Trump says Ilhan Omar could go to jail or be deported, calls her ‘a disgrace to our country’

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar might end up in jail, not only deported, as a federal investigation examines her citizenship. Asked in the Oval Office by Fox Business correspondent Edward Lawrence whether an age discrepancy could get her deported, Trump replied that she could, but that prison was also possible. He described the congresswoman as dishonest, said she hates the country, and stressed that this was his own opinion. He named no specific charge and offered no new evidence, according to Fox News.

The remarks followed a statement from border czar Tom Homan that Omar could lose her naturalization and be removed if investigators establish immigration fraud. Agents searched her Washington home on Oct. 12 and took her phone and other belongings. Omar has denied wrongdoing and calls the probe political persecution.

At issue is whether Omar or her father gave an incorrect birth year on immigration paperwork. The answer would determine whether she was still a minor in 2000, when her father became a U.S. citizen, which would have let her qualify through him, or was already 18 and had to apply on her own.

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