Federal Agents Raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C.-Area Home in Immigration Paperwork Probe

Federal agents conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar as part of a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota Democrat’s immigration paperwork, according to reports from Fox News Digital confirmed by the Daily Caller and the New York Post.

“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation,” a Justice Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Multiple agents wearing Homeland Security Investigations jackets were seen outside Omar’s home early Monday, according to Fox News.

Two sources close to the investigation told Fox News that the raid is part of an inquiry into Omar’s immigration documents, which they said were filled out by her late father when she was a child. The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment, and a representative for Omar did not immediately respond, according to Reuters.

The investigation so far

White House border czar Tom Homan said weeks ago that Omar was under an ongoing “criminal” investigation, the Post reported. In March, Vice President JD Vance said the administration “definitely” believes Omar committed fraud and was evaluating its options to “go after” her, and in May he confirmed to the Daily Caller that the Justice Department was investigating her.

“It certainly seems like something fishy is there,” Vance told the Caller. “But everyone is entitled to equal justice under the laws. So we’re going to investigate it, we’re going to take a look at it. If we think there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime, and that’s something that the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”

The Post also reported that in May, Vance said the Justice Department and federal immigration authorities were reviewing potential instances of immigration fraud and family financial disclosures, following an April amendment to Omar’s federal financial disclosures that adjusted reported asset values.

Allegations the congresswoman has denied

Trump and his allies have long accused Omar of immigration fraud, including an allegation that she married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, in order to help him secure a U.S. visa or student loans. Omar and Elmi married in 2009 and divorced in 2017, and she has consistently denied that Elmi is her brother, calling the claims baseless bigotry. She has said she entered into a religious marriage with Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her children, in 2002, separated from him, legally married Elmi in 2009, separated from Elmi two years later, and reconciled with Hirsi.

Omar has also faced accusations that she entered the U.S. in 1995 under a false name or secondary family identity to bypass refugee processing backlogs, and questions over tax filings: a 2019 Minnesota state campaign finance board found that she filed joint tax returns with Hirsi in 2014 and 2015 while she was still legally married to her first husband.

No formal criminal charges or court filings have been brought against Omar to date, and her legal counsel and spokespeople have maintained that her naturalization process and financial disclosures fully comply with federal law. Reuters noted that the Somali-born congresswoman has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s criticism, including a recent burst of anti-Somali and anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Reporting based on coverage by Reuters, Fox News Digital, the New York Post and the Daily Caller.