White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security has an “ongoing criminal investigation” involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Omar told Fox News Digital she has not heard from any federal agency about it.
“No, they have not,” Omar said when asked whether DHS had reached out to her regarding an investigation.
Homan made his comments on “The Sunday Briefing.” He declined to say whether the government has evidence that Omar committed immigration or naturalization fraud, an allegation that has circulated for months and prompted calls from critics for a formal probe. He also would not give specifics on what the investigation covers.
Asked directly whether he was confirming an investigation involving Omar, Homan said, “I’m confirming that ICE is, yeah — look, I said months ago that there’s something that’s been reported and needs to be looked at.”
Fox News Digital asked Omar about allegations that she married a man critics claim is her brother as part of a scheme to obtain U.S. citizenship. “The right wing has always had this s— going, so I don’t really worry about it,” she said.
Omar has repeatedly denied that claim and has also denied that any investigation into her has been opened by DHS or the Justice Department. No public evidence has been produced confirming an open investigation.
Earlier claims from Vance and Mullin
Vice President JD Vance said in May that the Justice Department was looking into allegations against Omar, both the marriage claim and fraud allegations tied to an amended financial disclosure form that showed a steep drop in her reported net worth.
Homan’s comments followed remarks from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who had suggested DHS was looking into Omar and raised the alleged marriage-based immigration scheme. “There may be more to this, the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with. … If we can prove it, that you shouldn’t have been here in the first place, we will deport you,” Mullin said on a podcast.
What denaturalization would require
Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Homan said there is a legal process for denaturalization in cases of proven immigration fraud, which he said has happened “many times.”
“Denaturalization is a process. It’s a very serious process, so if someone lies through that process to become a citizen, and we can prove they, in fact, lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them,” Homan said.
