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Feds cite unnamed DNA to confirm denaturalizing a congresswoman already cleared by three probes.

“Border Czar Homan Confirms Trump Admin Is Looking to Denaturalize Ilhan Omar”, 19 October 2026 (Photo via Truthout — the original report)

As it ran on the front

An old presumption in American law — that government proves its case before it ruins someone's career — died this week, somewhere between a sealed grand jury room and a Fox Business studio.

A month before that, on September 15, Representative James Comer had asked the Trump administration to release its evidence so the House could decide whether to expel her. The administration did not release it.…

…(cont) By October 13, the silence had become its own campaign. Omar's own fundraising email that week called the investigation "baseless" and "partisan" and asked supporters for money to fight it. Two days later, her office called the reported plan to strip her citizenship "an authoritarian move to silence an opponent."

Former President Obama called the probe appalling, and the right answered him by reading back his own administration's Tea Party IRS file, the one his officials once swore under oath did not exist.

Then came Sunday, and three things arrived in order. Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed, on the record, that the administration is looking to denaturalize Omar. The New York Post reported, citing sources, that federal investigators have DNA evidence showing she married her brother in 2009 for a green card — a claim that lands, Truthout noted the same day, after previous inquiries into her citizenship found no evidence of fraud. Whether that is proof or malarkey will not be settled on a cable panel, but on Fox Business, Washington Examiner's Byron York settled it anyway: "Obviously, Ilhan Omar is in a ton of trouble."

The presumption is survived by the subpoenas, the sealed file, and a grand jury that has not yet spoken. It is preceded in death by the unnamed source, who always gets there first.

In lieu of flowers, wait for the indictment before you read the verdict.

“This is the same move every time: leak an anonymous tip, let a cable panel call it a verdict, and the actual case never has to show up in a courtroom. They've cleared her before — Truthout says so, today, in the same story — and the new thing this week is a DNA claim nobody's put in front of a judge. If this works on a sitting member of Congress, it works on anybody with a green card and the wrong last name.”
Sal
“Nobody's saying she's guilty here, the administration is just confirming they're looking into it — well, and the sourcing is DNA, which is, okay, pretty specific for a "looking into it" — but Comer just wants the evidence released so Congress can decide, that's oversight, that's not a lynch mob. Did I just use the word lynch mob? Strike that, forget I said that.”
Chip

Earlier in this story

The receipts

Omar fundraising off federal investigation DHS agents raided a sitting congresswoman's home Monday
The Hillmainstream§

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) released a fundraising email focused on the federal investigation for which agents raided her home on Monday. “Stand with Ilhan Omar,”

Jayapal Responds to Omar Raid With Reminder of $50,000 in Paper Bag for Trump Border Czar His border czar took a $50,000 bribe. His DOJ dropped it. Then his agents raided Omar's home.
Common Dreams§

Progressive US Rep. Pramila Jayapal this week not only joined a growing chorus outraged by President Donald Trump's "rogue" Department of Homeland Security agents raiding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, the Washington Democrat took it a step further. After putting out a nearly three-minute video decrying Trump's repeated attacks on her…

Ilhan Omar’s Office Slams Trump Deportation Plot as ‘Authoritarian Move to Silence an Opponent’ DHS raided Ilhan Omar's home to build a case for stripping her citizenship, WSJ reports
Common Dreams§

The office of Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed the Trump administration on Thursday over its reported plot to have the Minnesota Democrat stripped of her US citizenship. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the raid on Omar's home carried out earlier this week by Department of Homeland Security agents was part of and effort to…

Ilhan Omar’s phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal inquiry, source says Federal agents seized Omar's phone and subpoenaed her relatives weeks before her reelection, sources say
The Guardianmainstream§

Federal authorities issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas in inquiry into potential immigration fraud US politics live – latest updates Federal authorities investigating the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her…

· James Comer wants to see immigration fraud evidence on Ilhan Omar so Congress can decide on her expulsion from the morgue, 15 Sep 2026

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