A Facebook Live Video from 2016 shows the Associate Chair of the Somali American Caucus threatening any immigrant from Somalia who speaks about Ilhan Omar’s marriage “As troubling details mounted against Omar, members of the Somali community were threatened into silence through intimidation tactics and physical violence on themselves and their families still back in Somalia. In an obtained Facebook Live video from August 18th, 2016, a woman identified as the Associate Chair of the Somali American Caucus speaks: in translation she states in plain terms that any Somali that talks about Omar's personal life, including marriage discrepancies, is an enemy of the Somali community. Credible sources in the Somali community have stepped forward and provided Alpha News with information in exchange for anonymity, along with members of the 2003 class have also identified Elmi's father as... As Nur Said Elmi Mohammed, the same man who calls himself father to Ilhan Omar.”