Tom Homan, President Trump's Border Czar and former ICE acting director, confirmed on Fox News that Ilhan Omar is under investigation by ICE for potential deportation or denaturalization due to alleged marriage fraud. This follows claims from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that Omar married her brother to bring him into the U.S., a claim she denies. Homan stated that if proven true, Omar could face serious legal consequences regardless of her status as a congresswoman.
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President Donald Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan has confirmed that Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is being investigated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and that she could face deportation.
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Speaking with host Jacqui Heinrich on Fox News' The Sunday Briefing, Homan stated that Omar is indeed under investigation, confirming a comment made by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson last week.
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'I know things are going on, but I can't give specifics of what's happening.
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But we'll see,' Homan said on Sunday.
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Probed further by Heinrich if there was indeed 'an investigation into Congresswoman Omar,' Homan again responded in the affirmative.
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'I'm confirming that ICE is, yes, like I said months ago, that is something that's been reported and needs to be looked at,' Homan stated.
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Mullin claimed last week that Omar, who was born in Somalia, 'married her brother' and could be facing deportation.
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Homan noted in his Sunday interview that if 'someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congressman or not, no one's above the law.
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Homan was asked by Heinrich how Omar could be deported if she is a naturalized citizen, to which he responded with the following.
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'Look, you know, I've been around 40 years, and we've done denaturalized cases.
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We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying under applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe misrepresenting organizations they belong to or beliefs they have,' Homan said.
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Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich that he could see a scenario in which Ilhan Omar gets denaturalized, despite it being a 'serious process'
Omar (left) is pictured here with her second husband and 'brother' Elmi (right)
'But denaturalization is a process, it's a very serious process.
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So if someone lies through that process to becoming a citizen, and we can prove they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them.
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We've done it before, many times over the last 40 years I've been around so it's a process,' Homan added.
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'We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,' Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat last week.
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'We know he lives now in London,' he also told Johnson on his podcast.
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Mullin was referencing the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi.
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Representative Omar has denied any wrongdoing when it comes to allegations of immigration fraud
Omar has long denied that she married Elmi (pictured above)
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She allegedly was still married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, at the time of the second marriage, the congresswoman has told friends who relayed the account to the Daily Mail.
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Omar has long denied the allegations of marriage fraud.
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She has since remarried a third time and is presently wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.
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Mullin told Johnson that Omar's actions amounted to 'possible illegal activity' and the investigation is 'ongoing,' breaking a standard where officials typically do not discuss active investigations.
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'We're investigating,' he said before threatening to deport her should the investigation warrant such a dramatic action.
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'There's no expiration to that,' he said of the potential charges.
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'If we can prove it that, maybe you shouldn't have been here in the first place, we'll deport you.'
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Mullin appeared to be alluding to potential immigration documents being falsified, which would be a deportable offense.
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That plan could face difficulty given Omar became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, when she was 17.
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