White House confirmation of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D) alleged brotherly bond had Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) laying out the potential payments and prison time that could be owed.
Known for touting her native pride, recent reports of massive fraud from her fellow Somali-born occupants of Little Mogadishu (read Minnesota) found longstanding accusations against the congresswoman resurface. As President Donald Trump had called for her deportation if she had indeed defrauded the United States involving an alleged marriage to her brother, Cruz presented pertinent laws that could see the congresswoman facing nearly two decades in prison and fines amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“If this is true,” wrote the senator in response to the White House Rapid Response account posting, “Yes, [Omar] Married Her Brother,” “then Omar faces criminal liability under three different statutes …”
If this is true, then Omar faces criminal liability under three different statutes:
•Federal Marriage Fraud (8 U.S.C. § 1325(c)): This federal law makes it a felony to knowingly enter into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws.
◦Penalties:… https://t.co/klkPncFenn— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 12, 2025
Specifically, Cruz presented federal laws covering marriage fraud and tax fraud, as well as state laws against incest. Where it concerned alleged marriage fraud supported by documentation of a marriage license between Omar and her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a penalty of up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 were in play. Additionally, “The non-citizen involved would also be subject to deportation and permanently barred from receiving any future U.S. immigration benefits.”
On alleged tax fraud, as the Washington Free Beacon had detailed joint tax returns filed by the congresswoman with her then Islamic spouse and father of her three children, Ahmed Hirsi, the senator presented the potential for a charge of “willfully making and subscribing to a false return,” punishable by up to $100,000 in fines for an individual — $500,000 for a corporation — and as much as three years in prison.
Regarding the alleged marriage to her brother and Minnesota incest laws, Cruz explained that the statute specifically refers to sexual intercourse with a relative “nearer of kin than a first cousin” that brings with it a prison sentence up to ten years if convicted.
Prior to the lawmaker’s rundown, The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway had remarked in response to the story and growing calls for Omar’s denaturalization and deportation, “It’s actually a huge deal that sitting member of Congress and Democrat star Ilhan Omar apparently committed marriage and immigration fraud, even a bigger deal than who she committed marriage fraud with.”
It’s actually a huge deal that sitting member of Congress and Democrat Star Ilhan Omar apparently committed marriage and immigration fraud, even a bigger deal than who she committed marriage fraud with.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 12, 2025
Meanwhile, conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck used his platform on behalf of those who were tired of an all-talk and no-action legislature and justice system, suggesting the political theater be dropped and replaced with meaningful accountability.
“I’m sorry but no one cares anymore because we all know this from her first election and basically no one has done anything about it except fundraise off of it. Wake me up when she’s deported. Until then I’m sick of hearing about empty threats,” wrote Starbuck as others too called for consequences if Omar is found guilty.
I’m sorry but no one cares anymore because we all know this from her first election and basically no one has done anything about it except fundraise off of it. Wake me up when she’s deported. Until then I’m sick of hearing about empty threats. https://t.co/HvaWYmZPLy
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 13, 2025
Has the DOJ started an investigation into Ilhan and her family? Is the Trump Administration going to pursue denaturalization?
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) December 12, 2025
So what are you going to do about it as you sit in the Senate for I don’t know at least a decade maybe longer
— Gianna Miceli (@LegalFockery) December 13, 2025
Someone who sat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, mind you
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) December 12, 2025
Stop posting about it on Twitter and DO something about it, besides writing a harshly worded tweet, Ted. pic.twitter.com/CQvKy4i0i5
— ☘️ Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ (@LuckyMcGee) December 13, 2025
This is so true. Every time I hear some announcement about how there is evidence that leftist X did Y, and then see nothing happening in regards, I get a little more pissed off. And not in a “time to vote harder” way. More like a “Elon please help primary them all” way
— Richard Whittington (@ThriceLordMayor) December 13, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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