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A federal search of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington apartment has brought the spotlight back to the odious Democrat and her little-known family as Department of Homeland Security investigators wrap up a long-running probe into whether Omar was actually over 17 when she automatically received U.S. citizenship from her naturalized citizen father - a detail that could jeopardize her status. But what do we know about the rather mysterious Omar family and her father, who some claim posed as a refugee to obtain American documents? Here's what we know. According to Omar's official biography in the House of Representatives, the now 44-year-old's family fled war-torn Somalia when she was just 8 years old. The family of eight then spent 4 years in a refugee camp in
Kenya before arriving in the US in the 90s. Omar claims to have received automatic U.S. citizenship in 2000, which is granted to minor children of naturalized parents, in this case her father, Noor Omar Mohamed. However, Omar's citizenship is now being questioned due to two widespread allegations. The first is that Omar was actually over 17 years old when she obtained citizenship. So, Ilhan Omar has never publicly released her birth certificate. She actually claimed that her birth certificate and any similar papers had been destroyed or disappeared in her homeland of Somalia due to political turmoil there. We spoke exclusively with a Minnesota woman who has been following
Ilhan Omar for a long time, and she discovered that when Omar first ran for office in Minnesota, she listed 1981 as her birth year. This is significant because it would mean she was 18 or 19 when her father naturalized in 2000. So, if she had not been a minor in 2000, she would not have been a US citizen. Another allegation concerns Omar's father, who some claim posed as a refugee to U.S. officials when he applied for citizenship. The Minnesota congresswoman has long described her father as an educator who, along with millions of others, fled the country's devastating civil war. But an expert researcher exclusively told the publication that Nur Omar Mohamed was actually a prominent military commander in the Somali dictatorship that
killed up to 200,000 people. Born in the Somali coastal city of Bandar Beila in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, Nur joined the Somali army in the late 1960s, with conflicting reports suggesting he received training in the Soviet Union or Egypt. He allegedly played a key role in Siad Barre's army after the bloodthirsty dictator seized power in a Soviet-backed coup in 1969. Nour's military career ended when Barre was removed from power in 1991 after two decades of oppression This poses problems for her immigration, as American immigration law clearly states that people who have participated in the oppression or persecution of any
other group in their country are not eligible for refugee status upon arrival in the United States. This means that if he were found to have participated in actions against another group in a particular country, he would not be able to obtain refugee status, therefore, he would not be able to naturalize, and therefore his family and daughter would not be eligible for U.S. citizenship. Noor died from complications of COVID-19 in June 2020 at the age of 67. Omar has long maintained that her mother, Faduma Abukar [__] Hussein, died when she was 2 years old and her father raised seven children alone. However, the identities of five of
Omar's six siblings remain completely unknown. Omar's only known sister, Sahar Noor, has been photographed with the congresswoman and recently published a memoir about emigrating from Somalia. Noor also runs a consulting firm in Minneapolis whose clients include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups. The New York Times reported that Noor received a subpoena as part of a federal investigation into Surprisingly, Omar never mentioned her other siblings. Rumor has it that some of the children went to the UK, while others came here to the US, and it remains a mystery who her other siblings are.
Omar's second husband is a man named Ahmed Elmi who lives in the UK, and people have long suspected that he may be her brother. Of course, Omar denies this. Omar called the accusations that she married her brother bigoted, baseless and racist. This accusation first arose within the Somali community itself in Minnesota. Some Somali bloggers claimed that when Ahmed Elmi arrived in the city, she herself introduced him as her brother. This is what these people say. He needed documents to stay in the country, and Omar married him so he could get them. That's the same accusation. Contrary to what many people think, having heard the accusation that Omar married her brother, allegedly in order to obtain documents herself. In fact, the accusation is that she
did it so that he, her alleged brother, could get the documents. This would mean that Omar was already a citizen at the time of her marriage to him. According to our sources, the Department of Homeland Security is looking at the case the wrong way, and there are many reasons for that. There is a statute of limitations for sham marriage cases. A sham marriage is a very serious crime. This carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison, a hefty fine of $250,000, but there is a 5- year statute of limitations from the last time the couple officially passed themselves off as a legal spouse. This likely ended in 2017, when Omar and Ahmed Elmi, her alleged brother and husband, separated. So, most likely, that's not what the feds are looking at. Our
messages seem to indicate otherwise. Omar's current marriage, her fourth, to former campaign staffer and U.S. citizen Tim Mynette will not protect her from deportation. Omar was married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, only in a Muslim ceremony in 2002, which has no legal force and is not recognized by the state. The couple separated in 2008. In 2009, she married Elmi, who had long been considered her brother, in a sham marriage for the sake of a green card so he could stay in the country, but that marriage ended in divorce in 2017. Omar reconciled with Hirsi in 2012, and they officially married in 2018. A year later they divorced. In March 2020, Omar announced that she had married Mynette, a political consultant who worked for her So, if the Department of
Homeland Security finds irregularities in her naturalization process or if she committed immigration or naturalization fraud, criminal proceedings may be initiated first. That is, she will be charged with committing fraud, and after that, a civil process may begin, namely the procedure for deprivation of citizenship. Therefore, she could be stripped of her citizenship, if she had one, and expelled from the country.
