Federal authorities seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone during a raid on her Washington, D.C. home as part of a criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork. Investigators issued more than a dozen subpoenas to her family members and are examining whether her family lied about her age when she immigrated in 1995.
Around here, a misplaced date on a thirty-year-old immigration form buys you a court date in 2031. The feds, though, can assemble a dozen subpoenas and a phone seizure over a 1995 discrepancy. Funny how the machinery only sprints when it’s hunting. Funny, and rotten. Meanwhile the rest of us wait in line, politely, forever.