Ilhan Omar should be jailed, deported if citizenship fraud proven, Top House Republican says

Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the House majority whip and the chamber's third-ranking leader, says Representative Ilhan Omar should be imprisoned and then removed from the country if investigators prove she or her father lied on immigration paperwork to secure her citizenship. Emmer told Fox News Digital that rumors about Omar have circulated for years and that, if the claims hold up, she should lose her place and return to the back of the line for citizenship.

Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, is the subject of a federal inquiry into whether her birth year was misstated when her father became a citizen in 2000. She was believed to be 17, which made her automatically eligible alongside him as a minor. The new allegation is that she was actually 18 and needed to apply on her own. Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched her Washington home on Monday and took her phone and other belongings.

Omar called the search an effort to use law enforcement against political enemies. Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic leaders condemned it as weaponization, noting the timing before the Nov. 3 election. Emmer countered that a judge had found probable cause to issue the warrant.

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