Trump Calls for Omar’s Deportation After Renewed Accusations of Immigration Fraud

President Donald Trump is once again pushing one of the most controversial and unresolved allegations surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), arguing that the Somali-born lawmaker should be deported after allegedly marrying her brother to defraud U.S. immigration authorities. His comments surfaced during a Politico interview released Tuesday, where the President revisited questions that have lingered for years and that Omar has consistently refused to clarify.

“I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain,” Trump said in the interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, referencing Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Elmi — a man multiple reports and witnesses have identified as her biological brother.

The renewed scrutiny follows Omar’s criticism of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis, where federal agents have targeted illegal Somali nationals. Those enforcement actions came in the wake of a staggering $1 billion welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota, a portion of which investigators say was funneled to the Islamist terror organization al-Shabaab.

“All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country is a mess,” Trump said. “Let her go back, fix up her own country. So no, Somalia—and I was right about it.”
He also blasted Minnesota’s Democratic governor, stating, “They have an incompetent governor there, too.”

Omar has dismissed the allegations for years, labeling them “baseless and absurd” and framing them as Islamophobic attacks. But despite her denials, inconsistencies continue to shadow her public narrative.

A 2019 investigation by the Minneapolis Star Tribune identified irregularities in Omar’s marital history and immigration documentation that she never fully explained. Public records — along with reporting from the Daily Mail — show that Omar legally married Elmi in 2009 while still religiously married to her first husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. Though she claimed to have parted ways with Elmi in 2011, she did not formally divorce him until 2017 — during which time she and Hirsi welcomed a third child.

The complications deepened when Omar later separated from Hirsi again in 2019 following reports of her alleged affair with political consultant Tim Mynett, whom she eventually married.

In February 2020, the Daily Mail published testimony from Abdihakim Osman, a Somali community figure in Minneapolis, who claimed Omar openly admitted that Elmi was her brother and that the marriage was intended to secure his ability to stay in the United States.

Osman told the outlet, “No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later.”
He further described Elmi as “very feminine in the way he dressed,” and claimed that Omar concealed the marriage because “an imam would have refused to marry them if he knew they were related.”

Now, under the strengthened immigration enforcement posture of the Trump administration, former ICE Director and current Border Czar Tom Homan says the matter may finally receive official review.

Homan revealed on Newsmax that he has requested Omar’s immigration file.
“I asked the question: who reviewed the file and said there was no fraud involved? The fraud investigator I know personally, one of the best in Homeland Security Investigations, said there’s no doubt he reviewed the file,” Homan said. “So I’m running that down this week. We’ll see.”

President Trump amplified the issue again Tuesday night at a rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, where he called for Omar’s removal from Congress. “She married her brother, she lied to our country, and she should be thrown out,” he declared, prompting the crowd to erupt into chants of “Send her back!”

With renewed federal interest, longstanding unanswered questions, and political pressure escalating, the Omar controversy — once dismissed by Democrats and legacy media — may be entering a new phase under the Trump administration’s intensified focus on immigration integrity.