A Tennessee Republican wants to release Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s immigration records — to settle once and for all whether the controversial “Squad” lawmaker is legally in the US.
“Let’s get to the bottom of everything. I want to know if she’s here legally, If she’s not, then we need to take appropriate action,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn) told The Post this week.
Burchett’s push for the House Intelligence Committee to obtain Omar’s records came shortly before Omar pointed and yelled at President Trump during his State of the Union Speech, after he spoke about fraud in her district and scolded Democrats for remaining seated.
His bid to get the Democrat’s records began last month, as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) moved to have the House Oversight Committee subpoena the immigration records of Omar and her two ex husbands, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
“Public reporting has raised serious allegations Rep. Omar entered into a legal marriage in 2009 with a man she had privately identified as her brother, allegedly for the purpose of securing lawful immigration status. Reports further state she previously entered a religious marriage in 2002 which was not legally dissolved until years later,” Mace said.
Trump has floated online rumors that Omar gained citizenship by marrying her brother, an idea Omar has blasted as “disgusting lies.”
The claim, which according to the Minnesota Star-Tribune began in a Somali forum, is that Elmi is Omar’s brother and they married for immigration reasons.
Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia in 1995 at age 12. She said in a statement on her complicated marital status in 2016 that she applied for a marriage license with Hirsi in 2002 but never “finalized the application.”
Omar and Hirsi had three children. She legally married Elmi in 2009 but the two divorced in a Muslim ceremony.
Omar became a US citizen in 2000.
In 2020 Omar married Minnesota political operative Tim Mynett. The stunning growth of Mynett’s wine and investment business, as revealed on Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure, has led to calls for a House Ethics Committee probe. Mynett’s former wife, DC physician Beth Mynett, accused him of cheating on her in a bombshell 2019 divorce filing.
Burchett said the Intelligence panel has appropriate jurisdiction to get the records, but has yet to respond to his request. Another Republican lawmaker, House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) launched his own probe into Omar’s stunning increase in disclosed wealth.
A spokeswoman for the the Oversight panel said Mynett did not meet a Feb. 19 deadline to provide the financial information Comer demanded. Comer said after firing off his initial inquiry the House Ethics Committee is the committee best suited to probe Omar’s finances. It has made no public announcement of a probe.
Omar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
