In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. [194] In August 2019, she published an anonymous threat she had received of being shot at the Minnesota State Fair, saying that such threats were why she now had security protection. [245], In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (n Aden). "Minnesota House Hopeful Calls Marriage, Fraud Claims 'Lies.'" He then gave the reporter a different birthdate for himself than the April 4, 1985, birthdate given for Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Omar's divorce petition. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, born Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (born 1983 in Somalia) is the Democratic Party representative from Minnesota's 5th district, previously held by Antifa promoter Keith Ellison.Ilhan Omar is a bigot who previously held a seat on the coveted House Foreign Policy Committee.. A phony anti-establishmentarian, Omar voted in 2021 to make Nancy Pelosi House Speaker. He states that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed shortens his name. The pair go on to have two children. Why would Omar commit a federal crime and risk a prison sentence (and possibly her own citizenship status) in order to provide her brother with the opportunity to apply for something he would already have been eligible to seek? [203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. And why is there no record of Elmi's having applied for or obtained such status if that was the whole point of his supposedly "fraudulent" marriage to his alleged sister? Furthermore, the site Snopes pointed out some significant logical holes in the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother and that she married him to help him gain citizenship. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. [186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. But photographs obtained by DailyMail.com prove he was in the US, in Minneapolis (the town where they got married), until 2012. Elmi is still in the US according to college officials and social media, 2016: The marriage is brought up during Omar's campaign for congress, She denies it and it is largely ignored because of the lack of proof around it, July 2019: President Trump thrusts the rumor back into the spotlight. [42], As of September 2015, Omar was the Director of Policy Initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network, advocating for women from East Africa to take on civic and political leadership roles. "[212], Omar has frequently been the target of online hate speech. On Somalia What Trump said: "She smeared US service members involved in Black. In response, Buck was removed from the National Republican Congressional Committee's Young Guns program. ", Trump poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, accusing Omar, who came to the US as a young girl, of "abandoning her country" and saying "she should apologize for marrying her brother.". [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". 17 October 2018. 12 August 2016. "[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. Jennifer Smith The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported just before the 2018 midterm elections that: During an interview, Omar showed a reporter cellphone photos of documents from her family's U.S. entry in 1995 after fleeing Somalia's civil war. Freshman Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who burst into the national spotlight last fall as part of a wave of trailblazing lawmakers in Congress, is divorcing her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, PEOPLE. As reported by Business Insider here , there is no hard evidence that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who she legally married in 2009 based on her statement, ( here) is her brother or that Omar committed fraud. "[216], On April 11, 2019, the front page of the New York Post carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month. In his honor I am voting for an inspirational ticket over desperate and maddening one", "Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband", "Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships", "Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar finalizes divorce", "US Rep. Ilhan Omar divorces husband in Minnesota", "Ilhan Omar makes history, becoming first Somali-American elected to U.S. House", "For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend", "Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby", "What the controversy over Ilhan Omar's tweets tells us about AIPAC today", "Trump demonized Somali refugees in Minnesota. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018. [38] During a contentious precinct caucus that turned violent in February 2014, she was attacked by five people and was injured. Allegations that Elmi is Omars brother first emerged in a since-deleted post to the Somali Spot message board by a user named AbdiJohnson in 2016. I don't know but I'm sure that somebody would be looking at that,' he said. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policies qualify immigrants as eligible to apply for permanent residency status (and later become naturalized citizens) if they are the "spouse of a U.S. citizen" or the "brother or sister of a U.S. She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. The Examiner further discovered a 2013 local news article which said that Omar and Hirsi "moved to North Dakota so that Omar could finish her bachelor's degree in political science" from 2009 to 2011, the exact time frame during which she was legally married to Elmi, who also attended North Dakota State. [192] In December 2019, George Buck, another Republican running for Congress, also suggested that Omar be hanged for treason. But experts have said that if the taxpayer files a correction within three years, as Omar's attorney and accountants did in 2016, then there are normally no further consequences, and the Internal Revenue Service is unlikely to pursue punitive measures unless there is a large discrepancy or fraudulent intent. Here are some of the key points from their report: In 2002, Omar, then 19, religiously married Ahmed Hirsi, but not legally. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. Omar initially denied the split, but one source in the Minneapolis Somali community said the pair broke up months before and claimed Omar was privately lobbying Hirsi to divorce her. "[106], In 2019, Omar signed a letter led by Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Rand Paul to President Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the futurein particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. "[108], Omar condemned the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, tweeting, "No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship. At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said. In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. This collaboration garnered almost half a million views. , updated "[94], Omar supports broader access to student loan forgiveness programs, as well as free tuition for college students whose family income is below $125,000. She has said they had an unofficial, faith-based Islamic marriage. As per reports, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. [6] Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, on Feb. 12, 2009, according to a marriage certificate issued in Hennepin County. They were reportedly married in a religious ceremony in 2002. Omar and Hirsi reconciled after that and . Despite being unverified, the post was picked up by Powerline, a blog that "features commentary on the news from a conservative perspective," who reported in a 12 August 2016 post that: A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information suggesting Omar's involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. [188], On April 7, 2019, Patrick Carlineo Jr., was arrested for threatening to assault and murder Omar in a phone call to her office. Elmi and Omar separated just two years later, in 2011, but did not get a legal divorce. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. They obtained. U.S. [95] Omar supports Bernie Sanders's plan to eliminate all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt, funded by an 0.5% tax on stock transactions and a 0.1% tax on bond transactions;[96] she introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives. In 2009, Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, but they separated in 2011 (without obtaining a legal divorce), and Elmi returned to England. Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive. Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. And more important, if Elmi's intention was to enter into a fraudulent marriage with Omar to gain a green card and settle permanently in the United States, it doesn't explain why he left the US and moved back overseas to London just two years after getting married. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". The strongest was mediation lawyer Antone Melton-Meaux, who raised $3.2 million in AprilJune 2020, compared to about $500,000 by Omar; much of Melton-Meaux's funding came from pro-Israel groups. "Marriage Discrepancy Clouds Ilhan Omar's Historic Primary Victory." Saudi Arabia, for one", "No, BDS Is Not Anti-Semitic, And Neither Is Ilhan Omar", "Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign", "Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. No evidence like a birth certificate or other legal document has surfaced to prove the theory. Complicating matters further, both the Star Tribune and the Examiner reported that the address in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights that Omar and Elmi listed on their 2009 marriage-license application was the same location Hirsi listed as his home address when applying for a business license with the state government that same year. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, NOW WATCH: 8 key takeaways from Trump's State of the Union address, amid other Islamophobic attacks and insults against Omar, In a November 17 speech on the House floor, poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016. Where he lived before he married Omar in 2009 in Minnesota remains a mystery. In January 2019, amid the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Omar joined Democrats Ro Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard in denouncing the Trump administration's decision to recognize Juan Guaid, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, as Venezuela's interim president. [47], During her tenure as state Representative for District 60B, Omar was an Assistant Minority Leader for the DFL caucus. If Omar did marry her brother, she could be found guilty of committing marriage fraud a felony offense punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $250,000. Black Lives Matter and other activists used the phrase to call for police budget reductions and a plan to delegate certain police responsibilities to other organizations. In 2009, she married a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she ultimately divorced in 2017. "[254], In 2020, HarperCollins published Omar's memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, written with Rebecca Paley. [29][30][31], Omar's family secured asylum in the U.S. and arrived in New York in 1995,[32][33] then lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia,[25] before moving to and settling in Minneapolis,[25] where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office. BBC. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." Also from 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar lived with, raised three kids with, and illegally filed multiple joint tax returns with a second man not Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. Omar "was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, contradicting the story she tells to explain her multiple marriages," the Washington Examiner reported Sunday based on an extensive review of local records such as speeding tickets that display addresses. Conservative bloggers have claimed that Omar's second husband, a British citizen named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card. In October, the mom-of-three filed for divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi after The Post exclusively revealed allegations she was having an affair with DC political consultant Tim Mynett. Omar and Elmi split two years later in 2011 and the freshman lawmaker got back together with Hirsi and they had a third child. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel said it was "deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens" and asked Omar to retract her statement. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and later said the two obtained a divorce in their Muslim faith tradition albeit not a legal one in 2011. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. [196], Two Republican candidates for congressional office have called for Omar's execution. Both Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage documents and her 2017 divorce proceedings state that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was born on April 4, 1985. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding. 2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a "British citizen." School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University. Representatives to Israel that Miftah co-sponsored, but that was before Israel enacted its anti-BDS law). But as a British citizen Elmi could have studied at any university in the European Union or European Economic Area, and in some of those countries his education would have been tuition-free. "As soon as Ilhan Omar married him," the post continues, "he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. We found no evidence this circumstance has changed (although federal prosecutors generally do not publicly comment on investigations in progress or lack thereof). They had two children before splitting in 2008. If Elmi was so desperate for U.S. residency/citizenship status that he engaged in a sham "marriage" with his sister in order to seek it, why did he return to England after his split with Omar? 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