Search warrants are usually issued before charges are filed. A criminal case can’t be filed (i.e., set for trial) until there is evidence establishing probable cause for a crime. A search warrant issues on reasonable suspicion. But of what? Omar is a naturalized citizen. She can’t be denaturalized any easier than I can. As citizens, we stand on equal footing to our claim to citizenship.
Speculation is that Trump wants to denaturalize Omar, and then deport her. My honest opinion is, that could take more time than he has in office. For one thing:
“This allegation,” there, is that her father failed to reveal a prior marriage. Under 212(k), minors who enter the country on the representations of a parent, are not held responsible for material misrepresentations. So there’d have to be a proceeding to denaturalize (a civil action), which could combine with grounds that override 212(k), but all that before deportation proceedings could begin.
And yet they’re pursuing a criminal investigation. Which could eventually fuel the civil actions (they want to deport her), but won’t speed them up any. So the strategy here looks more like another Trump special: utterly specious incompetency.
It won’t be the usual ICE snatch, grab, and hide, in other words.
I don’t know how any of this gets to a DHS level criminal investigation, unless they’re trying to prove she married her brother for immigration purposes (that theory is slightly less credible than Talarico away in a mental health crisis in Ohio). Which would seem to be easily established by finding the marriage certificate on file in the state where the marriage allegedly occurred. I’m guessing that’s the alleged violation of immigration laws that would interest DHS (illegally helping her brother’s immigration status, IOW). And somehow (it obviously ain’t hard. Remember the search in Fulton County for evidence of election fraud?) DHS convinced a federal judge to issue the warrant. It would be helpful to know what crime they told the judge they were looking for evidence of. Because that’s the $64 question right now.
My guess is nothing comes of it, except to prove that those who complain most what was done to them, are most likely to do it to others. And very, very incompetently.
We’re gonna find out one day that DOJ got the pen register for Omar’s phone.
BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) responds to federal raid of her DC home this morning. The search warrant was approved by a federal judge & sources tell
@FoxNews
it is in connection to an ongoing criminal investigation into potential immigration fraud, including the immigration paperwork filed by the Somali-born Congresswoman’s late father when she was a child.
What her father did is irrelevant to a criminal charge (he’s dead). She was a minor, and is protected by 212(k), in any case. And she’s a citizen, something that won’t be unzipped because of the paperwork more than a decade ago. So whatever he did, it can’t be the basis for a criminal investigation now.
I’m still going with the marriage conspiracy theory. These people are stupid enough to pursue that.
