Over the weekend, Rep. Ilhan Omar took her fiery rhetoric to a new extreme, telling a town hall audience in Tennessee that the U.S. government is essentially “disappearing” people and stashing them in “dungeons in foreign countries.” The astonishing accusation was made Saturday at Cane Ridge High School in Antioch, just outside of Nashville, where Omar appeared alongside radical Democrat state Rep. Justin Jones.
Speaking to a crowd estimated somewhere between 200 and 500 people, depending on who you ask, Omar sounded more like a conspiracy theorist than a member of Congress. “We’re seeing people be abducted and sent to dungeons in foreign countries and people disappearing with no accounting for where they’ve gone,” she declared, painting a dark, almost dystopian picture of American immigration enforcement.
“The reality is when they come for one of us, they’re eventually going to come for all of us,” she warned ominously.
Omar’s speech focused heavily on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which she described in shockingly aggressive terms. Organizers even posted a sign outside the venue stating, “ICE NOT PERMITTED ON THE PREMISES.” Inside, the congresswoman portrayed ICE not as a law enforcement agency, but as a malevolent force operating outside democratic norms.
This wasn’t just about policy—it was a full-throated moral indictment. “When they see these kinds of images coming out of America. To them it is really shocking and it should be to all of us as Americans,” Omar told the crowd, suggesting the world was recoiling in horror at images of ICE operations under the Trump administration.
The event itself was marked by two starkly different media portrayals. While the Nashville Tennessean sanitized the gathering as a neighborly forum promoting unity, the Daily Wire dug deeper and revealed the radical tone, the “no ICE” policy at the venue, and the inflammatory speeches that drew comparisons between federal law enforcement and historical tyrannies.
Rep. Justin Jones, Omar’s co-host, is no stranger to over-the-top comparisons himself. He’s previously referred to ICE as akin to the Ku Klux Klan and called their enforcement actions “kidnappings.” These claims, however, stand in sharp contrast to actual data from the very raids they criticize.
According to reports, nearly 196 people were arrested during recent ICE operations in the Nashville area. Of those, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending charges for serious crimes, including rape and drug trafficking. Another 31 had already been deported once before and returned illegally.
Omar and Jones made no mention of those facts during their town hall.
Beyond immigration, Omar took the opportunity to promote her usual progressive wishlist—universal healthcare, slashing the military budget, and banning ICE agents from wearing masks during enforcement. That last demand echoes a recent push from other Democrats, despite a 700% spike in attacks against ICE personnel this year alone.
Critics say Omar’s dangerous rhetoric doesn’t just misrepresent the facts—it endangers the very agents tasked with keeping the country secure. By framing lawful deportations as “abductions” and invoking imagery of medieval torture chambers, she fuels resentment and hysteria at a time when political discourse is already fraying.
The broader question remains: what’s more shocking—Omar’s outlandish claims or the growing acceptance of these radical narratives within the Democratic Party? With little pushback from the mainstream press and applause from activists on the ground, it seems the Squad’s war on border enforcement is just heating up. But for Americans who care about national sovereignty and the rule of law, the real dungeon may be the one built from media distortion and political deceit.