A small East African territory has told the Trump administration it would willingly assist with the extradition of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar after Vice President JD Vance accused her of committing immigration fraud.
Responding to a clip of a Newsmax interview with Benny Johnson discussing Vance’s accusation against Omar, the semi-autonomous region wrote on X (Twitter): “Deportation? Please you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom. Extradition? Say the word…”
Johnson, a prominent MAGA influencer, interviewed Vance over the weekend and raised allegations of widespread fraud among the Somali community in Omar’s state – whipped up earlier this year by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley – before turning to the congresswoman herself.
“The president and the White House have been out saying that she married her brother, that there is immigration fraud going on here,” Johnson said. “These are deportable, denaturalization offences, can you give us an update on that?”
The vice president answered: “Yeah, so we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.
“And I talked to Stephen Miller about this, actually, recently, and we’re trying to look at what the remedies are.
“That’s the thing that we’re trying to figure out is what are the legal remedies now that we know that she’s committed immigration fraud – how do you go after her, how do you investigate her, how do you actually do the thing, how do you build a case necessary to get some justice for the American people?”
He continued: “There’s a related issue Benny, which is, she has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community. So do I know that Ilhan Omar was aware that the Quality Learning Center [in Minneapolis] was defrauding the American people?
“I’m not certain of it, but we at least need to investigate it because if people can commit wrongdoing without even the fear that they’re going to be found out, that’s a fundamental problem.”
Rep. Omar – who was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, but has been a U.S. citizen since 2000 – has long been targeted with smears about her past and remains a hate figure to Republicans, not least over her willingness to fight back and denounce President Donald Trump.
When the president attacked her at a rally in December, she hit back on X by saying, “Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.