Republican Rep. Nancy Mace said the House Oversight Committee has moved to subpoena the immigration records of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, claiming the effort is aimed at examining potential immigration and marriage fraud.
Mace, who represents South Carolina and is running for governor, announced the move on X after verbally introducing the motion during an Oversight Committee hearing focused on benefit fraud in Minnesota. She alleged that Omar may have entered into a fraudulent marriage in order to evade US immigration laws, an accusation Omar has repeatedly denied in the past.
“Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation,” Mace wrote. She added that marrying a sibling is illegal in every US state and said lawmakers “intend to get to the bottom of it,” ending her post with a call to “denaturalize and deport Ilhan Omar.”
Omar has consistently rejected the allegations, previously calling them “disgusting lies,” and no charges have been brought against her. The proposed subpoena is expected to spark sharp political and legal debate as it moves through the committee process.