In mid-June 2026, social media (archived) users claimed U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, said that "there would be no better 250th birthday present to America" than the deportation of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota who is Somali American.
Readers asked Snopes to check whether the post was real.
It was, and it was still visible on both Mace's X and Facebook accounts as of this writing. Therefore we've rated this claim as correctly attributed to Mace.
Omar immigrated to the United States from Somalia and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, and she has often been accused of holding dual allegiance.
In May 2026, Mace proposed a constitutional amendment requiring all members of Congress, federal judges and Senate-appointed officials to be natural-born citizens. She specifically named Omar along with Demcratic Reps. Shri Thanedar of Michigan and Pramila Jayapal of Washington in a post announcing the proposal on X. That proposed amendment had not left a House committee as of this writing.
President Donald Trump made his opposition to immigration a key part of his campaign platform. His second term in office has seen large, militaristic immigration operations that left at least two American citizens dead, efforts to strip U.S. citizenship from naturalized citizens and a Supreme Court case over an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.
For further reading, Snopes has looked at a number of rumors involving Omar and unpacked Mace's claim that "due process is for citizens."