Immigration officials have come forward and stated that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who allegedly married her brother in order to try bringing him to the United States, cannot be kicked out of the country for the sham nuptials, other matters contained in her immigration file might do the trick. It all started when Omar married self-described “dirty dandy” Ahmed Elmi, a national from the United Kingdom rumored to be her brother, back in 2009.
However, a federal investigation into Omar, who was born in Somalia, and her past, is much more likely to be centered on how she became a U.S. citizen as a teenager and the paperwork filed by her father. Omar’s dad, Nur Said Mohamed Elmi, was identified as an “educator” before he passed away in 2020. At that point, his military record came to light.
“If there’s enough evidence that she or [her father] lied on her immigration application to become a United States citizen, whether it was one time or several times, the Trump administration could initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship,” a top immigration official said to The New York Post.
According to the Post’s report, prosecutions connected to her marriage to Ahmed Elmi — which has been rumored to be a “Green Card marriage” so he could remain in the country, but came to an end when they divorced in 2017 — are a total dead end for several reasons, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney told the outlet.
The attorney revealed that a U.S. citizen who has participated in a sham marriage cannot be deported. If it’s proven that Omar married her own brother, then he would be the one banned from entering the U.S., but Omar couldn’t be booted back to Somalia on that issue alone. Marriage fraud is technically a felony that is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
However, Omar would avoid all of that due to a five-year statute of limitations which officially expired upon the couple’s divorce. Incest charges would only be brought up with evidence of sexual contact between the two, according to Minnesota state law. Omar could slip those charges as well if she were truly innocent, according to a former executive-level federal official.
“A DNA test would absolutely resolve the question one way or another. But there’s no legal obligation for [Elmi] to cooperate from another country,” the source went on to say. The same official predicted, “The request will be made for DNA testing and it will be refused loudly and publicly,” and “[Omar] will pout and scream and say it’s offensive and a witch hunt.”
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Trump officials have stated in recent days that Omar’s strange and mysterious origin story is currently under investigation. Sources who spoke with the Post said that the investigation will be looking into several areas concerning Omar’s naturalization. The Minnesota Democrat claims that she received automatic citizenship, which is granted to minor-aged children of naturalized parents, which in this case would be her dad, who fled to the U.S. in 1995.
Omar, along with her father and siblings, all became U.S. citizens in 2000. However, if Omar was older than 17 at the time, which some believe to be the case, then her citizenship could be revoked. A social media video from 2019 made a compelling argument that Omar was either 18 or 19 in 2000 when she said she became naturalized. This would mean her citizenship isn’t valid via a parental path, which would constitute fraud.
Two days after the video went viral, Omar’s official birth year on the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library website was changed from 1981 to 1982, according to accusations made by former Minnesota congressional candidate AJ Kern, who cited archived versions of the site that revealed the change. The records today say Omar was born in October 1982, which would mean she was 17 at the time of her naturalization.
Strangely, the Minnesota congresswoman has never publicly produced a birth certificate, claiming that all of those important papers were destroyed during the unrest in her native country. The top former immigration official said that if Omar’s father lied on any of his citizenship paperwork and she went along with it, she could have her citizenship revoked.