‘Unprecedented’ Case Against Ilhan Omar Has Clear Precedent: The Recent Deportation Of Nazi Guard

A spokesman for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s “push to strip her of her citizenship and deport her has no basis in the law and has no precedent.” Omar’s spokesman was referring to a Department of Homeland Security raid examining whether the Democrat or her Somali father lied to gain entrance to the country in 1995.

But there is recent precedent for deporting someone with seemingly parallel circumstances, even after they’d been in the country far longer than Omar.

In 2018, the Trump administration removed a 95-year old Nazi guard who entered the United States in 1949 by claiming to be an ordinary Polish farmer. Jakiw Palij was in reality a member of the SS who worked at a labor camp in Poland and was deported to Germany by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Similar was done in the cases of 66 other Nazis. The United States welcomed more refugees fleeing Nazi persecution than any other country, but these Nazis sneaked in by hiding the fact that they were persecutors, not the persecuted.

The United States provided refuge to Somalis after the havoc wreaked by communist despot Mohamed Siad Barre, whose army committed a genocide of up to 200,000 members of a sect within Somalia known as the Isaaq.

But Omar’s family is not Isaaq. Quite the opposite: her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in Barre’s army. As the family of a high-ranking regime official, as a young girl she lived in a guarded compound, waited on by servants including a chauffeur.

Omar’s father allegedly told immigration officials he was an “educator,” changing his name to avoid detection. He died in 2020. A pro-Omar obituary mentions nothing about any teaching career, describing him as an “esteemed senior officer in the Somali National Army” who was trained by the Soviets and was “affluent.”

If all that is true, the Omar family’s admission into the United States would be similar to Nazis taking advantage of refugee programs for their victims.

The timeline supports it. The family didn’t leave Somalia until Barre was deposed and exiled in 1991. They weren’t fleeing his regime – they left because Somalis rose up against Barre’s oppression and drove him and his henchmen out.

Omar has said that Donald Trump has committed atrocities worse than any she saw in Somalia. That’s because she wasn’t one of the victims of her father’s boss.

Omar has said the raid on her home amounts to political persecution, but ironically, Barre passed a law allowing national security forces to indefinitely detain anyone who criticized the government, with no trial.

Theo Wold, a deputy assistant to Trump in his first term, responded to Omar’s statement, saying the Trump administration has a legitimate reason to look into the Democrat’s immigration status.

“I was involved in deporting one of the last living Nazi SS officers back to Germany, who had lied on his immigration forms to come to America all the way back in 1945. If any foreign-born person fraudulently obtained immigration status in America, they can have it reviewed at any time – up to and including a revocation of status and denaturalization of citizenship,” Wold said.

Nazi guard Jakiw Palij

Palij, the Nazi guard, moved to the United States in 1949 and gained citizenship in 1957. His citizenship was revoked in 2003 after authorities discovered the truth. A judge ordered his removal, but there was a lengthy delay because Germany, Poland, and Ukraine (which now controls the territory where he lived) didn’t want to take him, all claiming one of the other countries should.

Decades passed, with his neighbors in Queens making life as miserable as possible for him – unlike the reaction Democrats have given Omar.

Then came Trump, who ramped up the pressure on Germany, which finally relented.

“The US administration, senators, members of Congress and representatives of Jewish communities in the US stress that people who have served in the rogue regime of the Nazis should not be able to spend their twilight years unchallenged in the country of their choice, the US,” Germany’s foreign ministry said.

Germany conceded that it was a “moral obligation” to take him , saying “The guilt of those who carried out these crimes in Germany’s name will never elapse.”

Trump’s press secretary at the time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, praised Trump for deporting the Nazi.

“For many years a Nazi forced labor camp guard had been living in NY — a terrible injustice. Past administration failed to deport him,” Huckabee Sanders said, adding that Trump “got the job done!”

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