Vice President JD Vance announced that the Department of Justice is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over possible immigration fraud.
During a press briefing, a reporter asked Vance if he anticipates “an indictment against her,” or an “indictment related to” immigration fraud.
Vance replied, “You read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn’t marry this person or that person. It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the laws. So we’re going to investigate it. We’re going to take a look at it. If we think that there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime, and that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”
Vance previously told podcaster Benny Johnson that the Trump administration believes “that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.”
Vance also claimed that Omar “has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somalian community” and suggested that conduct should also be subject to investigation. “I’m worried about the immigration,” Vance noted. “I’m also worried about: What did Ilhan Omar know about what was happening in the Somali-American community? And why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along?”
