by Sharon Rondeau
(Dec. 10, 2025) — On Tuesday afternoon EST/Wednesday morning (Melbourne, Australia), The Post & Email‘s editor was a guest on “Leading Education with Cheryl Lacey” on WYN 88.9 FM under the topic of “lawlessness” worldwide.
An educator, author, broadcaster and businesswoman, Lacey’s weekly program transcends “education” in the traditional sense as it brings her audiences insights on contemporary issues which directly or indirectly affect individuals in Australia, the U.S. and beyond.
Lacey asked us about the newly-uncovered social-service fraud in Minnesota reportedly involving a segment of the Somali community in Minneapolis, a story broken by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe of City Journal on November 19.
Our conversation extended to a significant rate of fraud in Somalian visa applications as recently alleged by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and a story The Post & Email has specifically covered regarding evidence that three-term U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) may not be an American citizen.
As he has in recent days and weeks, at a rally in Mount Pocono, PA Tuesday evening, President Trump related his understanding that Omar “married her brother” to fraudulently obtain U.S. citizenship for herself. However, Omar’s alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, believed to be a British citizen or resident, reportedly married Omar in 2009 in order to enter the U.S. and attend South Dakota State University on taxpayer-funded financial aid.
Omar has long been reported to have arrived in the United States in 1995 as a refugee with her father and claims U.S. citizenship through derivation when she was 17 after her father’s alleged naturalization.
However, a 2023 FOIA request former Minnesota DFL primary candidate AJ Kern filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) yielded the finding that no one with Omar’s father’s name, including spelling variations and birth-year range, had applied for or obtained U.S. naturalization.
As Kern stated in an earlier video, Omar asked that her congressional and former Minnesota House legislative websites be updated to reflect her birth year as 1982 rather than 1981, as she originally claimed. Kern reasoned that if Omar had been born October 4, 1982, she could still have obtained derivative citizenship through her father’s alleged naturalization in 2000, but she would have been over 18 and therefore past the age at which she could have been naturalized by that method if born in 1981.
Omar has never explained why her birth year was initially reported incorrectly.
The Post & Email‘s interview with Lacey begins at the 59:46 mark here.
“Omar has never explained why her birth year was initially reported incorrectly.”
Typo by her website manager. Sound familiar? :)