DHS Secretary Mullin Give Cryptic Statement On Ilhan Omar Case: ‘Multiple Warrants’
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated on Friday that federal agents served multiple search warrants on the same day they searched the Washington, D.C., home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
While speaking on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast hosted by Andrew Kolvet, Mullin described the investigation as a “strong case” and said investigators expect to present it to a grand jury. He then discussed the scope of the investigation directly.
“She wasn’t – or it wasn’t the only place we served the warrant. There was multiple other warrants served on that same day,” the secretary said. “We had a judge sign it, and we expect to be able to take the case to a grand jury.”
Mullin went on to emphasize that the case has followed the facts and rejected Omar’s claim of being a victim of political targeting. “But I will tell you, we wouldn’t move forward, and President Trump didn’t want to move forward either, unless we knew that it couldn’t be politically driven. Now they want to try making it political driven. This individual wants to try making it about themselves. This was about enforcing once again our nation’s laws, and it’s a strong case.”
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No public details have identified the locations or targets of the additional warrants. Mullin did indicate, however, that coordinated immigration fraud cases could potentially be examined under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
In a hypothetical example, he stated that if an individual filled out paperwork illegally by claiming a particular identity and background, and others then entered under that structure, “then that can be considered a RICO case, right? Because there was conspiracy to deceive the American government, and therefore everything else that came in with it could then be looked at [part of] the same case.” He noted that statutes of limitations generally would not bar examination of conduct spanning decades in the context of an ongoing enterprise or conspiracy.
The investigation into Omar centers on immigration paperwork from the mid-1990s involving Omar’s family, who arrived in the United States as Somali refugees. Sources familiar with the matter have told multiple outlets that the sealed warrant referenced potential offenses including conspiracy, false statements on immigration documents, and immigration fraud.
A particular focus has been whether Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, provided inaccurate information about her age when he naturalized in 2000. Omar has claimed that she derived U.S. citizenship as a minor when she was 17-years-old through her father’s naturalization.
Investigators are examining whether she was listed as a minor when she may have been 18, which would have required a separate adult application rather than derivative citizenship. Sources have indicated that one possible outcome under consideration is denaturalization if citizenship was obtained through material concealment or willful misrepresentation.
During the search of Omar’s D.C. home, agents seized her cellphone, passport, personal computers, and notebooks. A federal magistrate judge approved the warrant after discussions with prosecutors about protocols to protect legislative materials under the Speech or Debate Clause, given Omar’s status as a sitting member of Congress.
Roughly a dozen grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with the probe, including to relatives of Omar such as her sister Sahra Noor. The subpoenas were sent for a grand jury in Minnesota and seek information related to the family’s immigration history.
The inquiry coincides with reporting on adjustments to Omar’s recorded birth year in public records. According to a report from the New York Post, which cited emails and library records, stated that in May 2019 — just months after Omar took office following her 2018 election — her congressional staff contacted the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library to request a change in her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982.
“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982,” the library director wrote in a May 24, 2019, email. The same email noted that staff were working to update the year on Wikipedia and in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
The library had previously listed the 1981 year because it appeared in widely available sources such as Wikipedia and the Biographical Directory, without supporting documentation.
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