Ilhan Omar should be jailed, deported if citizenship fraud proven, Top House Republican says

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Ilhan Omar should be jailed and deported if investigators prove that she or her father lied on immigration paperwork to secure her US citizenship. The allegations concern whether Omar was 17 or 18 when her father became a US citizen in 2000, a distinction that could affect whether she qualified for citizenship automatically as a minor.

Omar and other Democrats have described the investigation as political persecution, while Emmer said a judge-approved search warrant indicated probable cause for a federal crime. Federal agents recently searched Omar’s Washington home and took her phone and other items; the article reports that she has denied wrongdoing and called the action an attempt to intimidate her.