Where's Ilhan?

The lady vanishes: Ilhan Omar disappears after agents conduct a search on her home

When agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s DC residence last Monday, October 12, she was at home. Afterwards, she sent out some angry tweets in response to the raid, but she hasn’t been seen since that day.

She’s in a presumably safe blue district, but still, it’s not often that a candidate for re-election disappears at the height of a political campaign. (Come to think of it, there was Texas Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico, who also disappeared entirely from the race and later said he’d had “the flu.” Different story entirely...)

Last week, reporters who’d been staked out on her street did see her current husband out walking the dog, and he made the seemingly-calculated point of telling them that Omar had arrived in this country at age 12.

Of course, we all know by now that by the time her father obtained citizenship --- if he did indeed obtain citizenship (news outlets have been trying in vain to find records regarding that) --- she was either a minor child of 17 or an adult woman of 18.

The only way she could have legally derived American citizenship from her father’s naturalization was if she was still a minor child at that time. If there exists a Somali birth certificate that could settle this mystery; Omar has never produced it.

The New York Times reports that investigators have subpoenaed about a dozen people, including Omar’s relatives. We’re still not sure where Omar herself is, but her personal phone, passport and computer were seized.

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