Getting up to speed on the proceedings against Ilhan Omar
Here’s a roundup.
From Ace. An excerpt:
She lied about being 17 when she applied for citizenship, because the law stated that a minor could piggyback off a naturalized parent’s citizenship but an adult couldn’t.
So she changed her actual age, 18 or 19, to 17.
Then her staffers changed her Wikipedia entry, which had shown her real birthdate, to her fraudulent birthdate, so that it would agree with her fraudulent immigration paperwork.
That last part isn’t illegal. It just shows she knows she was lying all along.
Powerline has been writing about Omar for many years, and they are (unsurprisingly) covering the current developments fairly thoroughly. A sampler can be found here and here.
From Legal Insurrection:
Speaking on Fox News’ “America Reports,” Pirro said her office was examining Omar’s financial disclosures, which previously showed that the reported value of businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, had surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.
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The original filings, examined by Fox News Digital earlier this year, showed millions of dollars in newly reported assets associated with two of Mynett’s business ventures — a California-based winery and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm.
More on Omar’s father and her citizenship application can be found here.
Jonathan Turley summarizes here:
Statute of limitations may have run out on naturalization fraud — but was she actually naturalized?
Understand that after the disclosure of the winery on financial doc, it disappeared.
I recall a case of a woman who called herself a Palestinian who had been convicted of complicity in a murder in Israel. She denied, on her immigration paperwork, any criminal charges. Decades later, she was denaturalized and deported to Jordan. There isn’t a statute of limitations on fraudulent immigration applications.
Is this likely to lead to anything meaningful?
She will wind up richer and more powerful after this fails. Do you think there is a DC judge out there that won’t throw this case out in an instant?
Attorney Robert Gouviea held a fresh, up to the hour, live stream spending 30m+ on the topic of Rep. Omar, teasing with “Family of Ilhan Omar subpoenaed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOFPDreeEo
I haven’t paid much attention but it seems to me her immigration issues are far less important than her criminal activity.
Here is my prediction; when all is said and done, Omar will not be subjected to any punishment of significance nor will she be deported.
Democrats are above the law; just ask Hillary what-difference-does-it-make
Clinton.
Or how about the Hunter Biden.
How to become a millionaire: be a billionaire and start a winery
I thought Muslims didn’t do alcohol
Unfortunately, JohnTyler is correct. We’ve seen this play too many times and there never is a perp walk.
JohnTyler is correct. For one, there isn’t enough time left in the Trump administration to complete the legal process of denaturalization and the Democrat administration that takes over in 2029 will just drop the case. Also, even if there is some kind of rocket docket miracle and Omar is deported before 2029 or an electoral miracle and a Republican is elected in 2028, Omar will undoubtedly be “re-naturalized” and welcomed back the next time a Democrat is in office. Democrats are pardoning child rapists to prevent them from being deported. They’re not going to abandon Omar because she lied about her age (as long as she’s useful to them).
So, as a legal matter, this is all play-acting.
The underlying problem as I see it is that we have politicians with no shame. The only way to knock out a misbehaving politico is with legal sanctions of some type. This leads both sides of the political spectrum to try using the legal system for things that the legal system was never intended to do. It’s not working.
John Profumo was never convicted of anything and, technically, never committed a crime. (I understand that the UK, at the time, did not have a statute criminalizing lying to Parliament.) Despite that, everyone, including Profumo himself, knew that he had done wrong and acted accordingly. The 21st Century John Profumo would have claimed that the lack of criminal charges “exonerated” and then run for Prime Minister.
I don’t see why two years wouldn’t be enough time to denaturalize and deport Omar. Supreme Court decisions make clear that immigration courts can handle these cases without going through ordinary criminal courts. If the evidence is clear the immigration system can proceed. If the evidence is not clear, Omar will skate.
Kate – There will be appeals that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Denaturalization is permitted by law, but the procedure has not been used that much. There are going to be novel legal issues and resolving novel legal issues takes time(i.e.,appeals).
There is an additional novel issue here in that the Executive will be effectively expelling a member of the Legislature by revoking her citizenship. I guarantee you that Omar will raise Constitutional/separation of powers defenses that will make the appeals quite complicated.
Complicated appeals about novel legal issues take time to resolve.
Omar is going under the bus. The legitimacy of rule of the government demands it. Each day we inch closer to civil war.
A lot of those appeals have already been processed by the SC in other cases.
For what it’s worth (I haven’t done any other research) Google’s AI says “There is no statute of limitations for civil denaturalization, meaning the U.S. government can file a civil case to revoke citizenship at any time if it was obtained through illegal procurement or material misrepresentation. However, criminal prosecution”
So not criminal offense since statute ran out but she can be de-naturalized and removed from office. HOWEVER, I wonder how long she’s been married to her current husband. He’s American and I wonder if she will try to apply for citizenship as spouse of American. Can it be denied because she committed fraud originally?
Can she still be deported? And to where? Would we send her to Somalia? Can she apply for asylum because she was/daughter of a man who was part of a cruel and craven military? How was he accepted in first place? Ugh! And that’s all besides the fact that all she does is espouse hate of America, how horrible it is… Bet that $30 million that disappeared is probably hidden in a trust or series of trusts, well hidden. But I suppose her husband, whose winery it is supposedly, can buy her some pretty good lawyers….
Adding up the various reports which have come out over the years, it looks like it’s various types of fraud/illegal gaming of the system, all the way down.
There is the report that she changed the family name when trying to enter the U.S., because her father’s regime activities had made that family name somewhat radioactive.
Then, there is the charge that she married her own brother to enable him to also immigrate to the U.S., etc., etc.
Phil G,
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Yes, I think we should send her to Somalia.
Karmi writes, “Complicated appeals about novel legal issues [about Rep. Omar] take time to resolve.”
Normally, yes. But the law on immigration and naturalisation is pretty damn clear. If you lie on your app, you can lose it!
Reporter David Steinberg, author of 35 News stories on Omar scandals, augers that her scandals and unprosecuted crimes are the worst of any House member in history.
Trump cannot let this plundering and exploitation of America stand.
I think it is entirely possible, if the investigation comes up with really actionable evidence, that Omar could be denaturalized and lose her seat in Congress inside a year. If she is expelled, she could probably choose where she will go, and Somalia is likely not on the list of countries she would choose. There are allegations she has used ill-got money that was diverted from welfare funds in Minnesota to buy property in Kenya, and that strikes me as a likely destination, although I doubt the Kenyan government would be happy to have here there. Tanzania is another possible destination, and I think she’d be more welcome there. Bottom line: it might be a stretch, but I believe it could happen. Color me hopeful.
As an aside, I was assigned to our embassy in Nairobi when things came apart in Somalia in the early nineties. I flew with our ambassador from Nairobi to the border with Somalia to look at the refugee situation on the Kenyan side.
We rode on a dirt road from the airport toward the border. On both sides of the road Somali refugees had set up piles of stuff they hoped to sell for quick cash. Featured prominently in the piles of goods were refugee food that had been donated by the USA and the UN, as well as huge piles of business machines and office supplies that still bore the inventory stickers of the USAID and embassy offices where they had been looted. I commented to the others in the Land Cruiser that with $500 and 20 minutes we could completely equip and stock a USAID office.
@ Kate
“Yes, I think we should send her to Somalia.”
If only…