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Border czar Tom Homan confirmed what Washington has treated as a rumor for more than a decade: Homeland Security Investigations is conducting a criminal inquiry into US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over immigration and marriage fraud. Homan said he wouldn’t discuss an ongoing criminal investigation, but he confirmed ICE is looking into the matter and added that no one is above the law if marriage fraud or other immigration violations occurred.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had already gone further, stating that Omar married her brother to bring him into the United States and that the man now lives in London. Homan didn’t repeat that claim as proven fact. Instead, he described denaturalization as a very serious process the government has used when applicants lie on citizenship papers or misrepresent themselves.
The administration has already signaled a broader denaturalization effort to combat fraud in the immigration system.
Omar, born in corruption- and terrorist-infested Somalia, entered the United States as a refugee in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000 at age 17. In 2009, she married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Critics have long supposed—and with good reason—that Elmi is her biological brother. The couple separated in 2011 and divorced in 2017. Omar had previously entered a religious marriage with Ahmed Hirsi that was never legally recognized. She has called the brother allegation absurd, offensive, and bigoted. Public reporting hasn’t produced a court finding that settles the blood relationship issue.
That last sentence is the scandal.
Whether she married her brother isn’t a metaphysical puzzle. Marriage licenses, immigration petitions, birth records, family affidavits, and consular files exist. So do DNA tests. Governments collect the former when immigration is the issue and the latter in criminal cases. Courts examine them. A competent investigator can obtain them. Yet, the American people are told, year after year, that the answer is complicated and only because the subject sits in Congress.
This is the pattern, not the exception.
When the accused is an elected official or a high-level appointee to the Deep State apparatus. protected by the same political class that staffs the Justice Department, investigations become a multi-year holding pattern. Records sit. Witnesses age. Statutes of limitations expire and become talking points. The public is fed process language while nothing happens.
Consider the Russia collusion apparatus.
Documented intelligence-community actions during the Obama-Biden years have been laid out in inspector general reports, special counsel reviews, and subsequent declassifications. The sequence of targeting, leaking, and narrative construction aimed at destroying a political opponent is no longer hidden. Grand juries have been empaneled. Special counsels were appointed. Yet years have passed…and crickets chirp.
The public is constantly told the mountain of evidence requires a legion of Justice Department lawyers to assemble a case that can survive courtroom scrutiny. That excuse is unadulterated bullshit of the finest grade. If the underlying acts were crimes, the paper trail is already in government files. If they weren’t crimes, the country should have been told so in months, not election cycles.
COVID-19 was another crime against the American people, carried out on an industrial scale and then buried in process.
Anthony Fauci’s institute steered taxpayer money into coronavirus research tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He told Congress the National Institutes of Health had not funded gain-of-function work there. Declassified intelligence files later showed that he met with intelligence officials, pushed assessments away from a lab-origin conclusion, and saw a whistleblower complaint alleging he lied to Congress dismissed as “not urgent.” A top aide, David Morens, was later indicted for conspiracy and for destroying or concealing records.
Fauci received a preemptive pardon on the way out of the last administration, invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times when finally compelled to appear, and was held in contempt by a Senate panel. The Department of Justice is still “weighing” a case.
Lockdowns, school closures, mandate theater, and a suppressed debate over origins cost lives, livelihoods, and public trust. The emails, grant files, and testimony were sitting in government cabinets the entire time. Years later, the principal figure still has not faced a determination the public can recognize as justice.
The same machinery now pretends it needs years to determine whether a sitting member of Congress committed immigration fraud. Confirmation that things are “going on” is treated as progress. It isn’t. It’s the same dog-and-pony show the political class has run for a generation: announce an inquiry, refuse specifics, wait for the news cycle to move, and hope the public forgets that records either confirm or refute the allegation.
Americans are tired of promised accountability that dissolves into the nothingness of “process”. They watch ordinary people face immediate consequences for lesser paperwork errors while members of Congress and former “senior officials” receive infinite procedural courtesy. We hear from the same officials who treat delay as a strategy that “no one is above the law”, yet we know that’s a lie. These are the same mouthpieces who say denaturalization is a “solemn, rare tool” when applied to the powerless, and an unthinkable overreach when mentioned in connection with a member of the Squad.
The inaction isn’t incompetence. It’s protection. The Justice Department, career immigration attorneys, and congressional leadership have every incentive to stretch these cases until they die of old age. A quick determination—yes or no, charge or dismiss—would force a political reckoning. Endless ongoing-investigation language doesn’t.
The Declaration of Independence already answered the question of what happens when a government becomes oppressive or ceases to serve the people who created it. It’s the right of the people to alter or abolish it. That’s not a slogan. It is the founding mandate.
But even that right, if asserted, would almost certainly be buried in the same process the political class uses for everything else: hearings without findings, reviews without deadlines, and years of delay while the records sit in plain sight.
Washington still labors under the false illusion that the public will wait forever. But we know the records on Omar, like the records on the Trump Russia collusion conspiracy abuses, have been available the entire time.
The only missing piece has been the will to present them and act.
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