In four intensely reported investigative columns here (August 13, 2018), here (October 23, 2018), here (October 30, 2018), and here (November 5, 2018), David Steinberg has explored the evidence suggesting that Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with her brother in 2009. This is his fifth. He titles it “Meet Leila Elmi: The Missing Link Showing Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.” Drawing on his research, interviews, and social media evidence he makes the case that Omar has engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities and willful misrepresentations related to her marital arrangements. He writes:
On October 22, 2008, the U.S. State Department stopped
accepting applications for the Priority 3/Refugee Family Reunification program the process by which refugees can apply for asylum if one family member is
already a legal U.S. resident. State halted the program because DNA testing, primarily of Somalis, had concluded that perhaps 87 percent of applicants were fraudulently claim ing family
relationships.
Despite continuing war, Somalia of 2008 was not
comparable to the open hell of the early 1990s, when an eight-year-old Ilhan
and her family fled to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps. She lived there from 1991
until 1995, aged eight to 12. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then
helped Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the
United States along with thousands of other Somalis.
The complicated moral question of fraud, let alone fault,
among this 1990s wave of refugees escaping civil war will never be answered
with accurate statistics. We will have to settle for adjectives like
“widespread” and “rampant.” Yet the negative outcomes cannot be ignored. Even refugees with strong desire to assimilate with
Western civic order are hampered by the possible discovery of conflicting
documents. And compromising
information becomes leverage in a community already difficult to
police.
Twelve-year-old Ilhan had no say on the manner in which
she arrived in the United States.
However, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-MN)
is now under scrutiny for acts she took beginning in 2009, not 1995. In 2009,
Omar was a 26-year-old U.S. citizen. She had been a U.S. citizen for nearly
nine years.
Additionally, the foreign national Omar apparently helped
commit fraud was not fleeing hell in 2009, either. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a
long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. He even possessed a high school
diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior year of
2002-2003, and graduated before returning to London.
We look to 1995 not to incriminate a kid, but to answer
questions about what Omar did 14 years later as an adult U.S. citizen.
Please read the verified evidence below, and read it
alongside the three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson,
Preya Samsundar, and myself (our
work is linked here). The answers to those questions about 2009 appear to
give probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury,
immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax
fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy.
To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most
extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American
history.
