Ilhan Omar wipes away tears as she fronts Democratic bid to end Trump's travel ...

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar wiped away a tear on Wednesday as she issued a call to end President Donald Trump's travel ban, calling it an 'invisible wall' against Muslims. 

'I came to this country because I believed in the promise of liberty, equality, and justice,' said Omar, whose parents fled violence in her native Somalia and migrated to the United States. 'Trump may not have gotten his border wall but he made an invisible wall keeping out people around the world based solely on their religion.' 

Omar's emotional moment came when she joined other Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill in pushing a bill - the No Ban Act - that would repeal the president's travel ban. 

'When I ran for office I ran on the promise to end the president's hateful effort to ban a single religion from entering this country,' she said.  

'I have said this before and I will say it again: I believe this ban will go down as a moral stain on this country's history,' Omar, one of the first Muslim American women in Congress, added. 

Omar's plea to end the ban comes as she faces fire from Republicans over comments she made last month in which she described the September 11th terror attacks as 'some people did something.'

In a speech at a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar noted 'CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.'

Several Republicans pounced on her words after footage from the event made it on to social media.  

'First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as 'some people who did something.' Unbelievable,' said GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw in a tweet.