Ilhan Omar’s Guest at Trump’s State of the Union Arrested: What to Know

A guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D, Minn.) at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was arrested for standing during the speech to Congress.

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Omar posted on X Wednesday that her guest—Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen with disabilities who had a physical altercation with federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January—“stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time” and was “forcibly removed”...