{"id":2401968,"date":"2025-02-12T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-is-walking-case-for-higher-u-s-citizenship-standards\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:27:14","slug":"ilhan-omar-is-walking-case-for-higher-u-s-citizenship-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-is-walking-case-for-higher-u-s-citizenship-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar Is Walking Case For Higher U.S. Citizenship Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Filhan-omar-is-walking-case-for-higher-u-s-citizenship-standards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2401968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a \u2063controversy involving Congresswoman Ilhan\u2062 Omar and Texas Republican Rep. Brandon Gill. \u200bGill criticized Omar after she \u2063hosted workshops for illegal\u2062 immigrants on evading deportation, suggesting \u200bthat America would be \u200bbetter if she were deported back to Somalia. Omar dismissed Gill&#8217;s\u2062 comments as\u2064 foolish, emphasizing her struggle to enter Congress and labeling his views as incivility. The\u200c article highlights Gill&#8217;s concerns\u200c that\u2064 Omar&#8217;s\u2062 advice to illegal\u2063 immigrants shows a\u200d lack of loyalty to the U.S., raising questions about\u2063 American citizenship and the immigration system. Gill is sponsoring a\u200c bill aimed at limiting \u200dbirthright citizenship, reflecting his broader critique of the\u200d political and immigration policies he associates with Omar and \u2062her supporters.The article\u2062 also\u200c touches\u2064 on Omar&#8217;s history of \u200dcontroversial statements and actions, which have drawn criticism and led \u200cto her removal from the\u2062 House Foreign\u200d Affairs Committee. the piece portrays a\u200b stark divide in opinions about immigration and \u2063loyalty to the U.S. between \u2062the two politicians.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After America-hating Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/omar.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> hosted workshops advising illegal immigrants on how to avoid being deported, Rep. Brandon Gill said what a lot of America-loving Americans were thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;America would be a better place if <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IlhanMN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@IlhanMN<\/a> were deported back to Somalia,&rdquo; Gill, a first-term Texas Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepBrandonGill\/status\/1886844342330872198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Omar, a Minnesota leftist and member of the House&rsquo;s America Last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/05\/aoc-wins-squad-reelection-results\/76081070007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Squad,&rdquo;<\/a> fired back, calling Gill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14365863\/ilhan-omar-reacts-deportation-calls-undocumented-migrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;stupid&rdquo;<\/a> for thinking &ldquo;a member of Congress can be deported.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had to crawl my way into Congress, and I think these idiots who buy their seats have no idea what a privilege it is to be a member of Congress and what it takes,&rdquo; Omar told Politico.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayer-subsidized Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/05\/congress\/omar-responds-to-deportation-threat-00202596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joined<\/a> the chorus of corporate media outlets jumping to the Somalia native&rsquo;s defense, helping to spread the lie that Gill&rsquo;s post &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepBrandonGill\/status\/1886844342330872198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for the deportation<\/a>&rdquo; of the congresswoman. The same chorus that has vehemently criticized the Trump administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/07\/doge-is-deadly-to-the-swamp-and-a-ray-of-light-for-the-american-taxpayer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eye-opening audit<\/a> of criminally wasteful spending in the federal government bemoaned Gill&rsquo;s statements as the kind of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/11\/ilhan-omar-deport-brandon-gill-fundraisng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incivility that has gripped Congress<\/a>,&rdquo; as Omar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/05\/congress\/omar-responds-to-deportation-threat-00202596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling<\/a> the Texas representative a &ldquo;dumb-ss.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Utterly Repugnant&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Gill called out Omar for apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14363863\/elon-musk-war-illhan-omar-somalis-ice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">participating in a seminar<\/a> advising Somali illegal immigrants on how to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you, you&nbsp;are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,&rdquo; Omar urged in a now-viral video shared last week by Elon Musk. &ldquo;Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you prefer them not to know.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an X post, Musk accused Omar of &ldquo;breaking the law. Literally. Outright.&rdquo; The leftist representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14363863\/elon-musk-war-illhan-omar-somalis-ice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> the video was edited and said she did not do anything wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/defining-citizen-and-draining-the-swamp--64327436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview with The Federalist,<\/a> Gill said Omar&rsquo;s conduct raises serious questions about where the congresswoman&rsquo;s loyalty lies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And her conduct and her rhetoric &hellip; she&rsquo;s talked about being Somali first. She&rsquo;s aiding and telling illegal aliens how to avoid our laws and our customs. That is utterly repugnant,&rdquo; Gill said on the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/defining-citizen-and-draining-the-swamp--64327436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist Radio Hour.<\/a> &ldquo;Her behavior indicates that she is more &hellip; loyal to illegal aliens than she is to American citizens and to this country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to ask ourselves also, is American citizenship the most valuable thing in the world or is it not?&rdquo; Gill continued. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve allowed &hellip; in this instance, our legal immigration system to hand out citizenship to people who really have no business being here, who get an enormous amount of benefits from being in America &mdash; not only from their constitutionally protected rights here but also a enormous, oftentimes, welfare. And that&rsquo;s a problem. &hellip; It does raise serious questions about our, about our immigration system. &hellip; This is something we should tackle over the next four years.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gill is a sponsor of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/569\/text?s=3&amp;r=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Brian+Babin%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bill<\/a> that would effectively codify President Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">executive order limiting birthright citizenship<\/a>, an order the illegal immigration-endorsing left immediately challenged in court. Gill recently joined 17 Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/america-first-legal-files-amicus-brief-supporting-president-trumps-executive-order-on-birthright-citizenship-for-house-judiciary-committee-chairman-jim-jordan-and-17-members-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus brief <\/a>defending Trump&rsquo;s Executive Order 14160, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2025-01-29\/pdf\/2025-02007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Some People Did Something&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Omar has a long history of anti-American and antisemitic rhetoric. That&rsquo;s why she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/02\/1153472237\/ilhan-omar-foreign-affairs-committee-vote-republicans-remove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">booted from the House Foreign Affairs Committee<\/a>. The radical representative has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-57436573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared<\/a> Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. She shrugged off the Islamist terrorist attacks of 9\/11 as a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firefighternation.com\/firerescue\/some-people-did-something\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;some people did something.&rdquo;<\/a> The Minnesota Marxist called for the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1280561312527982595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismantling<\/a> of what she and her ilk view as the &ldquo;oppressive&rdquo; U.S. economy. She made <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/429356-jewish-advocacy-group-calls-on-omar-to-apologize-after-stunningly-anti-semitic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;stunningly anti-Semitic&rdquo;<\/a> comments asserting a pro-Israel organization was buying off U.S. politicians, tweeting, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about the Benjamins baby.&rdquo; Following public pressure from her own party, Omar eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/02\/11\/its-all-about-benjamins-baby-ilhan-omar-again-accused-anti-semitism-over-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apologized<\/a>. She was forced to apologize in 2012 after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1079561824591400961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/bills\/hres1207\/BILLS-118hres1207ih.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Israel has hypnotized the world,<\/a> may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/11\/ilhan-omar-deport-brandon-gill-fundraisng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axios<\/a> and other leftist outlets blasted Gill for a petition his campaign sent out this week calling for Omar to be deported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Friend, we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country. And frankly, America would be a much better place if she were to be sent back to Somalia,&rdquo; the petition <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25520343\/brandon-gill-ilhan-omar-fundraising-email.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states.<\/a> It notes Omar&rsquo;s workshops for illegal immigrants and questions the lawmaker&rsquo;s loyalty to her adopted country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A sitting Member of Congress is facilitating a full-scale invasion of our country &hellip; A normal society would refer to that as <strong>treason<\/strong> &hellip;&rdquo; the document asserts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have had my fill of <strong><em>foreigners storming our border<\/em><\/strong>, complaining about and disparaging our country, and then helping more and more of them invade our lands &hellip; And I know the American people are too,&rdquo; the petition closes, asking recipients to sign it and &ldquo;send her back to Somalia where she belongs.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Damning Indictment&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The petition was more fundraising appeal than practical application. Gill acknowledged in the interview with The Federalist that Omar, as repugnant as her anti-American comments and conduct may be, is a naturalized U.S. citizen and &ldquo;can&rsquo;t be deported.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But he said he does find it &ldquo;rich&rdquo; that Omar would bluster about certain members of Congress buying their seats, particularly after revelations in recent weeks about the left&rsquo;s &ldquo;ecosystem and their influence and political life in America is based on taxpayer subsidies.&rdquo; That includes the billions of dollars funneled through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/03\/politics\/video\/ilhan-omar-usaid-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">portion<\/a> of which ultimately assisted Omar in coming to the United States, the country she seems to loathe as systemically racist and imperialistic. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do have to ask the question of where would the left&rsquo;s ideological movement be were it not for the &hellip; billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, being funneled into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a>, leftwing NGOs, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hollows-out-trump-era-covid-protections-at-the-border\/\" title=\"Biden Hollows Out Trump-Era COVID Protections at the Border\">left-wing advocacy groups<\/a> that are doing everything from facilitating open borders to censoring American citizens. So I do think that that&rsquo;s quite peculiar that she would take things that route,&rdquo; Gill told The Federalist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you think about &mdash; whether it&rsquo;s Congresswoman Omar or anybody else who clearly doesn&rsquo;t have sincere allegiance to this country, it really is a damning indictment of our legal immigration system that we would allow someone who hates this country, hates its heritage, hates the principles upon which it was founded, to come into this country to begin with,&rdquo; the congressman said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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