Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a pre-dawn search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home Monday as part of a criminal fraud probe into her immigration paperwork, and the congresswoman immediately blamed President Trump for political intimidation.
Federal officers from Homeland Security Investigations moved on the Somali-born Democrat’s residence early Monday in the nation’s capital. The Department of Justice confirmed the action was tied to an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
A Justice Department spokesman said the warrant was judicially authorized and secured by DOJ. Agents were reported on 26th Street NE in Washington as the search went forward.
The probe centers on immigration papers filled out on Omar’s behalf by her late father when she was a child, a criminal fraud inquiry into how she entered the United States. Border Czar Tom Homan first publicly flagged the case in mid-September.
Omar, a progressive Squad member and one of Trump’s sharpest critics on Capitol Hill, answered on X by casting the enforcement action as retaliation.
She wrote: “I'm ok. Make no mistake: this is 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."
The government did not treat the Monday operation as a political stunt. It described a lawful search tied to an active case.
A Justice Department spokesman stated:
"Today in the Washington, DC area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice."
The same spokesman added:
"This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation."
Daily Mail reporting first laid out the pre-dawn swoop at Omar’s home and the fraud focus on childhood immigration filings. Fox News had the initial account of the raid itself.
Homan, pressed earlier on whether Omar was under investigation, refused to discuss case specifics. He offered a plain standard instead.
"No one's above the law."
He also declined to rule out stripping her of American citizenship if the facts supported that step. Days before the search, Markwayne Mullin, described in coverage as holding leadership over Homeland Security, said the inquiry reached beyond Omar’s disputed 2009 marriage and warned that removal actions could follow if wrongdoing is proven.
Officials have zeroed in on forms completed by Omar’s father during her childhood. That paperwork is now the core of the criminal fraud investigation into her path into America.
Separate from the warrant, Omar has for years faced allegations about a 2009 marriage that critics say was improper. She has flatly denied marrying her brother and branded those claims “absurd and offensive.”
Her personal timeline has stayed in the public eye. She married political consultant Tim Mynett in Washington in March 2020, four months after her divorce from Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children, was finalized. Mynett’s ex-wife, Beth, had filed for divorce the previous August, with court papers claiming he left after a “shocking declaration of love” for the congresswoman.
None of that marital history is the stated basis for Monday’s warrant. The government has pointed to the immigration filings and an active fraud probe. Mullin’s comments made clear investigators were looking past the 2009 marriage dispute into the entry paperwork itself.
Omar’s home state has become a focal point of federal immigration and fraud enforcement. Minnesota holds the nation’s largest Somali community and has been described as ground zero for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Federal prosecutors have warned of a sprawling Medicaid fraud scandal there that could reach $9 billion. The administration dispatched a strike force of prosecutors to confront it.
Less than seven weeks before agents hit Omar’s D.C. residence, Minneapolis police moved on an apartment shared by her 20-year-old son, Adnan Hirsi, and his 22-year-old roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi. Officers seized guns and ammunition. Abdi was arrested on a weapons charge after a firearm was found in his impounded car. Hirsi has not been accused of wrongdoing.
In January, federal immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, within about two weeks of each other. Those shootings sit in the same broader enforcement climate that now includes the search at Omar’s home.
Midterms were less than a month away when the warrant was executed, adding political heat to an already raw fight over borders, benefits fraud, and equal application of the law.
Omar’s office was contacted for comment after the raid. Her public line stayed fixed on motive: that Trump has pursued her for a decade with “baseless lies and smear campaigns,” and that Monday’s search was the latest round of “political intimidation.”
Breitbart’s account aligned with the core facts: a pre-dawn DHS operation at her Washington home, a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork, and DOJ’s confirmation of a judicially authorized HSI warrant.
What the record shows is narrower and harder. A federal court authorized the search. Homeland Security Investigations carried it out. DOJ said it belongs to an ongoing investigation. Homan’s rule was simple, no one is above the law. Mullin put removal on the table if proof of wrongdoing lands.
Omar is a sitting member of Congress. She is also a naturalized American whose entry documents are now under criminal review. Those two facts can be true at the same time. A warrant is not a smear campaign. It is a judge’s order backed by investigators who say the paperwork trail matters.
Taxpayers fund the system that admits people, naturalizes them, and then expects honest filings. When agents serve a warrant on a powerful official’s doorstep over those filings, the test is the same one applied to everyone else: follow the evidence, prove the case, and apply the statute without fear or favor.
Equal enforcement is not intimidation. It is the bare minimum of a country that still means what its laws say.
