A video of Ahmed went viral last week after she was detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two days and released without charges.
Ahmed addressed the
Minnesota State
Capitol press briefing room with bandages on her head on January 21.
'I got kidnapped by ICE,' she said, according to
CBS News.
Ahmed said she sustained a concussion at the hands of the agents who arrested her. She alleged the officers shoved her to the ground and called her a racial slur.
'I'm Somali, I'm proud to be Somali,' she said. 'To me, being Somali isn't just eating bananas with rice. It's very hard to describe what it means to be Somali and what it means to be American.
'It's kind of like a cultural fusion, like the bananas and rice.'