{"id":372216,"date":"2026-10-13T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:18:24","slug":"house-dem-pushes-bill-to-abolish-homeland-security-after-ilhan-omar-raid-nyc-ice-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372216\/","title":{"rendered":"House Dem pushes bill to abolish Homeland Security after Ilhan Omar raid, NYC ICE shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 A left-wing House Democrat wants to outright abolish the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> following Monday\u2019s dawn raid on \u201cSquad\u201d Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rep. Delia Ramirez\u2019s<\/a> \u201cReimagining Safety Act\u201d would also stop all immigration detentions in the US following last week\u2019s shooting of Oscar Belgal<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust this week, our communities were reminded that DHS is a weapon: pointed at a father shot in front of his 5-year-old and at Congresswoman Omar, who is using her voice to demand an end to fascism,\u201d Ramirez (D-Ill.) told the Intercept<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n

Rep. Delia Ramirez has proposed legislation to abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that now is the time to reimagine our safety, dismantle DHS, abolish ICE, and end the use of broad authorities to circumvent our rights and due process.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS was established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as part of a series of sweeping reforms aimed at making it easier to gather and share intelligence while streamlining Uncle Sam\u2019s domestic security operations.<\/p>\n

Throughout the 2026 midterm election cycle, Democrats in primaries across the country have called for abolishing ICE in response to the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement operations. <\/p>\n

On Monday, agents from DHS\u2019 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agency carried out a raid on Omar\u2019s home in DC as part of a years-long criminal probe into the Somalia-born congresswoman\u2019s immigration paperwork.<\/a><\/p>\n

Federal agents presented evidence to a DC court to obtain a search warrant for the sitting congresswoman\u2019s home, border czar Tom Homan told Fox News Monday, adding that a federal judge had signed off on the canvas.<\/p>\n

Omar has claimed that she is the victim of a politicized weaponization of the justice system. Republicans have long raised questions about her immigration history<\/a> and husband\u2019s net worth.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents carried out a raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The shooting of Oscar Belgal sparked protests in New York City. New York City Police Department via AP<\/p>\n

The Reimagining Safety Act would replace DHS with a newly rebranded Department of Community Safety to fund violence intervention initiatives and other public safety measures, according to The Intercept.<\/p>\n

Some DHS duties will be delegated to other departments and agencies, with the Justice Department taking over immigration enforcement, the Treasury Department handling customs enforcement, and the Department of Transportation managing the Coast Guard. It would also limit the ability of the Secretary of State to designate foreign terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has defended the administration\u2019s handling of Oscar Belgal. AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin<\/p>\n

\u201cDHS is not rogue,\u201d Ramirez added. \u201cFor 23 years, since its inception, DHS has been utilized by the government to target and persecute those they consider the public enemy \u2014 whether it is\u00a0Muslim-Americans, Haitians escaping violence, Latinos yearning for a better life, or dissenting voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramirez\u2019s bill is a longshot to get through the House and Senate, both of which are on recess until after the Nov. 3 midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A left-wing House Democrat wants to outright abolish the Department of Homeland Security following Monday\u2019s dawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[858,2132,2300,2035,12540,5350,9,24,55,54,56,87,7316,58],"class_list":["post-372216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-ice","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-illinois","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}