Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has publicly stated that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother and suggested she could face deportation if ongoing investigations confirm immigration fraud.
Speaking with conservative commentator Benny Johnson on at the Republican National Committees National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, Mullin directly addressed long-circulating allegations surrounding the Minnesota Democrats immigration history. According to The Gateway Pundit, the secretary did not mince words about the seriousness of the claims and the potential legal consequences for Omar, a high-profile member of the progressive Squad and a frequent critic of U.S. immigration enforcement.
Secretary Mullin, who now oversees the Department of Homeland Security, indicated that federal authorities are actively reviewing Omars case and others like it. Somethings going to happen We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States possibly some illegal activity, Mullin told Johnson, underscoring that the matter is not being treated as a mere political talking point. He added, Its not just this case, were looking at a number of cases similar to this where were looking at there may have been fraud from the get-go.
These remarks lend new weight to allegations that conservative outlets and investigators have pursued for years regarding Omars background and the circumstances under which she and her family entered the United States. The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Ilhans alleged immigration fraud since 2019, raising questions about whether she and members of her family misrepresented their identities to secure asylum. Those questions, long dismissed by the left as conspiracy theories or xenophobic smears, now appear to be drawing attention at the highest levels of federal law enforcement.
Central to the controversy is the claim that Omars family assumed a false surname to gain entry into the United States as refugees in the mid-1990s. Do Americans know the story on how Ilhan Omar made it into the United States? In July 2019 we reported on Omars father Nur Said, whose own background under Somalias Marxist dictatorship has raised additional red flags for critics concerned about national security and the integrity of the asylum system.
Journalist David Steinberg published an extensive report on the alleged crimes and history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the Omar family, detailing how the family allegedly manipulated the refugee process. In his report, David found that the Omar family changed their name in order to enter the United States, a move that, if proven, would constitute a serious act of immigration fraud. Via PowerLineBlog, Steinbergs findings suggest that Omars official biography is built on a foundation of deception rather than the standard refugee narrative promoted by sympathetic media.
According to that reporting, in 1995, Ilhan entered the United States as a fraudulent member of the Omar family. That is not her family. The Omar family is a second, unrelated family which was being granted asylum by the United States. The Omars allowed Ilhan, her genetic sister Sahra, and her genetic father Nur Said to use false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family.
This alleged identity swap effectively split the genetic family in two, with some members entering the U.S. under assumed identities while others went to Europe under their real names. Ilhans genetic family split up at this time. The above three received asylum in the United States, while Ilhans three other siblings using their real names managed to get asylum in the United Kingdom.
The names involved, as documented by Steinberg and others, further complicate Omars already controversial public profile. Ilhan Abdullahi Omars name, before applying for asylum, was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. Her fathers name before applying for asylum was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed. Her sister Sahra Noors name before applying for asylum was Sahra Nur Said Elmi. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
Power Line also included this graphic on the Omar Elmi family, visually mapping the alleged relationships and name changes that underpin the fraud claims. This ties in to The Gateway Pundits previous report by Joe Hoft on Ilhan Omars father, which delved into his role under Somalias former Marxist regime and the implications for his eligibility to reside in the United States.
The Gateway Pundit obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, particularly regarding her fathers political past. Omars father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally.
The reporting alleges that Omars father Mohamed is among a group of former regime insiders who fled Somalia after the fall of the Barre dictatorship and slipped into the West without proper vetting. Omars father Mohamed, is living in the US. He and other Somalians like Yusuf Abdi Ali, who killed thousands for Barre, escaped to the West and were not vetted properly before entering the country. Barre was a dictator and was connected to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as well as other dictators around the globe.
Alis case, often cited by critics as a cautionary tale of failed vetting, underscores the gravity of allowing former enforcers of totalitarian regimes into the United States. Ali is a convicted war criminal who did the killing himself. Ali has been located in the US working as security at Dulles International Airport and driving for Uber in 2019. He reportedly lived at one time in Alexandria, Virginia. Ali was a Colonel in the Somalian Armys 5th Mechanized Brigade in 1987 and was a graduate of the Pentagons Program for Foreign Officers in 1986. Hes also a war criminal in response to his actions in Somalia.
By contrast, Nur is portrayed as a key ideological figure rather than a battlefield commander, but his alleged role is no less troubling from a legal standpoint. Nur, Representative Omars father, appears to have been a party propagandist under the dictator and was responsible for ideological aspects of the Red-Green revolution. (He worked for the Marxist/Stalinist regime under dictator Baare as a teacher of teachers.) This could have included providing the ideological/political justification for the massacres of the late eighties.
It is not a secret that Ilhan Omars father illegally entered the United States, according to these investigative reports. The Nur family was well connected in the country led by the Marxist regime. Young Omar went to kindergarten at age four, their family lived in a secure compound in Mogadishu. When the regime was overtaken, the family caught a plane to escape the country.
The stark contrast between the average Somali citizens poverty and the Nur familys privileged status further fuels skepticism about their refugee narrative. The average GDP per capita in Somalia was only $187 dollars in 2010 twenty years after they fled the country when the regime fell. Obviously, Nurs family was a privileged family.
Even the dramatic escape story often repeated in sympathetic profiles of Omar raises questions when weighed against the broader context of the regimes collapse. According to a 2016 article on Omar, when the Marxist regime was being overtaken the secure compound that the family lived in was under attack by 20 armed men, somehow the family escaped. It is not clear how. Either the family had superior armed guards within their compound or they bribed the attackers and sent them on their way (or the story is a complete fabrication).
Both Ali and Nur escaped Somalia after the fall of Barre, and critics argue that their flight was less about persecution and more about evading justice. Because they were no longer safe there and would have been put on trial and shot if caught, they exited the country. Both ended up in the US and both hid the fact that they worked for a totalitarian regime. Both lied on their Form N-400, Application for Naturalization about their communist background. (They had to or they wouldnt be here.)
The legal framework governing such cases is clear and longstanding, rooted in the nations determination to keep totalitarian ideologues and enforcers from gaining citizenship. As you can see below: The Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) contains a prohibition on naturalization for anyone involved, within the last ten years, with a group that advocates or teaches opposition to all organized government; or involved with the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party of the U.S. or any foreign state; or who advocates world communism or totalitarian dictatorship even without formal group membership. (See I.N.A. Section 313).
On that basis, conservative legal analysts argue that both Nur and Yusuf should be disqualified from permanent US residency and a revocation of their US citizenship should take place. Representative Omar reportedly lied after she married her brother in order to assist him in obtaining US citizenship.
This would obviously disqualify Omar and her brother from legal citizenship, if proven in a court of law or through administrative proceedings. With Secretary Mullin now openly acknowledging the allegations and hinting at forthcoming action, the case against Omar and her family is no longer confined to investigative blogs and conservative media, but is edging into the realm of federal enforcement where, as many on the right have long insisted, it has belonged all along. Hat Tip Yaacov Apelbaum.
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