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JD Vance accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of having “definitely committed immigration fraud” and said that he’d recently spoken with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about how best to “go after her.”

Speaking on a podcast hosted by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Friday, Vance was asked about claims that Omar had defrauded the United States by marrying her brother to secure his legal residency.

The unsubstantiated claim has circulated in MAGA circles for years but has been denied by Omar multiple times. The congresswoman was born in Somalia but moved to Minneapolis with her family in 1997, fleeing the civil war.

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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Of course. This is a fascist country. That's what fascists do.

We are one "terrorist" attack away from seeing who Republicans really are. The gallows will be a feature in your town.

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 11 points 21 hours ago

FINALLY they're going AFTER the Illegal Immigrants STEALING American Jobs Businesses and Governments! BYE BYE ~~South African Elon Musk!~~ VOTED in Ilhan Omar?

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago

I will donate my entire paycheck in exchange for a chance to punch Stephen Miller in the face.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

I would donate 5 years of my life to get 15 minutes with him in a dark alley with no cameras or witnesses.

[-] billybob@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

I’ll donate my salary to shove a ten foot pole up that twats ass

[-] knotRyder@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Nah that's something he'd enjoy

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

All I heard was "Brown people scare me" these fucking assholes

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Ilhan has been targeted by the entire Washington establishment since she took office.

The US government cannot stomach a Somali community engaging in any form of self governance anywhere on earth

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jd Vance has committed fraud against the concept of human intelligence, and should be in jail for trying to abuse the power of government for personal gain

[-] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

Either he's stupid, or he thinks you're stupid.

And people keep proving him right

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

I read the book, it's the later.

Mouth-breathers kept telling me, you don't understand us, he gets us, that book explains it all.

There's no fucking way, so i read it. It doesn't. It spins a mostly untrue (to him) tale that is honestly normal in the non rich people raised in Appalachia. I had family in the hills.

The mine/mill/factory was either sold to China and shut down, or just shut down for non profitability, leaving everyone working in the service industry with no money flowing into the areas. People get poor, drugs happen, service industry crumbles.

He told them that book would explain their story, so they just went OK, that's why we're racist, sexist, hate the poor.

They just eat up everything he says.

I'm as worried (if not more worried) about him replaceing T as I am T getting a third term.

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[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago

Why don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally? Remember what his name was? Elon Musk? Ring a bell?

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Add Melanie, she worked illegally in the USA too.

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[-] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 195 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Remember, Elon Musk was in America on a student visa but working for his brother's company instead of attending school. That's visa fraud, which you're required to disclose on any subsequent visa or citizenship applications. He didn't, so he's also guilty of immigration fraud.

Anyone who runs on seizing his assets and locking that illegal immigrant in a detention facility gets my vote

[-] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

This. They will find any tiny problem if you’re against them… it will get worse when they decide people born from immigrant families are not American anymore. So they can go back generations

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

so he's ~~also~~ actually guilty

I know it's such an insignificant word change, but it stabs at something I have to keep reminding myself: a single word can be the difference between correcting someone's understanding of reality vs accidentally reinforcing a "both sides" argument.

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