by Sharon Rondeau
(Dec. 22, 2025) — On Sunday, Right Pulse News shared on X a video of a recent segment from The Megyn Kelly Show on the Sirius FM Network in which Kelly discussed with David Smith the Trump administration’s proposal that naturalized American citizens could be subject to “denaturalization” if their citizenship was acquired through fraudulent means.
The concept was one of five outlined in a June 11, 2025 memo issued by the then-newly-appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Brett Shumate.
During the brief segment posted by Right Pulse News, Kelly, apparently reading from a post by podcaster Matt Tardio, Kelly said that “AJ Kern” discovered through a FOIA request that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) appears not to have naturalized at age 17 as she has claimed, since the federal government indicated it could locate no naturalization records for her father, Nur Omar Mohamed.
The complete segment is here.
As we have reported over more than two years, Omar claims derivative citizenship by means of Mohamed’s alleged naturalization in 2000.
The family reportedly arrived in the United States in 1995 from a refugee camp in Kenya resulting from Somalia’s long-running civil war.
According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, “U.S. immigration law requires refugees to apply for lawful permanent resident status after they have been physically present in the United States for at least 1 year.”
An individual attaining lawful permanent resident status must subsequently reside in the U.S. for five years, USCIS states, to be eligible to apply for citizenship, as well as satisfy other requirements.
If Omar’s family arrived in the country in 1995, it is therefore unlikely Mohamed would have met the requirements to naturalize.
Kern, who challenged Omar in the DFL primary in Minnesota’s fifth district in 2022, filed a lawsuit asking that Omar prove her claimed U.S. citizenship based on her research into Omar’s background.
On July 1, 2022, Judge Bridget Ann Sullivan dismissed Kern’s lawsuit, claiming only Congress could decide whether those elected to the body were eligible to serve.
Kern subsequently filed her FOIA for the naturalization records of Omar’s claimed father, who Omar reported publicly as having passed away in 2020.
More than a year later, Kern told The Post & Email, USCIS claimed the requested records do not exist.
In a separate but similar FOIA request for the same records, USCIS informed this writer we had not provided sufficient information for an applicable search to be conducted.
During the show’s longer segment, Kelly expounded on the “fraud” issue by correcting President Trump’s oft-repeated assertion that Omar “married her brother” in order to obtain entry to the U.S. for herself. Instead, Kelly correctly said, “she was already in; she was brought in by her dad.”
Years later in 2009 and by her own later admission, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who several researchers say is her brother, had been living in London, and later attended North Dakota State University along with Omar.
When challenged on December 3 about the allegation, Omar denied it, countering with, “but is your President a pedophile?”
During her exchange with Smith, Kelly stated the owner of “Legal Insurrection,” William A. Jacobson, advised that the statute of limitations in regard to any prosecution of Omar’s alleged “immigration fraud” has expired. that Border “Czar” Tom Homan “was on Fox saying that they’re looking into this ‘brother’ thing,’ meaning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees apprehensions and deportations of illegal aliens.
After apparently reading from a post by podcaster Matt Tardio, Kelly told Smith of Omar, “If she’s not a U.S. citizen, she can’t be a U.S. House member, and she could be deported.”
Smith appeared to rejoice with Kelly over the possibility of Omar’s “denaturalization,” after which he responded, “It might be evil how excited that prospect makes me.”
The father, one sister and a brother went to the UK for asylum. Ilhan, whose name was actually Ihan Nur Said Elmi, and two sister got asylum in the US. She married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her brother to bring him here from the UK.
Sorry Judge only the constitution can decide who is eligible to serve.