Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home and subpoenaed her relatives in an immigration fraud probe, a move the Minnesota Democrat brands as political intimidation.
Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at the congresswoman’s Washington, D.C., residence early Monday as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation tied to immigration paperwork. The Justice Department confirmed the search.
Fox News reported that investigators have issued grand jury subpoenas to multiple people in Omar’s family circle, including her sister Sahra Noor, while examining whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied or omitted information on immigration forms before he became a citizen. Grand jury subpoenas seek evidence and do not, by themselves, mean the recipients are suspected of wrongdoing.
The Minnesota Democrat, a member of the progressive “Squad,” quickly framed the federal agents’ search of her home as political payback. On X on Monday she insisted she was fine and accused the administration of targeting enemies.
"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,"
She added that for ten years President Trump had targeted her with “baseless lies and smear campaigns,” called the search “the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” and said, “I will not be silenced.”
Two sources told Fox News Digital the search was connected to an ongoing criminal investigation involving immigration paperwork. The precise scope remains unclear. Previous federal inquiries into Omar’s immigration history produced no charges, according to the New York Times.
Just the News reported that authorities are examining whether Omar’s late father lied or left out information on his citizenship application, a question that could carry consequences for her own naturalization if the paperwork does not hold up. An HSI spokesperson said agents “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice” as “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
Omar has long said she became a U.S. citizen through her father’s naturalization in 2000, before she turned 18. In a September 2018 interview with The Intercept, she put it this way: “I became a citizen actually before I turned 18,” and “My father became a citizen and so I got my citizenship through that process.”
Jacklyn Rogers, Omar’s communications director, called the action “an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.” House Democratic leadership separately labeled the raid “deeply disturbing” and said it “raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries,” language that sat uneasily beside earlier praise for other high-profile searches.
That double standard has already drawn notice in coverage comparing how the same voices once treated the Mar-a-Lago search and now describe the Omar home raid as “weaponization.”
The same cycle of scrutiny has revived a 2019 paper trail around Omar’s listed birth year. The New York Post reviewed emails from the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. The library director wrote that on May 17, 2019, staff were told her birth year was wrong and asked to fix it.
"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 said the original 1981 date had been drawn from other reference sources “without documentation.” Omar’s staff was also working with Wikipedia, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, and other listings to make the same correction, per the library account.
National Review noted the raid fits a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork filled out by her late father, along with longstanding allegations, which Omar has denied, that she entered the United States in 1995 under a false identity to bypass refugee backlogs and that a prior marriage involved a relative for immigration or student-loan purposes. Those claims have circulated for years; she has repeatedly rejected them.
In 2022, unsuccessful Democratic primary challenger AJ Kern questioned whether Omar was still a minor when her father naturalized, filed a Federal Election Commission complaint, and sued seeking proof of citizenship. A state judge dismissed the lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday on Fox News’ “America Reports” that her office is examining Omar’s financial disclosures, a track whose connection to Monday’s search remains unclear. Filings showed the combined reported value of two businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, California winery eStCru LLC and Washington-based venture firm Rose Lake Capital LLC, climbing from roughly $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023 to between $6 million and $30 million in 2024. In April, Omar amended the filings to a combined range between $18,004 and $95,000. The original paperwork was described as failing to properly account for business liabilities.
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations related to those disclosures, finding no substantial reason to believe Omar reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.
Mynett has publicly said he has no concerns after the same agents searched the couple’s D.C. residence, a stance covered as Tim Mynett’s response to the DHS search.
President Trump renewed the pressure Tuesday in a statement the White House shared on X after the disclosure numbers drew fresh attention.
"America wants answers, and we want them, NOW!"
Vice President JD Vance, who had previously accused Omar of immigration fraud, told the Times he had no advance knowledge of the search and sketched a simple standard.
"If there’s a real case there, we’re going to follow the facts," "If there’s not a real case there, then we won’t."
That approach matches the basic demand voters make of any immigration system: forms must be true, naturalization must rest on honest paperwork, and elected officials do not get a special shield when federal investigators obtain a warrant from a judge. Omar’s past line that no one is above the law is getting a fresh hearing after the Homeland Security raid on her home.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department, Omar’s office, and the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library for comment.
Warrants, subpoenas, and paper trails are how accountability works when citizenship and disclosure rules are on the table, and no member of Congress is entitled to skip the line.
