Border czar Tom Homan has confirmed that federal investigators are actively reviewing records tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s alleged marriage to her own brother, a probe that could expose the Minnesota Democrat to felony charges on multiple fronts.
Homan told Fox News that officials are pulling files related to Omar’s potential immigration fraud, a step that moves long-simmering allegations from political rumor into formal investigative territory. Omar, for her part, dismissed the effort and called those raising the issue “sick.”
The allegations center on Omar’s 2009 legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen whom multiple sources, including a former friend and members of Minneapolis’s Somali community, have identified as her brother. If the claims hold up, Sen. Ted Cruz has outlined three separate criminal statutes Omar could face: federal marriage fraud carrying up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Minnesota’s state incest law punishable by up to ten years, and tax fraud with a penalty of up to three years and a $100,000 fine.