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Trump’s Attack on Ilhan Omar Is Just the Beginning

The attempt to strip Omar of her citizenship is part of a much bigger push for the mass denaturalization of American immigrants.

Ilhan Omar speaks to MS Now about the raid on her home.

Last week, Representative Ilhan Omar’s Washington, DC, home was raided by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Omar has not been indicted or criminally charged, but the Trump administration has now said that it was investigating whether Omar had acquired her US citizenship through fraudulent means after arriving in the country as a 12-year-old from Somalia.

There are multiple allegations the DHS appears to be pursuing, one claiming that Omar’s father lied on her immigration paperwork to say she was 17 instead of 18, thus allowing for her to acquire citizenship through her own father’s naturalization. Another allegation apparently being investigated is one that has regularly percolated through the conservative media sphere for years: that Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is in fact her brother, and that she fraudulently sought to extend her own citizenship to him through incestuous means. The government has apparently acquired her DNA to pursue this, reportedly by having taken discarded garbage from her home (though the government has denied the account of this specific method).

The Wall Street Journal reported after the raid that the Trump administration was pursuing something that had never been attempted before against a member of Congress: denaturalization and removal from the United States. Tom Homan, Trump’s so-called “border czar,” then confirmed to Fox News that such extreme measures were on the table.

Denaturalization is in vogue right now. Deportation, detainments, visa revocations, and entry bans have all been part of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crusade. But there are simply not enough -citizens present in the United States, whether documented or undocumented, to fulfill the national cleansing that the government appears to be openly salivating after.

On New Year’s Eve in 2025, the DHS posted a picture of a peaceful, unnaturally spotless beach and a perfect blue sky, with the caption: “America After 100 Million Deportations. The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.” There are estimated to be roughly 15 million undocumented migrants present in the United States, 13 million green-card holders, and 3 million documented noncitizens on temporary visas. In a perfect Republican world, one where every undocumented and documented........

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