Rep. Ilhan Omar told Fox News she still has not been informed of the grounds for the federal probes against her, even after a raid on her Washington home.
On her first day back on Capitol Hill, the Minnesota Democrat faced questions from Fox News Digital about ongoing federal investigations and property taken from her Washington, D.C., residence.
When asked if she had been told exactly the basis for the investigations, Omar answered without hesitation.
Omar told the outlet:
"No, no,"
Pressed on whether the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are each investigating her independently, she offered little more clarity.
Omar said:
"I’m not sure,"
She added:
"You probably have more details on that."
That exchange landed after federal agents had already searched her home, seized devices, and obtained a DNA sample. A sitting member of Congress saying the press may know more than she does about probes into her own conduct is not a small gap in accountability.
Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a federal search of Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12, 2026, Fox News Digital first reported. Sources later confirmed the search tied to an investigation into her immigration paperwork.
Federal agents reportedly took her cellphone, passport, and computer. Fox News Digital also confirmed that a sample of Omar’s DNA was obtained during the raid.
Omar said some of that property has since come back. On the seized items, she told the outlet:
"I’ve gotten most of them back,"
She did not detail what remains outstanding. Her team did not respond to a separate request for comment.
Fox News Digital described two known ongoing federal probes. One involves DHS looking into whether immigration paperwork was fraudulently filled out by Omar or her father, a description sources confirmed to the outlet.
That track of the case sits alongside earlier reporting that Homeland Security delivered a large Omar case file to DOJ, underscoring how far the immigration questions have already moved inside the executive branch.
The second probe involves discrepancies in financial disclosures. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro confirmed that investigation publicly, according to the Fox News Digital account. No verbatim statement from Pirro appeared in the reporting, and no charges were described.
On Tuesday, Omar spent roughly two hours with high-profile lawyers Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz at her Capitol Hill office in the Longworth House Office Building. Both attorneys were seen leaving afterward.
Omar represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District and won re-election even as the investigations continued. Voters got a finished campaign. They still do not have a finished public accounting from her on the scope of the federal work.
A federal court filing identified Omar by the name “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” Fox News Digital reported. That surname matches the last name of her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom reports have alleged is her brother.
Those marriage questions are not new. A 2016 federal probe examined evidence she married a man believed to be her brother, and the same allegation has followed her through later cycles of scrutiny.
Fox News Digital also relayed Daily Caller reporting that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi described himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper published earlier this year. In August 2026, Omar ignored Fox News Digital questioning about that characterization.
Obama-era review of the same family-and-marriage file has been part of the public record as well, including coverage of how an earlier probe found evidence tied to marriage fraud claims. The current DHS paperwork inquiry sits on top of that long-running dispute, not apart from it.
Omar arrived in the United States in 1995 as a refugee after spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. She later won a House seat as a Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota.
Immigration benefit fraud and false statements on government forms are not trivial paperwork errors when they involve a naturalized citizen who now follows federal law. Former immigration judges have already publicly discussed whether such findings could support charges and even denaturalization risks if investigators prove the underlying claims.
DHS leadership has also kept the brother-marriage allegation in the foreground of the present case, including statements that investigators concluded Omar married her brother and that deportation questions remain on the table. Readers following the department’s line have seen that framing in coverage of how DHS tied the marriage finding to possible removal consequences.
None of that substitutes for charging documents. Fox News Digital’s account did not list indictments, arrest warrants, or statute citations. It did describe a completed home search, seized electronics and identity documents, a DNA sample, a public confirmation of a financial-disclosures probe, and sources tying the raid to immigration paperwork.
Against that backdrop, Omar’s Tuesday answers were spare. She said she had not been told the basis of the investigations. She said she was not sure whether DHS and DOJ were acting separately. She pointed the reporter back toward the reporter’s own file.
Congress demands transparency from agencies, banks, border officials, and ordinary applicants for status. A member under active federal scrutiny owes the public the same clarity she votes to impose on everyone else.
When agents have already been through the house, the least a lawmaker can do is say what she has been told, or admit, without the shrug, that she still does not know.
