Border czar Tom Homan said Rep. Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized and deported if investigators prove immigration fraud, a move Democrats brand political persecution before a key election.
Fox News Digital reported that Homan delivered the warning on “The Big Weekend Show,” tying the outcome directly to whatever evidence the probe produces.
Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations already raided the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home early Monday morning and seized her cellphone and other possessions as part of the same inquiry.
The case centers on allegations that Omar or her father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork when the family fled Somalia in the late 1990s and sought U.S. citizenship.
Homan made plain that citizenship fraud carries real consequences. He said the government has stripped naturalization before and can do it again when the facts support it.
He told the hosts:
"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."
That standard, he argued, applies to a member of Congress the same way it applies to anyone else. 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,” Homan said.
He also reminded viewers he flagged the claims long before the current raid. “I said over a year ago, the allegations were made clear, and it would be investigated, and they are investigating it,” he said.
Omar’s father became a U.S. citizen in 2000. At the time she was believed to be 17, which would have let her qualify automatically as a minor.
Recent allegations say she was actually 18 and would have needed to complete the naturalization process on her own. That discrepancy is what investigators are examining.
A source familiar with the operation confirmed the pre-dawn search of Omar’s D.C. residence and the seizure of her phone and other items. Fox News Digital reached out to Omar’s office for comment and did not immediately hear back.
Coverage of the raid on Omar’s home has focused on how far the paperwork trail may go and what the seized devices could show.
Homan declined to get ahead of the FBI or Homeland Security Investigations. He still relayed what he has been told about the strength of the file.
“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,” he said.
Asked whether the inquiry reaches beyond immigration fraud, he pointed straight to the FBI. “That's a question for the FBI. I know things, but that's the question for FBI,” Homan said.
Separate reporting has also tracked how DHS leadership has described the probe after the searches.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats denounced the investigation as political persecution of one of President Donald Trump’s critics in the weeks before a critical election.
They framed the raid and the citizenship questions as targeting rather than routine enforcement. Homan’s answer was the opposite: the law is the law, and no officeholder gets a free pass.
Earlier accounts of the same immigration fraud investigation already showed Homan treating the allegations as a live criminal matter, not a talking point.
Federal agents searched the congresswoman’s D.C. home under that theory, and the phone seizure keeps the paper trail and communications trail in government hands while the case moves forward.
Readers following the federal search of Omar’s residence will note the same core claim: if the birth-year paperwork was false, the citizenship that followed can be challenged.
Homan left the final call to the evidence. He did not claim the case is closed. He did claim the process exists, has been used before, and will be used again if the facts require it.
Equal enforcement is not revenge. If the records show fraud, the badge and the title do not erase it.
