Also, if Ahmed Elmi were truly Omar's brother, why would he have needed to take the drastic step of marrying her in order to secure a path to U.S. citizenship? Omar released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 2016 to address the persistent rumors that she married her brother, which she called "absurd and offensive," and gave a timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 21 June 2018. 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. 17 August 2016. The same is true of the other three members of the Squad. The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. He even possessed a high school diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior. [252][253] On November 17, 2020, Omar's campaign terminated its contract with Mynett's firm, saying the termination was to "make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support. The New York Times 30 December 2018. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. Roughly half of the 90,000 tweets mentioning her included hate speech or Islamophobic or anti-immigrant language. In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. In August 2016, shortly after the rumor originally surfaced, then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andy Luger countered news reports by stating in a letter sent to an attorney retained by Omar that his office was not investigating criminal accusations related to these rumors. Hirsi is the father of Omar's three children. Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi, we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Right-leaning blogs have made a sport of digging into Ilhan Omar's personal history, sifting through public records and surfing through social media profiles of people believed to be associated with her, and in so doing they have inevitably surfaced some yet-unanswered questions. Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who has been working in the news industry since 2006. [35] On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. She suggested he's Islamophobic. Representatives to Israel that Miftah co-sponsored, but that was before Israel enacted its anti-BDS law). 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. What may still be of slightly more interest, is her marriage to her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. 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. She said she began to fear for her life when the evacuation began and as she was being escorted to a secure area she made a phone call to the father of her children to "make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn't make it out." "[106] She also condemned the Assad regime in Syria. [134][135], A number of Democratic leadersincluding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburncondemned the tweet, which was interpreted as implying that money was fueling American politicians' support of Israel. The rating on this fact check was changed from "Unproven" to "Unfounded" a rating that Snopes launched after the initial publication of this page based on the absence of demonstrable evidence to support the claim. Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. They reconciled and had a third child in 2012. 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. Elmi and Omar separated just two years later, in 2011, but did not get a legal divorce. [159][160] Less than two hours before the ban, President Trump tweeted that Israel allowing the visit would "show great weakness" when Omar and Tlaib "hate Israel & all Jewish people". Omar has repeatedly denied that her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother; the congresswoman called the allegations "absurd and ridiculous." She says Elmi is a British citizen and. [62] The 5th district is the most Democratic district in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, (it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26) and the DFL has held it without interruption since 1963. Omar has stated that the couple. Conservative bloggers have for years claimed that Omar's second husband, British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother and that she married him to help him fraudulently gain a US green card. Or maybe, like countless other people, she's had a complicated romantic past that she'd rather not discuss publicly. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. After President Trump repeated an unsubstantiated rumor that Ilhan Omar's second husband was in fact her brother on Wednesday, there was fresh scrutiny on the Democratic congresswoman's tangled personal life and marital history. [114][115], In a March 2019 Politico interview, Omar criticized Barack Obama's "caging of kids" along the Mexican border. Numerous public documents obtained and reported by news outlets including the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Examiner, however, cast doubt on Omar's official timeline of her marriage and relationship history. 2012: Omar and Hirsi have their third child. According to internet sleuths, Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all lived together in Fargo, where both she and Elmi studied atNorth Dakota State University. She legally wed Hirsi just months later right in time before she was sworn into office in 2018. At about the same time, the Examiner published a story reporting that in dozens of publicly available traffic violation and court records, Hirsi "listed his address at a single Cedar Riverside address consistently in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011," the same address Omar listed in separate traffic-violation cases, including during the time she was split from Hirsi. "Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive." Omar is poised to make history as the country's first Somali-American state lawmaker with an expected victory in. In 2011, Elmi moved to London (he is a British citizen of Somali descent), Omar and Hirsi got back together and had their third child a year later. Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate. [130] When asked in an interview how she would respond to American Jews who found the remark offensive, Omar replied: "I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans. However, it wasnt until 2017 that Omar finally got around to divorcing Elmi. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". [154], On March 7, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 40723 to condemn "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry" in response to Omar's remarks concerning Israel. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. Right-wing bloggers claimed that Omar is married to two men for immigration fraud purposes, and one of them, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. [119][120], On November 5, 2021, Omar was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. [35][33] In response to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune arguing that Omar should be more transparent about her use of campaign funds, she said: "these people are part of systems that have historically been disturbingly motivated to silence, discredit and dehumanize influencers who threaten the establishment. Associated Press. In 2016, Omar lambasted the suggestion that he was her brother, calling it an 'absurd and offensive' suggestion. [248] The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. Netanyahu also said that Omar and Tlaib did not plan on visiting or meeting with any Israeli officials from the government or the opposition, and additionally accused Miftah, the sponsor of Omar's trip, of having members who support terrorism against Israel (in 2016, Israel approved a visit by five U.S. Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. "Fox 9 Removes Story About Investigation Into Ilhan Omar's Marriage History." In her 2016 statement, Omar said that their . The marriage was criticized a lot, as it was suggested that Elmi and Ilhan were siblings and the sole motive of their marriage was speeding up Elmi's citizenship procedure. Unlike some states, Minnesota does not recognize common law marriage, and so such a joint filing is not legally permitted. Omar, 37, and Hirsi, 39, have three children; her divorce filing requests joint legal and physical custody. Thanks for contacting us. Because the marriage was never recognized by law, neither is the separation, 2009: Omar marries Ahmed Elmi in Minneapolis, 2010: He enrolls atNorth Dakota State University to study fine art and lives with Omar as well as her first husband, 2011: Omar claims she and Elmi split this year and he went back to the UK. Power Line also included this graphic on the Omar Elmi family. Omar and Hirsi had two children, but in 2008, they obtained a. He states that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed shortens his name. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was married to a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (as referenced here), but there is no evidence of a connection to the name "Esmi". 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. [155] On February 2, 2023, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a resolution, on a party-line vote, to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for what Speaker Kevin McCarthy called "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks. 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. 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. [64][65][66], Omar received the largest percentage of the vote of any female candidate for U.S. House in state history,[67] as well as the largest percentage of the vote for a non-incumbent candidate for U.S. House (excluding those running against only minor-party candidates) in state history. [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. That's why I say, 'Hey if you don't like it, let 'em leave, let 'em leave'", and "I think in some cases they hate our country". "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. and I have yet to legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but am in the process of doing so. 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