Mullin claimed the Democratic congresswoman, originally from Somalia, married her brother to help him enter the United States.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on September 10 that Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, allegedly married her brother as part of an alleged immigration fraud scheme and could face deportation, according to a report. New York Post.

Mullin made the announcement in a conversation with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson in Dallas at the Republican National Convention dedicated to the midterm elections. He said a federal investigation is underway against a representative of "The Squad." (The Squad is the informal name for a group of progressive Democrats in the US Congress who hold more left-leaning views.) Approx. Ed.)

"We know she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States," Mullin said.

"We know he's living in London now," the head of the Department of Homeland Security added, referring to Omar's ex-husband.

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He believes the investigation could uncover "illegal actions" on the part of the congresswoman that could ultimately lead to her deportation from the United States.

"There may be something more going on here—all this family migration and perhaps some illegal activity related to how they got to the United States in the first place," he suggested.

At the same time, Mallin emphasized that the case is still under investigation and should not be viewed as political.

"If we really take this to trial, it shouldn't become a political matter," he noted.

"If you lied about certain aspects of your immigration application, there's no statute of limitations. If we can prove you shouldn't have been here in the first place, we'll deport you," the head of the Department of Homeland Security emphasized.

Ilhan Omar became a US citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old.

The congresswoman categorically denies that she married her brother.

She has two ex-husbands: Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The latter has been accused for at least ten years of being both the future congresswoman's brother and husband.

"The suggestion that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother is absurd and offensive," Omar told MPR News in 2016.

Her chief of staff, Connor McNutt, earlier this year called the marriage fraud allegations "ridiculous lies" and an attempt to distract from her opponents' political problems.

Omar officially married Hirsi in January 2018, a month after her divorce from Elmi, a British citizen to whom she had been married since February 2009, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune and a Hennepin County marriage license.

Omar described her relationship with Elmi as brief and claimed that they lived apart for most of their time, except for the period from 2009 to 2011. They have no children together.

In 2019, the Star Tribune reported that an Instagram photo showed Elmi holding a newborn baby girl and calling her "niece." The photo was taken in June 2012, the same month and year that her youngest daughter, Omar, was born. The photo was later deleted.

Accusations that Omar and Elmi are brother and sister first surfaced on the Somali political forum SomaliSpot but were later removed, City Journal reported.

Minneapolis-based Somali blogger and community activist Abdihakim Osman told the Daily Mail in 2020 that he knew Omar in Minnesota and that she introduced Elmi as her brother from London in the Somali community in the late 2000s.

According to him, she then said that her “relative” needed “papers” – immigration documents, in particular a green card.

“Nobody knew they were married [to Elmi] until the media found the marriage certificate years later,” Osman assured.

US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance also admit that Omar married her brother.

"We do believe that Ilhan Omar has definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America," Vance told Benny Johnson in March.

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At a rally in May, Trump said he also believed that Omar "married her brother, which is completely illegal."

Marriage fraud is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

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