As Twitchy reported earlier, Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis, shut down a program that allocated $2 million to help small businesses harmed by the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge after it concluded that two-thirds of the applications were fraudulent.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) is also concerned about the communities that were somehow harmed by federal immigration enforcement and this week introduced her Make ICE Pay Act, which would divert $140 billion allocated to ICE in the One Big Beautiful Bill "and invest it into communities across the country that have been impacted by the Department of Homeland Security’s heinous operations."
BREAKING: Ilham Omar to introduce bill to redirect $140 billion from ICE’s budget to communities and nonprofits who assist illegal aliens
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 17, 2026
The definition of America last.
Denaturalize and deport pic.twitter.com/PdPedFYh1D
Omar's office issued a press release on the Make ICE Pay Act:
"For over a year, ICE has been tearing through our nation, leading racist terror campaigns that have caused devastating damage to our cities, to our businesses, and to the lives of our constituents," said Rep. Omar. "In Minneapolis, Operation Metro Surge cost our community nearly $700 million. We have a moral responsibility to end this abuse of power. Our bill will force ICE to pay the price for the damage they’ve left in their wake and ensure that these devastating operations can never be repeated."
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The Make ICE Pay Act would redirect nearly $140 billion towards local recovery efforts in states affected by ICE and CBP surges and named operations; including California, Minnesota (Operation Metro Surge), Illinois (Operation Midway Blitz), Louisiana (Operations Swamp Sweet and Catahoula Crunch), Maine (Operation Catch of the Day), North Carolina (Operation Charlotte’s Web), and Oregon (Operation Black Rose).
The funding can be used by states, localities, non-profits and small businesses to provide economic relief, reimburse operational costs, support educational institutions, or deliver psychosocial support to the impacted. It may also be used for investigations, commissions of inquiry, truth telling, record-keeping, and memorialization to make sure that this devastation is accurately recorded, remembered, and can never be repeated.
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"Or deliver psychosocial support to the impacted." Oh, and "commissions of inquiry" and "memorialization." So, they want to hold show trials and put up statues of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Of course, the act is co-sponsored by fellow Squad member Rashida Tlaib.
$140 billion from ICE to groups helping illegal immigrants The priorities here are wild pic.twitter.com/5clN0Cr40K
— Caitlin (@CaitlinEParker) September 17, 2026
Ha! How do you say FRAUD without saying FRAUD.
— American Data Project (@US_Data_Project) September 18, 2026
My question is how can she do it when she's going to be deported.?😏
— Blls Bailey (@BaileyBlls) September 19, 2026
She has laundry to do before she gets thrown out. 🙄
— Paradigm Shift (@5DAwake) September 17, 2026
Oh, you mean like the fraudulent ones she is getting kickbacks from?
— Kat Price (@Kathlee82112601) September 19, 2026
Why the hell is she still here.
— Erik Kiehle For Congress 🇺🇸 (@Kiehle4Congress) September 17, 2026
Republicans can’t even get the low hanging fruit.
Or Republicans don’t want to deport her and are indeed continuing to fund all the same welfare programs the Somalis are scamming.
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"Redirect" is code for setting up another massive fraud scam, redirecting money through nonprofits, many of which will be run by Somalis. Some of the money will be laundered back through ActBlue to Democrats of course. That's part of the unpublished plan.
— CatDog99 (@dog99_cat) September 17, 2026
Every person that received kickbacks in the fraud schemes needs to be punished so severely that no other person dares participate in the fraud schemes stealing American taxpayers money.
— News Flash Gordy (@newsflashgordy) September 19, 2026
They’ll help citizens of other countries before they help the citizens of the country they’re supposed to represent.
— Vod Roberts (@akaVodriq) September 18, 2026
The fact she is even still in the country, much less Congress is absolutely disgusting
— Jake Mathers (@JakeMatherz) September 18, 2026
Send her home. Why is she still on American soil? Why is she still in office?
— Judi Shaw (@JudiShaw26) September 18, 2026
Considering her list of legislative accomplishments is 0, this will end up in the trash can. Which is appropriate for a person whose career is based on trashing America. The day she loses her seat will be a day of celebration that will only be surpassed by the day she’s deported
— Robert Lapinski (@RobLaArizonaSJB) September 17, 2026
Talk about a slush fund. Who's going to oversee the distribution of the $140 billion to all of these "impacted communities"? And how could they possibly find a way to spend $140 billion, assuming it's not all going to pro-illegal immigration NGOs?
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