Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) naturalization process to become a US citizen doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. AJ Kern is a Democrat who ran for Congress against Omar in 2022 and lost in the primary. Kern has been crying foul about the fact that Omar was ever even allowed to run for Congress, because the Somali supremacist doesn’t appear to have ever become an American. She says she’s also found clear evidence that Ilhan Omar changed her birth year to cover up the fact that she’s not an American.
Rep. Omar’s immigration status has come under increasing scrutiny by the Trump administration. She wrote the legislation that loosened the rules on federal grants that allowed the Somali fraud scandal to explode in her home state. While Joe Biden was in office, Somali fraudsters robbed the American taxpayers of more than $8 billion through a web of fake non-profits. During that same time, Omar’s net worth exploded from negative territory to more than $30 million in cash and assets.
Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2 of the US Constitution says that a person must be a US citizen to be a member of the US House of Representatives. Keep that in mind as we try to unravel Ilhan Omar’s journey to representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district.
In Somalia, Nur Omar Mohamed (Ilhan’s father) was a colonel who led a military death squad for communist dictator Siad Barre’s regime in the 1980s and ‘90s. When the Barre regime collapsed in a coup in 1991, Ilhan’s family had to flee for their lives. After years of ethnic cleansings carried out by Ilhan Omar’s father, the natives wanted to chop them up and throw them in a stew pot. They ended up in the US in 1995 as refugees.
After a refugee has been in the US for five years, they can apply for naturalization to become a US citizen. When Ilhan Omar ran for Congress in 2018, she began publicly telling the story of her naturalization. She says she became naturalized as a minor child, at age 17, when her father went through the process.
Omar won the 2018 election in her district and was sworn into Congress in January 2019. Kern says that’s when people suddenly realized that the math behind Ilhan Omar’s naturalization story didn’t add up.
Both her Wikipedia page and her official bio page at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library listed Ilhan Omar’s date of birth as October 4, 1981. That would mean that her story of being naturalized as a minor child in 2000 was a lie. Her 1981 birth date would have made her 18 going on 19 in 2000.
She would have had to apply for naturalization on her own as an adult. She wouldn’t have been eligible for naturalization through her war criminal father.
In May 2019, someone figured this out and posted a video about it on social media. Two days later, Ilhan Omar’s congressional staff began a mad scramble to change her birth date. Alpha News has obtained emails proving that Omar’s staff contacted the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library on May 17, 2019.
They asked the library to change Omar’s birth date from 1981 to 1982, to match her fake story about being naturalized at 17. They also had Wikipedia change her birth date, as well as the online Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
Today, those sources all list her birth date as October 4, 1982, which would have made her 17 in 2000. But if you check the Wayback Machine or other internet archiving sites prior to May 2019, all of those sources say Ilhan Omar’s birth date was in 1981.
If Ilhan Omar is, in fact, a US citizen, why would she lie about how she was naturalized? Why make up a story claiming that she was naturalized as a minor? If she applied on her own as an adult, why not just say that?
You can obtain immigration and naturalization records on any refugee through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. But there’s a catch-22 in the system. INS can only release those records if the refugee grants their permission. Despite dozens of requests from media organizations, Ilhan Omar has never allowed the public release of her records. She could easily clear all the confusion about her real age, but refuses to do so.
It appears that Ilhan Omar might have never even gone through the naturalization process. If she’s not a US citizen, she cannot remain in Congress. We hope that the Trump administration gets to the bottom of this.
