Incoming House Minority Whip Tom Emmer said that the Justice Department is finalizing a review of Rep. Ilhan Omars birth date.
Emmer told Newsmax the birth-date question is just one of four different things under federal scrutiny, and, pressed on an expulsion vote, said, I don't think we're going to need to. He claimed, once it's established that she was over the age of 18 when she claimed to be a minor, she's no longer a citizen of the United States, and when she's no longer a citizen, she's not entitled to serve in Congress.
Those conclusions are Emmers; the Justice Department has not announced a denaturalization case, Omar has denied the allegations, and she has not been charged.
A 2019 request by Omars congressional staff led the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library to change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982, a shift that would keep her a minor in 2000, when she says she received derivative citizenship through her fathers naturalization.
The Washington Post has reported a federal inquiry into possible false statements on immigration paperwork, including a search of her Washington residence; a Trump administration official told that paper, HSI was just looking at her file top to bottom. Omar won reelection last week with more than 76 percent of the vote and said critics would not find someone who was going to cower.
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