Federal agents seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone in a raid on her Washington home tied to a criminal immigration fraud probe, and her office answered by calling the search political intimidation.
Fox News Digital reported that Homeland Security Investigations agents moved on the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., residence early Monday morning and took the phone as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork.
Investigators then issued more than a dozen subpoenas to family members. The focus, per that reporting, centers on whether age claims on the path from arrival to citizenship matched reality, and whether statements on her late father’s entry filings were untruthful.
Omar denied wrongdoing. Her office cast the search as the latest strike in a long political fight. That claim does not erase the warrant, the seizure, or the paper trail under review.
A source familiar with the operation told Fox News Digital that HSI agents conducted the early-morning action at Omar’s home. The cellphone seizure from that raid sits at the center of the case now unfolding in public view.
National Review reported that the search was judicially authorized and that HSI is leading the work with Justice Department assistance. The same account notes the paperwork at issue was filled out by Omar’s late father when she came to the United States as a child, and that the probe relates to allegations she entered under a false name or secondary identity.
That is not a press conference dispute. It is a warrant-backed search of a sitting member of Congress’s home, followed by a wave of family subpoenas.
Officials also flagged a separate review of Omar’s federal financial disclosures. They said that review is unrelated to the home raid. The timing still leaves two federal tracks moving at once around the same lawmaker.
Investigators are examining whether Omar’s family lied about her age when she immigrated in 1995, and whether the age listed on later applications differed from her actual birth date. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 and was reported as 17 at the time she acquired citizenship through her father’s naturalization.
Months after she took office, congressional staff contacted a Minnesota public library and asked that the birth year in historical records be changed from 1981 to 1982. That request is now part of the public record surrounding the same age questions federal agents are probing.
Her husband, Tim Mynett, offered a different childhood timeline when reached this week. He told Fox News Digital his wife arrived as a child war refugee and brushed off worry about the investigation.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
Mynett said. Asked about the probe, he added:
"No concerns."
Those statements sit beside the library change request and the citizenship-age reporting already on the record. Federal agents are the ones sorting which version matches the filings.
Readers following the HSI home search in the immigration probe will notice the same core issue: entry and citizenship paperwork has to be accurate, including for people who later win high office.
Omar’s office did not treat the raid as a routine law-enforcement step. It accused former and current political opponents of turning federal power against her.
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back,"
the office said, then escalated the charge:
"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."
National Review’s account adds that Omar said she will “not be silenced” and called the search the “latest escalation” in what she labeled an intimidation campaign. Democrats around her used the same weaponization language.
The political messaging did not stop at a statement. After agents searched the D.C. home, the Washington Examiner reported, Omar sent a fundraising text seeking money to “fight back.” She described the DHS search as part of a “ludicrous, partisan investigation into my immigration status.”
A raid, a phone seizure, family subpoenas, and a same-cycle donor appeal. That sequence is now part of the story voters can see without a filter.
Coverage of how Omar vowed she would not be silenced after the search shows the same defiant posture. Defiance is not a substitute for documents.
After the raid, investigators issued more than a dozen subpoenas to family members. The public reporting does not yet name every recipient or spell out every demand. It does show a broad paper pull around the same immigration history.
Authorities are reviewing filings submitted by Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, tied to the application to enter the United States. The question on the table is whether those statements were untruthful. Citizenship eligibility that flowed through the father’s naturalization makes those forms central, not incidental.
At the same time, a U.S. attorney’s interest in Omar’s financial disclosures opened on a separate track. Officials said that review is not the reason agents entered the home. Even so, the financial disclosures probe after the home search means two compliance questions are live at once.
No charges, case numbers, or charging statutes appear in the reporting so far. What does appear is a judicially authorized search, a seized phone, family subpoenas, age discrepancies under review, and a lawmaker raising money off the clash.
Border enforcement officials have also spoken publicly about the longevity of the scrutiny around Omar. Reporting on how Homan described a probe that had already run for some time undercuts the idea that the Monday raid sprang from nowhere.
Omar entered the United States in 1995, naturalized in 2000, and now serves in Congress. Ordinary applicants face hard questions when ages, names, and family filings do not line up. A member of Congress should face the same standard, not a softer one dressed up as victimhood.
Her office wants the country to see only politics. The warrant, the HSI agents, the phone, the subpoenas, the father’s paperwork, and the library birth-year request point somewhere else: toward whether the immigration file was straight.
Immigration rules either bind the people who write federal law, or they become optional for the well-connected. Paperwork probes exist to settle that question with evidence, not slogans.
