Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Pushes For Censure Of Rep. Ilhan Omar For Mistranslated Remarks: ‘I Think She Should Be Deported’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) moved to force the vote to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) for her mistranslated comments regarding Somalia and Somaliland.

Greene offered her censure legislation on the House floor as a privileged resolution, a procedural gambit forcing leadership to hold a vote within two legislative days.

Leadership was able to bring this resolution to the floor for a vote or motion to table it. These choices require majority support.

Greene said she informed leadership that she was introducing the resolution but did not get an indication of how they would act on it.

On top of being formally censured, this resolution would remove Omar from the Budget Committee and Education the Workforce Committee.

“I would love to expel her; I think she should be deported, I honestly do,” Greene told reporters after moving to force a vote on the censure measure.

“Any person that’s been elected to represent the United States government that admits in a speech in public that’s on video — it wasn’t changed, she’s lying when she says that — and she says that she’s representing the interest of a foreign government in her role as the United States representative, she should be expelled and deported,” Greene stated. “Unfortunately I don’t think we’d have the votes for that, so that’s why I introduced a censure resolution instead.”

Only U.S. citizens are allowed to be elected to the House. Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Omar brushed off Greene’s effort minutes before the resolution was formally introduced.

“I have nothing to say about the insanity of that woman,” Omar told The Hill.

Last month, Omar called the outcry over her comments “a manufactured crisis based on an inaccurate translation taken entirely out of context.”

“The attacks being lobbed against me are not only completely false, they are rooted in xenophobia and Islamophobia,” Omar mentioned.

“As I said in the video – I support a unified Somalia, which aligns with longstanding U.S. policy favoring a one Somalia approach. My stance remains consistent with the goal of a stable and unified Somalia,” she then stated.

Greene’s push for a censure came days after Omar made remarks that were since examined by Republican lawmakers.

Ambassador Rhoda J. Elmi, the deputy minister of foreign affairs for Somaliland, a region along the Gulf of Aden that broke away from Somalia in 1991, shared a clip of comments Omar made in Minneapolis in late January with a translation that has since been challenged.

According to Elmi, whose translation is similar to quotations in Greene’s resolution, Omar stated the U.S. government “will only do what Somalians in the United States tell them to do.”

“They will do what we want and nothing else,” this translation states. “They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia. We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S.”

“We live in the US, pay taxes in the US and have a real voice… the U.S. is a country where one of your daughters [myself] is in Congress to represent your interest… for as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters [Indian Ocean] will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others… The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans… Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” the translation read.

This translation was called into question immediately by Omar and her supporters.

In March 2019, Judge Jeanine Pirro also spoke out against Omar. Pirro was suspended from her Fox News show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, for two weeks after she made anti-Muslim comments about the Minnesota representative on her show on March 9, 2019.

Pirro mentioned that Omar wears a hijab and asked if her obedience to this Islamic doctrine reflects her support for Sharia law, which, according to the judge, “is in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution.”

After Fox condemned these remarks, the television host said she was only trying to “ask a question and start a debate.”

On January 10, President Joe Biden‘s granddaughter, Naomi Biden also spoke out against Greene. She accused her of spreading misinformation when her father, Hunter Biden appeared at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup on the same day.

Greene has been very active in her efforts to punish Democrats. Last week, she succeeded in her effort to get Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayrokas impeached.