00:00Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar could be in hot water over her immigration status,
00:05but her marriage to her alleged brother may not be the reason she's booted out of the U.S.
00:10In 2009, Omar wed Ahmed Elni, the U.K. national who was long rumored to be her brother.
00:16But a federal probe into Somalia-born Omar's past is more likely to focus on how she became
00:22a U.S. citizen as a teenager and paperwork filed by her father. A former ICE lawyer told the Post
00:28that prosecutions related to Omar's rumored green card marriage to Elni, which ended in divorce in
00:342017, are a dead end for several reasons. A U.S. citizen who participates in a sham marriage
00:41couldn't be deported. The lawyer told the Post that if proven, Omar's alleged brother would be
00:47banned from entering the U.S. again, but Omar couldn't be kicked out on that alone. Omar would
00:52also dodge felony criminal charges related to marriage fraud because of a five-year statute
00:57of limitations, which expires upon divorce. Minnesota state law also states that incest
01:03charges would only be brought with evidence of sexual contact. But a former executive-level
01:09federal official told the Post that Omar could easily put the topic to rest if she were truly
01:14innocent with a DNA test. That official nonetheless predicted that Omar would, quote,
01:19loudly and publicly refuse the DNA test and, quote, pout and scream and say it's offensive
01:25and a witch hunt. Despite the alleged green card marriage dead end, Trump officials have teased
01:31that the far-left Congresswoman's mysterious immigration origin story is under examination.
01:36In an interview with Benny Johnson, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
01:41all but confirmed that investigators were looking into Omar's family migration.
01:46What's going to happen, Mr. Secretary?
01:49Something's going to happen.
01:52And this is an ongoing investigation.
01:55We know that she married her brother to try to bring him in the United States.
02:01We know he lives now in London.
02:04We feel that this may, you know, there's even may more be, there may be more to this,
02:10the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United
02:15States to begin with.
02:16A top immigration official told the Post that if Omar's father, Noor Saeed Mohammed Elmi,
02:22lied on her immigration application to become a citizen, then the Trump administration could,
02:27quote, initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship.
02:32Omar claims she received automatic U.S. citizenship because her naturalized father
02:37fled to the U.S. in 1995 from war-torn Somalia and was of minor age.
02:42But if Omar was actually older than 17 at the time, as some believe, then her citizenship
02:48would be revoked.
02:49A viral social media video from 2019 blew the rumor wide open when it was argued Omar was
02:5518 or 19 in 2000 when she said she became naturalized, which would have made her too old
03:01for naturalization via a parental path and constitute fraud.
03:05Congressional records today report Omar was born in October 1982, making her 17 at the
03:12time of naturalization.
03:13A former top immigration official said that if Omar's father lied on any of his immigration
03:18paperwork and Omar went along with it, she could be stripped of citizenship.
03:23And the source added that her fourth and current marriage to former campaign staffer
03:27and U.S.-born citizen Tim Minnett would not shield her from deportation.
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