{"id":16475,"date":"2025-10-25T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:43:09","slug":"house-republicans-push-to-denaturalize-mamdani-over-citizenship-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16475\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans push to ‘denaturalize’ Mamdani over citizenship form"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani<\/a> may have to confront if elected could be his own \u2013 as two House Republicans push the Justice Department to probe his path to citizenship and possibly boot him from the US.<\/p>\n

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds \u201creview every naturalization of the past 30 years \u2013 starting with Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,\u201d Fine told the Post. <\/p>\n

Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani became a US Citizen after moving here as a child from Uganda. A pair of House Republicans want him probed for possible \u201cdenaturalization\u201d for making allegedly false statements during his process ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

He also called for a probe of anti-Israel \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who was born in Somalia and is one of the first two women Muslims to serve in Congress.<\/p>\n

Mamdani is a threat to the nation, he continued. \u201cI know that there\u2019s a lot of us that are very, very concerned about the enemy within \u2013 people who have come to this country to become citizens, to destroy it.\u201d <\/p>\n

He dismissed logistical concerns about yanking the citizenship of naturalized Americans after they got elected to top jobs. \u201cIf they\u2019re not Americans, they can\u2019t be in office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Since June, his colleague Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has pushed for a Justice Department probe of Mamdani, saying the socialist who is leading NYC mayoral polls<\/a> lied on his sworn statement when he became a naturalized citizen in 2018.<\/p>\n

Ogles issued a call to \u201cDeport Mamdani!\u201d and branded him an \u201cantisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2018 when he was naturalized, he failed to disclose some of the things that he had been doing, one of which was joining the [Democratic] Socialists of America. That\u2019s a communist organization which, quite frankly, at that time, would have disqualified him from becoming a United States citizen,\u201d Ogles told Newsmax. <\/p>\n

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) accused Mamdani of concealing \u201cmaterial support for terrorism,\u201d invoking his statements in calling to \u201cfree the Holy Land Five,\u201d a reference to the shuttered Holy Land Foundation CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/p>\n

House Republicans are hammering Mamdani over his path to citizenship. Andy Ogles\/ X<\/p>\n

He also cited Mamdani\u2019s statements calling to free \u201cthe Holy Land Five\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a quintet of Palestinian-Americans who led the giant Muslim charity Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and who were convicted in 2008 of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.<\/p>\n

US immigration law declares inadmissible those who have \u201cbeen a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party.\u201d The current form asks would-be citizens to disclose if they have ever been associated \u201cin any way\u201d with \u201cany Communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world.\u201d President Trump has called Mamdani a \u201ccommunist lunatic.\u201d Mamdani specifically denies being a communist.<\/p>\n

Letter from Congress requesting an investigation into Zohran Mamdani. Rep. Andy Ogles\/ X<\/p>\n

Ogles wrote the Justice Department in June seeking a probe. Rep. Andy Ogles\/ X<\/p>\n

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who represents Dearborn Heights, which contains a large Muslim population, called for Ogles to be censured over his posts.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department wouldn\u2019t rule out a probe of Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the Democrats\u2019 shutdown, congressional correspondence is delayed. The department does not comment on the status of ongoing or potential investigations,\u201d a DOJ spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department, headed by AG Pam Bondi, has received Ogles\u2019 letter but taken no public action. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The latest outrage over Mamdani came when he posed a cheery photo to X alongside controversial imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six. <\/p>\n

Mamdani did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani may have to confront if elected could be his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9207,2301,9,56,63,65,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-16475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-deportation","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}