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MAGA Rep. Hit With Awkward Melania Trump Question After Sweeping Citizenship Demand
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“I believe that we should go back to 1990, and we should reevaluate everyone who has become a naturalized citizen,” said Florida Republican Randy Fine.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) on Monday called for the citizenship status of every American naturalized in the last 36 years to be reevaluated.
NewsNation’s Nichole Berlie asked the MAGA Republican whether the same level of scrutiny currently being applied to Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over her immigration history should also extend to other high-profile naturalized citizens within and linked to Donald Trump’s White House, such as first lady Melania Trump and Elon Musk.
“I believe that we should go back to 1990, and we should reevaluate everyone who has become a naturalized citizen,” Fine replied.
Fine claimed “many, many, many people” in Omar’s home state of Minnesota have “gotten citizenship without getting appropriate paperwork,” and said: “I think Ilhan Omar needs to be the first; she certainly should not be the last.”
GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's been open to deporting Melania Trump and Elon Musk if it turns out they lied on their paperwork pic.twitter.com/ALABKFooh4
Berlie pressed Fine again on whether that reevaluation should include the first lady and Musk, both of whom have faced questions over their immigration histories.
“I think anyone who was not honest in their immigration paperwork. I don’t know anything about the circumstances of the first lady or Elon Musk. I don’t know that there’s ever been an allegation. But there have been allegations about Ilhan Omar’s citizenship issues going back 10 years, that people have refused to look at, in fact coming from the Somali community.”
He added, “I believe that anyone who lied on their paperwork to become a citizen should be denaturalized and should be deported.”
Omar’s citizenship status is reportedly being probed by the Justice Department, with her home being raided last week. The lawmaker has claimed she is being targeted by Trump, who for years has criticized her and demanded she be sent back to Somalia, where she left as a refugee as a child.
Berlie noted to Fine that Melania Trump came to the United States on an EB-1A visa, sometimes called the “Einstein visa.”