Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Sharice Davids (D-KS), and Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced the Tribal Courts Support Act, aimed at streamlining and improving the assessment process for tribal courts seeking support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). This legislation addresses longstanding issues in the current system that have led to delays and inefficiencies in establishing and funding tribal courts.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) led a letter to President Joe Biden today asking to form a humanitarian parole program for Sudanese people, similar to the humanitarian parole program created for Ukrainians.
The letter is also signed by Reps. Bush, Cárdenas, Carson, Casar, Clarke, García, Grijalva, Jackson, Jayapal, Kamlager-Dove, Kildee, Lee, Magaziner, McGovern, Norton, Pallone, Pressley, Quigley, Ramirez, Schakowsky, Tlaib, and Tonko.
WASHINGTON– On World Refugee Day, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) authored an op-ed in The Atlantic sharing her personal refugee story and calling for increased refugee admissions to the United States. Rep. Omar's personal perspective as a former refugee brings a unique voice to this timely issue. Her op-ed offers both policy proposals and a passionate argument for the U.S. to increase the refugee admissions cap for those fleeing conflict and disaster.
WASHINGTON–Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced nine amendments to the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendments aim to center human rights in trade, military, and foreign policy; respond to the brutal civil war in Sudan; hold governments that engage in transnational repression accountable; create flexibility to respond to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan; remediate environmental damage caused by the use of PFAS at overseas military bases; and remove offensive and antiquated language about Indigenous people from military usage.
WASHINGTON– Today, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Lou Correa (D-CA) introduced the Child Status Fairness and Modernization Act, a bill aimed at fixing a flaw in our immigration system that separates families. Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) are co-sponsors.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement on President Biden’s new immigration executive order that would drastically limit asylum by reducing the number of people who can legally seek asylum in our country.
The WPA Act would establish a fully-funded federal jobs program, targeted to support communities with exceptionally high unemployment rates. The program would be fully paid for by a 0.1% tax on Wall Street stock trades.
The jobs encompass a wide range of important community services, including infrastructure, child care, elder care, and health care. At $17 an hour minimum, these jobs provide a genuine opportunity for economic security in communities that need it most.
WASHINGTON, – As American taxpayers foot the $17 billion annual bill in direct federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry – while facing the increasingly frequent, dangerous, and costly effects of climate change – Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today reintroduced the End Polluter Welfare Act. First introduced by Sanders in 2012, this critical legislation closes tax loopholes, eliminates corporate handouts to the oil, gas, and coal industry, and would save American taxpayers up to $170 billion over the next 10 years.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement following the applications for arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli leadership for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: