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Eric Berger

Ilhan Omar guest arrested for standing at Trump’s State of the Union address

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Aliya Rahman is removed from the House chamber as Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on Tuesday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

A guest of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was arrested by Capitol police during the State of the Union address.

Omar had invited Aliya Rahman, a US citizen and Minneapolis resident who in January was removed from her car and dragged by immigration agents in the city as part of the Trump administration’s increased efforts to arrest and deport alleged undocumented immigrants. The officers had been shouting at her to move.

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