Border Czar Tom Homan said the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar has been ongoing for a while after Homeland Security agents searched her Washington home in a criminal immigration case.
Homeland Security Investigations agents carried out a judicially authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in the Washington, D.C. area early Monday as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
A Department of Justice official confirmed the action and framed it as standard enforcement inside a live probe, not a sudden stunt. The Minnesota Democrat answered by calling the search political intimidation by President Trump.
Border Czar Tom Homan, speaking after the warrant was executed, made clear the case did not spring up overnight. He told reporters the work had already been underway.
Breitbart News reported Homan’s assessment that the inquiry into Omar had been active for some time, and that he would leave the fine points to senior officials.
"There was a warrant executed this morning, so I’ll leave it at that. The specifics of the investigation, I think I need to turn that over to [Attorney General] Todd Blanche or [DHS Secretary] Markwayne Mullin."
Homan added that “this investigation was ongoing for a while.” That timing matters. A pre-dawn search backed by a judge does not appear without months of groundwork, affidavits, and DOJ review.
Federal agents moved on the congresswoman’s residence around 6 a.m. Monday. Fox News reported that Homeland Security Investigations led the operation under a warrant secured by the Justice Department, and that two sources tied the search to a criminal fraud review of immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a child.
A DOJ spokesperson described the scene in plain terms.
"Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation."
That statement matches across outlets. The warrant was real. The probe is criminal. HSI and DHS ran the entry. No one has announced arrests or formal charges against Omar so far.
The New York Post reported agents removed boxes of belongings from the home and that investigators are examining alleged false statements, possible use of a different name, and her family’s immigration history, steps that could put her U.S. citizenship at risk if fraud is proven.
Readers tracking the case can also see how HSI agents searched Omar’s D.C. home in the same criminal immigration probe now drawing national attention.
Supporting accounts converge on one core question: whether false information entered the system when Omar came to the United States as a child. Just the News reported the search raises the prospect of legal consequences for the Squad lawmaker, including possible denaturalization if her late father lied on citizenship papers that later supported her status.
The same reporting notes longstanding fraud allegations, among them claims tied to marriage and family relationships, that may sit inside the broader review. No court has ruled on those claims in this package of facts, and no indictment has been unsealed. The warrant itself shows prosecutors believed they had enough probable cause to search a sitting member of Congress’s home.
Earlier coverage of how DHS opened an inquiry into Omar’s immigration history and related marriage-fraud claims helps place Monday’s raid in a longer timeline rather than a one-day surprise.
National Review added that the probe focuses on paperwork from her entry as a child and that allegations include entering the country in 1995 under a false name or secondary family identity. It also noted that border czar Tom Homan and Vice President JD Vance had previously confirmed an ongoing investigation.
Those prior confirmations line up with Homan’s fresh remark that the case had already been running. When a Border Czar and a vice president both flag a live inquiry, and HSI then executes a judge-signed warrant, the sequence looks like methodical enforcement, not a last-minute political errand.
Omar rejected the premise. In a statement after the search, she said she was unharmed and cast the raid as payback.
"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."
Her communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, went further in remarks carried by Just the News, calling the DHS action an “outrageous abuse of power” and an “unprecedented escalation” aimed at political enemies. Those are her words and Omar’s. The DOJ’s public line remains narrower: a judicially authorized warrant inside an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
Background on how Homan confirmed the ongoing criminal investigation into Omar over immigration-fraud allegations shows the administration has not treated this as a closed rumor.
Omar’s “ten years” claim reaches back through earlier Trump-era fights. Whatever the politics of those years, Monday’s operation rested on a warrant a judge signed and on HSI agents who showed up with DOJ backing. Courts, not press releases, will decide whether the underlying paperwork was false.
Denaturalization is rare and demanding. Investigators would need clear proof that citizenship rested on material fraud, not mere paperwork mistakes. An ex-prosecutor’s breakdown of the proof bar for stripping citizenship over fraud claims underscores how high that standard sits, and why a home search is only one early step.
Still, equal application of immigration law does not pause at the Capitol steps. If a refugee family’s filings contained knowing falsehoods, the republic has a legitimate interest in finding out, whether the person later won elective office or not. If the filings were clean, the probe should say so and end. Either outcome beats a two-tier system in which high-profile Democrats face softer rules than ordinary applicants.
Separate reporting has also covered moments when Omar denied federal contact while Homan confirmed a criminal investigation, another reminder that public statements and investigative reality can diverge until documents and warrants surface.
For now, the verified record is limited and concrete. News of the investigation broke Monday. Agents executed the warrant that morning at Omar’s D.C.-area home. DOJ secured it. HSI ran it. Homan said the work had been underway for a while and pointed further questions to Attorney General Todd Blanche and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Omar says she has done nothing wrong and will not be silenced. No charges have been filed in the material at hand. Specific statutes, case numbers, and seized-item inventories have not been released.
A judicial warrant is not a campaign ad. It is a court paper alleging probable cause. Americans who waited years for lawful status, or who were turned away for incomplete forms, have a right to expect the same rules to reach powerful people. The Trump administration’s border team has made immigration-fraud enforcement a stated priority; Monday’s search is one test of whether that priority includes a well-known critic in Congress.
Homan’s refusal to litigate details on camera was the correct posture. Charging decisions belong to prosecutors and grand juries. If evidence of fraud exists, file it. If it does not, say so. What cannot stand is a special carve-out for members of the Squad whenever their personal immigration files draw scrutiny.
Federal agents searched a sitting congresswoman’s home under a judge’s warrant in a criminal immigration probe that the Border Czar says has been active for some time. That is accountability in action, or it will be, once the evidence is tested in the open. Lawmakers do not get a softer statute book than the citizens they represent.
