Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital >> Is that an expert? Tuesday night, Ilhan Omar was removed from Congress and the fallout from this vote is only beginning.
A 218 to 211 party-line decision stripped her of her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The very body that influences military alliances, foreign aid, and your tax dollars sent overseas.
She was also caught on camera saying, “I took a terrorism class studying Al-Qaeda ideology.
” And 211 Democrats still backed her.
Look, that’s not a small number.
But here’s what nobody is telling you yet.
The consequences of this removal could trigger something far worse than the vote itself.
A chain reaction inside Washington that may directly hit your wallet, your borders, and your country’s security.
Who pushed for this? Who’s fighting back? And what happens next? Stay with me.
Donald Trump, the great liberator of women around the world.
You’re making a very important point.
And here’s a woman in Congress you served with, Ilhan Omar, responding to you on X saying, “I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I, Tlaib of course, don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us.
Please restrain
from drinking too much as you’ve been warned from your staff, stay off social media.
I don’t know what she’s talking about, but I pray in this holy month you find peace and respect for yourself.
Uh I think she had lashed out at the idea that the president move forward with this because as I understand there was intelligence saying there was a target of opportunity to take out the Iytol and other leaders.
She’s complaining that the attack came during Ramadan and Rashida Tlaib by the way is attacking both the United States and Israel, another member of the squad, and saying they shouldn’t have done this as if the US is a foreign country to her.
Could you unpack some of that? A sitting member of the United States Congress is at the center of a growing legal and political storm.
Her name is Ilhan Omar.
She’s a Democrat from Minnesota, born in Somalia, who became a naturalized American citizen.
The word naturalized matters here because the allegation, one that has circled for years and is now getting serious institutional traction, is that she allegedly committed fraud to obtain that citizenship.
The specific claim that she allegedly married her own biological brother on paper, not romantically, but as a legal transaction to game the immigration system.
That’s called immigration fraud.
It’s a federal crime.
And the legal consequence now being openly discussed by lawmakers and a senior Justice Department official is this.
If you commit fraud to obtain citizenship, the government can strip it away.
That process is called denaturalization.
For working families who played by the rules, for taxpayers funding a government that’s supposed to apply one standard to everyone, the idea that a sitting congresswoman may have cheated her way here and is now making laws for 330 million Americans is not a small allegation.
It demands a straight answer.
Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, is one of the loudest voices demanding exactly that.
She’s been hammering Omar publicly for months, but a recent interview captures exactly where she stands all in one exchange.
Mace is contrasting Omar’s public outrage over a US military strike on Iran with what she sees as a glaring and deliberate silence.
Well, I don’t give a damn if it’s Ramadan.
I don’t care if Muslims are fasting right now.
This was the right time with the right intel, the right president to go in there and do this, and he’ll have his chance to explain it or our secretaries to Congress.
And she was also responding because I I was complaining about that.
Where was she when Jews were slaughtered? Over 1,000 Jews were slaughtered in Israel by Hamas, by Palestinians on a Jewish holiday.
I don’t remember her complaining about that.
And when she said that very defamatory statement about me in the middle of the night >> By the way, what was she doing in the middle of the night? Um but I asked her what it was like to be married to your brother.
I mean, like she has no room to attack anyone on any issue, quite frankly.
And I’m ready to to denaturalize and deport her to Somalia.
Wow.
There you go.
You’ve said that before, and it sounds like you mean it.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace means what she says, says what she means.
That contrast Mace draws is direct, and it’s documented.
Omar went public criticizing the United States for striking Iran during Ramadan.
Mace’s response, over 1,000 Jewish civilians were slaughtered by Hamas on a Jewish holiday, and there was no comparable outrage from Omar.
That’s not a rhetorical trick.
It’s a factual comparison.
And the fact that Omar apparently lashed out at Mace in the middle of the night, making personal attacks, only handed Mace the opening.
Because Mace walked right through it.
>> To see her contempt and and right next to her Rashida Tlaib, you know, another person with an immigrant background.
Um look, Ilhan Omar has some legal issues regarding her citizenship.
I’ll just leave it at that.
Um I think that they’ve been well covered in the press.
But uh it’s shameful.
And I I am so happy to be an American and you know, people need to get out there and touch some grass in other countries and see what they go through to really appreciate how great we have it in this country.
But freedom isn’t free and every generation needs to fight for it.
And if we’re complacent about it, we will lose it.
And history has shown us that uh that civilizations that get fat and happy usually lose it.
And we’re so fat and happy that we’re handing out billions of dollars to scamsters in these blue states and not caring about it at the same time that California has the lowest reading standards in the United States and has uh broken roads and has an open border and has, you know, there’s sewage issues and you name it.
It’s it’s insane.
And so we cannot take this beautiful country for granted.
I will not as long as I draw breath, always be very proud to be an American and fight for what America means and why my parents brought me here to this country.
Denaturalize and deport her to Somalia.
Her exact words.
A sitting Republican congresswoman on the record calling for a colleague’s citizenship to be legally revoked and for that colleague to be removed from the country.
For years, that kind of statement would have been written off as political noise.
But something is different now.
Because the Justice Department has entered the conversation.
And when Harmeet Dhillon starts talking, people listen.
Dhillon is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
She is precise, methodical, and does not bluff.
Yeah, that was an interesting answer.
Could you like elucidate at all for us on the citizenship issues for Ilhan Omar? Will we ever see anything on that? I will I will tell you that I was very Sure.
I think I think it’s been well covered and I covered it certainly myself before I joined the DOJ that you know certainly it’s it’s it’s a it’s a truism of immigration law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining your citizenship, if you lie about being a uh the oh that you weren’t a Nazi uh you know guard at a concentration camp, you can be denaturalized.
If you
lie about um your marriage status that on which your citizenship depends or or your familiar status or what have you.
If you if you fake uh any of those documents or you lie, that’s a grounds for denaturalization.
And so I think it’s been you know credibly alleged that there are you know serious questions about the circumstances of the paperwork around that naturalization.
I’ll just leave it at that.
I’m not working on that issue.
That’s not part of what the Civil Rights Division does.
But I think we need to police that seriously.
It is a precious privilege to be granted citizenship as a naturalized citizen in this country.
And I don’t think it should be taken away lightly, but if it’s just a basic concept of law that if you commit fraud in the course of obtaining a benefit, you know, you’re not entitled to it.
She’s not speculating.
She is laying down the legal architecture.
Dylan says on the record that there are what she describes as serious questions about the paperwork surrounding Omar’s naturalization.
She isn’t declaring guilt.
She is saying the allegations have been credibly made.
And in immigration law, that distinction matters because the threshold to initiate a denaturalization review is not a criminal conviction.
It is documented fraud in the application process.
Lying about who you married.
Faking documents.
That’s the standard.
And she says those questions have been raised.
A basic concept of law.
That’s how she put it.
Fraud in obtaining a benefit means you’re not entitled to keep it.
And while she made clear this isn’t her division’s active caseload, the fact that a sitting DOJ official used those words in that sequence on camera is not nothing.
That’s a signal the legal door is open.
Now, here’s the document at the center of all of it.
The record that investigators, journalists, and Republican lawmakers have been pointing to for years.
He’s got incredibly heated when Nancy Mace demanded the immigration records of Ilhan Omar and her brother husband thing or whatever.
You’re going to want to watch this video.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate any matter at any time under House Rule 10.
And this particular the legislative thing this would inform would identify reforms regarding immigration fraud and denaturalization processes, um, potential criminal liability, things that we needed to address uh statutorily and legislatively, Mr.
Chairman.
Thank you.
Mr.
Garcia amended the Mace motion.
Does any other member seek recognition? >> to just comment on the motion.
>> Go ahead.
>> Then I can if I can comment >> uh Garcia then then Mace.
Go ahead.
I just want to just begin by saying um broadly speaking on the on on the initial motion, Congresswoman Omar is a proud member of this body and an American and as as American as any member of this body.
She’s a public servant and a fighter for her constituents and she represents the American dream and I know I and House Democrats are honored and proud to support her and to serve with her.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has endured horrific attacks her entire time in public office and we admire her courage.
My motion request documents on Cory Mills, a Republican from Florida, and I just want to note that this is not the best way of handling these types of issues.
And we are introducing this only because this this is being introduced on Representative Ilhan Omar.
And so we are forced to make this motion and this amendment to to Nancy Mace’s Representative Mace’s Nancy Mace’s motion.
And so with that, I conclude.
Gentleman yields back.
That marriage certificate the name listed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
The allegation denied by Omar, never fully resolved, is that he is her biological brother.
If that allegation is accurate, and if that marriage was used to obtain immigration benefits that factored into her naturalization, then every word Harmeet Dhillon said applies directly.
This has never been put to rest.
And despite years of public pressure, the immigration records that could settle it have never been fully produced.
That’s what drove Nancy Mace to the House Oversight Committee with a formal motion to subpoena those records.
When she got there, the room got heated fast, not just between parties, but inside the committee itself over what Congress has the authority to do.
The chair recognizes Miss Mace to speak on the Garcia amendment to her motion.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman, and I support Mr.
Representative Garcia’s amendment, and you beat me to it.
I was going to do this on the House Armed Services Committee, and I’m a little jealous that you beat me to it.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
It is the best sunshine.
And if there are individuals, I don’t care about party, I don’t care about affiliation.
This This needs to be getting to We need to get to the bottom of it and what’s going on.
And quite frankly, I don’t think someone that allegedly is doing arms deals should be sitting on the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House Armed Services Committee.
And if this is what gets to the bottom of what’s happening over there, uh I support it and I support the amendments and let’s do it.
Point of order, Mr.
Chairman.
Which which one do we want to Mr.
Lynch? Mr.
Chairman, if if I believe you’re correct in your assessment that that is not something within our jurisdiction.
That would mean that that motion would be out of order, not not subject to a vote and let’s do this anyway even though it’s not within our jurisdiction.
That that’s a jurisdiction of another committee and we normally and regularly refer matters that are not within our jurisdiction to other committees and that’s how that should be handled, sir.
That’s my my thought.
The the previous That moment with Garcia matters more than it looks on the surface.
He counters Mace’s motion with one targeting Republican Corey Mills.
Essentially saying, “If we’re doing this, we’re doing it equally.
” And Mace’s response, she supports it.
She says sunlight is the best disinfectant and she means it regardless of party.
That’s accountability without a carve out.
That’s exactly how oversight is supposed to work.
But then the debate shifts to something more fundamental, whether this committee even has the authority to go here.
Chairman of the I’m going to respond to Mr.
Lynch’s inquiry.
The previous chairwoman of the committee from New York, remind me.
Maloney.
She said the Oversight Committee has jurisdiction over anything and everything and I kind of tend to believe that, but now the Ethics Committee has primary jurisdiction.
There’s no question about that.
Now, do we have secondary jurisdiction? Possibly, probably, whatever.
I’m not Mr.
Chairman, under rule 10, we have the ability.
We have full oversight of the U.
S.
House of Representatives.
>> we can we can do pretty much what we want in this committee, but I’m just I just want to make it very clear so we don’t go start going down this road or this committee will just turn into you know, investigating other members, whoever’s in in control.
That’s what the Ethics Committee is set up to do.
And Mr.
>> And and I I and I’m I’m not Look, And if someone beat their wife and it was covered up, we should find out.
If someone married their brother to commit immigration fraud, we should find out.
That’s what this committee can do.
So, comment below.
I want to hear your thoughts.
Do you believe that we should finally, once and for all, see all of the immigration records having to do with Ilhan Omar and her brother? Comment below.
That exchange over jurisdiction cuts to the heart of it.
One member says, “This belongs to the Ethics Committee.
” The chairman pushes back, citing broad oversight authority under House Rule 10.
And then comes the line that strips away all the procedural noise.
“Someone married their brother to commit immigration fraud.
We should find out.
” That’s the whole fight in one sentence.
Parliamentary maneuvering, amendments, jurisdictional arguments, all of it is just scaffolding around that core question.
Did she lie to become a citizen? And has that lie been protected for years by a system that didn’t want to ask? The American people are owed a direct answer.
If the records are clean, produce them and close this chapter.
If they’re not, then every institution that looked away has its own accountability problem.
This country holds one standard, or it holds nothing.
That’s the story.
