Trump’s top immigration official, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, claims an internal investigation found that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother.’
‘We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,’ Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. ‘We know he lives now in London.’
He was speaking about the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi.
She allegedly was still married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, at the time of the second marriage, the congresswoman has told friends who relayed the account to the Daily Mail.
Omar has long denied the allegations. She has since remarried a third time and is wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.
Mullin told conservative pundit Benny Johnson that Omar’s actions amounted to ‘possible illegal activity’ and the investigation is ‘ongoing,’ breaking a standard where officials typically do not discuss active investigations.
‘We’re investigating,’ he said before threatening to deport her should the investigation warrant such a dramatic action.
‘There’s no expiration to that,’ he said of the potential charges. ‘If we can prove it that, maybe you shouldn’t have been here in the first place, we’ll deport you.’
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said an ongoing department investigation has found that Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota ‘married her brother to try to bring him into the United States’
Omar has long denied that she married Elmi (pictured above)
Her office did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment on Mullin’s latest claims.
Abdihakim Osman, a past friend of Omar, told the Mail in 2020 that Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.
But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.
‘No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,’ Osman exclusively told DailyMail.com at the time.
Omar married her first husband, Hirsi, in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony that, like many in the immigrant community, was not registered with the state.
The first report that Omar and her husband were siblings appeared on the website Somalispot in 2016.
It said of Elmi: ‘As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012.’
Mullin said the investigation into Omar is apolitical despite the congresswoman being a longtime target of Trump. He’s posted about her in derogatory ways dozens of times on social media, and he’s pushed to have her investigated.
‘When we move forward,’ Mullin said as if the case against Omar is imminent, ‘it’s not political.’
Omar with her current husband Tim Mynett at a White House event in 2024
The Department of Homeland Security office did not deny Mullin’s claims that Omar did indeed marry her brother.
‘As a matter of policy, DHS does not comment on specific investigative techniques, ongoing investigations, or potential future actions,’ a spokesperson said, seemingly coming at odds with Mullin’s disclosure.
‘No one, including members of Congress, are above the law,’ the spokesperson added.
