{"id":2694181,"date":"2026-10-30T17:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignminnesota-rep-by-2016-everyone-knew-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:55:01","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignminnesota-rep-by-2016-everyone-knew-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignminnesota-rep-by-2016-everyone-knew-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"MN Rep: By 2016 Everyone Knew Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignminnesota-rep-by-2016-everyone-knew-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2694181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - 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Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother goes back at least to 2016, when the Obama administration opened an investigation into the alleged marital and immigration fraud. Republican Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins said everyone in her state knew about it the whole time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis has been an open secret in Minnesota for many years,\u201d Robbins, chairwoman of the House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee, told The Federalist. \u201cEveryone here has heard it and was not surprised by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1836363779\" class=\"d-flex justify-content-center fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 fdrlst__b89e9-entity-placement\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while \u201cDemocrats felt it was just a political smear job by the Republicans, and most Republicans thought it was true,\u201d many of those who believed it was true \u201cdecided speaking out wasn\u2019t worth it\u201d because \u201canyone who raised it was called a racist and an Islamophobe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery time someone said there was fraud in the Somali community, whether it was a politician or a whistleblower inside the agencies, they were called racist, they were called Islamophobic,\u201d Robbins said. \u201cIn many cases, the whistleblowers were required to go to DEI training if they said anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/29\/us\/immigration-fraud-claims-ilhan-omar.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opened<\/a> the investigation into Omar, whose real name, federal officials believe, is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. According to The New York Times, current and former officials say there was evidence at the time that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a man believed to be her brother, was fraudulent. Ahmed currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/30\/ilhan-omar-alleged-brother-ex-husband-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> about his experience as a \u201cgay man of the East African diaspora\u201d living as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/people\/person\/Ahmed-Elmi-09510f55-b6c3-4f08-85e4-837f5612eeb0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">academic<\/a> in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robbins said that one \u201cstunning development\u201d that came out was the use of the Nur Said Elmi name, because Ilhan had always presented her last name as \u201cOmar.\u201d The discrepancy stems from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/13\/us-news\/ilhan-omars-father-was-loyal-to-somali-dictator-misrepresented-himself-as-a-refugee-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evidence<\/a> suggesting Elmi\u2019s father \u2014 through whom she obtained her citizenship in 2000, purportedly as a minor child \u2014 assumed a different identity as well in order to claim refugee status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elmi\u2019s citizenship itself is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/10\/27\/either-ilhan-omar-lied-about-her-age-in-her-autobiography-or-shes-lying-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under scrutiny<\/a> due to possible immigration fraud separate from the marriage to her brother, as it appears she was an adult at the time she obtained it, despite claiming to be a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Robbins wants to know if there was foul play on the part of the Obama administration to cover for Omar as she became prominent in Minnesota, and then national politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Obama administration was looking into this, did they slow walk it so that the statute of limitations ran out?\u201d she asked. \u201cWhen did they start investigating it? And how long did it take them to conclude that it was too late to do anything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elmi\u2019s fraudulent marriage was <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/former-us-attorney-says-2016-letter-never-meant-to-clear-ilhan-omar-of-brother-marriage-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Alpha News and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/yes-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Power Line<\/a> about 10 years ago. Alpha News says a letter from then-Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger \u201chelped quiet allegations\u201d that Elmi \u201cmarried her brother in an immigration fraud scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Luger claims that the letter \u00a0\u201cwas never meant to say anything about the substance of the claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to New York Times reporting, two officials confirmed that Ahmed was given a provisional green card for two years, by way of his marriage to Ilhan. After officials asked for more information about the marriage, Ahmed fled the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, there was also a local Fox affiliate article related to questions over Elmi\u2019s marriages, which was subsequently taken off the internet. However, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/former-us-attorney-says-2016-letter-never-meant-to-clear-ilhan-omar-of-brother-marriage-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> is still available and states, \u201cWe aren\u2019t the only ones who still have questions about the two men the DFL-endorsed House candidate has called her husband, without divorcing either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. 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