Trump border czar Tom Homan said investigators have a strong case against Rep. Ilhan Omar and that proven immigration fraud could trigger denaturalization and deportation, putting the Minnesota Democrat under formal citizenship scrutiny.
Homan made the remarks Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Big Weekend Show,” telling co-host Tomi Lahren that long-running allegations against Omar are under active review and that no one sits above the law.
Breitbart carried the exchange in which Homan refused to outrun the agents handling the file, yet left little doubt about the stakes if the evidence holds.
He said the probe is real, that he has been told the case is strong, and that any finding of a lie in the naturalization process opens a path the government has used before.
Lahren pressed him on the raid and the years of suspicions that preceded it. Homan answered without theatrics.
He said he flagged the allegations more than a year ago and that investigators are now working them.
“Well, look, I said over a year ago the allegations were made clear and it would be investigated. And they are investigating it. I’m not going to get ahead of, you know, the bureau or agency, but, you know, I’ve been told they have a strong case and we’ll let the evidence lead where it leads. But she’ll be held to the same standard you and I are held. If she violated law, then she will be held accountable. But I don’t have the specifics of the evidence they have line by line, but we’ll see where it leads. I think they’re doing a great investigation. I think they’re going to turn over every rock they’ve got with this.”
That is the baseline conservative voters expect: same rules for a member of Congress as for anyone else who filled out immigration papers.
When Lahren asked whether a proven fraud case could mean denaturalizing Omar and then deporting her, Homan did not hedge.
“Of course. If you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We’ve done it before, it’s a long, tedious process, but it’s been done before. I’ve been involved with those investigations before, and certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen.”
Denaturalization is not a press-conference stunt. It is a deliberate civil action that requires proof someone obtained citizenship by willful misrepresentation. Homan described it as slow and familiar work he has handled in prior cases.
Earlier coverage already confirmed an active federal criminal investigation into the same set of claims, so Saturday’s comments fit a pattern rather than a sudden pivot.
The Fox appearance did not occur in a vacuum. Just the News reported that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a Justice Department search warrant at Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence as part of a criminal fraud inquiry into her immigration paperwork.
That search focuses in part on whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied or left out material facts on his own citizenship application, a question that can reach a child’s later naturalization if the underlying record is tainted.
Past public allegations have also centered on Omar’s marriages, including claims she wed a relative to help him remain in the country and questions about overlapping timelines. She has denied those claims.
USCIS’s Operation Twin Shield has separately flagged more than 1,000 suspected fraud cases inside the Twin Cities Somali community, adding institutional context to why Minnesota immigration files remain under a microscope.
Omar’s office called the home search an abuse of power. Communications director Jacklyn Rogers labeled it an “outrageous” escalation and “weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.” Omar herself said she will not be silenced.
Those defenses are on the record. So is the warrant. A search authorized by the Justice Department is not a cable-news talking point; it is a court-supervised step in a criminal case.
Related reporting has also detailed how agents raided Omar’s home in a push that could ultimately test her citizenship status, underscoring why Homan’s denaturalization comments landed with force.
The New York Post previously reported Homan confirming that DHS and ICE are treating the matter as an ongoing criminal investigation through HSI.
In that earlier interview he stated that if someone committed an immigration violation or marriage fraud, “no one’s above the law,” member of Congress or not. He also said he knew “things are going on” and that reported allegations needed a hard look.
Public claims repeated by senior officials have included the allegation that Omar married her brother in an immigration scheme. Those claims remain unproven in open court records, and Omar denies them. Homan’s posture is process-first: let the evidence finish the sentence.
DHS leadership and Vice President JD Vance have voiced their own belief that immigration fraud occurred, while stressing that proof would open the door to denaturalization or removal. Belief is not a verdict. The investigation is the mechanism that turns allegation into charge or clears the file.
Readers tracking the paper trail have also seen how the DOJ has subpoenaed Omar’s relatives while agents dig through immigration paperwork, another sign the inquiry is wider than a single interview.
Homan’s description matches the known legal track. Citizenship obtained by willful false statements can be attacked in federal court. The government must prove the fraud. The process is slow on purpose. It has been completed in other cases.
No charging document, denaturalization complaint, or removal order appears in the material surrounding Homan’s Saturday remarks. He said plainly he does not have the evidence “line by line.” He also said the people who do have it are turning over every rock.
That gap matters. Conservative governance is not revenge theater. It is equal enforcement. If the file supports fraud, the same tedious tools used on ordinary applicants apply to a sitting member of the House. If the file does not, the case ends.
Legal observers have already walked through what prosecutors must prove to strip citizenship in a fraud probe, a reminder that headlines move faster than courtroom standards.
Minnesota voters sent Omar to Congress. They did not exempt her from the immigration oath she took. Taxpayers who followed the rules, and legal immigrants who told the truth on their forms, have a right to see elite defendants measured by the same statute book.
Homan’s message was simple. The bureau will finish its work. If the evidence shows a lie at naturalization, the denaturalization process exists for a reason, and deportation can follow. That is accountability, not spectacle.
Equal rules for powerful Democrats are not optional. They are the bare minimum of a serious country.
