By Nicole Silverio
The Republic of Somaliland called on Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar to be extradited Saturday after Vice President J.D. Vance said she committed immigration fraud.
Vance said on “The Benny Johnson Show” Friday that the White House was certain Omar committed immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to facilitate his move to the U.S. in 2009. The Republican of Somaliland, a partially recognized state in the Horn of Africa, said Omar should be extradited rather than deported.
“Deportation? Please you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom,” the country said on X. “Extradition? Say the word …”
Somalilanders blame Ilhan Omar’s family for the genocide committed against the Isaaq in Somaliland in the 1980s: “Ilhan’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed” was “the right hand” man “of the bloodthirsty tyrant, General Mohamed Siyad Barre,” who “committed the second worst genocide in Africa history against the people of #Somaliland. Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali was deported from the US just last month because of the crime he committed. General Mohamed Ali Samatar was found guilty about the crime he committed in the US Court. Ilhan’s father is still free.”
Wikipedia explains that “The Isaaq genocide,” “also known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of Isaaq civilians between 1987 and 1989 by the Somali Democratic Republic, under the dictatorship of Siad Barre, during the Somaliland War of Independence. The number of civilian deaths in this massacre is estimated to be between 50,000 and 200,000.”
Vance said he has spoken to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller about how to investigate Omar effectively. The congresswoman allegedly married her first husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, in 2002, separated from him and then married her brother, Elmi, according to a timeline published by the Daily Mail. She split from Elmi in 2011, reconciled with Hirsi and had a third child with him. (RELATED: Not Many People Believe Ilhan Omar And She Has Herself To Blame)
Omar claimed that she and Elmi separated in 2011, though the divorce did not take place until 2017, according to the Daily Mail. She married Hirsi, her first husband, for a second time in 2018. The two divorced a second time after she allegedly had an affair with Democratic consultant Tim Mynett, according to the New York Post.
Omar denied the allegations that she married her brother, calling the accusations “bigoted lies.”
The Republic of Somaliland made the remark as Omar has opposed the recognition of an independent Somaliland.
Omar has also defended the Somali population in Minnesota after they stole $9 billion from social welfare programs. Dozens of Somalis in Minnesota were charged in the theft of $1 billion in taxpayer money for state and federal social services programs, including $300 million from Feeding Our Future, a child nutrition program that fed low-income children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
