SDJW staff report
Nur Omar Mohamed, now deceased, received U.S. citizenship in 2000 through the naturalization process. His daughter, the now-Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, says she was 17 at the time and therefore qualified for derivative citizenship. They were refugees from Somalia,
The problem was that paperwork at the Minnesota Statehouse told a different story. Throughout Omar’s service in the Minnesota House of Representatives, her birthdate was officially listed as Oct. 4, 1981, which throws into question whether she was a minor when her father was naturalized.
After she was sworn into Congress, Omar and her staff claimed that the 1981 date was a clerical error and that she was actually born in 1982 — entitling her to derivative citizenship.
So matters stood until earlier this week when Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents raided her home in Washington D.C., carrying out an unknown number of boxes.
To add to Omar’s troubles, Tim Mynett, her third husband to whom she was married in 2020, has come under federal suspicion about the legitimacy of his business transactions.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S Attorney for Washington D.C., said the investigation centers on the truthfulness of Omar and Mynett in listing their financial assets.
Wherever the truth may lie, it’s less than three weeks until the Nov. 3 elections in which Omar seeks a fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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