{"id":19479,"date":"2026-02-21T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=19479"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:25:41","slug":"ilhan-omar-says-democrats-dont-want-to-abolish-ice-they-plan-to-dismantle-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=19479","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar Says Democrats Don\u2019t Want to Abolish ICE, They Plan to Dismantle DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(BREITBART) \u2013 Rep.\u00a0Ilhan Omar (D-MN) revealed at a townhall meeting on Wednesday that Democrats don\u2019t just want to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but they are actually planning how to dismantle the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entirely.\n<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93971459 BCX0\">Visit your state page to pray<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93971459 BCX0\">.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW93971459 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I will say is that there is an easier conversation happening today than six, seven years ago when I got to Congress, about what we need to do with ICE, which is to abolish it,\u201d\u00a0Omar told her audience during the townhall meeting.\n<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.\n<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Democrat congresswoman further revealed, \u201cThere is a lot of conversation about what the dismantlement of the Department of Homeland Security should look like.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Omar\u2019s comments come after she and other Democrat lawmakers \u2014 like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) \u2014 stoke the flames of resistance in reaction to routine U.S. law enforcement operations in recent weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Notably, ICE has been around since 2003 and their raids are not a new phenomenon, but Democrats have been\u00a0riling people up\u00a0under the Trump administration, causing them to believe that impeding law enforcement means resisting some sort of \u201cfascist\u201d regime.\n<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News\u00a0reported, Democrat-run Minnesota is not only allowing far-left rioters to attack federal law enforcement officers in ICE, but elected officials like Walz and Omar openly encourage the attacks through fearmongering rhetoric.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Walz, who lost the 2024 election to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance,\u00a0threatened\u00a0to activate the Minnesota National Guard against federal law enforcement and fearmongered to other citizens across the country, telling millions that they are \u201cnext.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Americans who are watching this, if you\u2019re in Portland or you\u2019re in L.A., or you\u2019re in Chicago, or you\u2019re wherever, they\u2019re coming next,\u201d the governor said, before urging people across the U.S. to \u201cstand with us against this.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<h4>How are you praying for the Department of Homeland Security? Share your prayers and scriptures below.<\/h4>\n<p>This article was originally published in <em>Breitbart<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes (BREITBART) \u2013 Rep.\u00a0Ilhan Omar (D-MN) revealed at a townhall meeting on Wednesday that Democrats don\u2019t just want to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but they are actually planning how to dismantle the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entirely. Visit your state page to pray.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWhat I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[638,128,2194,6341,384,342,3007,3008,863],"class_list":{"0":"post-19479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-abolish","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-dhs","11":"tag-dismantle","12":"tag-dont","13":"tag-ice","14":"tag-ilhan","15":"tag-omar","16":"tag-plan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}