Border czar Tom Homan says Rep. Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized and deported if investigators prove immigration fraud, and he says agents already have a strong case.
White House border czar Tom Homan said Saturday that Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar will face the same rules as every other American if a federal probe finds she lied during the naturalization process.
Speaking on “The Big Weekend Show,” Homan made clear that denaturalization and deportation remain on the table when the evidence supports it. He tied the warning to an active investigation into claims that Omar or her father misstated her birth year on immigration paperwork.
Fox News reported that federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations raided Omar’s Washington, D.C., home early Monday morning and took her cellphone and other possessions. A source familiar with the operation described the seizure. Omar’s office did not immediately respond when contacted for comment.
Homan did not hedge on the core principle. If someone lies to become a citizen, the government has a path to undo it, and has used that path before.
He told the show:
"Of course, if you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We've done it before... And certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen."
He added that Omar will “be held to the same standards you and I are held [to]. If she violated the law, then she'll be held accountable.” That is the standard taxpayers expect when citizenship is on the line, not a special shield for members of Congress.
The probe centers on a simple but serious allegation. Omar’s father became a U.S. citizen in 2000. At the time she was believed to be 17, which would have let her gain citizenship automatically as a minor. Critics now allege she was actually 18 and would have had to qualify on her own. The family fled Somalia in the late 1990s, according to the background laid out in the reporting.
Those birth-year claims sit at the heart of the case now moving through federal channels, including the same immigration-fraud track covered when federal agents searched Omar’s D.C. home in the broader probe.
Homan said the allegations were flagged more than a year ago and that investigators have been on the case since. He declined to get ahead of Homeland Security Investigations or the FBI, but he left little doubt about the strength of what he has been told.
He said:
"I said over a year ago, the allegations were made clear, and it would be investigated, and they are investigating it."
And:
"I'm not going to get ahead of the bureau or HSI, but I've been told they have a strong case, and we'll let the evidence lead where it leads."
Asked about possible wrongdoing beyond immigration fraud, Homan pointed straight at the FBI. “That's a question for the FBI. I know things, but that's the question for FBI,” he said. He did not expand further on air.
The raid and phone seizure fit a wider pattern of federal action that also includes reports that agents seized Omar’s cellphone during the immigration-fraud operation. Possession of devices and records is how these cases are built, not press releases.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats have denounced the investigation as political persecution of one of President Donald Trump’s critics in the weeks before a critical election. That charge treats ordinary enforcement as a scandal. Homan’s answer was simpler: the law applies to her the same way it applies to everyone else.
Naturalization is not a participation trophy. Lying on the paperwork that creates a U.S. citizen is a direct attack on the integrity of the system that lawful immigrants and native-born citizens both rely on. Homan’s description of prior denaturalizations underlines the point, the remedy already exists and has been used.
Omar remains a sitting member of Congress from Minnesota while the probe continues. No charges were described as filed in the available reporting. The government has still moved far enough to search her D.C. residence and remove personal devices. That sequence is what an active fraud investigation looks like when officials decide the tips are serious enough to act on.
Separate reporting has also tracked related pressure points, including when Omar was removed from a Minneapolis ICE facility after the Trump administration enforced advance-notice rules, and later claims from DHS leadership that the scrutiny extends into alleged marriage fraud and deportation exposure.
Federal officials have likewise been described as pulling records tied to Omar’s alleged marriage fraud as criminal exposure questions mount. Homan kept his public comments focused on the immigration-fraud lane and the denaturalization process that follows proven lies.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been referenced in the same White House and department framing around the Omar investigation and anti-ICE rhetoric. Homan, for his part, stayed on the evidence and the statute rather than the politics.
For readers who want the blunt version: if the birth-year claim holds and investigators prove a material lie in the naturalization file, the border czar says the government can strip the citizenship and remove the person. He says he has been told the case is strong. He says he will not get ahead of HSI or the FBI. And he says no one gets a free pass.
That is how a serious country treats citizenship, as a legal status with rules, not a partisan shield. If the evidence is there, the process Homan described is exactly what should follow.