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Updated · The Nation · Oct 27

Trump Administration Probes Ilhan Omar's Citizenship After DHS Raid on Her Washington Home

Updated

Updated · The Nation · Oct 27

Trump Administration Probes Ilhan Omar's Citizenship After DHS Raid on Her Washington Home

Q: If citizenship were revoked, what legal steps would come next before any removal could happen?

Revoking citizenship would not by itself allow immediate removal. The government would first need to win a denaturalization case in federal court, because only a judge can cancel naturalized citizenship. That could happen through a civil suit under the Immigration and Nationality Act or through a criminal conviction for unlawful procurement of citizenship, but either way the loss of citizenship must be ordered by a court. If denaturalization were ordered, Omar would generally revert to whatever immigration status she had before naturalization, if any. If that prior status was lawful permanent residence, the government would then have to decide whether there is a legal basis to take that status away or charge her as removable. If the earlier status was also found to have been obtained unlawfully, or if no valid status remained, that would strengthen the government’s case to proceed. Only after that would DHS begin removal proceedings by issuing a Notice to Appear and placing the case before an immigration judge. In that court process, the government would still have to prove removability under immigration law, and Omar could contest the charges and seek any available relief or protection. Any removal order could then be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals and reviewed in federal court. So even in the event of denaturalization, deportation would require multiple additional legal steps and would almost certainly be delayed by extensive litigation.

3 articles · Updated · The Nation · Oct 27

DHS agents raided Representative Ilhan Omar’s Washington home last week, and the Trump administration is now examining whether she obtained U.S. citizenship fraudulently despite no criminal charges.
The inquiry centers on two allegations: that Omar’s father misstated her age as 17 rather than 18 on immigration paperwork, and that her former husband was actually her brother.
The Wall Street Journal reported the administration is weighing an unprecedented bid to denaturalize and remove a sitting member of Congress, a possibility later confirmed by border czar Tom Homan.
The case lands amid a broader Trump push on immigration that has already included deportations, detentions, visa revocations and efforts to expand denaturalization beyond noncitizens.
If pursued, the Omar case would test whether the administration can use alleged immigration fraud to strip citizenship from a high-profile political opponent and potentially widen that strategy.