华盛顿 — 根据明尼苏达州一名活动人士在2023年获得的文件，伊尔汉·奥马尔的父亲努尔·奥马尔·穆罕默德没有成为美国公民的官方记录 — — 这削弱了奥马尔通过家庭关系获得公民身份的法律主张。
WASHINGTON — Ilhan Omar’s dad, Nur Omar Mohamed, has no official record of being a naturalized US citizen, according to documents obtained by a Minnesota activist in 2023 — undermining Omar’s legal claim to citizenship by way of family relations.
这些文件显示，美国公民及移民服务局的一名信息官员进行了“尽职调查式搜索”，但未找到与努尔·奥马尔·穆罕默德或其姓名其他变体（如努尔·赛义德·埃尔米·穆罕默德）相关的任何记录。
The documents show that a US Citizenship and Immigration Services information officer conducted a “diligent search” but found “no record” relating to Nur Omar Mohamed or other variants of his name such as Nur Said Elmi Mohamed.
AJ·科恩曾在2022年民主党初选中与奥马尔竞争，她在竞选国会期间曾请求有关父亲公民身份状况的信息，但直至2023年9月才收到回复。
AJ Kern, who ran against Omar in a 2022 Democratic primary, had requested information about the father’s citizenship status during her run for Congress but only received an answer back in September 2023.
这一披露使奥马尔声称自己在2000年作为17岁青少年成为公民的说法变得复杂 — — 她曾表示父亲当时已经成为归化公民。
The disclosure complicates claims that Omar became a citizen as a 17-year-old in 2000, when she has said that her father became a naturalized citizen.
“她声称自己是通过衍生方式获得公民身份，”科恩周二在接受《邮报》电话采访时说道，随后又称奥马尔可能为了这一点而撒谎了自己的年龄，当时她可能已经18岁。
“She was claiming derivative citizenship,” Kern told The Post in a phone interview Tuesday, before claiming that Omar may have lied about her age to do so and could have been 18 years old at the time.
参选国会的州和联邦表格要求候选人在伪证罪的处罚下宣誓其公民身份状况，而奥马尔多次表示自己是美国公民。
State and federal forms to run for Congress rely on candidates attesting to their citizenship status under penalty of perjury, and Omar has repeatedly stated that she is a US citizen.
科恩获得的文件之一显示，一份2018年6月的候选人宣誓书，由奥马尔签署并提交至明尼苏达州国务卿办公室，其中 affirm 明尼苏达州民主党人“是美国公民”。
One of the documents obtained by Kern shows a June 2018 affidavit of candidacy, signed by Omar and submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state’s office, that affirms the Minnesota Democrat was “a citizen of the United States.”“I was born in Somalia and I was about 8 years old when the civil war happened and then we fled and lived in a refugee camp for four years in Kenya,” Omar told The Intercept months later in a September 2018 interview.
“我出生在索马里，内战爆发时我大约8岁，之后我们逃离并生活在肯尼亚的难民营四年，”奥马尔在同年9月接受《拦截者》采访时数月后说道。
“And so, we lived in that refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya for four years and then in 1995 got the opportunity to resettle here in the U.S. and I actually started out in Arlington, Virginia, so not that far away from Capitol Hill, and then eventually moved to Minnesota when I started high school,” she added.
“于是，我们在肯尼亚蒙巴萨的难民营生活了四年，随后在1995年获得机会重新定居到美国。我最初实际上是在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿定居的，离国会山并不远，后来在我开始上高中时搬到了明尼苏达州，”她补充道。
Omar also said: “I became a citizen actually before I turned 18. My father became a citizen and so I got my citizenship through that process.”Kern thinks the current system, however, doesn’t have enough safeguards, especially for foreign-born individuals who subsequently run for federal office.
奥马尔还表示：“我实际上在年满18岁之前就成为公民了。我父亲成为公民，因此我通过这个过程获得了公民身份。”然而，克恩认为现行体系缺乏足够的保障措施，特别是对后来参选联邦职务的外国出生人士。
“In the refugee program, they obtain a Social Security number fairly soon after they enter the country; eventually, they go and obtain a driver’s license,” she explained.
“在难民项目中，他们在进入该国后不久就会获得社会安全号码；最终，他们会去申请驾驶执照，”她解释道。
“So Ilhan Omar as a child obtained a Social Security number. Then when she became of driving age, she went in and she obtained a driver’s license, and at the same time sheed to vote,” she continued.
“因此，伊尔汉·奥马尔在童年时期就获得了社会安全号码。然后，当她达到驾驶年龄时，她去申请并获得了驾驶执照，与此同时她也有资格投票，”她继续说道。
“And what we know in Minnesota is they are not verifying citizenship … so it’s very easy when you have a Social Security number, a driver’s license, and you’reed to vote to say, ‘Yeah, I’m a citizen.’ And nobody can check it. No one, no one can do anything about it,” Kern added.
“而在明尼苏达州我们知道的是，他们并未核实公民身份……所以当你拥有社会安全号码、驾驶执照以及投票资格时，可以说‘是的，我是公民’非常容易。而且没有人能够核实这一点。没有人，没有人能对此做任何事情，”克恩补充道。
When pressed about her date of birth in the past, Omar has never produced a certificate and her campaign told the Associated Press in 2018 that’s “because the infrastructure in Somalia collapsed during a civil war that displaced over 2 million Somalis.”
过去当被问及她的出生日期时，奥马尔从未出示过出生证明，她的竞选团队在2018年告诉美联社，这是因为“索马里在内战期间基础设施崩溃，导致超过200万索马里人流离失所。”她办公室的一位代表周一补充道：“国会议员没有做错任何事。没有总统应该能够利用联邦政府的权力来恐吓他的政治对手。”奥马尔自2019年1月起一直在国会任职，但周一，国土安全部调查特工对她在华盛顿特区的住所执行了搜查令。
A rep for her office added Monday: “The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.”Omar has served in Congress since January 2019, but on Monday, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant on her DC residence.
特工们被看到从这栋平房里搬出装有证据的箱子，并将其装载到政府车辆上。
Agents were seen exiting the bungalow with boxes of evidence and loading them into government vehicles.
熟悉这起针对该国会议员多年刑事调查的人士表示，该调查涉及奥马尔可能在移民文件上作出的虚假陈述，其中一项表明，调查的关键在于她是否有资格获得公民身份。
People familiar with the years-long criminal investigation into the congresswoman said that it concerned allegedly false statements Omar may have made on immigration papers, with one indicating that the probe hinged on whether she was ineligible for citizenship.
被问及为何特工执行搜查令时，Kern 表示这“可能是因为他们没有她父亲入籍的记录，也可能是因为他们没有她公民身份的记录。”边境事务沙皇汤姆·霍曼（Tom Homan）和司法部发言人证实，该搜查令由华盛顿特区的一名联邦法官签署，暗示该司法管辖区倾向自由派的法官一定相信在她家中有很大可能发现犯罪证据。
Asked why agents executed a search warrant, Kern suggested it’s “because they probably don’t have a record of her father naturalizing, and they probably don’t have a record of her citizenship.”Border czar Tom Homan and a Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed that the search warrant was signed by a federal judge in DC, implying the jurist in the liberal-leaning jurisdiction must’ve been convinced there was a good chance evidence of the crime could be found in her home.
奥马尔在 X 上发表声明称，此次突袭“是针对政治敌人的企图，并试图将联邦执法武器化。”她表示：“十年来，特朗普一直用毫无根据的谎言和抹黑行动针对我。这只是他政治恐吓运动中的最新升级。我不会沉默。”她誓言如此。
In a statement on X, Omar called the raid “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced,” she vowed.
Kern 首次将奥马尔父亲入籍记录的不一致问题以及该国会议员自身工作人员要求在线档案保管人将她的出生日期从1981年10月4日改为1982年10月4日公之于众，这促使联邦选举委员会提出了投诉。
Kern first drew public attention to the discrepancy surrounding Omar’s father’s naturalization records, as well as the congresswoman’s own staff asking online recordkeepers to change her birthdate from Oct. 4, 1981, to Oct. 4, 1982, prompting a Federal Election Commission complaint.
在挑战奥马尔之前，Kern 在2016年和2018年明尼苏达州第六选区的共和党初选中，曾是众议员汤姆·埃默（Tom Emmer）的亚军。她周二告诉《邮报》，她自称是“保守派”。奥马尔办公室的代表周二未回应置评请求。国土安全部和司法部也没有回应。
Before challenging Omar, Kern was runner-up to Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota’s Sixth District in GOP primaries for 2016 and 2018. She told The Post Tuesday she identified as a “conservative.”Reps for Omar’s office did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Neither did DHS nor DOJ.