Trump ‘border czar’ says Ilhan Omar could be ‘of course’ denaturalized and deported

Tom Homan, who serves as President Donald Trump's border czar, said on Fox News that Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, could face loss of her citizenship and removal from the country. Asked whether the inquiry might lead to that outcome, he answered "Of course," adding that evidence of lying during naturalization can trigger such a process, though it is slow and has been used before. Homan is the first senior administration figure to be named linking Omar to those steps since agents searched her Washington home on 12 October, according to The Guardian.

Homan hinted that investigators may be looking at other matters involving Omar but declined to elaborate, saying the FBI was the one to ask. The inquiry centers on whether she or her relatives broke rules in gaining citizenship, and it began only weeks before the midterms, when she is on the ballot. Her lawyers wrote that the Justice Department may be influencing an election and said nothing supports any claim she broke the law. They want her property returned. Omar, who was a child when her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, completed the paperwork, became a citizen in 2000 and denies allegations from Trump allies.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →