Vice President JD Vance alleges that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., committed immigration fraud.
“Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” he said when asked if Omar committed fraud by conservative activist and podcast host Benny Johnson on “The Benny Johnson Show.”
Omar is a founding member of “the squad,” a far-left progressive faction of the Democratic Party. She immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1995 and was naturalized in 2000.
Vance announced that the White House is now looking into what can be done to “get justice for the American people.”
Omar has been accused of fraud on multiple accounts since her first run for the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016. At the time, she called the claims “absurd and offensive,” in a statement to a Minnesota Fox affiliate.
If Omar were to be found guilty of immigration fraud, she could face removal from Congress and denaturalization, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Vance and Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, are investigating the Somali-born congresswoman, according to the vice president.
Vance told Johnson the investigation is asking questions like, “What are the legal remedies now that we know she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually build the case to actually get some justice for the American people?”
Fox News has previously reported that Republicans and Trump administration officials were looking into whether or not Omar lied about her last name on immigration documents.
The president recently tapped Vance to lead the White House’s new task force. “This is not just the theft of the American people’s money,” Vance said at the first anti-fraud task force meeting on Friday. “It is also the theft of critical services that the American people rely on.”
The congresswoman has not yet responded to the new claims from Vance but did appear at the “No Kings” protest in Minnesota this weekend.
“To me, America was a beacon of hope, a place where freedom wasn’t just a word but was a promise,” Omar said on stage Saturday at the largest No Kings protest in the country. “I arrived here when I was 12 years old. I could have never imagined the day would come when we were staring down this kind of creeping authoritarianism in the United States of America.”
Omar did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
Virginia Grace McKinnon is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Virginia Grace.
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Everthing about her is fradulent. The only truth is her Islamic belief and hatred for Israel and America.
Just immigration fraud?
What about all the other fraud on top of that starting with the “Quality Learing Center”
DEPORT THIS AMERICA-HATING ISLAMIC RADICAL!!!!
Will it happen? Will they deport this awful woman? I will believe it when I see it.
The longer the investigations go on, the bigger the web of lies & confusion get. She talks in circles without substance to confuse. Sounds like a marxist to me. She’s guilty as hell & she knows it. Get her & the entire somali gang out of our country! If things aren’t taken care of in a timely manner, they accumulate & nothing is done about the issues. I’m tired of paying & paying…giving & giving to low-lifes anymore. US citizens deserve justice & that would be deportation & permanent ban on ever coming back to our country.
It’s about time. If she wasn’t in Congress, she would have been convicted based on all the fraud. What about Waltz and the other leaders in Minnesota? When will all of them be investigated. If they are being investigated, what’s their status and when are they going to prison? Federal crimes should be tried in neutral federal court and when convicted, should go to federal prison. I hear Gitmo has some room for them.
I hope to see follow through. I’m tired of all politicians who proclaim that nobody is above the law and proceed to break as many laws as they wish believing they won’t face consequences.
Every vote she cast in Congress is null and void. That means any bill that passed or failed by one vote is also null and void.
They should both be deported .
Geez, somehow I think if I had married my brother and committed immigration fraud, the government wouldn’t have any trouble at all getting me deported. Why does a Somali get special treatment? If they KNOW she committed fraud, kick her back to Somali land and have done with it. In fact, while we’re at it let’s kick out all the folks involved in the billions of dollars of fraud that went on in her district. Are they saying the parents of the Learing Center children didn’t NOTICE their kids weren’t actually going to daycare? They didn’t get kickbacks for saying all 16 of their kids were autistic? How dumb can the government actually be?!?! Don’t answer— it’s too depressing.
How this woman got into office is beyond me. She needs to go, and the sooner the better!
Marrying her brother to help gain immigration status is fraud. She needs to be denaturalized and deported from the USA.
So what are you going to do about it JD?
Bye, Bye, Ilhan. Back to Somalia or Somaliland, your choice. You have failed America and its citizens. Get packin’,
This is interesting. The muslims marry cousins for sure but if she did marry her brother, she is in violation her ‘muslim religion’. I wonder if the muslims would stone her if she is found guilty and returned to Somalia, or whatever sh+thole country she came from. She must have been inbred and is retarded.
Deport her and her brother ASAP! They are enemies of this country and are doing all they can to destroy it along with all the other Muslim terrorists. These depraved illegal immigrants who have killed many of our citizens need to be rounded up and shipped back to whence they came. That is the number one reason I voted for President Trump. I only wish he could be in office another 4 years!!
While investigating Illhan Omar’s potential fraudlent US Citicenship Application, also explore if she was in any way involved in the massive MN Somalian Medicare frauds?
She is no good!!! Get her OUT a of our COUNTRY!!!! MAGA MAGA MAGA
She has hated this country ever since she arrived. I’m glad there is finally an investigation, but my cynical self says nothing will be done; she’s powerful and supported by obama’s minions everywhere in the country. How did se ever get to this point where hate-filled socialists/communists/marxists could be so blatantly aggressive and we sit back and do nothing??? When will we stand up to this TYRANNY?
Omar needs to be told the USA did not give her the “freedom” to commit fraud and steal other peoples money!
For anything to happen the investigation must finally come to an end, please, or keep investigating but must we have our noses rubbed into it?
It is about time Omar is investigated!! What took so long?
Lots of “talk” and little action. If this is the case, then make the case in court. Get on this now and put an end to this faker’s place in our government. Do it NOW! Do we have to listen to more rhetoric and remain frustrated by our elected leaders whose inaction is going to cost us our Nation? Seems so. What say you, Mr. Vance?
Fill nasty prison cells with her and her despicable, filthy Somali con-attist thieves OR DEPORT ALL of these vile parasites. NOW.
But tragically sad, NOTHING WILL BE DONE TO THESE DEGENERATES.
Follow the money, I believe state officers are getting kickbacks or else it would never have gone this far.Its called “money-laundering.
I would love to see some of the monies this woman has gotten over her time in office. It appears that fraud is a way of life for this group of immigrants. First Mn. then we hear of so many blue states with Somali citizens having this fraud situation. When will the deportation, and denaturalization start.Marrying her brother is just one of the reasons this congresswoman needs to be OUT of our country, and for sure out of congress.
Lets face it…she will never be brought to justice, and you’re correct she has no business being part of an important congress or any other elected officeBut sadly until the DOJ, DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT, ITS JUST BULLSHIT TALK!!!
The only thing true about this disgusting creature is that she is a mizlim and by use of her beliefs does anything against the US. She was never qualified to be in any part of the US government or be naturalized. It was and is illegal and she should be arrested and tried, found guilty and hung for treason.
Just more political theater BS.
Send her back to Somalia! She’s nothing but trouble to USA. A fraudster and liar
This reads like a soap opera, same characters, same accusations.
WALK THE TALK Congress!
She married her brother so he wouldn’t get Deported
She need to be arrested immediately face a trial, loos her citizenship and be deported after serving time in prison