HSI Agents Raid Ilhan Omar’s Home in Immigration Paperwork Probe
The raid is connected to a federal investigation into her immigration paperwork.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents raided the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) this morning in connection with a probe of her immigration paperwork, according to Fox News.
Omar’s father filled out the paperwork when she was a child.
“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” a DOJ spokesperson told Fox News this morning. “This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation.”
BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) home was raided by the Feds this morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
DOJ spox to @FoxNews:
“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 12, 2026
Omar responded:
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be silenced.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be…
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 12, 2026
In September, Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started an investigation into Omar’s immigration papers due to claims she married her brother to obtain citizenship.
Former federal prosecutor and current immigration attorney Michael Wildes explained to Fox News how the feds face an uphill battle:
Wildes said that investigators would need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Omar knowingly entered her marriage — to a man critics allege is her brother — for the sole purpose of evading U.S. immigration laws.
“In order to establish a successful marriage fraud case, the government would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt… that the defendant knowingly entered into a marriage with the primary purpose to evade immigration laws and get a benefit,” Wildes said.
Wildes noted that even if Omar and her husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, decided after getting married that their partnership could be a scheme for Elmi to fast pass America’s immigration process, this would not be considered marriage fraud in court.
He continued, “Those are very high bars and thresholds that they would have to surmount. The immigration benefit cannot be a byproduct or secondary consideration. This is not deemed to be illegal.”
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to dismiss allegations against Omar concerning financial disclosures “that briefly made her look like a multimillionaire.”
That investigation began under the Biden administration. It had nothing to do with President Donald Trump.
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Somebody did something.
Maybe they’ll get half way to the bottom of it.
It’s already foundering. They wanted to toss her panty drawer, but it turns out she doesn’t have one.
Surely an incestuous marriage would be inherently illegal, or am I mistaken about incest being illegal?
-shrug- It’s all relative
It’s a game the whole family can enjoy…
All the relatives enjoy it.
Mere marriage to a sibling is not incest. In fact, the logic supports that no incest occurred. Regardless the SOL on that aspect has expired. DNA samples are not in the cards. He is in South Africa. Even if they prove a voided marriage, it doesn’t automatically prove immigration fraud. In over a decade of these accusations being tossed around, anyone would have scrubbed documents and computers. There is no SOL for denaturalization, but it will prove impossible to prosecute.
If the pressure gets too great she may need to check herself into an Ohio facility.
Yeah, ok, but here’s the thing. A federal search warrant was issued, A federal agent must formally state under oath that there is probable cause to believe a federal crime was committed and that evidence is located at the specified place. Now Jack Smith isn’t involved and this concerns a Democrat in DC. In nutshell, this seems to be something serious that could definitely be prosecuted.
Yes, and if so it isn’t any of the things being publicly discussed. There must be something else going on. If they find enough evidence of whatever it is, we’ll eventually hear about it. If they don’t then I assume we’ll never know what this is about.
Uh huh, whatever. The facts as known reek of immigration fraud on multiple levels, including a marriage to a brother. As for what is prosecutable, I guess we’ll see but that does not erase the facts. .
Concise, the fact is that she can’t be prosecuted for the marriage, which means that can’t be the basis for the warrant. No honest judge would issue a warrant to search for evidence of a crime that can’t be prosecuted. So there must be something else going on, that they’re not talking about because it’s none of our business.
You seemed determined to misrepresent both the law, the facts and my comments “Milhouse”. As noted, a warrant was issued and the facts surrounding her circumstances support allegations of fraud on multiple levels. We haven’t seen the warrant but it convinced a judge. The matter is not limited to her fraudulent marriage, as much as you would like to distort the issue. And your comments on “prosecution” for her scam marriage are just another distraction and irrelevant to my comment because I never made such a claim. You need to practice your reading comprehension. And maybe consider commenting on bluesky. They’d welcome you.
See @shipwreckedcrew on X
I figure whatever they are investigating is probably financial. The most provable federal crimes tend to be financial. It may have little to do with immigration other than the identity of the conspirators.
Concise, you are the one continually and deliberately misrepresenting my comments.
I repeatedly made the point that the fact that the warrant was issued is a good indication that this is not about the sham marriage. MewCat agrees with me that it is likely to be about something completely different, something that we don’t know about.
They probably suspect her of some recent crime, recent enough to prosecute it; perhaps they have probable cause to believe that she was personally involved in the various MN fraud cases. That would certainly justify a warrant, and could land her in prison.
And fun fact. There is no statute of limitations for civil denaturalization.
Fun fact, I wrote that in my reply, moron.
Stop the name calling
No, Howie, my legally challenged friend (I won’t fault you for your intellectual deficiencies and lack of knowledge because you can’t help that). Denaturalisation is a civil, not a criminal matter. It has nothing to do with a prosecution as you suggest. And it is far from “impossible” to pursue as a legal matter. There is plenty of evidence and witnesses, we don’t need DNA samples from South Africa. And as for any actual prosecutable crimes at issue, as noted a warrant was issues on probable cause.
“Denaturalization” (which is a misnomer) is not a possible consequence of the sham marriage.
“Milhouse, “ if the government proves that the naturalization was illegally procured or obtained through misrepresentation, denaturalization is absolutely possible. That she engaged in other frauds like her scam marriage is also true. Just so you know, my obfuscating and dishonest friend, the facts can establish both circumstances. Not sure what your game is,
“Concise”, of course if the government can prove that her naturalization — hers alone and no other — was illegally procured or obtained through misrepresentation, then she was never a citizen in the first place, and the court to which the government brings such proof would so declare. No one questions that.
But all the speculation, including that discussed in this post, has been about the sham marriage, and the fact is that there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever that anything they discover about the marriage could possibly affect her naturalization. Nor could she be prosecuted for the marriage. Therefore the warrant can’t be connected to the marriage. It must be about something else.
“Incest” is not the point. Women don’t marry their brothers. So why did Omar marry hers? If the marriage was illegal, the point isn’t to prosecute for it, the point is to show illegality as evidence that there was an ulterior motive for the marriage – immigration fraud.
Also, the article doesn’t make this clear, but the marriage isn’t evidence that Omar’s naturalization was fraudulent, it’s to show that she was involved in the fraudulent naturalization of someone else (her brother). Omar’s naturalization was possibly fraudulent by way of concealment of the family’s involvement (in Somalia) with certain notorious Somalis that wasn’t disclosed and would have potentially prevented their admission into the country (the US).
Yes, I was replying to someone who thought it incest.
It is
Thank you for stating my understanding of the situation. Very good.
That’s impossible, for the simple reason that the brother was not naturalized. He has never purported to be a US citizen, so you can’t “prove” that he isn’t. There’s nothing to cancel.
To invalidate her naturalization you’d have to show that she knowingly lied about a material fact that would have prevented the naturalization had the truth been known. Nothing her father did is relevant to that.
THIS.
IS there a Statute Of Limitations on mistaken immigration & naturalization being reversible? Intentional – or not – there’s been more than one case of Nazis who immigrated and naturalized post-WWII
The Nazis committed perjury on their applications for naturalization, and therefore their naturalizations were invalid. An invalid naturalization doesn’t automatically become valid just because time has passed, just as someone who falsely claims to have been born in the USA doesn’t automatically become a citizen just because he’s now 50 years old.
If there’s a flaw in her naturalization, then she’s not a citizen and it doesn’t matter how long ago it was. But there’s nothing to indicate that there was any such flaw. And certainly her sham marriage, which happened long after her naturalization, can’t possibly have any effect on the naturalization’s validity.
Statutes of limitation apply only to prosecution. Whatever crime she may have committed by registering this sham “marriage”, it’s way too long ago to prosecute her for it. And even a successful prosecution could not possibly affect her citizenship.
Ah, you are correct, apparently she obtained her citizenship in 2000, she (faux?) married in 2009. If there was fraud, it impacts her bro / husband’s status not hers. The reportage had me confused on that point.
Even so, if BroHub’s paperwork was “mistaken” then he can still be de-naturalized and deported.
On her status – I know she has repeatedly publically claimed she “never faux married her brother” – “it’s all a racist plot”.. has she ever had occasion to say so under oath? I believe that would reset the clock for a NEW prosecution – if anyone in the DOJ has the balks to follow up.
No, he can’t be, because he was never naturalized and doesn’t live here.
As for setting a perjury trap by getting her to deny under oath that her “second husband” is her brother, for a false oath to be perjury it must be about a material fact. You can tell all kinds of lies under oath, and if they’re not material, i.e. no legal question rests on them, then it’s not perjury. So I can’t see how this perjury trap would work.
The purpose of investigating the marriage isn’t to prosecute anyone for it, per se, but to create evidence of an illegal act (marriage to a close family member) as part of the commission of another illegal act (immigration fraud) that can be prosecuted.
From the article:
“Wildes noted that even if Omar and her husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, decided after getting married that their partnership could be a scheme for Elmi to fast pass America’s immigration process, this would not be considered marriage fraud in court.”
This too-crafty attorney bypasses the questions of “Why marry your brother?” and “Why enter into an illegal marriage?” The answer to these questions is “To commit immigration fraud.” If this had been a legal, ordinary marriage to someone not related to Omar, these questions could not be asked. But because they can be asked, they must be asked because the answer becomes evidence of another crime.
Better yet, any evidence (like the existing marriage license (wish I could post a copy of it here) that she married her brother FOR THE PURPOSE of getting him illegally into the country is (ta daa) proof of a conspiracy to commit a fraud upon the federal government. If she even discussed it with him, it’s a conspiracy. That’s why prosecutors often pass up the actual committed crime which may be hard to prosecute in favor of conspiracy charges.
Personally (again, without the benefit of any evidence or legal knowledge) I’m guessing that they’re serving this warrant in pursuit of criminal fraud and corruption charges linked to the overwhelming amount of Somali fraud, both State of MN and federal, to which she is linked. Is she linked? Oh, yes, indeed. Through multiple proxies and cut-outs. It’s well documented, but probably not well enough to prosecute without additional substantial evidence. It’s my opinion that they’re going to be giving her the equivalent of an IRS audit to show every scrap of income, where it went, and how she became a multi-millionaire on a US Rep’s salary.
“(wish I could post a copy of it here)”
OneDrive/Google Drive is your friend…
But the statute has surely run on that.
That raid just got her even more votes. As if she doesn’t have that office for Life already.
And it gives all the communists running a talking point
I wouldn’t call myself a hater, but this woman has got me half way there.
She has me
All the way
Just kick her out along with all the democrats.
I have never cared for her, and I have strong opinions about the likelihood of her corruption. I will say however, that the Margo La raid left me with a real distaste for police (et al) raids on politicians’ homes, and a pre-dawn raid on the home of an active member of Congress makes me want to throw up.
They’d damn well better have something big, and I mean BIG, and they’d damn well better have it quick, and they’d damn well better be able to show that evidence existed in that house that would have been destroyed without the raid.
I don’t like her, but I hate this.
It’s hard to argue with your moral reasoning but…I still want that turban wearing. USA hating, mealy mouthed, jew hater and all her Somalian friends and neighbors out of my hemisphere. She and they just don’t assimilate well.
I feel your pain. But the Dems made the rules.
Game theory says that the best way to prevent your opponent from cheating isn’t to remind him of the rules, it’s to cheat in response. Doing so eliminates your opponent’s advantage and can cause him to sue for a return to the rules (a tacit admission that he was, in fact, cheating). I’m not saying the raid was cheating (that would require, e.g., withholding evidence from the court that issued the warrant) but I am saying when a standard of conduct is desired, the best way to establish it is to show your opponent that you’re willing to play by his rules. It doesn’t get you anywhere to hold to your own standards if that only permits your opponent to win. Although you can hold your head high as you grasp your last breath before you sink beneath the waves.
These insane meglomanic dems like hillary clinton believe they are untouchable so they commit whatever crimes they wish, limited only by being TOO obvious. But not subjecting them to the same thing Trump went through has made them all high, thrilled that they’re immune from law and decency.
On the contrary. The Mar A Lago raid, and the 6 AM perpwalk of Roger Stone (for which CNN mysteriously was onsite by 5 AM) left me with a burning hunger to see the same happen to many, many Democrat politicians, Especially when Sleepy Joe was left to clean up his own highly illegal caches of classified information with no official attention whatsoever.
This is what I voted for.
Make sure to rummage through her underthings drawer.
Whats the line on boxers being present there.
I’m curious: Raid evokes visions of body armored SpecOps Cosplayers kicking down the doors, putting everyone in cuffs and pointing guns in their faces.
Is that what happened?
Or did the DHS knock on the door, show them the warrant and execute it peacefully?
Words matter.
Too bad they can’t indict a hijab; she’s got hundreds of them. Besides, by this time she has destroyed any paper trails that lead to fraudulent immigration or” learing: center type fraud. She’s off, flying free as a hibjab plumed bird.
She can’t delete bank records, though.
Omar complained that they looked through her underwear drawer. Melania told her to get over it.
I’m curious what evidence they thought would be at her house. Particularly after so long. Remember, a search warrant has to show, among other things, that evidence is likely to be there now, not in the past. And a judge signed off on it knowing the high profile nature of this. Either an idiot of a judge or a hell of an affidavit attached.
Bear in mind that the posting notes that this was done “…in the Washington, D.C. area'” which means that they had to find a judge that would approve the warrant. I don’t think that there is a single judge in the D.C. area that ISN”T massively left-leaning; there may be one somewhere that we’ve never heard about.
But it means that the information in the affidavit for warrant must be pretty substantive.
In my opinion (completely unfettered by any legal facts or knowledge) it’s going to be an impossible bridge to cross in an attempt to show that Ilhan herself is responsible for the lies that her father swore to when she was a child to gain her unlawful entry to the United States.
Let’s see how many nits Milhouse can pick from this.
“Let’s see how many nits Milhouse can pick from this.”
I will wager the number will be higher than 10.
This is why I think that the warrant had nothing to do with any of that, and they’re looking into something completely different, something that isn’t public knowledge.
Maybe she was involved in some of the fraud in MN. That wouldn’t affect her citizenship, but if proven beyond reasonable doubt it could land her in prison.
I pray you’re right
My immediate reaction, as a non-lawyer, was that it didn’t have to do with the brother marriage assertion. SOL, various other problems. Even if all true, going to be tough getting a conviction. Sitting POV Congresswoman. Holy granola.
Not to say some collection of DOJ cowboys wouldn’t give it a try, but they would have to get a judge to sign off. Likelihood of brother/husband evidence hanging around 30 years later?
It has to be: something else other than brother/husband and something very significant. You don’t go after female POC Democrat Congress types without a well fitted iron jockstrap.
If Omar’s father committed fraud to help his family enter the country and later to get everyone naturalized, yes, I believe it does matter. “Fraud vitiates everything.” Everything downstream from fraud is tainted by the fraud. If a fraudster stole a million dollars, gave the money to an unwitting minor relative, and the latter bought a house with it, could the relative keep the house? I don’t believe so.
Excerpt from Google AI:
Courts have consistently held that “fraud unravels everything”. Even a formal court judgment or administrative order loses all legal standing if it was secured through forged documents, perjury, or misleading the court.
Yes, but her naturalization would presumably have been based on her application, not on anything her father did. So any fraud by him wouldn’t affect it.
But I’ve never seen any definitive statement on when and how she was naturalized.
I’ve seen it suggested that she was never naturalized in her own right, but was automatically included in her father’s naturalization. I haven’t seen any evidence for this, but I’ve seen the suggestion being thrown around.
If that is indeed the case, then if his naturalization was invalid then so must hers be. But that rests on this crucial point.
“Either an idiot of a judge”
Democrat rules.
Judges can now do idiot things with absolutely no fear of consequences.
That’s obvious nonsense. She was already a citizen, and her brother was not!
The best guess (and it is only a guess) for the purpose of the sham “marriage” is that it was to get him a residence permit to the USA; if so it seems to have failed, because I don’t think there’s any evidence that he ever did get the permit, or even want it. He may have originally wanted it and then changed his mind, or maybe he couldn’t get it even with the “marriage”; it’s not automatic.
If Mary didn’t bungle this, then Homan did. (This passage is why I mentioned in comment above that the article wasn’t clear.) See my comment above concerning Omar’s naturalization (which may also be under threat). There are two separate threads of potential investigation here (Omar’s naturalization, possibly invalid due to her father’s immigration fraud, and immigration fraud, by O and her brother for the benefit of the latter) that are being conflated.
It’s most likely a sloppy way of communicating, “to obtain citizenship for him.“
Except that as far as anyone knows there was never any attempt to obtain citizenship for him.
The purpose of the fake marriage to her biological brother was to gain him unfettered entry to the United States. This was because he was creating a horrible mess for the Elmi family by living a well-documented flamboyantly gay life in the UK.
Check out some of his selfies on-line…he’s a self-described flaming queer. His family had to find some way to yank him out of that lifestyle before all of its publicity started to unravel the chains of lies and immigration fraud that her family had exercised to simply get into this country. Little tiny tidbits like her father being a war criminal while trying to suppress uprisings (by one of the three “Somali” tribes) in Somaliland by horrific means. Funny he never mentioned that in his application, just that he was a “teacher”. Kinda like Adolf Hitler being just a painter.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Unlike this nonsense about citizenship that people have been recklessly flinging around.
Of course it’s speculation, because we don’t actually know the reason, but this is a reasonable guess.
Even if they could prove that, isn’t it well past the statute of limitations? So how could she be prosecuted?
And even if they could prosecute and convict her, this would not affect her citizenship at all. There is no possible way to use it as a way to invalidate her citizenship and deport her. And the brother can’t be deported because he doesn’t live here.
So what is the purpose of the investigation? A judge approved it, so it would seem to be legitimate. I concluded that there must be something else they’re looking for, something that isn’t public knowledge.
I answered this above. Briefly, a showing the marriage was illegal is evidence this illegal act was committed to further another crime – immigration fraud. Investigation into the marriage isn’t intended to result in a prosecution for the marriage, but to develop evidence for the prosecution of another crime.
Of course that would be the only possible federal crime involved. But as I wrote in comment you responded to, the statute of limitations has surely long run on that, so it can’t be prosecuted.
We voted for this
(1) Maduro: “Come and get me.”
(2) Omar: “You want to indict me, let’s see what you’ve got”.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be silenced.
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Whatever happened to no one is above the law from these dipsticks?
The difference between the sets of prosecutions are that Trump’s are likely being done by the book (which is why they have taken so long) and are charging real crimes. They aren’t lying to judges to get warrants, they aren’t prosecuting based on novel legal theories or unique interpretations of statute. If you’re withholding evidence from judges, bypassing established guard rails, and basically making sh*t up as you go along, that’s wrong. But if you identify real criminal activity, get appropriate warrants through legitimate means, then it doesn’t matter who you’re prosecuting under the principle “Nobody is above the law.”
Except Hillary, Joe, Fauci, Hunter, and 50 winners of the National Autopen Lottery.
There is no SOL on immigration fraud.
As a citizen, committing immigration fraud for someone else is a serious federal offense.
But Ilhan’s marriage to her brother is not the only fraud.
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’s name, before applying for asylum was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. Her father’s name, which she claims is Nur Omar Mohamed, was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed before applying for asylum.
The Omar family is an 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.
Even if proven, it was long before the statute of limitations, and also it would be her father’s fraud, not hers.
Why was there no 6 a.m. perp walk with her in her underwear. American youth are disappointed.
Not disappointed at all. Now if it was AOC that would be a different matter. In a multitude of other realities I suspect she would spend her evenings wrapping herself around a pole.
Now, it has been revealed that Trump officials are giving the investigation a hysterical nickname that evokes one of her most epic gaffes.
The Washington Post reported that a senior administration official confirmed the investigation is being referred to as “World War Eleven” and has accelerated in recent weeks.
It is possible that this search is related to the large-scale fraud schemes in Minnesota, particularly the multi-million dollar social services scandals (notably the $250 million Feeding Our Future children’s food program theft). My guess is that this search has something to do with that.
Sec Mullin recently accused Omar of being linked to suspected fraudsters through the immigration system, claiming she has personally signed sponsorship forms for 43 ghost individuals whose exact identities the federal government has been unable to verify.
See, that is a recent crime, and if enough evidence is found to prove it beyond reasonable doubt she can be prosecuted. There is no possibility that it could lead to her deportation, but it could lead to her imprisonment.
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said in a joint statement that “the Trump administration’s raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home is deeply disturbing and raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries.”
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The above mentioned Democrats must of forgot about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Ilhole’s comments about the Trump vendetta against her holds no water here. She is probably up to her ears in the Somali fraud and seems mum on the gang behavior in the Somali community. If she has done no wrong, then she shouldn’t fear being investigated. I suspect the raid on her abode is the result of her not being forth right in providing materials that would prove her innocence or guilt of the alleged crime. One must remember we are dealing with the party of mental illness.
Pray that she gets deported is all.
Ooh-ooh, you can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Deporting the somali dancing queen
That doesn’t seem possible, no matter what is found.
I agree with Milhouse that we should not assume the raid has to do with immigration. There is potential fraud in her business dealings. However, I would like to know why her citizenship status is not in question if it turns out that her father fraudulently became a citizen. Is it true that she received derivative citizenship?
No one seems to know how she became a citizen. All I can find is that it happened in 2000, but nothing about the details.
The MSM, FWIW, seems to suggest that she automatically became a citizen as a minor at the time her father became a citizen.
The controversy, according to the MSM, is that she may not have been a minor and thus eligible. Her birth date, apparently, has been changed to make her 17, when she may have been 18.
Who knows. I subscribe to George Carlins first rule—believe nothing the government says— and extend it to the MSM, being the propaganda arm.
Lowry on National Review podcast has some insights/facts into how she became a citizen.
Litle of Ilhan’s “story” sounds legit.
Little, that is.
The Democrat party has declared a Jihad, and they will fight tooth and nail for her without regard for any illegal activity
She most likely will not suffer any consequences.
Seems they might have more ammunition against Dimwit Omar on financial crimes like potential tax evasion, her Somali friends in Minneapolis, fraud, etc.
Mentioned in NYPost- a question on whether her father put incorrect birth year, on purpose, making her a minor and giving her automatic citizenship here when they came from Somalia.
If she has continued to lie about her birthdate on official forms, that is a problem.
With the caveat that I believe basically nothing from the MSM without further substantiation, it seems that her birthdate has been altered to make her 17 when she might have been 18 at the time she got automatic citizenship. Had she been 18, she would have had to get citizenship on her own.
While Milhous will probably explain that this doesn’t matter, this seems to this non lawyer to be fraudulent and her citizenship invalid as a result.
The crucial question being: how old is she? Was the date change correcting a legitimate error? If not, what now?
As I have said before, prosecuting a female, Muslim, POC, Democrat sitting Congresswoman? Buckle your seatbelts. This is not some 60 yr old white grandmother wandering through the Capital kind of case.
If and only if she never was naturalized in her own right, but piggy-backed on her father’s naturalization, then we have two possibilities that could result in her not being a US citizen:
1. If she was over 18 at the time, and never had her own naturalization, then she’s not a US citizen.
2. If she was a minor, but he told material lies on his application, then he was never naturalized, and therefore neither was she.
But both of these scenarios are speculative. But if one or the other turns out to be true, then it’s major news.
The state archives show that her birthdate was changed from 1981 to 1982, making her 17 when she gained citizenship. Had she been over 17, she would not have become a citizen.
That’s impossible, because they didn’t get citizenship here when they came from Somalia. No one ever gets citizenship on arrival! And there’s no way he could have predicted, when they arrived, when he might get citizenship. Nor would he have known the details of how that worked. It was far in the future.
Also, there’d have been no reason for him to do so. Why would he want to have her piggyback on his eventual naturalization, if he ever got around to doing that, rather than just let her do it herself?
So this particular suggestion makes no sense. What may make some amount of sense is that when he eventually naturalized (if he ever did) she assumed she was included, and never bothered checking until much later, after she’d already started in politics.
What’s also likely is that she has no idea of her actual birth date, and has been approximating it all her life. Any paperwork from Somalia would certainly have been lost in the course of their travails. Refugees often lack paperwork and have to reconstruct them from memory when they get to wherever they find refuge.
But now I’m seeing suggestions that the father may never have been naturalized either. Maybe he decided “Let’s not and just tell everyone we did”. If he never bothered getting naturalized, or was turned down but told everyone he’d done it, and she assumed she was included in his naturalization, then she may even have been an innocent victim. It may not have occurred to her until years later to check, by which time she was already in politics and couldn’t quietly correct it by getting naturalized then.
According to Article III Project founder and former Senate Judiciary Committee counsel Mike Davis, citing DC U.S. District Court’s public website, Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh was the magistrate on criminal duty from October 3 through October 16, 2026, the period covering the raid. He therefore would have signed the search warrant for Omar’s home.
Judge Sharbaugh was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in October 2024, near the end of the Biden administration, and was selected by the Democrat-controlled DC federal court.
He previously twice clerked for Obama-appointed Judge Robert L. Wilkin, first on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was sworn in by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg.
I wonder if he framed the pen he signed with? More likely, he incinerated it.