What’s happening with the Ilhan Omar scandal is doing more than just energizing the MAGA base ahead of the midterms. It's also highlighting the migrant invasion problem on the national level. In her first interview since the federal raid on her DC home, Chris Hayes on MS NOW pressed her on the long-running claim that she married her brother. She affirmed these allegations were insane. But then Hayes followed up with “You were not related to him at all? There’s not some weird kernel of truth through some game of telephone?” Her answer: “Not to my knowledge.” That last exchange is sticky because every American would know, without hesitation or ambiguity, whether the person they married was a blood relative. The fact that a sitting member of Congress answers “Not to my knowledge” is jarring because it highlights the cultural gap with Somalis. Tens of millions of Americans are seeing this cultural gap for the first time, and they're realizing they don't like it.

Alan Dershowitz breaks down how immigration fraud could strip Omar of citizenship He believes there must be significant evidence of wrongdoing for a judge to sign off on a search warrant for her home. He believes Ilhan Omar will be denaturalized. "The congresswoman says that she is a naturalized citizen, that she became one because as a juvenile, her father became a naturalized citizen, that paperwork has not been found. Assuming that that paperwork is never found, what happens? And what does Congress do about her?" "Well, they have to prove to have denaturalization. You have to prove fraud. That she got her original naturalization papers through fraud, either her own fraud or her father's fraud that she was complicit with. Now, she, when she made the statement recently, makes the strongest case for why she's probably in deep trouble. I have a lot of experience with search warrants, and usually they're issued pretty easily, but not against the sitting congresswoman in her home in the District of Columbia. I think for this judge to have signed off on a search warrant to go to the House early in the morning to do all the things she said they did, there has to be very substantial evidence beyond just a mere probable cause claim that maybe a crime was committed. So I think she's in much, much deeper trouble than she is willing to admit." "And her answer, obviously, 'not to her knowledge.' I mean, you're either related to somebody or you're not related to somebody. 'Not to my knowledge' seems like a cop-out. So I think this is the beginning of a much deeper search, which will end very, very likely in her denaturalization and deportation. Because remember, statute of limitations that apply in criminal cases don't apply in deportation and denaturalization cases. So they can go back a long time. Also, this could be a continuing crime if she has continued to say things like her birth date, which were part of a fraud, then the statute of limitations doesn't hold. So I think that we're in for a longer case, and I think she is probably in more serious trouble than she'd like us to believe."