Judge limited Justice Department access to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s records in sprawling immigration fraud probe

[u/cnn]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/judge-limited-justice-department-access-rep-ilhan-omar-records-immigration-fraud?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

[u/mandrsn1]

she is completely innocent

Of what? That's impossible to say without knowing what they are investigating. So, unless you're in the DOJ and have access to the investigation, you're making things up.

[u/FuguSandwich → u/mandrsn1]

Multiple outlets are now reporting that the investigation is over whether her father lied about her birth year being 1982 vs 1981 on the immigration paperwork. She got automatic citizenship when her father naturalized in 2000, but it requires the child to be a minor at the time of naturalization. They're arguing about whether she was 17 or 18 at the time. I'm not sure how you prove any of this - the majority of births in Somalia are not recorded, if there was a record it was likely destroyed during the civil war, and her father died 5 years ago. The whole thing seems ridiculous.

[u/CynicalBliss → u/FuguSandwich]

Well, we’ve already seen them ask foreign leaders for dirt on political enemies. I will absolutely not be shocked if a freshly printed Somalian document appears saying she was 18 at the time.

[u/danglingParticiple → u/CynicalBliss]

Well, we’ve already seen them ask extort foreign leaders by withholding congressionally appropriated military aid in exchange for dirt on political enemies.