Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughters showed up at her Washington home days after a federal immigration-fraud raid, while the Minnesota Democrat stays out of public view and her husband waves off the probe.
Fox News Digital spotted Isra Hirsi, Omar’s eldest daughter, pull a black sedan into the driveway of the congresswoman’s Washington, D.C. residence Saturday night and walk straight through the front door carrying a bag with both hands. A young teenage girl believed to be Omar’s second daughter entered later with a woman who appeared to be her caretaker. U.S. Capitol Police were on the street the same night Isra arrived.
The family movement came roughly a week after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at the home in a probe over whether the congresswoman and/or her father falsified information on citizenship paperwork. Omar has not been seen in public since the pre-dawn search, and her phone and passport were reportedly seized.
That absence has fed public questions about where the four-term Democrat is and what the investigation may bring next. Her husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, has stayed visible at the property. He emerged intermittently through the week mainly to walk the family’s dog, Teddy, and told reporters he has “no concerns” about the case.
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the chief investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, moved on Omar’s residence around 6:00 a.m. last Monday. Just the News reported that an HSI spokesperson described the action as execution of a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice in an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
The same warrant process was detailed further by National Review, which reported that the paperwork at issue was filled out by Omar’s late father when she entered the country as a child, and that the inquiry includes allegations she entered in 1995 under a false name to bypass refugee backlogs. A DOJ spokesperson said the Monday enforcement action was part of that continuing federal investigation.
Our earlier coverage of the federal search of Omar’s D.C. home laid out the same core fact pattern: a judicial warrant, an immigration-paperwork fraud theory, and a high-profile Democratic target insisting the case is pure politics.
Omar’s office answered the raid with a familiar charge. Hours afterward she posted on X that the search by “Trump’s DHS” was “an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.”
"This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,"
The post continued that Trump had targeted her for a decade, that the raid was pointless, that she had done nothing wrong, and that no president should use federal power to intimidate political enemies. House Democratic leaders separately called the search a disturbing act of weaponization against a Trump adversary close to the midterms.
Vice President JD Vance rejected that framing in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital last Tuesday. He said the administration does not want to copy the Biden-era practice of letting the law be used against political opponents.
"We don't want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that, where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents,"
Vance added that officials “really want to let the law, the facts drive this,” and that if justice requires further steps, “we'll take a step when we have to.”
Border Czar Tom Homan went further over the weekend. He said that if the allegations are proven, they could lead to Omar’s denaturalization, a point also examined in our report on how a strong case could strip citizenship and open the door to removal.
No charges have been announced. The public record so far is a warrant, seizures, subpoenas, and competing statements about motive. That is still a serious federal posture for a sitting member of Congress.
The path to the door did not begin on Monday morning alone. The New York Post reported that federal investigators had earlier seized the phone of Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, while examining whether Omar conspired to commit immigration fraud, and that text messages on that device helped persuade a judge to authorize the home search. Agents seized Omar’s phone, passport, notebooks, and computers. They had also collected DNA from her trash before the raid, with evidence expected to go before a federal grand jury in Minnesota.
Reporting on how agents sought DNA in the trash before the warrant was served underscores how long investigators worked the physical trail before they hit the residence.
Omar spokeswoman Jackie Rogers called the operation a politically motivated vendetta and an escalation of what she described as Trump’s personal campaign against the congresswoman. “Trump has spread lie after lie about the congresswoman in a desperate attempt to justify his extraordinary abuse of power,” she said.
Sahra Noor skipped a scheduled Minnesota book-tour stop last week. The bookstore said she missed it because of a “family emergency.” Three sources said she voluntarily spoke with federal investigators the same week, a thread followed in our coverage of how investigators questioned Omar’s sister after the D.C. search.
The New York Times, as carried in the Fox reporting, said about a dozen people, including Omar’s relatives, have been subpoenaed. That matches the wider pressure campaign described in our account of Justice Department subpoenas of Omar relatives in the same fraud probe.
Against that backdrop, the daughters’ arrivals mattered because Omar herself still had not reappeared in public. Isra Hirsi, 23, is a Barnard College graduate and co-founder of the 2019 U.S. Climate Strike. In 2024 she was arrested at Columbia and later suspended after joining an anti-Israel tent encampment that lasted two weeks until the NYPD cleared it. When Fox News Digital approached her at the D.C. house, she answered with a short pushback.
"What's your problem?"
Two days after Isra’s Saturday-night arrival, the younger girl believed to be Omar’s second daughter went inside with the apparent caretaker. Omar’s son is the only immediate family member Fox News Digital said it had not seen arrive since the search. Capitol Police presence on a residential street fits the force’s protective mission for members of Congress and their families, even though its routine jurisdiction is the Capitol complex.
Mynett grew sharp when the press presence around the house drew neighbors’ attention and when he was asked about unsubstantiated rumors that Omar had fled the country.
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of the neighbors around here, man,"
He still maintained he had no concerns about the investigation. Omar has not answered repeated requests for comment from Fox News Digital since the raid.
Separate from the live warrant, Omar has for years faced denied claims about her marriage history and tax timeline. She shares three children with Ahmed Hirsi, whom she married ceremonially in 2002 and legally in 2018. She was legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi from 2009 to 2017, a period during which her youngest daughter was born. She married Mynett in 2020. Elmi has been described in some accounts as allegedly her brother, a charge she has long denied and that remains unproven in the material here. Those older disputes are not the same as the citizenship-paperwork probe, but they are the political weather system in which every new filing lands.
What is new is concrete federal process: a DOJ-backed warrant, device and passport seizures, family subpoenas, a sister’s phone used to help unlock the house search, trash DNA, and a Minnesota grand jury on the horizon. Omar calls that intimidation. Vance calls it facts and law. Homan says proven fraud could cost her citizenship.
Taxpayers are entitled to a straight answer on whether a sitting member of Congress, or her father on her behalf, told the truth on the documents that made her an American. Family cars in the driveway do not close that question. Neither do press-conference attacks on “weaponization.” Either the paperwork holds up under oath, or it does not.
Public office is not a shield from the same immigration rules everyone else is told to obey.
