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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) is demanding answers from the Trump administration after she discovered that an undercover ICE agent was stationed outside of one of her town hall meetings, raising fears of intimidation by the agency just days before the state’s primary election.

Last Thursday, local law enforcement who were coordinating security for the event in Richfield, Minnesota, noticed that there was a woman parked outside of the building in a suspicious vehicle, as attendees were entering, Omar said on Friday. A police officer ran the plates for the vehicle and found out that the records didn’t match the vehicle, and asked her about why she was there.

The woman initially claimed to be a security officer, but Omar’s team said that she was not involved with their security for the event. It was then that she called her supervisor and admitted that she was an agent of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a law enforcement agency within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She left after speaking with her supervisor, Omar says.

The agent claimed that she was there as part of an undercover drug enforcement operation, though local law enforcement said they received no advance notice of such an operation from HSI. Omar raised doubts about this claim, saying that the event was clearly labelled with a........

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