Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar's team got birthdate changed in public records after she was elected to House

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's staff reportedly got her birthdate changed in public records shortly after she was elected to the House in 2018, which would make her a year younger than previously documented, according to records.

The revelation comes amid concerns that the congresswoman misrepresented her age to secure American citizenship. Omar has claimed that she was 17-years-old when she became a citizen in 2000, but previous records noted that she was born in 1981, meaning she was either 18 or 19 when she became a U.S. citizen.

The records have since been updated to show the congresswoman was born in 1982, despite it saying 1981 for the entire time she served in the state legislature, and for months into her first Congressional term, the New York Post reported. 

“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982,” the director of the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library wrote in an email. 

“Rep. Omar’s congressional staff are working with Wikipedia and with the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and other sources to correct her birth year on those sites," the director continued. "As of today, the birth year has not been corrected on the two sites I mentioned.”

The director also noted that they had not verified Omar's date of birth and that the initial birthdate was put down because the year had been widely available on Wikipedia and the Biographical Directory.

Omar, who was born in Somalia, has claimed that she became a citizen through her father, who became a naturalized citizen, but that's only an option if she was a minor when it happened.

The revelation also comes in the wake of a Homeland Security Investigations division raid of Omar’s home in the early hours of Monday morning. The department said the raid was part of an investigation but did not state what it centered on. 

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