Ilhan Omar Cursed Off Homan’s Criminal Probe but One Legal Clock On Her Citizenship Never Stops Running

On the Republican convention floor, Markwayne Mullin said flatly that Ilhan Omar married her brother.

Now Tom Homan has confirmed Homeland Security agents are running a criminal investigation into her.

Omar shrugged it off, but a case to strip her citizenship would face no deadline.

Homan Confirmed the Omar Investigation on Live Television

Homan went on Fox News' The Sunday Briefing and didn't dance around it.

"I'm confirming that [ICE] is, yeah, look, I said months ago that it's something that has been reported and needs to be looked at," Homan said.

"No one is above the law," he added. "We will let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation."

He wouldn't say what the probe covers or what agents have turned up.

Mullin had already gone further at the Republican Midterm Convention.

"We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States," Mullin said. "There may be more to this – the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity."

The man at the center of the marriage claim is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar wed in 2009 and who, according to Mullin, now lives in London.

"Something's going to happen," Mullin said.

Omar has denied the allegation for years, calling it "absolutely false and ridiculous," and her chief of staff dismissed it as a "ridiculous lie."

Asked whether DHS had contacted her, she said, "No, they have not."

Then she waved the whole thing away: "The right wing has always had this s— going, so I don't really worry about it."

That's a sitting member of Congress answering a federal criminal probe with a swear word.

The 2009 Marriage Is the Weaker Case

Immigration attorney Michael Wildes, a former federal prosecutor, told Fox News Digital a criminal marriage fraud case is a "very high bar."

The government, he said, would have to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt… that the defendant knowingly entered into a marriage with the primary purpose to evade immigration laws and get a benefit."

A conviction carries up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Wildes also flagged the statute of limitations as a hurdle for anything tied to 2009.

"I haven't seen anything that I think is worthy of a prosecution," he said.

On the wedding alone, he has a point.

That is exactly why the wedding isn't where the danger lies.

Omar's 2000 Citizenship Application Is the Real Target

Omar became a naturalized citizen in 2000.

As Fox News Digital laid out, any denaturalization case would turn on whether she lied to get that citizenship.

That is where Mullin's "whole family migration" line leads – back to the story her family told the government on the way in.

And on that question, there is no deadline.

"If you decided to break the law or lie on the information you gave the United States…there's no expiration to that," Mullin said. "If we can prove it that you shouldn't have been here in the first place, we'll deport you."

He's right about the law.

Civil denaturalization has no statute of limitations.

The government has to show citizenship was obtained through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation, and the Supreme Court in Maslenjak v. United States made clear in 2017 that the lie has to matter.

Homan called denaturalization "a very serious process," and it is – a federal judge, a full evidentiary case and a paper trail that has to hold up line by line.

In June 2025, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate ordered the Justice Department's Civil Division to "prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence."

Vice President JD Vance said in May that the Justice Department was looking at Omar.

Now Homan has put the word "criminal" on the record.

Omar built a national career lecturing America about its sins.

A criminal case over the 2009 wedding may be too late.

Mullin's warning reaches back to 2000, and no amount of swearing on camera changes what's on that paperwork.

Sources:

• Hannah Brennan and Peter D'Abrosca, "Could Trump revoke Ilhan Omar's citizenship for alleged brother marriage? Ex federal prosecutor breaks it down," Fox News, September 29, 2026.
• Hannah Brennan, "WATCH: Ilhan Omar denies feds have contacted her after border czar Homan confirms criminal investigation," Fox News, September 18, 2026.
• Virginia Grace McKinnon, "DHS Probes Ilhan Omar's Alleged Marriage Fraud Claims," The Daily Signal, September 14, 2026.
• Zach Laidlaw, "DHS secretary: Ilhan Omar married her brother, and consequences are coming," The Blaze, September 11, 2026.
• Greg Norman, "DOJ directs US attorneys to seek to revoke citizenship of naturalized Americans over crime," Fox News, July 1, 2025.