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Could Trump revoke Ilhan Omar’s citizenship for alleged brother marriage? Ex federal prosecutor breaks it down
The Trump administration’s recent effort to bring the law down on Rep. Ilhan Omar could go as far as seeking to strip the Minnesota congresswoman of her citizenship for alleged immigration fraud. But a criminal investigation is unlikely to yield results the president wants, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney, told Digital that investigators face a «very high bar» to build a case against Omar after White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is conducting a «criminal» investigation against the progressive squad member.
It all stems from claims that Omar married her brother to gain U.S. citizenship, which she has repeatedly denied.
President Donald Trump has a longstanding feud with Omar going back to when she was first elected in the middle of his first term, and quickly became one of his most vocal critics in Congress. Trump has repeatedly called for Omar to be sent back to Somalia because of her alleged fraudulent activity.
The Trump administration continues to ramp up efforts to denaturalize and deport individuals accused of immigration fraud. And Vice President JD Vance claimed earlier this year that the Department of Justice is investigating Omar for alleged fraud and immigration violations.
But questions remain over what a potential prosecution and denaturalization case against the Somali-born lawmaker would require.
Wildes said that investigators would need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Omar knowingly entered her marriage — to a man critics allege is her brother — for the sole purpose of evading U.S. immigration laws.
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«In order to establish a successful marriage fraud case, the government 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,» Wildes said.
Wildes noted that even if Omar and her husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, decided after getting married that their partnership could be a scheme for Elmi to fast pass America’s immigration process, this would not be considered marriage fraud in court.
He continued, «Those are very high bars and thresholds that they would have to surmount. The immigration benefit cannot be a byproduct, or secondary consideration. This is not deemed to be illegal.»
If evidence was presented to prove Omar and Elmi committed marriage fraud, the Minnesota Democrat could face up to five years in jail, a maximum fine of $250,000, or both.
Wildes also pointed out that there are statutes of limitation that could hinder a potential prosecution and make it more difficult to prosecute Omar for marriage fraud, as that marriage was in 2009. But there is still a pathway for Omar to be denaturalized, which Homan described as a «very serious process» while discussing the investigation into the congresswoman.
«The question is: Do they have it factually, and is it the right thing to do?» Wildes said.
«The question is whether or not inadvertences were made not purposefully and whether or not it’s over the top to then denaturalize somebody,» he said. «We’re talking about taking away a benefit and then banishing them from the United States.»
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For Omar to be denaturalized, the process would have to be related to allegations that she falsified information when obtaining her own citizenship in 2000. Omar claims she was granted automatic citizenship because she was a minor when her father was naturalized.
Congressional records state Omar became a citizen at age 17, but speculation that she was older at the time of her naturalization began after former Minnesota congressional candidate AJ Kern accused Omar’s birth year of being revised on the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library website.
This caused allegations to circulate on social media that she was not a minor at the time, which if ever proven true, could lead to her denaturalization. Even if her father lied in his citizenship paperwork, this could also potentially lead to Omar being stripped of her citizenship.
Wildes also explained that the government makes a «case-by-case» decision when it comes to pursuing denaturalization cases. He also pointed out the relevancy of an intentional lie as opposed to a mistake.
«If the government were to prosecute for document fraud, we would also want to know whether or not she was represented by counsel, and if there were simple mistakes on her application or inadvertences that may be deemed to be fraudulent,» Wildes said.
«Whether or not [these] things are truthful, hypothesized, or can be backed up in fact, will play heavily in that prosecution.»
Homan didn’t answer whether the federal government has evidence that Omar committed either marriage or immigration fraud, while also declining to go into detail into what particularly DHS is investigating Omar for.
Omar told Digital just last week that she has not been contacted by DHS or made aware of any ongoing investigation into her marriage or immigration status, saying she isn’t worried about it because «the right wing always had this s — going.»
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But Wildes said her being unaware that she is being investigated is not unusual and doesn’t invalidate Homan’s confirmation of a «criminal» investigation against her.
«The Congresswoman’s not being aware doesn’t change anything,» Wildes said. «There is no obligation for the government to show their hand and they’re going to want to make sure that they have a good prosecution and they don’t give anything up in the interim because of the politics that this presents as well.»
«I haven’t seen anything that I think is worthy of a prosecution,» Wildes said. «This is a member of Congress. It may not be your politics, but we have to also make sure that we engage in prosecutions properly and not frivolously. «
Neither Omar nor DHS responded to requests for comment.
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Trump takes border crackdown to deep-red state as shock Senate battle threatens GOP stronghold
EXCLUSIVE: WICHITA, KANSAS — President Donald Trump is expected to tout his immigration agenda in ruby-red Kansas on Monday, weeks after federal immigration agents made dozens of arrests in the southwestern portion of the state.
Trump is headed to the Sunflower State for a rally just outside of Wichita as a tighter-than-expected Senate race that could determine the balance of power in the upper chamber unfolds.
Digital has learned that Trump will lean into the policy positions that helped propel him and Republicans to power two years ago.
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«President Trump stopped the invasion of our country and delivered Americans the most secure border in American history,» White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Digital. «Under the President’s leadership, 3 million illegals have left the United States and zero illegals have been released at the border in seventeen months.»
«Meanwhile, radical Democrats want to go back to their extreme open border policies, abolish ICE, and grant amnesty to the illegal aliens they released into our communities,» she continued.
The Trump-led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have touted a string of arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants in the state over the last several months.
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According to the White House, among some of the «worst of the worst» who were arrested in the state by federal immigration officers include Omar Israel Hernandez of Mexico, convicted of first-degree murder, Jose Luis Rauda-Diaz of El Salvador, convicted of aggravated robbery and two counts of possession of a weapon, Oscar Sanchez-Corona of Mexico, who had previously been deported for drug offenses, damaging property, and driving under the influence, Greg Chukwuka Orji of Nigeria, convicted of dangerous drugs and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and Alberto Estrada of Mexico, convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and rape.
Trump’s rally comes as the race between Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton has cranked up in a state the president has won by double-digits in the last three presidential cycles and has given Republicans cause for concern in a state where voters haven’t elected a Democratic senator in nearly a century.
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan race ranker, downgraded the contest to a toss-up earlier this month and money from GOP and Democratic groups is flowing into the state.
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Marshall, who is vying for a second term, has run close to Trump, rarely breaking from him on key issues throughout this cycle. Hamilton, however, has run away from the Democratic establishment in Washington, D.C., and warned that if elected, he wouldn’t support Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for another term leading the caucus.
Trump’s appearance in the state also follows ICE’s three-day sweep in Southwest Kansas last month, dubbed «Operation Safe Community — Kansas,» where agents made over 100 arrests.
Marshall pushed back on the operation, demanding that «when ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement.»
«Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe,» Marshall said on X.
Meanwhile, Republicans have targeted Hamilton for his immigration stance, accusing him through ads run by outside groups, like the Senate Leadership Fund, of supporting mass amnesty.
Hamilton, however, pushed back on the Biden administration’s immigration policies and told the Johnson County Post that the previous administration’s open border policies «caused a different kind of chaos.»
«Record crossings overwhelmed communities, and the immigration courts fell years behind,» Hamilton said. «I’m not for open borders, and dangerous criminals don’t belong here.»
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OTTAWA: Residents of Alberta began voting Monday in a non-binding referendum that will determine whether the western-Canadian province should pursue separation from Canada.
The vote comes at a time when the province is mourning the deaths of four soldiers, while dozens of others were injured from a fast-moving fire that burned through a military base in Alberta.
While the results of a poll involving 1,021 respondents released by Abacus Data on Saturday showed that 74% of decided voters favor Alberta remaining within the Canadian Confederation, the independence issue won’t disappear for the nearly 30% who want Alberta’s government to begin the process to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada, according to veteran separatist organizer Cory Morgan, who leads a group called Pathway to Independence.
«It will say that about one in three Albertans have had it,» Morgan told Fox News Digital. «There is a big rift within Alberta and if things don’t change, it will be a growing faction in this province — so this vote is an important one.»
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Pro-separatist supporters during an Alberta Independence rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Diep/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
About 3 million Albertans are eligible to vote in the referendum.
Another recent Abacus poll found that 61% of the 1,021 eligible voters surveyed expect Albertans will vote again on separation, even if most choose to remain in Canada.
On Friday, the Angus Reid Institute released the results of its poll that found 62% of 1,010 Albertans surveyed believe «there will never be an end to the separatist movement» in the province.
Morgan, who led the short-lived Alberta Independence Party from 2000 to 2001, said that while «a vocal minority» within the separatist movement favor Alberta becoming the 51st state, most pro-independence Albertans «don’t want to become a small fish in an even bigger pond.» He added that «Albertans in general are not too thrilled with President Trump right now and that makes them less inclined to leave the federation.»
At a «Forever Canadian» rally on Friday in Edmonton, where he was raised, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a crowd of over 5,000 people that «this referendum comes at the worst possible time.» He said that «the world is becoming more dangerous and divided [and] some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us,» making an indirect reference to Trump’s trade war against and annexation talk about Canada.
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, during a Forever Canadian rally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. In Monday’s referendum, voters will be asked if they wish to remain in Canada or begin the legal process to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether Alberta should separate. (Allison Seto/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Alberta-born and raised, 55-year-old Morgan said that his home province is «politically and culturally different» than eastern Canada. «There’s a lot more focus on individual freedoms and property rights,» he noted, acknowledging that those values are traditionally viewed as American.
«Most Albertans are going to feel much more comfortable sitting down for a beer with people from Great Falls, Montana, than they would in Ottawa,» said Morgan. He explained that when Alberta became a Canadian province in 1905, its population grew largely from a migration of Montanans, and when oil was discovered in the 1940s, U.S. companies Chevron and Mobil helped develop what became Alberta’s biggest industry.
Also, earlier this year during an appearance on Real America’s Voice at Davos, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described Alberta as «a natural partner for the U.S.» and described Albertans as «very independent people.»
In response, Carney said that he «expect[ed] the U.S. administration to respect Canadian sovereignty.»
Earlier this month, The Globe and Mail reported that Alberta separatist leaders met with Republican strategists in Calgary in January to look at software designed to identify and mobilize supporters. Separatist leaders also reportedly suggested exchanging water and oil for U.S. support when they met with State Department officials in Washington last year.
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Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP), speaks during a press conference at the Alberta Legislature on May 6, 2025, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Premier Smith acknowledged that separation sentiment has long existed in Alberta and, while she doesn’t support it, said Albertans have a democratic right to express concerns and debate the province’s place in Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told CBC News that if most Albertans support staying in Canada, she would not hold another referendum on the matter as long as she heads the provincial government.
However, on Oct. 18, 2027, residents of the province will vote again in a general election, and Smith could be out of her job by then, warned Morgan, a founding member of the former conservative Wildrose Party, for which Smith served as leader.
That party merged with the then-Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta in 2020 to form the United Conservative Party (UCP) that Smith heads. But Morgan explained that more than half of the UCP’s nearly 55,000 members support Alberta’s independence. The premier has said that she will vote to keep the province in Canada.
Angus Reid, founder and chairman of the Angus Reid Institute, told Fox News Digital that in his firm’s recent polling, 67% of the 293 UCP voters who support a future binding referendum on separation said that they would either «definitely support» or «consider» supporting the creation of a separatist provincial political party – not unlike the Parti Québécois, which won the recent election in Quebec.
«Make Alberta Great Again» hats sit on display for sale in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. (Leah Hennel/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The emergence of an independence party in Alberta «would probably spell the death of the UCP since it is so badly divided between separatists and non-separatists, and it would likely end the career of Danielle Smith because of the amount of breakage in her party,» said Reid, whose firm’s survey found that 60% of the respondents who support a future binding referendum are «more likely sending a message to Ottawa» about the Canadian government’s often fractious relationship with Alberta.
«Separatist types are looking at how much leverage Quebec has been able to achieve in Canada as a result of its threats of exiting, and saying ‘Hold it, we can play that game too,’» explained Reid.
As of Saturday, more than 1.2 million Albertans had cast a ballot on the referendum, which, in addition to the question on separation, has nine others, five focusing on immigration, such as one asking voters whether their province should take more control «for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans first priority on new employment opportunities.»
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“Una consulta oportuna y rápida puede cambiar la historia de la enfermedad”, oncóloga guatemalteca recomienda ampliamente la prevención
La médico oncóloga Agatha Reyes recomendó conocer los factores de riesgo, realizar controles preventivos y consultar ante cambios en las mamas. También pidió no postergar la atención por miedo o inseguridad: “Una consulta oportuna y rápida puede cambiar la historia de la enfermedad”.
Factores de riesgo y medidas de prevención
Reyes señaló que la prevención comienza por conocer los factores de riesgo modificables y los que no pueden cambiarse.
Entre las medidas que las pacientes sí pueden adoptar, recomendó una alimentación adecuada, actividad física, evitar el alcohol y el tabaco, y no prolongar el uso de terapias hormonales.
La oncóloga explicó que los antecedentes genéticos no se pueden modificar. También incluyó en este grupo haber tenido la primera menstruación a los nueve o diez años y una menopausia tardía.
“Lo primero que diría es tratar de manejar o conocer los factores de riesgo de estas enfermedades”, sostuvo Reyes.
Controles, autoexamen y señales de alerta
—¿Cuándo deben iniciarse los controles preventivos?
—A partir de los cuarenta años debemos empezar a llevar un control preventivo de la enfermedad, con mamografía y ultrasonido.
—¿Por qué se recomiendan ambos estudios?
—Van de la mano porque hay lesiones que se llaman microcalcificaciones, que reflejan una enfermedad premaligna y se pueden identificar en una mamografía, pero no en un ultrasonido. En un ultrasonido podemos definir lesiones que en la mamografía no, entonces al final son complementarias.
—¿Qué ocurre si existen antecedentes familiares?
—Si tengo una familiar con antecedente de cáncer de mama. Mamá, hermana o abuela, tengo que identificar las edades en que ellas presentaron la enfermedad y, dependiendo de eso, empezar controles de manera más temprana.
—¿Cuándo conviene hacer la palpación mamaria?
—Después de siete días del ciclo menstrual. Es muy importante conocer nuestras mamas, ver en el espejo si no hay cambios en la piel, si no hay hundimientos y palparnos conforme a la orientación de las agujas del reloj.
—¿Cuáles son las señales de alerta?
—Engrosamiento en la piel, eritema, hundimiento en la mama, secreción del pezón y palpar una lesión. Todos esos son signos de alerta.
—¿El dolor es una señal suficiente?
—Muchas veces se puede ver una lesión sin necesidad de dolor. Ya cuando hay dolor, puede venir asociado a otras causas, a veces también causas infecciosas.
Recomendaciones tras el diagnóstico y durante el tratamiento
—¿Qué debe hacer una paciente cuando recibe un diagnóstico?
—Lo primero que les digo es que busquen un especialista en el área. Es muy importante que se sientan con confianza y tranquilas con el especialista que las vaya a tratar.
—¿Por qué es necesario seguir la orientación del especialista?
—Muchas veces están con el especialista, pero oyen a la amiga, a la prima y otras historias. Al final, cada historia y cada paciente es diferente.
—¿Qué recomendaciones da durante el tratamiento?
—Todo lo que coman debe ser cocido, hecho en casa y sin cáscara, porque las defensas bajan y puede haber infecciones.
—¿Qué lugar tiene la alimentación?
—En general, recomiendo una alimentación balanceada. Si tienen un tratamiento oncológico, es fundamental tener una nutricionista de la mano.
Cirugía, tratamientos y acompañamiento emocional
—¿Cuándo puede indicarse una cirugía?
—Lo ideal es identificar muy temprano una lesión muy pequeña y empezar con una cirugía. Esto también va a depender del subtipo y de qué tipo de enfermedad es: hormonal, luminal o triple negativo.
—¿La cirugía es necesaria en todos los casos?
—La cirugía es fundamental en el tratamiento. No se puede obviar.
—¿La quimioterapia y la radioterapia siempre son necesarias?
—La radioterapia depende del tipo de cirugía y de la etapa clínica en la que estamos. La quimioterapia también podría no ser necesaria, dependiendo de la etapa en que se diagnosticó.
—¿Qué apoyo se recomienda para una paciente que duda de continuar el tratamiento?
—Trabajo mucho al lado de especialistas de la salud mental, psicólogos y psiquiatras, con los cuales podemos dar apoyo emocional a los pacientes para que entiendan la importancia de los tratamientos.
—¿Qué necesita saber la paciente sobre su atención?
—Lo más importante es hablar el mismo idioma con el paciente para que tenga claro qué estamos haciendo y hacia dónde vamos.
Seguimiento médico y diagnóstico oportuno en Guatemala
Después del tratamiento, Reyes indicó que las pacientes deben mantener una vigilancia estricta durante diez años.
Durante los primeros dos años, recomendó controles cada tres meses. A partir del tercer año, las consultas pueden realizarse cada cuatro meses.
Luego del cuarto año, el seguimiento puede ser cada seis meses. Después de cinco años, puede pasar a ser anual.
La oncóloga aclaró que no existe un momento específico en el que pueda reaparecer la enfermedad. El riesgo cambia según el tipo de cáncer de mama, su agresividad y los riesgos de recurrencia.
Reyes explicó que existen cánceres de mama hormonales, HER2 y triple negativos. “Son diferentes enfermedades con un mismo nombre, que se llama cáncer de mama, pero se tratan diferente”.
En el Hospital Roosevelt, el cáncer de mama ocupa el primer lugar de incidencia entre los tipos de cáncer, según la especialista. También afirmó que los diagnósticos aparecen a edades cada vez más tempranas.
“La mayoría de los casos son localmente avanzados”, señaló. Añadió que disminuyeron los casos que se presentan inicialmente con enfermedad metastásica en otras partes del cuerpo y que empiezan a observarse diagnósticos más tempranos.
Para Reyes, una consulta rápida ante un cambio en las mamas puede modificar el curso de la enfermedad. “Estas enfermedades diagnosticadas a tiempo se curan”.
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