ICE raided the home of Ilhan Omar. Federal agents reportedly searched her home in a criminal investigation related to claims that she or her father may have lied on immigration paperwork when they sought to secure legal status in the U.S. decades earlier.
Who is making these claims is not clear. One item coming out of this is that Omar updated her date of birth in Congressional records from 10/4/1981 to 10/4/1982.
What makes this tricky is that American citizenship is based upon her being under 18 when her father got citizenship. As a minor she would be included. But if she was 18 or older, then she have to file on her own.
Omar's father obtained citizenship in 2000. A little basic arithmetic would tell you that, if she was born in 1981, then there is no way that she could have been under 18 at then time. Changing the date to 1982 resolves the problem.
I'm not sure how one resolves this without some sort of independent documentation because everything we have appears to be self reported.
I suppose it's a matter of consistency. If every other reported date, driver's license, Social Security and school records, indicates 1982, then the 1981 date was simply an error despite the curious coincidence of it making her citizenship valid or not. If all the other dates are 1981, then that could be an issue.
I think it's most likely that the one date of 1981 was in error. Why bother to lie on the application for citizenship? Besides, they must have realized that there were other self reported dates that could be checked.
I suspect this particular issue is going nowhere. As for any other claims about falsifying immigration papers, I have no idea what they are so I suppose we shall see.
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