00:00So the Trump administration is trying to build a case to get Minnesota
00:03Congresswoman Ilhan Omar kicked out of the country. Now the theory of the case
00:06is that Omar and other members of her family, potentially including her father,
00:11were engaged in a conspiracy to acquire citizenship in the United States after
00:17they fled Somalia during that country's civil war in the early 1990s. So Ilhan
00:21Omar has been married three times and she's always been dogged by rumors that
00:25her second marriage was actually a sham marriage to her brother to enable him to
00:30get a green card, legal permanent residency in the United States. What we're
00:34learning now is that the Justice Department and the FBI and the Department
00:39of Homeland Security actually began an investigation into Omar back in 2016 for
00:44potential marriage fraud. This is before she was a member of Congress and in fact
00:48she had just started to launch a political career by running for a seat in
00:52Minnesota's state legislature. Now what we've been told is that the
00:56investigation did find some evidence that Omar and her second husband were in
01:01fact related, were in fact siblings, but the prosecutors at the US Attorney's
01:06Office in Minnesota opted not to move forward with the case because they didn't
01:10have enough evidence that marriage fraud was committed and also marriage fraud has
01:15a five-year statute of limitations. So what the Trump administration is doing
01:19now is engaging in what's called a civil denaturalization effort which has no
01:24statute of limitations unlike a criminal case.
