Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home early Monday as part of an ongoing criminal fraud investigation. Sources told Fox News the probe centers on immigration paperwork filled out by her late father when she was a child. Omar called it political intimidation. The timing is ugly for her preferred story.
For years she has sold America the clean version. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was an educator. The family fled Somalia’s civil war with the rest of the refugees and arrived in 1995. Her 2020 memoir paints the same picture of ordinary people escaping chaos. An exclusive in the New York Post now says that version is false.
Historian and Oxford doctoral researcher Mohamed Haji Ingiriis told the Post that Nur “misrepresented himself as a refugee” to U.S. authorities. He was a full colonel in Siad Barre’s military regime.
“Ilhan’s father was never an educator,” Ingiriis said. “Nur Said was a military officer who was loyal to the regime until the end. He was part and parcel of those who caused and created the mayhem they ‘fled’ to live comfortably in the United States.”
“He only fled when the dictatorship fell in 1991. He was the beneficiary of the military regime and should not have been given asylum whatsoever.”
Like father……….like daughter. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.