Federal investigators have subpoenaed relatives of Rep. Ilhan Omar and searched her Washington home for immigration records, a widening probe her office calls baseless political targeting.
The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to family members of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in an immigration-related investigation of the Somalia-born congresswoman, Breitbart News reported, citing details first carried by the New York Times from people familiar with the matter.
Agents with the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations unit executed a search warrant at Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on Monday after a federal judge approved it. Investigators carried boxes of documents out of the home.
A sister of Omar’s, Sahra Noor, received a subpoena, as did at least one other member of her family circle, according to those people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss investigative steps. Officials are scouring the family’s history for evidence of fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office has also opened a financial probe into the congresswoman. Speaking to Fox News, Pirro left little doubt about the stakes.
"There are several investigations going on, and I don’t think there’s any question, but if there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted,"
That financial track follows earlier scrutiny of Omar’s reported multimillion-dollar net worth, which began under the prior administration and now sits with Pirro’s office.
The Monday search went well beyond paper files. The New York Post reported that federal agents seized Omar’s cellphone, notebooks, personal computers, and passport from her D.C. bungalow.
Authorities are examining whether her U.S. citizenship was obtained through concealment or misrepresentation on immigration paperwork by her or her father. Birth records conflict between 1981 and 1982. A 1981 date would have made her ineligible for derivative citizenship as a minor when her father naturalized in 2000.
That timeline matters. Civil denaturalization carries no statute of limitations. If investigators prove fraud in the citizenship process, the case could move toward deportation proceedings, an outcome that would remove a sitting member of Congress from office and from the country.
Readers tracking the paper trail will recall how Omar’s office got her listed birth year switched after she entered Congress, a record issue now sitting squarely inside the federal review.
Circulating reports have long focused on her birth date and whether immigration fraud occurred when she came to the United States with her father in the 1980s. The subpoenas and the home search show investigators are no longer treating those questions as closed history.
Omar rejected the investigation in blunt terms. In a statement after the search, she framed the raid as political payback rather than law enforcement.
"I'm ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. 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. I will not be silenced."
Just the News reported that her communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, went further, calling the action an abuse of power.
"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 Congresswoman has done nothing wrong."
Omar’s office also told the New York Post there is “no basis for this,” and that President Trump would love to eliminate one of the most effective progressive voices in Congress. Those are her team’s words. They do not erase a judge-signed warrant, seized passport and devices, or subpoenas to relatives.
Her husband has struck a calmer public note, and Omar’s husband says he has no worries after the D.C. search, even as federal agents carted evidence from the home.
The immigration track is not the only file open. Pirro’s office moved on Omar’s finances in the immediate wake of the home search, extending scrutiny of disclosures and the congresswoman’s reported multimillion-dollar net worth.
That sequence is laid out in full in coverage of how Pirro’s office probes Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures a day after agents hit the D.C. residence. Immigration paperwork in one lane. Money in the other. Both active.
In August, ICE refused a Freedom of Information Act request for records tied to the matter, citing an exemption for ongoing investigations. That refusal, months before the Monday raid, undercuts claims that the case sprang up overnight for political theater.
Border hard-liners have said the same in public. Tom Homan confirms an active federal criminal investigation into the Minnesota Democrat, matching the warrant, the subpoenas, and the seized devices.
Stripping citizenship is not a press-conference stunt. Prosecutors must prove fraud or willful misrepresentation in the naturalization process, high bars, with exacting evidence standards.
Former prosecutors have walked through those requirements in plain terms, including analysis of what feds must prove to strip Omar’s citizenship if the fraud theory holds. The birth-year conflict and the father’s 2000 naturalization date are the hinge facts now in federal hands.
No charges have been filed. No indictment has been announced. No docket number has been released to the public. The government’s next moves will turn on what the seized phones, computers, passport, and family records actually show.
Until then, the verified record is straightforward. A federal judge signed a warrant. DHS agents searched a sitting congresswoman’s home and removed boxes of documents plus her passport and electronics. DOJ subpoenaed her sister and at least one other relative. The U.S. attorney says crimes, if proven, will be prosecuted.
Equal enforcement of immigration law is not optional when the subject holds office, and a warrant backed by a federal judge is how that principle starts.
