Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband insists he has no concerns after Homeland Security agents searched their Washington home in a criminal immigration probe, even as relatives face subpoenas and separate scrutiny hits her financial filings.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Washington, D.C., residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and her husband Tim Mynett early Monday morning. The operation formed part of an ongoing criminal investigation into her immigration pathway to the United States, according to sources familiar with the probe.
Fox News Digital first reported the search and spoke with Mynett outside the home the same day. He offered a brief defense of his wife’s arrival story and brushed aside any worry about the federal activity.
Mynett told reporters:
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
Pressed on the investigations, he added simply:
"No concerns."
That public stance came as the probe widened beyond the couple’s front door. At least two of Omar’s relatives, including her sister Sahra Noor, received subpoenas one day after the search. Those subpoenas target her immigration paperwork as part of the same HSI inquiry.
Federal agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at the D.C. home while examining whether paperwork problems in Omar’s family history could carry legal consequences. Just The News reported authorities are looking at whether her late father’s citizenship application involved fraud or omissions that might open a path to denaturalization proceedings against her.
Omar has long claimed she became a naturalized citizen through derivative citizenship from her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, when she was 17, five years after leaving Somalia. Mynett’s description of her as a child war refugee matches the timeline she has publicly advanced. The federal focus now sits on the documents that supported that path.
Omar rejected the inquiry outright. On Monday she posted on X that the search fit a longer pattern of attacks.
She wrote:
"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,"
The Washington Examiner carried her fuller response in which she said she would “not be silenced” and framed the raid as an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.
Her communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, called the action an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation. Omar’s team has consistently cast every layer of the scrutiny as political payback rather than a document-driven criminal inquiry.
Readers following earlier coverage of the same matter can see how federal agents searched Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home in the opening phase of the immigration fraud probe.
The New York Post separately reported Tuesday that Omar’s staff helped adjust her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library and on other public sites. That altered birthdate remained published through her entire service in the Minnesota House and for months after she entered Congress.
While HSI handled the immigration side, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures. The focus is how the congresswoman and Mynett reported their shared net worth.
Omar’s 2024 congressional financial disclosure listed business interests tied to Mynett valued between $6 million and $30 million. His share in a winery appeared between $1 million and $5 million. His stake in a venture capital advisory firm appeared between $5 million and $25 million.
Omar’s office later amended the filing. Both equity interests dropped to $0. Staff explained the original numbers mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity instead of Mynett’s actual ownership share and failed to subtract liabilities. A related account of the revision described a $30 million filing brought down to under $100,000, with the office insisting she is “not a millionaire.”
Those sharp swings in reported value now sit under formal review even as the immigration paperwork questions continue. The two tracks leave Omar facing parallel federal examinations of the records that define both her citizenship claim and her household finances.
Earlier reporting has already examined how a federal probe of Ilhan Omar reportedly targets her father’s immigration paperwork rather than other long-circulating allegations.
Fox News Digital learned that subpoenas went to multiple family members. The New York Times confirmed on Tuesday that relatives had been issued the documents. Sahra Noor is the only relative publicly named so far. No charges, arrests, or seized-item lists have been released. No on-the-record statement from HSI or the Justice Department has detailed the precise statutes or warrant scope.
Still, the sequence is clear: home search on Monday, family subpoenas the next day, and a second investigation announced by the U.S. Attorney on the financial side. Omar continues to deny any immigration fraud. Her husband continues to say he has no concerns. The documents and the subpoenas now sit with federal investigators.
Legal observers have mapped how difficult it can be to unwind citizenship once granted. One detailed look appears in coverage of how a former prosecutor maps the steep legal climb to strip Ilhan Omar’s citizenship even when fraud questions arise.
Congressional pressure has also grown. House Oversight figures have called for the release of immigration evidence and argued that lawmakers should eventually vote on expulsion if the facts warrant it. That debate continues in parallel with the criminal inquiry.
For readers tracking the institutional response, see how Comer pushes to release Ilhan Omar immigration evidence and puts expulsion on the table.
Omar has previously pushed legislation that would strip nearly $140 billion from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and redirect the money elsewhere. That record sits in tension with the reality that ICE’s investigative arm is now examining her own family’s entry documents.
The core questions remain straightforward. Did the paperwork that brought Omar and her father into lawful status hold up under oath? Did the financial disclosures that members of Congress are required to file accurately reflect the household’s assets? Federal agents have begun collecting answers the hard way, with a search warrant, family subpoenas, and a second open inquiry into the money side.
Taxpayers expect every public official to clear the same bar on citizenship and financial honesty. When the records raise flags, the proper response is full cooperation and clean documents, not press statements that wave the whole matter away as politics.
