When asked on Thursday by The Daily Caller’s Myles Morell whether more of her colleagues should travel to El Salvador to “advocate on behalf of [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia”—an illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) responded, “I think you should f*** off.”
Shocked, Morell asked, “I’m sorry, what, congresswoman?”
“You should f*** off. You,” Omar replied.
At that point, one of Omar’s aides handed Morell a business card and said, “We’re not taking any more questions right now, but here you go.”
Following this surreal exchange, Morell posted his thoughts on X. After accurately describing the encounter, he said, “I found that very unprofessional and very rude, especially when I was just a journalist who’s trying to do his job.”
Responding to Morell’s post, the unrepentant, undignified, and unprofessional congresswoman wrote, “I said what I said. You and all your miserable trolls can f*ck off.”
Nice.
The response to Omar’s blatant lack of decorum was swift and unequivocal.
After securing asylum, the Somali-born Omar family arrived in the U.S. in 1995. (Ilhan Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000.) America welcomed the family, provided support, and ensured the children had access to education. In 2018, Omar was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet rather than expressing gratitude for the extraordinary opportunities this nation extended to her, she has repeatedly used inflammatory rhetoric to disparage the United States, our close ally Israel, and the Jewish people.
We all remember Omar’s explosive tweet in February 2019, “It’s all about the Benjamin’s baby.” She made that remark just one month after being sworn into Congress. She apologized, but the antisemitic comments never stopped.
She also made headlines when she minimized the 9/11 attacks on America as, “Some people did something.”
Though multiple resolutions have been introduced in the House to censure Omar for her despicable statements, she has never been formally censured. However, in February 2023, the House voted—along party lines—to remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution stated that Omar had “disqualified herself from serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a panel that is viewed by nations around the world as speaking for Congress on matters of international importance and national security.”
In response to Omar’s most recent tweet, Prof. Jacobson suggested she “study the case of Rasmieh Odeh—who lied on her visa and naturalization applications.”
As per U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was ordered deported from the United States in August 2017, following a federal immigration fraud conviction, and order revoking United States citizenship.”
If claims that Omar married her brother so that he could remain in the U.S. are true, then she committed immigration fraud. In February, The Daily Mail reported:
Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm. And now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.”No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,” Osman, 40, exclusively told DailyMail.com.Osman’s revelations are sure to renew calls for an investigation into the Minnesota freshman representative who has repeatedly refused to answer questions on her marriage to Elmi.She originally said the idea that the spouses were also siblings were ‘baseless, absurd rumors’, accusing journalists of Islamophobia, but has since stayed quiet.
Allegations surrounding Omar’s alleged marriage to her brother continue to circulate and refuse to fade from public discourse. The matter warrants a thorough investigation to definitively confirm or dispel the claims. If true, well, there’s a remedy for that.
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