Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The Washington Post reports:
Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar, then a newly elected Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, for evidence of fraud.
That 2019 demand, detailed by three former immigration officials, struck staffers at the time as a highly unusual effort to wield federal power to dig up compromising material on a prominent critic of President Donald Trump and sitting member of Congress.
The request sparked a swift review examining Omar’s history, her family’s past as Somali refugees resettled in the United States and rumors that had circulated for years in conservative media over her marriage.
Homeland Security Investigations — the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing, one of the former officials said. The idea of pursuing a full investigation was eventually abandoned.
My comments:
Another vindictive investigation. Time to haul Demented Donnie’s morbidly obese butt into court for these abuses he’s so fond of!
Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar, then a newly elected Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, for evidence of fraud.
That 2019 demand, detailed by three former immigration officials, struck staffers at the time as a highly unusual effort to wield federal power to dig up compromising material on a prominent critic of President Donald Trump and sitting member of Congress.
The request sparked a swift review examining Omar’s history, her family’s past as Somali refugees resettled in the United States and rumors that had circulated for years in conservative media over her marriage.
Homeland Security Investigations — the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing, one of the former officials said. The idea of pursuing a full investigation was eventually abandoned.
My comments:
Another vindictive investigation. Time to haul Demented Donnie’s morbidly obese butt into court for these abuses he’s so fond of!
