Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home and seized her cellphone in a criminal fraud probe of her immigration paperwork, a move her office calls political intimidation.
Homeland Security Investigations agents entered the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., residence early Monday morning and took her cellphone as part of a criminal fraud investigation focused on her immigration filings, Fox News Digital reported.
Investigators followed the search by issuing more than a dozen subpoenas to members of her family. The inquiry centers on whether her family misstated her age when she immigrated to the United States in 1995 and whether the age listed on her application differed from her actual birth date.
Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 and was reported as 17 years old at that time, a status described as making her eligible to receive citizenship automatically through her father’s naturalization. Authorities are also examining paperwork submitted by her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, on the family’s application to enter the country and whether those statements were untruthful.
Her husband, Tim Mynett, dismissed concerns about the scrutiny.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee," Mynett told Fox News Digital this week. "No concerns."
Months after Omar took office, congressional staff contacted a Minnesota public library and asked that her birth year in historical records be changed from 1981 to 1982. That request sits beside the same age questions now under federal review and has already drawn separate attention in coverage of Omar’s staff and Minnesota birth records.
No charges, case numbers, or charging statutes have been publicly identified. The reported actions so far are the home search, the phone seizure, the family subpoenas, and the review of decades-old immigration paperwork.
Officials have also opened a separate inquiry into Omar’s federal financial disclosures. They have said that review is unrelated to the raid on her home, a track that continues in reporting on the financial-disclosure probe after the D.C. search.
Omar’s office denied wrongdoing and framed the operation as retaliation rather than routine enforcement.
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies."
That defense collides with the investigative steps already taken: an HSI search of a sitting member’s D.C. residence, seizure of a phone, and a wave of family subpoenas tied to immigration records from 1995 and citizenship papers from 2000. Earlier reporting also documented the HSI search of Omar’s D.C. home in the same criminal immigration probe.
Age remains the contested core. Investigators are testing whether the family lied about her age at entry. Mynett says she arrived at 12. Citizenship papers listed her as 17 in 2000. Staff later sought to move a library birth year from 1981 to 1982. The source material does not settle which figure is accurate; it only establishes that federal agents are treating the discrepancies as a fraud question.
The immigration paperwork review and the financial-disclosure review are described as separate. Together they place a high-profile member of Congress under ordinary criminal and ethics machinery that rarely reaches Capitol Hill with this visibility. Legal analysts have separately outlined how high the proof bar sits for any effort aimed at stripping citizenship over fraud claims, underscoring why agents are gathering records now rather than arguing outcomes in public.
Omar has answered the pressure with defiance in other public remarks, including vows that she will not be silenced after the federal raid. Her office’s written statement goes further, casting the entire operation as presidential score-settling.
Federal agents do not need a press conference to make the point clear. They executed a search, seized a device, and issued more than a dozen family subpoenas over immigration filings that date to the 1990s. Those steps stand on their own, whatever spin follows them.
Equal enforcement is not intimidation. If the paperwork holds, the inquiry ends. If it does not, no member of Congress gets a special pass the public never received.
