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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has always made one wonder how a person could flee oppression in Somalia, find freedom in the U.S., and somehow end up viewing America as the villain in global affairs. Could it be that in Somalia her father was among those doing the oppressing? It’s been a difficult question to answer. In 2025 the website Snopes reported: There are no definitive sources detailing Nur Omar Mohamed’s activities between 1978 and 1991. As such, there’s no evidence proving or disproving that he participated in war crimes or genocidal acts. Devlin Barrett, Hamed Aleazi, Ernesto Londoño and Alan Feuer report for the New York Times: In recent months, federal investigators opened an investigation
into Ms. Omar’s immigration history, focusing in part on whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied or omitted information as he sought legal status in the United States before becoming a U.S. citizen. Among the questions investigators have looked at is whether Ms. Omar derived citizenship from a father who may have been ineligible to obtain naturalized status, according to a person familiar with the case.
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