She released the first names of her six siblings in 2016 and provided a Star Tribune reporter with photographs of her and her siblings' original refugee resettlement documents and identification cards none of which listed Elmi as one of her brothers. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding. Omar and Hirsi were engaged in 2002 but never legally married, having a Muslim ceremony instead, Omar said. [119][120], On November 5, 2021, Omar was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. Also in 2017, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, and they officially wed in 2018. DOCUMENTS SHOW SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER IN IMMIGRATION SCHEME TO ACQUIRE A GREEN CARD WHAT ELSE IS SHE HIDING? Two agents. [229][230], Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis. [123] She compared the movement to people who "engage[d] in boycotts" of apartheid in South Africa. After objections by a number of congressional progressive Democrats, the resolution was amended to include Islamophobia, racism, and homophobia. [199][200], On July 14, 2019, Trump tweeted that The Squada group that consists of Omar and three other young congresswomen of color, most of whom were born and raised in the U.S.should "go back" to the "places from which they came". Johnson, Scott. " If Elmi was so desperate for U.S. residency/citizenship status that he engaged in a sham "marriage" with his sister in order to seek it, why did he return to England after his split with Omar? In his honor I am voting for an inspirational ticket over desperate and maddening one", "Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband", "Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships", "Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar finalizes divorce", "US Rep. Ilhan Omar divorces husband in Minnesota", "Ilhan Omar makes history, becoming first Somali-American elected to U.S. House", "For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend", "Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby", "What the controversy over Ilhan Omar's tweets tells us about AIPAC today", "Trump demonized Somali refugees in Minnesota. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, born Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (born 1983 in Somalia) is the Democratic Party representative from Minnesota's 5th district, previously held by Antifa promoter Keith Ellison.Ilhan Omar is a bigot who previously held a seat on the coveted House Foreign Policy Committee.. A phony anti-establishmentarian, Omar voted in 2021 to make Nancy Pelosi House Speaker. [95] Omar supports Bernie Sanders's plan to eliminate all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt, funded by an 0.5% tax on stock transactions and a 0.1% tax on bond transactions;[96] she introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives. For example, "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" implies that Ahmed's father is "Nur," his grandfather is "Said," and his great-grandfather is "Elmi." Also from 2009 until 2017, Ilhan Omar lived with, raised three kids with, and illegally filed multiple joint tax returns with a second man not Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. After that, he moved home to England. , updated At an October 2019 rally in Omar's district in Minneapolis, Trump praised the work of conservative blogger Scott Johnson, who authors the Power Line blog. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. "As soon as Ilhan Omar married him," the post continues, "he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. [170] In August 2019, Omar wrote on Twitter in support of the Palestinian LGBT rights group Al Qaws after the Palestinian Authority banned Al Qaws's activities in the West Bank. New evidence indicates that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was residing with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, while also being legally married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. [48][49] She authored 38 bills during the 20172018 legislative session. Freshman Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who burst into the national spotlight last fall as part of a wave of trailblazing lawmakers in Congress, is divorcing her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, PEOPLE. And also like Ocasio-Cortez, Omar has been a frequent subject of unfounded rumors (particularly ones that have targeted her family and religious background). [168] In May 2019, Omar introduced legislation that would sanction Brunei over a recently introduced law that would make homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death. During her time apart from Hirsi, Omar began a relationship with another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she would go on to legally marry in 2009. She and Hirsi married legally the following year. Yet Omar has still not explained some discrepancies and inconsistencies in her marriage history. At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said. The evidence uncovered thus far isn't definitive enough to come down on one side or the other. June 23, 2019 04:32 PM MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. D ozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire. He married Omar in a legal ceremony in Minnesota in 2009. The New York Times 30 December 2018. What does Ahmed Nur Said Elmi do? Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education. [18][19] She was the youngest of seven siblings, including sister Sahra Noor. citizen." Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Her office said that she has opposed human rights abuse "for a long time" and that signing onto it should be not be seen as a sign she supports the Trump administration's policy on Iran. She has not denied or been able to disprove that she was married to the pair at the same time. "For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding a sibling 15 years, 20 years later to seek to do what people accuse me of?" Ahmed Nur Said Elmir. In the course of that divorce, Ms. Omar submitted an "Application for an Order for Service by Alternate Means" to the State of Minnesota on August 2, 2017, and claimed, among other things, that she had had no contact with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi after June 2011. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar's campaign website here. 'Well there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother,' Trump said on the White House lawn. "[151] The second round of remarks prompted the Democratic leadership to introduce a resolution condemning antisemitism that did not specifically refer to Omar. He is a member of the ninth Ward Minneapolis City Council and is in command of the Alonda Cano Police Station. On Thursday, as the chaos from the president's comments erupted in America, Elmi was sharing videos from a beach in Mombasa. Omar's father Mohamed, is living in the US. I never liked the M sound. [182], In February 2019, Omar questioned whether Elliott Abrams, whom Trump appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela in January 2019, was the correct choice given his past support of right-wing authoritarian regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, his initial doubts about the number of reported deaths in the El Mozote massacre in 1982, and his two 1991 misdemeanor convictions for withholding information from Congress about the IranContra affair, for which he was later pardoned by George H. W. Omar's statement. Why did Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar divorce? He reportedly told investigators that he did not want Muslims in the government. The next year, the congresswoman married Elmi, who she described as a British citizen on their marriage license. Jackson, David. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, on Feb. 12, 2009, according to a marriage certificate issued in Hennepin County. Elmi is reportedly a British citizen who currently lives in the UK. Omar. She sustained a concussion and was sent to the hospital. Yet when Mr. Nur Omar Mohamed passed away in June from COVID-19 complications, an outpouring of support from the Somali community wrote his name as "Nur Said Elmi." That is significant because the man Omar was married to from 2009 until 2017 was named "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi." When sworn into public office in 2016, Rep. Ilhan Omar was married to an individual named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. "Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive." Omar is poised to make history as the country's first Somali-American state lawmaker with an expected victory in. Elmi reportedly attended North Dakota State University with Omar between 2009 and 2012. The trio then decamped to North Dakota where Omar began studying political science at North Dakota State University in August 2009, the source said. [44] Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali-American community. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. Advertisement - story continues below The former couple first entered a faith-based marriage in 2002 but separated in 2008. "[118], In June 2019, Omar was one of four Democratic representatives to vote against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, a $4.5 billion border funding bill that required Customs and Border Protection to enact health standards for individuals in custody such as standards for "medical emergencies; nutrition, hygiene, and facilities; and personnel training." Elmi has not replied to attempts to contact him by DailyMail.com in the past. 27 October 2018. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election[63] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota,[10] and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress. 16 August 2016. City Pages. In 2012, Omar and Hirsi reconciled and welcomed their third child. The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 . "[151] Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus believed Omar was unfairly targeted because she is a black Muslim, saying that "the Democratic leadership did not draft a resolution condemning Donald Trump or other white male Republicans over their antisemitic remarks. [100][101], Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. [137] The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) also denounced her statements. In divorce papers asking to dissolve their marriage by alternate means in 2017, Omar swore under penalty of perjury that she had no way of contacting Elmi and said his last known location was London in June 2011. Elmi was later granted US citizenship, although he was also chastised by the media. Following that, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (British Citizen). She was married at the time to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi though Hirsi fathered her children. They obtained. In June 2020, the "defund the police" slogan gained widespread popularity following the murder of George Floyd. Ilhan Omar married her brother to help him immigrate to the U.S. And more important, if Elmi's intention was to enter into a fraudulent marriage with Omar to gain a green card and settle permanently in the United States, it doesn't explain why he left the US and moved back overseas to London just two years after getting married. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. "[201] Two days later, the House of Representatives voted 240187 to condemn Trump's "racist comments". Zurowski, Cory. Ahmed Hirsi is an ex-husband of the US Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar. [38] In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star". Her congressional district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its first-ring suburbs. [141], On February 27, 2019, Omar said of her critics: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. [61] Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. [25] She is a member of the informal group known as "The Squad", whose members form a unified front to push for progressive changes such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. Omar called the resolution "historic on many fronts" and said, "We are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-Semitism, racism, and white supremacy. Stop relying on them", "Trump, Pelosi and other US lawmakers express condolences, condemn Sri Lanka bombings", "Democrat Ilhan Omar refuses to back historic US House resolution on 'Armenian genocide', "Rep. 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[203], At a July 17 campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump made additional comments about The Squad: "They never have anything good to say. He states that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed shortens his name. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi and Ilhan Omar exchanged vows in 2009 and they divorced in 2017. [239], In 2018, Omar was featured in the music video for Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" featuring Cardi B. In a statement, the Minneapolis mayor said they planned to work to address "systemic racism in police culture. [68][69], Omar won the Democratic nomination in the August 11 Democratic primary, in which she faced four opponents. Ahmed is blessed with three children: Isra Hirsi, Adnan Hirsi and Ilwad Hirsi. He has been in Kenya for the last several weeks. "[35], In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that Omar had to pay back $3,500 that she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law, plus a $500 fine. She said she began to fear for her life when the evacuation began and as she was being escorted to a secure area she made a phone call to the father of her children to "make sure he would continue to tell my children that I loved them if I didn't make it out." They were reportedly married in a religious ceremony in 2002. Because the marriage was never recognized by law, neither is the separation, 2009: Omar marries Ahmed Elmi in Minneapolis, 2010: He enrolls atNorth Dakota State University to study fine art and lives with Omar as well as her first husband, 2011: Omar claims she and Elmi split this year and he went back to the UK. [104][106] She criticized Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. "[103] She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi. [241] It was selected to show at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. "[25] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. 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