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Denaturalization On The Rise: Could Ilhan Omar Be Next? – OpEd

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30.03.2026

When Donald Trump campaigned on illegal immigration, many people thought it would stop at deporting the illegals. But, wait, there’s more. The most recent step involves cracking down on those in the country “legally” but who may have committed crimes while becoming legal. Denaturalization has been a thing for a while, but it’s getting stricter rules, and more people are finding out the hard way that doing the crime may send them not only to jail, but also out of the US.

Omar Being Investigated

On Friday, March 27, Vice President JD Vance, told conservative commentator Benny Johnson that he thinks Ilhan Omar (D-MN) likely committed immigration fraud. “We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” he said. “And I talked to [Trump adviser] Stephen Miller about this recently, we’re trying to look at what the remedies are.”

Omar came to the US as a refugee in 1995. In 2000, at the age of 17, she became a citizen. In 2002, she married her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, but reportedly never made the marriage legally valid. The couple had three children together. They separated in 2008, and one year later she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen at the time, who some say is her biological brother. Two years later, they separated but didn’t officially divorce until 2017. Omar and Hirsi reconciled just months after she and Elmi separated.

“I’m worried about the immigration fraud,” Vance said. “I’m also worried about what did Ilhan Omar know about what was happening in the Somali community, and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along?” he added, referring to the massive childcare fraud in Minnesota.

Denaturalization on the Rise

On Thursday, March 26, the Justice Department secured the........

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