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Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Somali-born Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar \u201cdefinitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America\u201d and added that the Trump administration is seeking to \u201cgo after her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vance, who is leading President Donald Trump\u2019s anti-fraud crackdown throughout the United States, was asked<\/a> about fraud allegations against Omar by conservative commentator Benny Johnson.<\/p>\n \u201cWe actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,\u201d Vance said. \u201cAnd I talked to [Trump adviser] Stephen Miller about this recently, we\u2019re trying to look at what the remedies are.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are the legal remedies now that we know she\u2019s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?\u201d Vance added.<\/p>\n As Trump zeroed in on investigating fraud in Minnesota in recent months, he brought up allegations that Omar married her brother to help him obtain a green card. Trump has also called for Omar to be \u201cthrown out of the country.\u201d People convicted of immigration fraud could be denaturalized and deported under U.S. law, and people can be convicted for fraudulently helping another person obtain naturalization.<\/p>\n Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1995 and became a U.S. citizen in 2000, when she was just 17 years old. Nine years later, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom some allege is her biological brother. Omar has been accused of marrying Elmi, who was a British citizen at the time, so he could obtain a green card. Omar and Elmi reportedly separated in 2011, just two years after their marriage, and officially divorced in 2017.<\/p>\n Elmi was Omar\u2019s second husband. She married Ahmed Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002, but never made the marriage legally valid. Omar said she split from Hirsi, the father of her three children, in 2008, just one year before she married Elmi. Omar and her first husband reconciled just months after separating from Elmi.<\/p>\n