Exclusive | Why Ilhan Omar cant be kicked out of the US for marrying brother: Immigration officials

Oh, brother!Minnesota Rep.Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her alleged brother won’t get her kicked out of the US, but other matters in her immigration file might, sources told The Post.In 2009, Omar wed self-described ‘dirty dandy’ Ahmed Elmi, a UK national long rumored to be her brother.

But the federal probe into Somalia-born Omar’s past is more likely to focus on how she became as US citizen as a teenager and paperwork filed by her father.The father, Nur Said Mohamed Elmi was long identified as an “educator” before his death in 2020, at which point his military record emerged.“If there’s enough evidence that she or [her father] lied on her immigration application to become a United States citizen, whether it was one time or several times, the Trump administration could initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship,” a top immigration official told The Post.Prosecutions related to her marriage to Ahmed Elmi — long rumored to be a “Green Card marriage” so he could stay in the country, but which ended in divorced in 2017 — are a dead end for several reasons, a former ICE lawyer told The Post.A US citizen who participates in a sham marriage couldn’t be deported.If proven, Omar’s alleged brother would be banned from entering the US again, but Omar couldn’t be kicked out on that alone, the lawyer said.Marriage fraud is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Omar would dodge criminal charges because there is a five-year statute of limitations which expired upon divorce, the lawyer said.

Incest charges would only be brought with evidence of sexual contact, per Minnesota state law. Still, Omar could easily put that topic to rest if she were truly innocent, a former executive-level federal official told The Post.“A DNA test would absolutely resolve the question one way or another.

But there’s no legal obligation for [Elmi] to cooperate from another country,” the source said...