Firebrand Rep. Nancy Mace unsuccessfully pushed the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday to subpoena the immigration records of “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), her two ex-husbands and her family to determine whether or not she married her brother.
Ultimately, the Oversight panel decided to table Mace’s motion to subpoena those records after multiple members of the committee contended that the Ethics Committee should be the one deliberating over those concerns.
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Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor in the Palmetto State, had cited unproven accusations that Omar may have legally married her brother to help him gain citizenship in the US to justify the push.
“We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee,” Mace posted on X after verbally making the motion during a hearing on benefit fraud in Minnesota.
“Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation,” she added.
“Marrying a sibling is illegal in every state. We intend to get to the bottom of it,” she added.
“END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.”
While the claims alleging Omar married her brother haven’t been proven, they also haven’t been definitely disproven, either, and there are still lingering questions about her complicated marriage history.
Omar previously denied the accusations as “disgusting lies.”
The Post contacted Omar’s office for comment.
Mace’s subpoena specifically sought immigration records pertaining to Omar, her ex-husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (also known as Ahmed Aden before he became a citizen), her other ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and “any members” of her family.
She wanted the subpoena directed at the Department of Homeland Security and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services for “all records related to the immigration and naturalization” of those individuals.
Underpinning her subpoena push is a theory that Elmi was actually her brother and that they tied the knot for immigration reasons. That unproven theory originated in a Somali forum, according to the Minnesota Star-Tribune.
Omar claimed in a 2016 statement to have applied for a marriage license with Hirsi in 2002 when she was 19, but said “we never finalized the application and thus were never legally married.” She said their faith-based marriage ended in 2008, but that they reconciled about four years later, ultimately marrying in 2018 before divorcing a year later. They have three children together.
In between that time period, Omar had been legally married to Elmi from 2009 to 2017. However, she claimed to have split from him “in our faith tradition” in 2011 and that it took a few years to finish off the paperwork.
Omar has insisted that Elmi is not her brother.
“It’s really strange, right, to prove a negative,” Omar previously told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “If someone was asking me, do I have a brother by that name, I don’t. If someone was asking … are there court documents that are false … there is no truth to that.”
In her divorce paperwork from Elmi, Omar claimed to have tried unsuccessfully to get in touch with him. She also claimed to have no contact with him since their 2011 split. But netizens allege that there were photos of the two posted together after the 2011 split on social media that have since been deleted.
The Post has not been able to verify whether those photos were authentic.
During her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota state House, Omar listed the first names of six of her siblings, but not their last names, due to privacy concerns.
An investigation by the Minnesota Star Tribune noted that Omar’s relatives had been mum on her marriage to Elmi.
