[186] She was organizing the event and was a policy aide to Minneapolis City Councilman Andrew Johnson at the time. Omar serves as whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has advocated for a $15 minimum wage, universal healthcare, student loan debt forgiveness, the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding. Omar has not yet given a clear explanation as to why so many public documents point to her and Hirsi living together and being romantically involved while she was legally married to another man, but there is no solid evidence to support the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother. She then met and married Elmi, a British citizen, in 2009, according to the statement. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. Despite a 2011 split, Elmi and Omar did not get a legal divorce until 2017. [114][115], In a March 2019 Politico interview, Omar criticized Barack Obama's "caging of kids" along the Mexican border. Omar has stated that the couple. Given that Omar and her siblings all came to live in the U.S. under identical circumstances as refugees, and that Omar herself became a naturalized U.S. citizen while still a minor, how did one of her siblings end up with such a radically different immigration status that she would have needed to marry him in order to facilitate his U.S. residency application? [138] Omar issued an apology the next day, saying, "I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes", and adding, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. Conservative blogger Scott Johnsonpicked up the claims on his Power Line blog, and they were later repeated by President Trump. [246] Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. [213][214] According to a study by the Social Science Research Council of more than 113,000 tweets about Muslim candidates in the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, Omar "was the prime target. 16 August 2016. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin". And and officials at the university where they studied together say he was enrolled until that year too. [211], Foreign media has widely covered Trump's remarks about Omar and The Squad. 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. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi ." While these allegations haven't been picked. 2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. Politifact , the Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have looked deeply into that question and none were able to reach a definitive answer one . The Somali-community source personally observed Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all living together in the same family home in Cedar-Riverside with the couples two children. [210] On July 19, he falsely claimed that Omar and the rest of The Squad had used the term "evil Jews". Boebert referred to Omar as the "Jihad Squad". He is also a staunch social activist. "[57][58][59], On June 5, 2018, Omar filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee. However, its Omars 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi which has raised eyebrows and now prompted the involvement of the FBI, with records indicating she lived with both men at the same time. Forliti, Amy. "[173][174], In May 2020, Omar signed a letter backed by AIPAC calling for the continuation of the UN embargo against Iran,[175] with her office noting that it was a "narrow ask that we couldnt find anything wrong with." On Wednesday, Trump was on the White House lawn when he made the comment. Stay up to date with what you want to know. as well as other partner offers and accept our. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. Here are some of the key points from their report: In 2002, Omar, then 19, religiously married Ahmed Hirsi, but not legally. He has shut down a Facebook account he used to use and turned his Instagram account private on Thursday after Trump's comments. [139] Peter Beinart, after tweeting that the controversy was about "policing the American debate over Israel",[140] thought Omar's statement inaccurate, wrong and irresponsible, but argued that her congressional critics were more "bigoted" on Israeli-Palestinian issues than Omar. that she hadn't seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn't know anyone who could help her contact him. Omar shot down these allegations as "disgusting . [167], In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. Not only did all of Omar's six siblings also gain refugee status in the US, but siblings can sponsor one another for residency status and a green card under US immigration law negating the need for Omar and Elmi to commit fraud by getting married if he really were her brother. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune. In 2008 Omar and Hirsi reached an "impasse" in their relationship and separated (again under Muslim custom). 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. [82] A CBS News and YouGov poll of almost 2,100 American adults conducted from July 17 to 19 found that Republican respondents were more aware of Omar than Democratic respondents. Their divorce. ", "Florida Republican condemned for suggesting Ilhan Omar be executed for treason", "Florida Primary Election Results: 13th Congressional District", "Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen", "House Votes To Condemn Trump's 'Racist Comments', "Federal agency: "Go back to where you came from" is discrimination", "Trump slams congresswomen; crowd roars, 'Send her back! She responded to Netanyahu that she had intended to meet members of Israel's legislative Knesset and Israeli security officials. 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." Steinberg also alleges that Rep. Omar married her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009: he had already reportedly been granted asylum in the UK. [164][165] AIPAC released a statement saying that it disagreed with Israel's move and that Omar and Tlaib should have been allowed to "experience Israel firsthand", while the head of the American Jewish Committee put out a statement agreeing with AIPAC on the matter. [45] In November, Omar won the general election, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the United States. Omar's statement. "[108], In October 2019, Omar voted "present" on H.Res. [113] In November, after her controversial vote, Omar publicly condemned the Armenian genocide at a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. That same year, the National Legal and Policy Center alleged in a complaint, which was rejected . She was fined by Minnesota's campaign-finance watchdog for paying a lawyer with campaign funds to fix the mistake, as federal law prohibits people from filing joint returns with a person who is not their spouse. They were said to discuss the claims that Omar married Elmi, a British citizen, so he could obtain a green card and study and work in the United States. [25] Omar remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence. My father named me Ilham and inspired me to lead a life of service to others. The Star Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she. 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. Ahmed Elmi is Ilhan Omar's second husband who she married in 2009 in Minneapolis She had already been married to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi but only under sharia law - it was never recognized by. Omar, 37, and Hirsi, 39, have three children; her divorce filing requests joint legal and physical custody. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. "[137] The Anti-Defamation League accused her of promoting an "ugly conspiracy theory" about putative Jewish influence in politics. He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. According to prosecutors, Hasson is a self-described "long time White Nationalist" and former skinhead who wanted to use violence to "establish a white homeland." ", Trump poured more fuel on the fire in a Tuesday statement, accusing Omar, who came to the US as a young girl, of "abandoning her country" and saying "she should apologize for marrying her brother.". [131], In September 2019, Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley. [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. "[35], In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that Omar had to pay back $3,500 that she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law, plus a $500 fine. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. Elmi has campaigned in the past for causes in the country. [104][106] She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. June 23, 2019 04:32 PM MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. D ozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire. [22] According to MinnPost, the day before the caucus, Minneapolis city council member Abdi Warsame had told Johnson to warn Omar not to attend the meeting. 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. Omar married her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in an Islamic faith ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but the couple did not obtain a legal marriage certificate. "[178][179] Following the murder of Floyd, Omar supported the police abolition movement in Minneapolis that sought to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, saying that the department had "proven themselves beyond reform. According to internet sleuths, Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all lived together in Fargo, where both she and Elmi studied atNorth Dakota State University. "[216], On April 11, 2019, the front page of the New York Post carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month. Associated Press. If Elmi went to such lengths to commit marriage fraud to stay in the United States, it also doesn't make sense why he did not respond to Omar's multiple attempts to serve him with divorce papers given that she would have presumably been his sponsor for a green card. [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. I never liked the M sound. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? Omar claimed in 2016, when the rumor that they were related emerged online and denied it as 'absurd and offensive', that he moved to the UK in 2011. Conservative websites have claimed for years that Omar's second husband was really her brother. Why did Omar say in her 2017 divorce filing that she'd had no contact with Elmi since June of 2011 when she was seemingly photographed with him in London in 2015? "Scott reports that his sources told him, that Omar's legal husband was Omar's brother, and that she married him for fraudulent purposes, you mean like, coming into the United States maybe?". 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. Rep. Lauren Boebert revived unproven rumors sthat Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to commit immigration fraud. 2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a "British citizen." School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University. "[156][157] Many prominent House Democrats stood by Omar. [38][39][40], Omar began her professional career as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota, working in that capacity from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater MinneapolisSaint Paul area. At one point, they were. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, on Feb. 12, 2009, according to a marriage certificate issued in Hennepin County. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. [176], Omar supports a $15 hourly minimum wage.[25][177]. (Screenshot/Power Line) In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn't seen him since 2012. [2] According to Omar, in 2011 she and Elmi had a faith-based divorce and she reconciled with Hirsi, with whom she had a third child in 2012. Ahmed is a Senior Police Officer and a Business Executive in the United States. She sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. Both Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage documents and her 2017 divorce proceedings state that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was born on April 4, 1985. The statements were quickly criticized as allegedly drawing on antisemitic tropes. [194] In August 2019, she published an anonymous threat she had received of being shot at the Minnesota State Fair, saying that such threats were why she now had security protection. No one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is three years younger than Omar, could be seen listed in the documents. [142] House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Nita Lowey also called for an apology and criticized the statements in a March 3 tweet, which led to an online exchange between the two. [145][146] Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, said Omar was speaking out about "the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests. They didn't succeed in stopping the functions of democracy, but I do believe they succeeded in ending the openness of our democracy. 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. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." Also from 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar lived with, raised three kids with, and illegally filed multiple joint tax returns with a second man not Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The accounts have since been deleted, however. On another application dated September 30, 2002, Omar applied for a marriage license in Minnesota to marry the father of her . Omar's mother died when she was 2, so she and her siblings were raised by her father and grandfather. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Trump to "take down his disrespectful and dangerous video" and asked the U.S. Capitol Police to increase its protection of Omar. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012). The trio then decamped to North Dakota where Omar began studying political science at North Dakota State University in August 2009, the source said. In 2017, Omar legally divorced Elmi, and the following year, she legally . 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Omar said. [74][75] She defeated Republican Lacy Johnson and Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Michael Moore in the November 3 general election, with 64.3% of the vote to Johnson's 25.8% and Moore's 9.5%. What may still be of slightly more interest, is her marriage to her previous husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. "[123][129] The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world", was criticized as drawing on antisemitic tropes. [102][103] In October 2018, she tweeted: "The Saudi government might have been strategic at covering up the daily atrocities carried out against minorities, women, activists and even the #YemenGenocide, but the murder of #JamalKhashoggi should be the last evil act they are allowed to commit. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported just before the 2018 midterm elections that: During an interview, Omar showed a reporter cellphone photos of documents from her family's U.S. entry in 1995 after fleeing Somalia's civil war. 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. 20:43 GMT 18 Jul 2019. He states that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed shortens his name. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, List of African-American United States representatives, List of Muslim members of the United States Congress, Women in the United States House of Representatives, "#MyNameIs Ilham, I prefer Ilhan. We sent a list of questions to Omar's spokesman but did not receive responses prior to publication. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. "Minnesota House Hopeful Calls Marriage, Fraud Claims 'Lies.'" . Omar claims to have married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002, then divorced him before marrying Elmi legally. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The Post has learned. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. [183][184], In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! "[116][117] She has said, "we don't need nearly 800 military bases outside the United States to keep our country safe. Hirsi, Ibrahim. [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. "[109], Omar opposed the October 2019 Turkish offensive into northeastern Syria, writing that "What has happened after Turkey's invasion of northeastern Syria is a disastertens of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have escaped, and Turkish-backed rebels have been credibly accused of atrocities against the Kurds. Advertisement - story continues below "[180] In response to criticisms of her comments, Omar wrote that "No one is defending Maduro" and that opposing US intervention is not the equivalent of supporting the existing leadership of a country. [107] Omar criticized Trump's decision to impose further sanctions on Iran, saying the sanctions devastated the "country's middle class and increased hostility toward the United States, with tensions between the two countries rising to dangerous levels. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. [83], In July 2019, Omar introduced a resolution co-sponsored by Rashida Tlaib and Georgia Representative John Lewis stating that "all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution". that she believed U.S. foreign policy and economic sanctions are aimed at regime change and have contributed to the "devastation in Venezuela. [22] She and her family fled Somalia to escape the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border. She settled there with her family in 1997 after fleeing war-torn Somalia as refugees. 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. He still works as a freelance copywriter and editor and while based in London, travels the world. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. 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. "As soon as Ilhan Omar married him," the post continues, "he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. . 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