Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, may have finally pushed a few too many buttons in Washington, as a movement to denaturalize her and send her packing back to Somalia has gained some serious momentum this week after a GOP colleague began circulating a petition to see her deported.
The petition-gathering email was blasted out by Rep. Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, who said in the message, “America would be in a much better place” if the “Squad” member were stripped of naturalization and deported to her home country. Omar has called the U.S. her home since 1995, but she didn’t become a naturalized citizen until 2000.
In the email, Gill laid out what he had against her, which included accusations of teaching illegal migrants from Somalia how to avoid being captured by ICE.
“Friend, we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country. And frankly, America would be a much better place if she were to be sent back to Somalia,” Gill goes on to say in the email. She is “more loyal to illegal Somalians” than U.S. citizens or her oath of office, his email goes on, adding that she is “facilitating a full-scale invasion of our country” and suggesting she could be found guilty of “treason.”
On Feb. 4, a video popped up on the internet showing Omar an audience, in Arabic, to not cooperate with ICE if they were questioned.
“I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you. You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state you were advised by a lawyer not to answer questions. Disclosure of your name, immigration status and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you would prefer them not to know,” she said, according to a translation by the Daily Caller.
“America would be a better place if Ilhan Omar were deported back to Somalia,” Rep. Gill wrote in the email.
“Earlier this week, a Somali community organizer revealed that Minnesota’s Somali community was largely aware that Omar had married her biological brother in a bid to qualify him for student loans and live in the U.S. legally. The rumor had persisted for years and been denounced by Omar as a ‘racist’ and ‘Islamophobic’ lie perpetuated by political enemies,” Trending Party News reported.
“After divorcing her first husband in 2008, Omar married her brother Ahmed Elmi the following year, according to Abdihakim Osman, a former friend of the Squad congresswoman. He is the first person to come forward and confirm that it was Rep. Omar’s intention all along to get her brother papers to live in the U.S. Because of the lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, no paperwork of their sibling relationship is available, allowing her deception to fly under the radar for two decades,” the report explained.
“She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country,” Osman said to the Daily Mail during an interview.
Along comes 2017 and Omar slaps her bro with a divorce and then remarries her first husband. However, if you talk to Osman, he’ll say the two were together the whole time during Omar’s marriage to Elmi.
It’s sad and twisted to see this woman so hate this country that she would find all of these underhanded ways to benefit her family through breaking the law. That’s not American at all.
Gill later appeared on CNN to defend his position.
“I didn’t call for her to be deported, but I did say that America would be better off were she deported,” he clarified just several days after the petition-gathering email was sent out. “I think that there is a serious problem, particularly given after the past four years of open borders of Democrats facilitating the invasion of our country by illegal aliens. My colleague, Ilhan Omar, was advising illegal alien Somalis on how to evade ICE detection. That is as un-American as you can possibly get — it’s unbecoming of a congress person and I absolutely think that it is disgusting.”
Rep. Brandon Gill on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "American would be better off were she deported." pic.twitter.com/7xdaVms9W1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2025
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