In a speech in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump launched a personal attack on US Representative Ilhan Omar.
The rumors around Representative Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her brother on another level, as a top Senator suggested that if the allegations are true, then she could be imprisoned, fined, and even face deportation. Senator Ted Cruz said that if allegations against Representative Ilhan Omar that she married her brother to enter the US were true, she would have violated several federal and state laws. He made the remarks on Friday after President Donald Trump revived the claims during a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this week.
Cruz posted on X in response to a White House social media account that charged, “Yes, [Omar] married her brother,” and listed three statutes Omar might have breached. “If this is true, then Omar faces criminal liability under three different statutes,” he said.He argued that Omar could have committed federal marriage fraud, a felony carrying up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and deportation for knowingly entering into a marriage to evade immigration laws. Cruz also noted that she could be breaking Minnesota’s incest law, a state felony punishable by up to ten years in jail, and could face tax fraud charges if joint tax returns were filed while she was not legally married, with penalties of up to a $100,000 fine and three years in prison. ” If a couple filed joint federal tax returns while not legally married (due to the marriage being void or still being married to another person), they could be charged with willfully making and subscribing to a false return. ◦Penalties: This is a felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 (or $500,000 for a corporation), imprisonment for up to three years, or both,” Cruz said in a post on X.Omar was born in Somalia and arrived in the US in 1995 after her family was granted asylum. She became a citizen in 2000. She has been married legally three times: first in a religious marriage to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002, then to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 before divorcing and legally marrying Hirsi again, and in 2020 she married political aide Tim Mynett, Fox News reported.Trump had earlier in the week repeated the long-standing but unsubstantiated claims that Omar married her brother to gain entry to the US. Omar has denied the allegations. At the rally he said, “She married her brother to get in, right?” He added, “If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I’d last for about two hours or something less than that? She married her brother to get in. Therefore, she’s here illegally. She should get the hell out.”
