“She hates America,” he said. “She wants the president to be dead. She backs everything that these communists talk about. She’s a fraud.”
Tuberville did not provide evidence for his claim that Omar wants President Donald Trump dead, and Newsmax noted that it could not identify a statement from Omar saying that.
But his comments arrive as the Trump administration publicly acknowledges that federal investigators are examining a matter involving the Democratic congresswoman.
White House border czar Tom Homan recently confirmed during a Fox News appearance that Homeland Security Investigations is conducting what he described as an ongoing criminal investigation involving Omar.
When asked about the investigation, Homan said: “I’m confirming that ICE is – yeah.”
Homan did not publicly reveal the precise scope of the investigation or disclose evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Omar. No criminal charges against the congresswoman have been announced in connection with the investigation.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has separately revived allegations concerning Omar’s immigration history, including the longstanding claim that she married a brother to facilitate his immigration to the United States.
That allegation has circulated for years but has not been substantiated by publicly available evidence, and Omar has repeatedly denied it. News organizations examining the claim have not established that her former husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was her brother.
Still, the renewed federal attention comes against the backdrop of another issue that has put Minnesota in the national spotlight: the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.
Federal prosecutors say Feeding Our Future exploited a government-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently obtaining and distributing more than $240 million.
Aimee Bock, the nonprofit’s founder and executive director, was convicted alongside Salim Said in March 2025. In May 2026, Bock received a staggering 500-month federal prison sentence — 41 years and eight months.
The Justice Department said the operation grew from approximately $3.4 million in federal funds in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021. Prosecutors said fraud proceeds were spent on real estate, luxury vehicles and international travel rather than feeding children as claimed.
“This was a fraud vortex and you were at the epicenter of it,” U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel told Bock at sentencing.
The scandal has become a political flashpoint for Omar because it unfolded in Minnesota and involved numerous defendants from the Somali-American community she represents.
Tuberville seized on that connection during his Newsmax appearance.
“The people that she represents – they’ve stolen millions and millions of dollars from American taxpayers,” he continued.
He added that Omar has “said not one thing about it to condemn it.”
That part of Tuberville’s criticism requires context.
Omar has previously called the Minnesota fraud “reprehensible,” and Newsmax reported that she said she wrote to the agriculture secretary seeking accountability after the Feeding Our Future scandal emerged. She has also argued that an entire community should not be blamed for crimes committed by individuals.
Nevertheless, Tuberville argued that the broader controversy, combined with the federal investigation involving Omar, warrants dramatic action.
“Our immigration system is broken, but it’s not broken to the point that we can’t send people home that blatantly have stolen,” he said. “They’re frauds, and they lie pretty much every day, so let’s send her home. This is a great country, but it’s not as great as it could be with her in it.”
“We need to send her back to where she came from,” he added.
Whether such a scenario is legally possible would depend on facts that have not been established publicly.
Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen as a teenager. Under federal law, denaturalization generally requires the government to establish grounds such as citizenship having been illegally procured or obtained through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation. An allegation by itself would not satisfy that standard, and deportation could not simply be ordered because a senator demanded it.
That makes the evidence — rather than the political rhetoric — the central question.
For now, Homan’s public confirmation means there is an acknowledged federal investigation involving Omar. It does not mean investigators have established that the longstanding immigration allegations against her are true.
The political stakes, however, are obvious.
Omar has spent years as one of Washington’s most outspoken opponents of aggressive immigration enforcement. She has repeatedly targeted ICE and recently moved to strip billions of dollars from federal immigration agencies through legislation she calls the “Make ICE Pay Act.”
Now, an investigative arm of DHS is examining a matter involving her while senior Trump administration officials publicly discuss allegations surrounding her immigration history.
For Tuberville, there is little ambiguity about what he wants to happen next.
For federal investigators, the standard will be considerably different: evidence, due process and what can actually be proved in court.
