This week, PJ Media editor and investigative journalist David Steinberg published another in his series of bombshell reports on the twists and turns in the family life of Ilhan Omar, a candidate for the open Fifth Congressional District seat in Minnesota.
The seat has been occupied since 2007 by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN-05), now a candidate for Minnesota attorney general. The district includes all of Minneapolis, the city with the largest population of Somali immigrants in North America.
Believed to be a shoe-in, Omar, once a Somali refugee herself, has never fully explained the circumstances surrounding allegations that she was married to her brother.
According to Steinberg:
Immediately after being elected to her current seat in 2016, Omar faced allegations — soon backed by a remarkable amount of evidence — that she had married her own brother in 2009, and was still legally his wife. They officially divorced in December 2017.
The motivation for the marriage remains unclear. However, the totality of the evidence points to possible immigration fraud and student loan fraud.
Rep. Omar has stated that she did marry “British citizen” Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, though the allegation that he is her brother is “absurd and offensive.”
…exclusive new evidence — from official archived high school records and corroborating sources — strongly supports the claim that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is indeed her brother.
Reporters and commentators have speculated that the marriage involved immigration fraud and have urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the matter.
The timing of Omar’s 2009 marriage to Elmi nearly coincides with the 2007-2008 scandal surrounding the Somalian community in which the FBI revealed that many young Somali men were leaving the U.S. to fight for the terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
While this was happening, an additional scandal rocked the Somalian community in Minnesota in 2008 when the U.S. Department of State (DOS) discovered widespread fraud in one of its largest programs for admissions to America, the so-called P-3 family reunification program.
First revealed by Miriam Jordan writing at The Wall Street Journal, the DOS learned that as many as 30,000 Somalis had entered America under the false pretense of “family members,” but were later determined through random DNA testing to have used the program fraudulently.
Large numbers of Somali refugee family members were found to not be biologically related at all. Under the scandal, Somali “relatives” were continuously being “found” and joining their “family” in the U.S. As Frontline reported in 2015, they were making up “ghost children.”
The degree of the fraud shocked the outgoing Bush Administration and as President Barack Obama took charge of the DOS, it had no choice but to suspend the program indefinitely. From 2008-2012, family reunification from Somalia, and other east African countries, was closed.
However, no effort was made by the Obama administration’s immigration officials to discover and remove those found to have committed immigration fraud. There is no evidence to date that Omar’s family participated in the widespread practice.
Indeed, when allegations surfaced in 2016 about Omar’s questionable marriage, then Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Lugar, an Obama appointee, refused to investigate, and corrected local affiliate KMSP Fox 9 for reporting that he did.
“U.S. Attorney Andy Luger says he did not ask U.S. Immigration & Customs (ICE) to investigate the immigration status of legislative candidate Ilhan Omar,” Fox 9 reported.
But now, under a new Republican administration, the DOJ and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have reopened investigations into fraudulent immigration, which, if the allegations against her are true, Omar could be tied up in.
In Nov. 2017, for instance, the DOJ revoked the citizenship of four Somalians living in Minnesota who had lied on their visa applications.
“The current immigration system is easily abused by fraudsters and nefarious actors, and that’s certainly true of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program,” Sessions said at the time. “If the fraud is not detected and swift enforcement actions are not taken, chain migration only multiplies the consequences of this abuse.”
[…] And if her life wasn’t colorful enough, there is reason to believe she married her brother. […]
[…] https://theminnesotasun.com/2018/10/26/ilhan-omars-alleged-marriage-to-brother-occurred-at-time-of-m… […]
[…] Rep. Omar has pushed back against what she considers the press nosing into her personal life. However, she’s strangely silent on many, many things, including refusing to name all of her siblings. Her controversial marriage to the man believed to be her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, coincided with a massive spate of immigration fraud within the Somali community. […]
[…] Omar married her biological brother is quite telling. A few Muslims in the Minneapolis community are cited by conservative journalists for coming forward to provide the back […]
[…] Kingdom, including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar allegedly married in 2009 and divorced in 2017. As The Minnesota Sun has previously reported, this alleged marriage to her brother occurred at a time of massive immigration […]
[…] the questions about Omar’s citizenship seem to be intertwined with evidence that she married her brother (how… progressive…) as part of a scheme to come to the United States from Somalia under […]
Why should Ilhan Omar be considered innocent until proven guilty?
Did the democrats and their allies in the mainstream news media consider president Trump innocent until proven guilty during the ‘Russia collusion’ sham investigation?
[…] Kingdom, including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar allegedly married in 2009 and divorced in 2017. As The Minnesota Sun has previously reported, this alleged marriage to her brother occurred at a time of massive immigration […]
[…] Kingdom, including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar allegedly married in 2009 and divorced in 2017. As The Minnesota Sun has previously reported, this alleged marriage to her brother occurred at a time of massive immigration […]
[…] Kingdom, including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar allegedly married in 2009 and divorced in 2017. As The Minnesota Sun has previously reported, this alleged marriage to her brother occurred at a time of massive immigration […]
[…] Kingdom, including Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom Omar allegedly married in 2009 and divorced in 2017. As The Minnesota Sun has previously reported, this alleged marriage to her brother occurred at a time of massive immigration […]
[…] Note – No–people are giving you a hard time because you married your brother, legal under sharia law, in order to come to the U.S. and you are still sympathetic to enemies of […]
Why is she not being investigated???
[…] be noted that this marriage coincides with a massive amount of immigration fraud in Minnesota’s Somali communities. The congresswoman was born in Mogadishu, […]
Can the good people of Minnesota remove her from office.?
It amazes me that people who are so quick to believe the worst of just about everyone can listen to the President saying things like he makes up facts all the time – which used to be called lying before Trump – and not find anything wrong with it. Slipping into alternative facts like a comfy old shoes, you’ll believe anything bad about people you don’t like and refuse to believe anything bad about politicians you worship. It is really hard to understand how you do that.
Double edged sword, my dear…
Innocent until proven guilty. Your correct on people believing only what they hear, and not what they know as fact. That being said, please list “facts” of, what President Trump has factually lied about? And are you ok with any congressman/congresswoman’s background check, not being fully “factually” checked? Especially ones who speak anti-Semitic/American views, and have alleged ties to individuals within known terrorist organizations? Does it not concern you? Does it not concern you that, Minnesota state officials were even briefed on the possibility of such concerns, but did absolutely nothing to investigate it before she was elected to the U.S Congress?
I hold both parties accountable to all laws, and each one should be held to the highest standards. I voted for Trump, and I hold him accountable too if, he violates laws while he is President.
I can list “facts” with “evidence”, of corruption, Treason, a coup against a democratically elected president and multiple felonies that, tax payer paid elected officials have committed. Neither side can deny this without failing a polygraph, or lying to themselves. So I hope that all that I have said, concerns you just a tiny bit more than, President Trump and his “alleged lies”, and the priority of what’s more important and at stake here.
Please look in the mirror when you say that Barbara…
REMEMBER
Bill never had sexual relations with that woman Monica Lewinsky…
YOU believed that!
Same way you did Obama I guess … remember if you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor said over and over … lol amazing how people forget.. At least Trump has done some good for this country that is why the Democrats hate him so much … lol
Barbara Allen, no one is jumping to conclusions here! We aren’t assuming anything….She came here and gave a fake name, that’s fraud!!! Before you start going off, maybe YOU should go and check the news reports and take a look at the documents that show what is to be facts…..we don’t need someone as a congresswomen if (yes IF) she has terriorist tendencies. we just want the facts and the truth.
Look this is crazy. It’s time we investigate this women. She should have documents. Her beliefs are so out there that if I were in Congress I would get her investigated as a foreign agent. Really people open your eyes!!!
Disgusting. Makes you want to puke.
ha, you want to puke, i don’t blame you, The Demorats are a party of Child Molesters……they married brothers , sisters, what else is new from this corrupt party…..
Her brother must be as despicable a human being as she is and evil to
How come I am not surprised?
I think the US immigration and the Citizenship department should revoke IIhan Omar Citizenship and deport her and her brother back to Somalia.