Rep. Nancy Mace responds to a video of Omar denying the allegation with “One word: Deport.”
Nancy MaceU.S. representative for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, posting on X
Quote-posting LindellTV’s video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being questioned about the investigation and the allegation that she married her brother, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote “One word: Deport.”
“One word: Deport.”
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Should Trump administration officials publicly accuse Rep. Ilhan Omar of immigration fraud?
Since at least 2016 there have been unproven claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. Senior Trump administration officials have repeated the claim publicly. This record begins with Vice President JD Vance’s March 27, 2026 statement that “we actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud,” and includes President Donald Trump’s May 1 statement, “I believe she married her brother.” On September 10, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a podcast interview, “we know that she married her brother to try to bring him in the United States,” and that an investigation was ongoing. On September 13, border czar Tom Homan declined to give specifics of an “ongoing criminal investigation” but said “no one’s above the law.” Omar has denied the claim: on September 16 she told a reporter “Absolutely not” and that she is not under investigation, and on September 18 Fox News Digital reported her saying DHS had not contacted her. Fox reported that there has been no public evidence available to confirm an open investigation into her.
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Rep. Nancy Mace’s post from her official account, published at 8:30 p.m. EDT on September 16, 2026.
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Rep. Nancy Mace’s press release on her January 7, 2026 motion at a House Oversight hearing to subpoena immigration records related to Omar and her alleged brother/husband. The characterizations of Omar’s marriage are the release’s own.
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On January 7, 2026, Mace had moved at a House Oversight hearing to subpoena immigration records related to Omar; her office said the motion “was tabled by both Democrats and Republicans on the Committee.” The quoted post is LindellTV’s, headlined “Ilhan Omar goes after Tom Homan when confronted over being under investigation.” The video shows Omar denying that she married her brother and that she is under investigation.
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Mace’s post is a single quote-post with no further text.
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Why this label?
Mace answers Omar’s denial by calling for her deportation, which treats the accusation as grounds for removal and presses it. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”; it loses because the post attaches no condition or reservation.
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