Executive Branch (Trump) Trump administration announces intention to strip U.S. citizenship from Rep. Ilhan Omar, deport her with criminal investigation
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4766604/ilhan-omar-investigation-citizenship-deport/3.9k
u/Significant-Kick-479 2d ago
This is one of the most
absurd and disgusting things that is coming out of this administration.
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u/namirasring 2d ago
…for now. Bear in mind we have two more years of this admin.
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u/SynAckPooPoo 2d ago
Mid terms are right around the corner…. You know there is gonna be some shenanigans.
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u/Jindabyne1 2d ago
It’ll all be better in November, that’s when GTA 6 comes out
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u/Fortestingporpoises 2d ago
Still shocking anyone thinks he’s gonna leave the White House regardless.
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u/Free_Cauliflower8251 2d ago
I used to worry about that, but now he's in such obvious poor health that I doubt he'll make it to the end of his term.
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u/dslamngu 2d ago
…so far
Violently besieging American cities and publicly executing a mom and a nurse was pretty bad too.
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u/fZAqSD 2d ago
I don't disagree but I feel like any list of bad things that can include bombs for genocide kind of has to include that
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u/One-Earth9294 2d ago
The klan hoods were changed in for red hats and nothing anyone can say will convince me otherwise.
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u/FlyLikeATachyon 2d ago
Nothing will top them calling Renee Good and Alex Pretty terrorists and trained assassins
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u/truckaxle 2d ago
Well if they are successful in stripping citizenship based on incorrect information then the same should apply to Melania. Can't wait until the Democrats deport Melania for all the false information that went into her application and the fact she was working illegally.
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u/Vyntarus 2d ago
And Musk. He should be stripped and deported and all assets seized.
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u/EnfantTerrible68 2d ago
It’s known that he committed immigration fraud
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u/_karamazov_ 2d ago
That flight attendant has more integrity and ethics than all the stepford partners of his.
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u/PermaDerpFace 2d ago
Starlink and SpaceX should be nationalized, Musk is a foreign adversary
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 2d ago
Starlink is probably filled with more spyware and bugs than a Qatari jumbo jet. Deorbit all that shit into the Pacific.
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u/coastkid2 2d ago
Musk and all his purchased inventions need to be relegated to the dust bin of history asap!
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u/leoyvr 2d ago
Considering it's Elon and his tech billionaire pals who put Trump and GOP into power, Elon is going nowhere. They are destroying the USA for a reason.
The richest men on earth, tech billionaires (ie Musk, Thiel) goal is to destroy this current global system of things and install boundary-less techno authoritarian states with mass surveillance run by corporations around the world. They don’t want democracy. This is what concentration of wealth looks like: a worldwide coup. Tech billionaires are the enemy of humankind.
Hear it from their own mouths.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
They use tactics of fear and anger to drum up votes and support. It's a very common practice of populism, fascism and dictators. This is how Trump got voted in.
They learned from Edward Bernays, psychologist to the dictators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5RSptFAiA
Edit: What's even scarier is that now Dominion Voting systems used to count ballots is now owned by a Republican.
https://abcnews.com/US/dominion-voting-systems-sold-company-run-former-republican/story?id=126378259
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u/Hrenklin 2d ago
Musk should be going to prison
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u/diurnal_emissions 2d ago
His treason deserves the apt punishment.
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u/Hrenklin 2d ago
He deserves to be banished from earth and forced to live the rest of the life on Mars
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u/Eviscerati 2d ago
There's a simple solution to that, and it rhymes with "Schmee O'Teen"
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u/Bookee2Shoes 2d ago
I never knew about Bernays, thanks for sharing. That guy was a fucking sociopath.
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u/BloodAwaits 2d ago
Another great source on the progressive implementation of techno-fascism is https://www.vcinfodocs.com/.
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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 2d ago
Please please please don’t strip musk. I do not want anyone to have to see that.
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u/Feeez_Shato 2d ago
The "weird dick" guy who can't have kids naturally - God was definiely in on the botched penis enlargement surgery. I expect the Pope to confirm that soon.
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u/WisdomCow 2d ago
I mean, he might want Melania deported at this point.
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u/stryker_cast 2d ago
I'm shocked she hasn't self-deported.
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u/jerfoo 2d ago
She doesn't like anything about Donald except for that sweet grift windfall.
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u/greenmachine11235 2d ago
And Musk, at least he's openly admitted to violating federal immigration laws while he was here on a visa.
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u/deaglebingo 2d ago edited 2d ago
it's not incorrect information. it's manufactured information, a crime in itself. maybe we can't get trump and mullen etc. right away but we can get the conspirators, the little guys who enable, pretty quick.
participate in their treasonous plan... win stupid prizes. period.
oh, and just to be clear we got most of the j6ers before, we'll get 'em again along with the rest. the part where they look around them and "wake up" is bearing down like an oil tanker. try not to get keel hauled.
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u/Uh_Lee_duh 2d ago
This is catnip. Re-prosecuting J6ers may run afoul of double-jeopardy protections. It certainly violates the pardon power of the president. If we ever reclaim control of our government we need to severely restrict the pardon power so it can't be used on a spree or corruptly.
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u/TequieroVerde 2d ago
Democrats would never deport Melania. This is why Republicans get away with everything.
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u/JustGotOffOfTheTrain 2d ago
Deporting Melania isn’t like deporting a Democratic congresswoman. If we want to deport someone go for Ted Cruz.
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u/NovarKalar 2d ago
It is kinda wild to me that people can apparently think citizenship should automatically go to someone born in another country just because one of their parents was a US citizen who lived in the US like a decade prior, while simultaneously thinking citizenship shouldn't go to someone born in the US if their parents are still going through the immigration process while living on American soil.
Is consistency from the lunatics too much to ask?
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u/Oceanbreeze871 2d ago
And her kid and parents
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u/truckaxle 2d ago
The kid was born here so he is covered under brithright.
But Melania is no genius. She doesn't speak 5 languages, she doesn't have a degree - let alone an architect degree and bet there is more BS in the application if looked at closely.
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u/ItsTheEndOfDays 2d ago
I was afraid this was going to be their next step. I’d love to hear what the legal experts think as far as how to stop the administration from doing it.
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u/geekmasterflash 2d ago
She'll have some of the best lawyers money can buy, but given how much authority the executive branch holds over immigration enforcement, I wouldn't dismiss the threat.
The important distinction is that denaturalization has to go through federal court, not an immigration judge. The DOJ would first have to establish legal grounds to revoke her citizenship, which carries a very high burden of proof.
If they somehow succeeded, removal proceedings would generally come afterward, before immigration judges who are part of the DOJ rather than the independent federal judiciary.
So the administration can't simply revoke her citizenship by decree. But it can use its considerable investigative and prosecutorial powers to pursue her, and the legal process itself can become a means of political intimidation, even if the case ultimately fails.
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u/oxxcccxxo 2d ago
Reminds me of their efforts to use military law to prosecute (persecute) Mark Kelly for saying military service members took an oath to uphold the constitution.
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u/ThellraAK 2d ago
Did we ever find out what happened there?
Last I heard they were messing with his retirement pay.
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor 2d ago
That feels like so long ago. They’ve also Been pursuing Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board for what feels like forever.
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u/NovarKalar 2d ago
Slight correction: If they somehow succeeded then she could presumably immediately apply for citizenship again, as she easily meets all the requirements. Being denaturalized would simply return her immigration status back to what it was before, which technically would leave her as a legal permanent resident with over 5 years of continuous residence.
This story is particularly stupid, because she had already been here for 5 years before she became a citizen, so lying about her age wouldn't have even been necessary.
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u/-Gramsci- 2d ago
Ah. This is facts I didn’t know.
So IF it is true her father lied about her age (so she could accompany him as a minor)..
That was merely a visa?
Then she naturalized, on her own volition, as an adult some years later?
If this is the case… then yeah. I can’t see why her father lying about her age would have changed her naturalization application.
Could it?
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u/NovarKalar 2d ago
Her father and her came here as refugees when she was 12 (in 1995) and both gained Legal Permanent Resident status. They both became citizens 5 years later when she was 17 (in 2000), as is normal. Whether she was 17 or 18 really only matters for the citizenship paperwork. Either way she would've been just as eligible for citizenship as her father was, even if she *had* been 18, since she had been here for just as long.
So this whole "investigation" thing is incredibly stupid and ridiculous.
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u/BigHeadedBiologist 2d ago
17/18 - who knows? A lot of Somali immigrants do not know their birth date as well since their country is an anarchy. A ton of Somali have assigned birthdates of 01/01
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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 2d ago
What are the chances they just swoop her up and litigate the fallout in court?
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u/geekmasterflash 2d ago
Not zero, but forcibly detaining and deporting a sitting member of Congress without due process would escalate into a constitutional crisis very quickly.
You'd be looking at emergency injunctions, expedited appeals, potentially emergency intervention by the Supreme Court, and an extraordinary confrontation between the executive and judicial branches. There would also be the small matter of effectively disenfranchising her constituents.
That said, never forget TACO. Trump has a habit of making extraordinary threats and then backing down when confronted with the consequences. He's also remarkably inconsistent about which threats he actually follows through on.
The danger isn't necessarily that he'll carry out every threat. It's that eventually he'll follow through on one that the constitutional system cannot absorb without a serious crisis.
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 2d ago
Another constitutional crisis, you mean
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u/geekmasterflash 2d ago
Indeed, though I am sure someone will tell us that "uhm acktually' the Supreme Court hasn't just rubber stamped that we have a dictator.
But at least this one will require the minority party to actively do all they can to defend.
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 2d ago
Yeah. I don't know what it's going to take to wake the country up to the fact that Trump is a traitor, since January 6th somehow wasn't enough, but abducting a sitting member of Congress might do it.
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u/dkinmn 2d ago
Every single television news program should have started with a minute long reminder about January 6th starting on January 7th and ending never. It's fucking insane how inconsequential the event and the subsequent pardons are in the popular discourse.
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u/canyabalieveit 2d ago
Some time ago, in the not-so-distant past, I would have agreed with this. But the folks in charge, including the purported highest court in these here lands, have shown a complete willingness to ignore or reinterpret the laws of this country, to suit the needs/wants of the so called leaders. Sad to see, really!
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u/me_myself_ai 2d ago
When you look closer, they spurn laws in specific ways. "Randomly moving a high-profile case to immigration court from actual court" is not one of those ways.
Trump sucks, but responding to legal analysis with "they're powerful tho" isn't helpful. I know you mean well, of course :)
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u/Big_Knife_SK 2d ago
This is the same administration that flew plane loads full of people to a foreign country in direct violation of a court order and faced zero repercussions. Those waters have already been tested. They don't respect the courts and won't wait for due process.
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u/WilsonIsNext 2d ago
In addition to throwing out the DOJ 60-day rule for elections.
The statute of limitations for any claim against her naturalization have expired.
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u/harpers25 2d ago
There is no statute of limitations for civil denaturalization.
While both paths result in revocation of naturalization, a civil revocation may occur at any point after an individual naturalizes as there is no statute of limitations.[23] There is a 10-year statute of limitations for criminal denaturalization.[24] However, criminal denaturalization cases that have passed the 10-year statute of limitations may be referred for civil denaturalization.
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 2d ago
Good to know that Musk can be denaturalized
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u/Neither_Topic_181 2d ago
This is the administration's MO - the legal process is the punishment and they are spending tax dollars to do it. And when they have to pay the defendant's lawyer's fees (which is the only other disincentive), it also comes from our tax dollars.
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u/trampolinebears 2d ago
The Minnesota government needs to respond. This is not just an attack on Omar, this is an attack on Minnesota's congressional delegation.
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u/akobie 2d ago
Are we at revolutionary level of outrage yet? Bread line level of outrage? Is anyone in power doing anything obvious to stop it all? Idk. I am a lawyer and i started to lose hope when due process went under attack. Im also not in politics or an immigration attorney but i think we can all see its pretty fucked.
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u/JellyTwank 2d ago
I suspect that this level of outrage has been waiting and hoping that the mid-term elections will recapture Congress and then impeach and convict this SOB and his sycophant traitor enablers, peacefully. If he and Musk manage to steal the elections, I think we will finally see that outrage express itself as a real majority will have been disenfranchised and will be unable to accept another 2 long years of this fascist shitshow.
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u/birkenstockpot 2d ago
I think it'll only get to bread line level when people are literally standing in bread lines. Unfortunately.
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u/BaldursFence3800 2d ago
“It’s a real legal grey area”. -legal “experts” on anything Trump does but they take 10 minutes to say it.
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u/FaithlessnessThin359 2d ago
Do legal experts even matter at this point? I feel like it’s been years of them saying that such and such is impossible and then trump just does it and nothing stops him.
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u/Vyntarus 2d ago
So they're alleging she was actually 18 years old but her father submitted paperwork saying she was 17 so she would be covered with his application.
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u/Knoebi3 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yup. Sounds like another illogical waste of tax payer dollars, just like all the rest of his failed witch hunts. I hope this shit gets thrown out of a court fast.
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u/Cferra 2d ago
Democrats should then in turn move to strip Elon from his citizenship status since he also immigrated to this country illegally via a student visa from Canada thanks to his mother.
Happy cake day!
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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 2d ago
Her father became a naturalized citizen and Omar was 17 when she became a citizen because her father was. Nothing this corrupt administration is attempting will stand up in court.
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u/Obversa 2d ago
TIME Magazine: "Can Trump strip Ilhan Omar of her U.S. citizenship? Here's how the process works."
However, this section is particularly distasteful to read: "Last month, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the investigation into Ilhan Omar was 'ongoing', and dismissed efforts to frame the case as political retribution. 'If we actually move a case forward, it's not a political case. It's actually a [legitimate] case, because they did things wrong,' Mullin said during the interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson."
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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 2d ago
'Mullin said' and 'right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson'. LOL. First time it hits a courtroom the attempt will be killed. As for the warrant being approved, when has this DOJ NOT LIED to obtain a warrant for their political prosecutions?
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u/MC_chrome 2d ago
Can we have a judge sign arrest warrants for Mullin and any of the morons perpetuating this farce?
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u/Free_Cauliflower8251 2d ago
Steven Miller should be ahead of Mullin in the prison conga line, but yes.
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u/libananahammock 2d ago
I can’t believe this dude’s name is actually Markwayne
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u/engco431 2d ago
I still hear it in my head like it’s part of a Key & Peele skit with Mr Garvey.
Mar-kway-nay! Where’s Mar-kway-nay???
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u/morkman100 2d ago
I guess Markwayne agrees that the NY state prosecution of Trump was not political retribution since they moved a case forward. 🤷♂️
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u/Azel_Lupie 2d ago
And unlike the cases Markwayne Mullin has brought, Trump was found guilty for all of these crimes.
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u/Moonpaw 2d ago
That won’t stop them from illegally deporting her if they get the chance. There is literally no such thing as “too low” for these pricks to try. I really hope Omar has good bodyguards. She’s one of the best politicians we’ve got in MN
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u/Zeph-Shoir 2d ago
Nothing this corrupt administration is attempting will stand up in court.
Honest question. How much of what they have done since 2016 has stood up in court?
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u/MagicGrit 2d ago
I have a feeling their goal isn’t REALLY to strip her citizenship and deport her. Don’t get me wrong, they’d love to if they can/if it would work. But they just want to tie her up with an expensive legal battle during the election season. They want stupid fucking Republican voters to see this and be like “oh my god them illegals are infiltrating our country we have to vote!!!”
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u/OuiselCat 2d ago
I think they really enjoy seeing how far they can push boundaries because so far they’ve seen there are no consequences. I absolutely think they WILL try and deport her because if they’re successful stripping citizenship from and deporting a sitting member of Congress, then no one else is off the table. I assure you the next step after going after any other naturalized citizens they deem unworthy, will be stripping citizenship from birthright citizens
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u/fungi_at_parties 2d ago
Watch them just stick her on a plane in the middle of the night against a judges orders like they did with the people they sent to the El Salvadoran forever gulag. I wouldn’t put it past them.
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u/OuiselCat 2d ago
Thats exactly what I'm afraid of. They've shown that laws and judicial orders mean nothing. And have shredded all semblance of anything that can be considered a viable social contract
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u/Grouchy_Discussion42 2d ago
For those not paying attention/in denial, DHS posted this to their official xhitter page a while back:
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298?lang=en
"The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world."
"America After 100 Million Deportations"
Remind me again the current population of the US? (~349M)
And how many are here "illegally"? (~14M)
Who makes up that remaining ~86M?
Probably the people old Whiskey Leaks wrote about being the enemy from within in his book "American Crusade":
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5845047
TLDR: not white, straight, and his particular brand of Christian which has real thought leaders with revelations like:
"Women are the kind of people that people come out of." https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-5497226/women-pastor-pete-hegseth-vote
and
"So if you refuse the protection of good men, then I'm saying you're the one asking for it. I'm pleading with you to stop asking for it.":
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5822558/pastor-doug-wilson-interview-pete-hegseth
I wasn't alive for the Crusades but I heard it was a pretty bad time for the groups involved...
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u/Omatzus 2d ago
They want to fuck with the election, and gin up support for Michelle Tafoya
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 2d ago
It's Obama's birth certificate all over again. These guys don't ever have new ideas...and unfortunately we haven't gotten smart enough to stop the same tired ideas from working.
They're throwing the ball and we just keep letting it smack us in the face without even bothering to raise our hands.
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u/Fantastic-Watch8177 2d ago
The best way to settle this bullshit is for Dems to win the House and Senate. Donate and vote!
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u/BrownLabJane 2d ago
Just meat for their drooling base because they have no ideas, can’t govern, and don’t care to govern when they’re too busy looting the place.
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u/CandyStomp 2d ago
Right, they will benefit from all of us talking about it. They will do anything to get the racists in their base energized about "enemies" everywhere, people who haven't heard them or change their lives at all but "could" and ,"want to". They need their base filled with equal parts fear and rage and ONLY discussing Muslims and deportation. Fear is their only hope
They need their base to stop thinking about what's happening to their lives and families. They need them to vote against themselves, out of those chaotic feelings, and unite behind hate.
Otherwise, they will vote (or not vote) based on the merits of the current Republican policy, wars, and our economic tailspin. They need for them to focus on causing pain to those they hate to get them to vote the way they want.
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u/UglyMcFugly 2d ago
And since trump has been continuously screeching that every single legitimate action taken against his very real and serious crimes is "lawfare" and "witch hunts," the BEST we can expect to see from maga is "well I guess bOtH siDeS are the same." This is the power of "every accusation is a confession." When you yell loud enough about your own crimes, nobody can hear it when somebody points out that you're actually the one committing them.
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u/SomeSchmidt 2d ago
Yes, but if they manage to deport her, it will make even bigger waves and they'd love that.
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u/Imapatriothurrrdurrr 2d ago
Isn’t it illegal to launch criminal investigations on a seated member of congress 90 days before an election?
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u/_WEND1G0_ 2d ago
A longstanding DOJ policy to avoid taking any action against a politician that doesn’t need immediate action until after an election. This was to prevent any impression of election meddling by the current administration
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u/StaticSystemShock 2d ago
We're talking about the most corrupt administration in USA history. Words like laws and illegal just mean nothing for the ruling elite.
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 2d ago
How anyone can have a single doubt in their mind that this regime will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to not relinquish power in these midterms, is incomprehensible.
Whether it’s rigging the votes themselves, faking some crisis, or using ICE or military to strongarm the populace - they will do it.
I expect absolutely nothing less.
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u/ATLfinra 2d ago
This is scary and wild as hell
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u/oldutnotdeadinside 2d ago
Should do the same to Melania and Musk.
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u/YallaHammer 2d ago
Seems pretty cut and dried that Musk abused and misused the student visa program.
Melania obtaining permanent residency through an EB-1 visa, for individuals with "extraordinary ability", I’d like to know how modeling was considered extraordinary. There’s a story there that hasn’t been uncovered.
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u/Zippier92 2d ago
Make shit up in an attempt to sway an election. It’s all about the headlines.
Let’s look at Melania’s paperwork.
Or Musks.
Both had entries inconsistent with reality .
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 2d ago
Absolute bigoted madness. She hasn't done a damn thing other than be a female Muslim Congressional Representative from the opposing party. Trump and his spineless sycophants manufactured all these absurd stories about her, talking about she married her own brother, which is manifestly untrue.
Now they're peddling bullshit about financial impropriety, and ginning up stories questioning her citizenship. This is among the most hateful, bigoted, defamation campaign, and even tho they themselves invented these stories for the intentional purpose of dehumanizing her, and casting her as a terrorist who snuck into the country in order to infiltrate Congress, and pass state secrets back to her handlers in Kabul.
There is no basis whatsoever to open this farce of an "investigation", let alone attempt to strip her of the citizenship and home she built here, and deport her to a 3rd world country that she's never been to. That is no joke what they're planning on doing to her. She's a better American than any of those hateful MAGAts and lickspittles who seem to relish the thought of making her a scapegoat for all the delusional and hateful beliefs they have about everyone who is isn't a white dumbshit Christian of the specific brand of Christianity they follow.
I could spend another hour dismantling all their embarrassing, humiliating rhetoric that illustrates just how bigoted and dumb they are.
Ilhan Omar pursued her American dream, and she made it come true. Her story represents the aspirational ideals and values we strive to acheive, and the promise of success if one follows the rules, comes here the right way, and commits themselves to patriotism and achievement. I have no doubt Trump and his followers would perform poorly on the mandatory citizenship exam that she aced to secure her place as a true-blue American.
But they're going to lecture us and criticize Omar over her superior intellect and love of her country. She's remaining dignified throughout this historic mud slinging the Republicans are subjecting he to. This is bullying on an epic level, and they need to be remembered be forever remembered for their role in this disgraceful witch-hunt.
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 2d ago
We need to rally around her right now. This cannot stand
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u/FinancialRaise 2d ago
Criminalizing political opponents. Fast tracking to fascism. Good job guys for being the overwhelming demographic to love on this Prez.
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u/trilobyte-dev 2d ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a test case for doing the same thing to anyone not born in the U.S. who holds office and opposes the administration’s views. Mamdani would probably be next in line.
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u/Violet_Paradox 2d ago
The attacks on birthright citizenship at the same time signal the real endgame here. They want to be able to revoke anyone's citizenship, born here or not, and punish dissent with statelessness.
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u/andrew303710 2d ago
This is so true, there's no way Trump is passing a basic citizenship test and I bet most Republican voters couldn't either.
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u/bagal 2d ago
Exactly. When it’s proven that she’s here legally all they’re left with is a smear campaign but they will still want to use that for talking points. The damage is done. This is Obama’s birth certificate all over again.
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u/CAM6913 2d ago
Trump said last year he wants to deport her. The GOP are all for it. Trump wants to deport anyone and everyone that doesn’t fall in line this is just the beginning
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u/SocraticMeathead 2d ago
I will laugh in the face of any Republican who wants to argue about their fealty to law and order at this point. They're an anti-American party of literal morons.
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u/kevendo 2d ago
This is the result of giving unchecked power to a racist Birther
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u/Renuwed 2d ago
All 4 of his grandparents and mother were immigrants. Based on his logic, he's not a citizen nor are his children.
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u/Wrayven77 2d ago
Can they do Elon Musk next. He started his first business on a student visa when not enrolled in a college. This is not in compliance with being able to work in America as a foreign national.
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u/Lopsided-Ticket3813 2d ago
And Melania we all know he just wants to be with his little "Eva Braun" Natalie Harp anyway.
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u/LocationAcademic1731 2d ago
As always, this is just stupid performative charades so their rabid dog base starts salivating. She can stall this in court for so long, old man Trump will be dead by the time this is over.
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u/jpmeyer12751 2d ago
Every GOP candidate for Congress should be asked one simple question at every debate and campaign event:
"Will you commit to voting in favor of every impeachment of Donald Trump if you are elected to Congress?"
Any answer other than an unqualified "YES" should be immediately disqualifying.
By the way, every Democrat candidate should be asked the same question with the same consequences.
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 2d ago
The Dems need 70% in both houses to have a veto proof majority and be able to actually impeach and none of this voting for Repubs nonsense
Get out to vote if you want him gone
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u/slowpoke2018 2d ago
This has got to be a joke, right? Right????
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u/Zingalore65 2d ago
No. People voted for this hell world.
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u/HotIce05 2d ago
And if given the choice, they'd do it again.
That's the kicker.
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u/fungi_at_parties 2d ago
What the ACTUAL FUCK.
These people are evil. This is a member of congress, and the precedent this sets is terrifying.
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u/Thecrawsome 2d ago
She was ELECTED.
Where are all those Second Amendment losers at? Enjoying being treaded on?
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u/AngryMillennialFU 2d ago
This is nazi shit. Just deciding they can strip citizenship without proper cause. Next they will say only american blood can become citizens.
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u/a_sentient_cicada 2d ago
Not only citizenship, citizenship of an elected representative. If they do this, what's stopping them from doing it to literally every democrat in Congress?
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u/Own_Error_007 2d ago
So how long before they grab her off the street and disappear her?
And will there be anything she can do to stop it (without it turning into a massive street battle).
Dark time ahead.
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u/Obversa 2d ago
This eerily reminded me of the "black bagging" scene with Gordon Deitrich (Stephen Fry) in V for Vendetta (2005).
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u/OldManGrimm 2d ago
Holy shit.
Not that things haven’t been bad, but this is some next-level blatant evil shit.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 2d ago
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
But the mogul’s New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financial and immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump’s agency in the United States without a proper visa. [Note their illegal status was a means for Trump & Co. to coerce vulnerable non-native speaking girls to “party” with wealthy men.]
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u/Deleteandresist 2d ago
That is why it’s crucial to get as many progressives into congress as possible, they don’t shy away from playing hardball and aren’t beholden to the donor class
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 2d ago
Hopefully the fuckups in the Trump Administration have mishandled this political prosecution so badly that they expose themselves to multiple criminal charges.
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u/PDXGuy33333 2d ago
Contribute to her campaign and hope she wins in a landslide with numbers so lopsided that it is undeniable that Republicans voted for her too.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField 2d ago
Let me guess, when her father started her citizenship process she was 17 but when it finished she was 18 and they are using that as a reason they can denaturalize her?
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u/platocplx 2d ago
This is reaching Obama birth certificate levels it’s disgusting and it’s insane this is what they are focused on weaponizing the govt.
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u/tragicallyohio 2d ago
Last week I commented on how the potential live streaming of Hassan's execution was one of the most disgusting things this country will have done. Then they go and announce a politically motivated deportation of duly elected sitting Congresswoman.
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u/Distinct-Virtue5125 2d ago
This is just wrong. She’s being targeted and it seems no one is willing to help her.
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u/PoeticCinnamon 2d ago
I’m certain she has access to good resources, wouldn’t do her any good to publicize how she plans to fight though
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u/myleftone 2d ago
The DoJ already found a judge to rubber-stamp the warrant, and they will find a judge who will rule that the investigation may continue. Eventually, they will get the result they want, because who will stop them? Who has standing to stop them besides the people they’re persecuting?
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u/Chicagoj1563 2d ago
Omar should use this to her advantage. Exploit every aspect of it to show herself as being victimized. Become a martyr. Let this become a huge story that will never go away and make it work against trump and maga.
Look at it as an opportunity. Any future dem should also ensure her citizenship if the trump regime somehow deports her.
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u/BitterFuture 2d ago
Good. Try it.
You'll fail, and you've announced it with enough lead time to boost the voting turnout of Americans who actually give a shit about their country.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton 2d ago
Absolutely fucking not. This lawless orange plague needs to go.
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u/thedeeb56 2d ago
I'm pretty sure he doesn't have any authority to do any of this shit, yet no one tells him to stop.
He won't stop until we make him stop.
Fucking hell
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u/DifferentSwing8616 2d ago
Thats what your 2nd amendment was for but nothing when an actual tyrannical government rocks up
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u/Bobsmith38594 2d ago
Notice the crickets from the right wing “muh guns will stop tyranny” crowd?
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u/Jack-Schitz 2d ago
Go ahead and set that precedent and see what you get Donnie.
There is a Slovenian former (?) "working girl" who's status the next administration might want to review as well as a bunch of former South Africans.
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u/0_IceQueen_0 2d ago
First televised firing squad and now this. What in the third world fuck is happening?
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