside of the event and whether or not HSI is stationing agents with relation to her activities in particular.<\/p>\n

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The lawmaker also pointed out that she received assurances from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials when she met with them in March that they were no longer switching license plates on their vehicles, which is against the law. However, this practice appears to be continuing, as evidenced by the incident on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHSI\u2019s actions yesterday evening put an entire community at risk,\u201d Omar wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt also raises serious and uncomfortable questions about the purpose of HSI\u2019s presence outside of my event,\u201d she went on. \u201cAt best, your agent was unable to assess that the parking lot of a community center hosting a Congressional event wasn\u2019t the best place to conduct a drug operation. At worst, it emphasizes many Americans\u2019 growing concern that the Trump administration uses ICE to surveil political opponents and may interfere with our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omar has repeatedly faced racist direct attacks from President Donald Trump, and, amid the ICE raids in January, was assaulted by a Trump supporter with a syringe full of vinegar while she was holding a town hall.<\/p>\n

The latest incident occurred just days before Tuesday\u2019s primary election in Minnesota, in which Omar is up for election and is expected to win.<\/p>\n

However, civil liberties advocates have raised concerns about the Trump administration\u2019s threats to deploy ICE agents to polling places as a form of intimidation and voter suppression \u2014 particularly against immigrants and non-white people who have been targeted in ICE\u2019s raids and mass deportation campaign.<\/p>\n

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