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Trump administration seeks to strip Ilhan Omar of US citizenship: WSJ
Al Jazeera • • nation
Key Points:
- The Trump administration is investigating Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to potentially revoke her US citizenship and deport her, focusing on how she obtained citizenship after arriving as a Somali refugee, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- Authorities have issued over a dozen subpoenas, including to Omar's relatives, and recently raided her home, seizing her passport, phone, computers, and notebooks as part of an ongoing federal investigation.
- The inquiry centers on whether Omar or her late father misrepresented her age on immigration paperwork to acquire citizenship through her father rather than through a separate application process.
- Omar's office called the investigation baseless, and no lawsuit has been filed to revoke her citizenship; the investigation itself does not authorize deportation.
- The raid and investigation come weeks before the November midterm elections, with Omar seeking a fifth term, amid ongoing political attacks from Trump and his allies regarding her background and immigration status.
