In yet another bit of good news from the Trump Administration that came at the end of February, it was confirmed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is under investigation for immigration fraud and will, if found guilty of it, as appears to be a reasonable expectation, face denaturalization and even deportation as a result of it.
Such is what the Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the Civil Rights division of the DOJ, told podcaster and conservative media personality Benny Johnson on a broadcast of his podcast at the end of February, confirming that Ilhan is suspected of immigration fraud and will face the consequences.
Beginning that part of the conversation by pointing to Omar’s nasty behavior during the State of the Union address, Dhillon said, “See her contempt and right next to her, Rashida Tlaib, you know another person with an immigrant background. Look, Ilhan Omar has some legal issues regarding her citizenship. I’ll just leave it at that.”
Continuing, she added, “I think that they’ve been well covered in the press, but it’s shameful, and 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.”
Then, commenting more generally on the state of liberty in America, she said, “And 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 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.”
Commenting on the situation in California, she said, “At the same time that California has the lowest reading standards in the United States and has broken roads and has an open border and has, you know, there’s sewage issues and you name it, 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.”
Benny caught onto the issue regarding Omar and her citizenship woes, along with her potential deportation and denaturalization, saying, “Yeah, that was an interesting answer. Could you like elucidate at all for us on these citizenship issues? For Ilhan Omar, Will we ever see anything on that?”
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Describing what is going on, Dhillon said, “I think it’s been well covered, and I covered it certainly myself before I joined the DOJ. That certainly 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 the oh, that you weren’t a Nazi, you know, guard at a concentration camp, you can be denaturalized If you lie about your marriage status, that on which your citizenship depends, or or your familial status, or what have you, if you if you fake any of those documents, or you lie, that’s a grounds for denaturalization, and so I think it’s been credibly alleged that there are serious questions about the circumstances of the paperwork around that naturalization. I’ll just leave it at that.”
She added, “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.”
Watch her here: