Rep. Ilhan Omar has not been seen publicly since a pre-dawn Homeland Security raid on her Washington home, even as her daughters returned and an immigration fraud probe widened.
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C. residence around 6:00 a.m. last Monday, executing a search warrant tied to questions about her citizenship paperwork. Fox News Digital later spotted her eldest daughter pulling into the driveway on Saturday night, walking straight through the front door with a bag in both hands.
A young teenage girl believed to be Omar’s second daughter entered the same home two days later with a woman who appeared to be her caretaker. U.S. Capitol Police were on the congresswoman’s street the night the older daughter arrived. Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, has come and gone mainly to walk the family dog. Omar herself has not reappeared in public.
The sequence has fed open questions about where the embattled representative is, what federal agents took, and how far an immigration fraud investigation will go.
Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that HSI, the chief investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, executed the warrant in connection with an immigration fraud probe. Investigators are examining whether Omar and/or her father falsified information on her citizenship paperwork. Her phone and passport were reportedly seized in the search.
The New York Post reported that federal investigators earlier seized a phone belonging to Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and that family text messages on that device helped obtain a judge’s approval for the D.C. raid. Agents also collected DNA from trash at Omar’s home before the search, and during the Monday operation they took notebooks and personal computers along with the phone and passport.
The New York Times, as cited in the Fox reporting, said about a dozen people, including Omar’s relatives, have been subpoenaed. Three sources told Fox News Digital that Noor voluntarily spoke with federal investigators last week after she missed a scheduled Minnesota book-tour stop, which a bookstore described as a “family emergency.”
Border Czar Tom Homan said over the weekend that if the allegations are proven, they could lead to Omar’s denaturalization. No charges or completed denaturalization proceedings were described as finished in the available reporting.
Hours after the search, Omar posted a statement on X framing the action as retaliation.
Omar said:
"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,"
She continued that Trump had “relentlessly targeted” her for a decade, called the raid “pointless,” insisted she had “done nothing wrong,” and argued no president should use federal power to intimidate political enemies.
Vice President JD Vance, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital last Tuesday, rejected the political-weaponization frame.
Vance said:
"We don't want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that, where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents,"
He added that officials “really want to let the law, the facts drive this,” and that if justice requires further steps, “we’ll take a step when we have to.”
Former President Barack Obama also defended Omar after the raid. Breitbart reported Obama arguing that government cannot selectively target people for their political beliefs and claiming “the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.” The same account noted the probe’s focus on whether Omar was 17 or 18 when she became a naturalized citizen through her father, and that family texts on Noor’s phone helped prompt the warrant.
Isra Hirsi, Omar’s 23-year-old eldest daughter, arrived Saturday night in a black sedan. She is a Barnard College graduate who co-founded the U.S. Climate Strike in 2019 and was arrested and later suspended at Columbia in 2024 after joining an anti-Israel tent encampment that lasted two weeks until NYPD cleared it. When Fox News Digital approached her after she got out of the car, she answered with a short challenge.
Hirsi said:
"What's your problem?"
She then went inside the raided home.
Two days later, the younger girl believed to be Omar’s second daughter entered with the apparent caretaker. Fox News Digital noted it has not seen Omar’s son arrive at the D.C. house since the search. Throughout the week after the raid, Mynett emerged intermittently, mostly to walk the family’s golden Labrador, Teddy.
Asked about unsubstantiated rumors that the congresswoman had fled the country, Mynett snapped at reporters.
Mynett said:
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of the neighbors around here, man,"
He also told Fox News Digital he has “no concerns” about the investigation. Omar has not responded to repeated requests for comment from the outlet and has not been observed in public since the raid.
Public records and prior reporting summarized in the Fox account place Omar’s family timeline in plain view while agents test the citizenship file. She was ceremonially married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 and legally married to him in 2018; they share three children. From 2009 to 2017 she was legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who has been described in allegation language as her brother, and her youngest daughter was born during that period. She married Mynett in 2020.
Federal agents are treating the naturalization paperwork, and any false statements on it, as the core of the fraud inquiry. Seized devices, DNA from discarded trash, subpoenas to roughly a dozen people, and Noor’s voluntary interview all point to a methodical case build rather than a one-day publicity stunt. Homan’s public warning about possible denaturalization puts the stakes in constitutional terms: citizenship obtained by fraud is not a political shield.
Capitol Police presence on a residential street the same night Isra Hirsi returned underscores the security layer that follows members of Congress and their families even when the member herself stays out of camera range. Jurisdiction for that force centers on the Capitol complex but extends to protecting members and relatives. No official statement from Capitol Police explaining the exact deployment was included in the reporting.
Omar’s social-media blast hours after the raid cast the search as Trump-era revenge. Vance’s answer was simpler: follow the law and the evidence, including when the subject is a sitting member of Congress. The daughters’ arrivals, Mynett’s dog walks, Noor’s canceled book event and investigator interview, the phone and passport taken from the house, and the subpoenas already issued are concrete events, not talking points.
Relative timelines in the initial coverage, “last Monday,” “Saturday night,” “two days later”, still leave some calendar gaps. The warrant text itself has not been released in full. Exact identities of the younger girl and the woman with her remain described in cautious terms. Those open items do not erase what has already been observed and attributed: a federal search at a member’s home, family returns without the member, and an immigration-fraud theory serious enough for DNA collection, device seizures, and denaturalization talk.
Voters expect equal application of immigration law. When agents execute a warrant over citizenship paperwork, seize a passport, and subpoena relatives, the public is entitled to answers, especially if the elected official at the center of the case will not show up to give them.
