There is a certain poetic justice — the kind that not even a professional satirist could manufacture — in watching a partially recognized African nation publicly mock a sitting member of the United States Congress and volunteer to receive her as a criminal fugitive. Yet here we are.
The Republic of Somaliland, which has spent over three decades building democratic institutions without the benefit of full international recognition, looked at the latest allegations swirling around Rep. Ilhan Omar and essentially said: send her back.
“Deportation? Please, you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom,” Somaliland posted on X this week, after Vice President JD Vance publicly stated that he and White House advisor Stephen Miller believe Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.” The Somaliland post continued with pointed invitation: “Extradition? Say the word.”
A government that the United States doesn’t even formally recognize — a scrappy, self-governing territory that has been quietly building courts, holding elections, and maintaining its own security since 1991 — is more eager to apply rule-of-law accountability to Ilhan Omar than the Democratic Party or the mainstream American press has been willing to do for the better part of a decade.
Actually oac should be in federal prison as a traitor to the United States.
I agree.