The Patriot Post® · VP Vance Calls Out Omar's Immigration Fraud

By Douglas Andrews ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/126319-vp-vance-calls-out-omars-immigration-fraud-2026-03-30

Let it not be said that Somali Americans have failed to assimilate. The grift, after all, is as American as apple pie.

While it’s debatable that P.T. Barnum ever said, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” it’s not at all debatable that W.C. Fields once said, “It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”

In the case of Minnesota’s long-running Somali Medicaid fraud scandal — an $18 billion fraud that’s been perpetrated for years right under the noses of the Democrats who run the state — that sucker is the American taxpayer.

And in the case of Somali-born, Minneapolis-based Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the sucker is the American criminal justice system and its commitment to the Rule of Law.

“Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” said Vice President JD Vance on Friday. Vance then said the administration is going to “go after” Omar for these alleged crimes.

The short of it is this: Omar allegedly engaged in a sham marriage to her brother in order to skirt our immigration laws and get him into this country.

Vance continued, “What are the legal remedies now that we know she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually build the case to actually get some justice for the American people?”

These are good questions, and they’re deserving of answers — and not just because Omar is a vile Jew hater and an apologist for the criminality within Minnesota’s Somali community. They deserve answers because we’re either a nation of laws or we aren’t.

And while they’re at it, maybe they could take a look into how Omar and her "third” husband have gotten so rich so quickly. As the New York Post reports, “As of 2024, congressional financial disclosures revealed the pair were worth up to $30 million in just a year after Mynett [had] reported being nearly broke in past House forms filed by his wife.”

The U.S. Congress. It’s nice work if you can get it.

As to Omar’s marriage fraud, blogger Nick Freitas observes that back in the day, Omar and her brother “reportedly referred to each other in familial terms.” The smoking gun, says Freitas, is “a now-removed Instagram post by [Omar’s second husband in which he] called Omar’s 2012 newborn daughter his niece. And other posts showed interactions suggesting a sibling relationship rather than a spousal one.”

There’s something to see here, folks. Let’s not move along.

Indeed, Power Line’s Scott Johnson has been on this story for a decade, having posted some really damning receipts from a Somali who claimed on Somalispot, a Somali community website, that Omar had engaged in “marriage and immigration fraud” and that her caper was “something of an open secret in the Somali community.” That web page has since been shoved down the memory hole. Imagine that.

This should put to rest the Left’s tired trotting out of the race card.

Haven’t we leared anything yet?

Marriage fraud is no laughing matter. Indeed, it’s a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Heck, in this case, I’d settle for deportation.

As for whether Omar will ever be held accountable, it’s perhaps a cynical consideration that her presence in Congress as a member of the Democrat Party is actually beneficial to Republicans politically. This consideration shouldn’t trump the Rule of Law, but it’s out there.

But perhaps the most galling part of the Ilhan Omar saga is the double standard we afford the 535 members of an old-boys-and-girls club in our nation’s capital. Because there’s no way an anonymous Somali immigrant who’s been credibly accused of immigration fraud would be receiving the same kid-glove treatment that Omar is receiving.

Put another way: What kind of message are President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance sending to the American people when they go on record with their belief that a member of Congress committed immigration fraud and yet don’t pursue the case against her?

If there’s credible evidence that Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud, then she should have her day in court. And if the United States government makes the case, then she should be deported.

Any other standard reeks of two-tiered justice and is therefore poisonous to Rule of Law.

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