James Comer wants to see immigration fraud evidence on Ilhan Omar so Congress can decide on her expulsion

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is calling for the release of the Trump administration’s alleged evidence against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), showing whether she violated U.S. immigration law by allegedly marrying her own brother, so that Congress can decide if she should be expelled from office.“I think they should make it public,” Comer said during an interview Monday night on Just the News, No Noise. “Absolutely, make it public. The evidence that I’ve seen would show that they would be privy to a lot more evidence than I would have.”Asked what he would like to see done if she were found to be either here illegitimately or subject to denaturalization, Comer suggested that Omar’s peers, her fellow members of Congress, “should be the judge and the jury” to weigh her possible expulsion. “Let us vote as to whether or not she needs to remain in Congress,” he said. “If you violated the laws to become a citizen, should that make you ineligible to be a member of Congress? I think so. But put it up for a vote in Congress and let the American people see how their member of Congress would vote on that.”Comer’s records demand comes after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and White House border czar Tom Homan indicated in recent media appearances that evidence exists to suggest Omar committed immigration fraud and that she is under federal investigation.Mullin said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security has evidence that Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2000, married her brother in an alleged immigration scheme.“We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States,” Mullin told conservative personality Benny Johnson on his podcast. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a field hearing on immigration Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) Mullin said that lying on an immigration application to secure admission into the country can warrant deportation, and there is no statute of limitations for launching removal proceedings on those grounds.The secretary also suggested that the investigation might find other deportable charges surrounding the resettlement of Omar’s family in the U.S. The Somali-born congresswoman’s family, who had secured asylum roughly three decades ago, entered the country in 1995 before resettling in Minneapolis.“There may be more to this, the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with,” Mullin said. “All of this we are investigating. … If we can prove it, that you shouldn’t have been here in the first place, we will deport you.”Homan confirmed in a Fox News interview Sunday that federal officials are looking into the immigration fraud allegations against Omar as part of an “ongoing criminal investigation.”“I know things are going on, but I can’t give specifics of what’s happening,” Homan said.“If someone committed an immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law,” Homan added. “So, I’ll leave it at that. We’ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.”Describing the denaturalization process for cases of proven immigration fraud, Homan said that if an applicant willfully misrepresented a material fact or provided false statements to the federal government for the purposes of obtaining U.S. citizenship, “we can absolutely denaturalize them. We’ve done it before many times over the last 40 years that I’ve been around.”Vice President JD Vance previously said that the Justice Department, which would be the prosecutorial agency to bring criminal fraud charges, was probing the immigration fraud claims involving Omar.“It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the law,” said Vance, the head of the White House’s anti-fraud task force.In March, Vance disclosed that he had spoken with White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller about launching legal action against Omar.“We think Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said at the time.Omar, originally a refugee from Somalia, is the youngest of seven siblings. She has repeatedly denied marrying her brother, dismissing the claims as “bigoted lies.”The allegations have not been substantiated in public records, although the Minnesota Star Tribune notes that Omar has left “many unanswered questions” about her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and refused to voluntarily turn over documentation or allow interviews with family members that could settle the controversy.Accusations that Omar and Elmi are brother and sister originated on a Somali discussion forum called SomaliSpot, but the posts containing the claims have since been deleted. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a news conference on Jan. 25, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) The suspicions were renewed when Minneapolis-based Somali blogger Abdihakim Osman, a self-described old friend of the couple, came forward to claim that Omar had introduced Elmi as her brother to Somali community members back in the late 2000s.“She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school,” Osman told the Daily Mail in 2020. “We all thought she was just getting papers together to allow him to stay in this country. Once she had the papers, they could apply for student loans.”DOJ MOVES TO STRIP FRAUDSTERS, SEX OFFENDERS, AND DRUG DEALERS OF US CITIZENSHIP IN ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ DENATURALIZATION SURGEMarriage fraud is a crime punishable by up to five years in federal prison, plus a $250,000 fine, for any “individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws.”The Washington Examiner contacted Omar’s office for comment.