"Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been sprayed with a foul-smelling liquid during a town hall she was hosting on Tuesday. A man rushed towards the stage and targeted her as she criticised immigration enforcement actions. Omar was not injured in the attack. Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand. We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us, she told the crowd."
"Many of those threats have been from strangers, but Omar has also been the repeated target of United States President Donald Trump's ire. And in recent weeks, Trump has extended hostile rhetoric to all Somali Americans and Somalia while his administration has launched its most severe crackdown on immigrants yet in the state of Minnesota, centred on the city of Minneapolis, which Omar represents in the US House of Representatives."
Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown, foul-smelling liquid at a Minneapolis town hall when a man rushed the stage and used a syringe; she was uninjured. The incident occurred as Omar criticised federal immigration enforcement, singling out ICE and the head of DHS. The Somalia-born congresswoman has long faced threats, including repeated ire from United States President Donald Trump, whose recent rhetoric has targeted Somali Americans and Somalia. The Trump administration has launched a severe immigrant crackdown in Minnesota, centred on Minneapolis, and federal officers recently shot dead two US citizens protesting the enforcement, escalating tensions statewide.
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