Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband insists he has “no concerns” after Homeland Security agents searched their D.C. home in a criminal immigration probe her office calls political intimidation.
Tim Mynett stood outside the couple’s Washington residence the same day agents from Homeland Security Investigations carried out the early-morning search and told reporters he was unbothered. Fox News Digital first reported the raid and captured his defense of the Minnesota Democrat’s path to the United States.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar and Tim Mynett as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into her immigration pathway and paperwork. The action came under a judicially authorized warrant secured by the Department of Justice, and it quickly drew denials from Omar’s camp along with a separate look at her financial filings.
Mynett framed the core of her story in plain terms. He said his wife arrived as a child and that the probe does not trouble him.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
He added a shorter line when asked about the federal scrutiny: “No concerns.”
That stance sits beside a widening set of federal steps. Relatives of Omar were issued subpoenas after the search. The New York Times reported the subpoenas on Tuesday, one day after the raid. At least two relatives were swept in, including her sister Sahra Noor. Fox News also learned that multiple family members received subpoenas.
The probe centers on immigration history and paperwork connected to Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed. Investigators are examining whether false or omitted information on his citizenship application could affect the derivative naturalization path Omar has described. She has said she became a naturalized citizen through her father at age 17, five years after leaving Somalia. Just the News reported that the search raises potential fraud and denaturalization questions if the father’s filing does not hold up.
A Department of Justice spokesperson described the operation in formal language rather than political spin.
"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,"
That confirmation came as House Democrats and Omar’s team cast the raid as an abuse of power timed near the midterms. National Review reported Democratic leaders calling the search deeply disturbing and evidence of federal machinery turned against political adversaries. Omar’s communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, labeled it an outrageous escalation and a weaponization of law enforcement against a political enemy.
Omar herself posted on X the day of the raid and put the blame on President Donald Trump. She wrote that he has targeted her for a decade with baseless lies and smear campaigns and called the search the latest step in a campaign of political intimidation. She also wrote that she will not be silenced. Those are her words. The warrant and the subpoenas are the government’s.
Border officials have separately confirmed that the immigration matter is a criminal investigation, a point underscored when Tom Homan confirmed the active federal criminal probe into the congresswoman. No charges, case numbers, or statutes appear in the public reporting so far. The search and the family subpoenas are the concrete steps on record.
The New York Post reported Tuesday that Omar’s staff helped adjust her birth year from 1981 to 1982 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library and on sites including Wikipedia and other media outlets. The altered year appeared during her full time in the Minnesota House and for months after she entered Congress. That detail does not by itself prove fraud. It does sit in the same timeline as the paperwork now under federal review.
Omar has long faced public allegations about her entry to the United States and about earlier marriages. She denies wrongdoing. The current investigation, as described by officials and by outlets covering the warrant, is focused on the father’s citizenship application and the derivative claim that followed. Readers looking for the legal threshold can find the stakes laid out in coverage of what prosecutors must prove to strip citizenship in a fraud case.
Mynett’s public message stays simple: child refugee at 12, naturalized later, no reason for worry. Federal agents still searched the house. Family members still received subpoenas. Those two facts do not disappear because a spouse says he is unconcerned.
The same week brought a second track. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures and the reporting of the shared net worth with Mynett. The 2024 congressional financial disclosure had listed business interests tied to Mynett at a combined value between $6 million and $30 million. After amendment, his share in a winery previously valued between $1 million and $5 million was listed at $0. His share in a venture capital advisory firm previously valued between $5 million and $25 million was also listed at $0.
Omar’s office said the earlier figures were incorrect. It told Fox News Digital that Mynett has partners in both businesses and that the original filing mistakenly reflected total equity rather than his ownership interest. The office also said the original filing listed assets without accounting for liabilities. The amended forms now show those equity interests at zero. The size of the swing is why investigators continue to press for answers on the $30 million disclosure change.
Pirro’s announcement came one day after the home search, which is why reporting also tracked how Pirro’s office opened the disclosures probe right after the D.C. raid. Two federal lines of inquiry now run side by side: immigration paperwork and the accuracy of the wealth reports filed with Congress.
Omar and her allies describe the entire episode as Trump-era revenge. The Department of Justice describes a judicially authorized warrant inside an ongoing federal investigation. Subpoenas went to relatives. Disclosures that once showed millions were rewritten to zero with an explanation about partners and liabilities. Mynett says he has no concerns. Taxpayers and lawful residents are entitled to a simpler standard: when federal agents execute a warrant at a member of Congress’s home and pull family members into a grand-jury process, the public gets facts, not slogans.
Minnesota’s Somali community has already drawn wider federal attention on immigration-fraud cases. Omar’s situation is now part of that larger enforcement picture whether her office likes the timing or not. DHS officials have also publicly discussed older marriage allegations and the possibility of immigration consequences, including in coverage of how DHS leadership has raised marriage claims and deportation warnings. Those claims remain contested. The warrant and the subpoenas are not.
Mynett’s “no concerns” line may reassure the household. It does not close the file. Federal investigators are still testing the paperwork that built a path from child refugee to member of Congress, and a U.S. attorney is still testing whether the financial forms matched reality. In a system that is supposed to apply the same rules to everyone, that is how accountability starts, with documents, not with press-conference defiance.
Voters who expect clean filings and honest immigration records should not have to take a spouse’s word for it while the warrants and the amended disclosures remain on the table.
