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The audacity of this ungrateful asshat!🚨Rep. Ilhan Omar: “If they want to indict me, let’s see what they’ve got.”Thoughts?" Ilhan Omar Defiantly Dares DOJ to Indict Her Amid Immigration Fraud InvestigationShe responded defiantly on Thursday, May 21, to Vice President JD Vance’s announcement that the Justice Department is investigating allegations of immigration fraud against her.The Minnesota Democrat told reporters outside the Capitol that she welcomed the scrutiny.“If they want to indict me, let’s see what they’ve got,” Omar said. She added that the claims were not new. “He’s been doing that for a while,” she said, referring to President Donald Trump’s administration.Vance confirmed the Justice Department review on Tuesday during a White House press briefing.He said the department is examining longstanding questions about Omar’s past marriages and possible immigration violations.“It certainly seems like something fishy is there,” Vance said. He added that investigators would review the facts. “We’re going to investigate it. We’re going to take a look at it. If we think there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime.”Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Marital HistoryThe allegations center on Omar’s marital history, as records show she entered a religious marriage with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002.The couple had children but did not legally marry at the time. In 2009, she entered a legal marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen.Omar and Hirsi later married legally in 2018, following her 2017 divorce from Elmi.Critics have claimed for years that Elmi is Omar’s brother and that she married him to help him obtain legal immigration status.Omar has strongly denied those claims, calling them “bigoted lies” and saying they are rooted in racism and Islamophobia. No charges have ever been filed in the case.The questions first emerged during Omar’s 2018 run for Congress. She has declined to release some family records for privacy reasons. Previous reviews did not take any legal action on the matter.Omar, 44, came to the United States as a child refugee from Somalia. She was elected to the House in 2018 and has built a national profile as a leading progressive voice on issues such as immigration reform and Israel-related criticism.https://thekenyatimes.com/americas/ilhan-omar-defiantly-dares-doj-to-indict-her-amid-immigration-fraud-investigation/