Feds raid Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, D.C.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Federal investigators raided the Washington, D.C., home of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota early Monday morning, reportedly executing a search warrant tied to immigration fraud suspicions. 

Agents from Homeland Security Investigations [HSI] along with investigators from the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] arrived at the Somali-born congresswoman's home as early as 6 a.m. Monday morning, according to Fox News. The Justice Department confirmed to Fox News that investigators executed a judicially authorized search warrant, but did not provided details on the specifics of the investigation.

However, two anonymous sources cited by Fox News said agents are probing suspicions of criminal immigration fraud tied to forms filled out by her father, who has since died, when she was a child. Omar was born in 1982 in Mogadishu, Somalia, and arrived in the U.S. at the age of 14. She was elected to the Minnesota State House of Representatives in 2016, the same year Donald Trump won election to his first term as U.S. president, and then voted into the U.S. House of Representatives two years later. 

Omar brushed aside the search of her home in a statement released on Monday in a post on X. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns,” she said. “This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”

President Trump has suggested Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her biological brother, in 2009 and, in doing so, committed immigration fraud. That accusation hasn't been proven. Omar divorced Elmi in 2017, not long after taking office, married another man in 2018, only to divorce the following year. Omar then married Tim Mynett, a political consultant, in 2020 and they remain married, although they raised suspicions earlier this year after making dramatic changes to their combined income on a financial disclosure form. 

A winery co-owned and operated by Omar and Mynett also drew scrutiny after reports suggested it produced almost no actual wine.

During an interview Monday on Fox News, Border Czar Tom Homan said, "This investigation was ongoing for a while. There was a warrant executed this morning, so I'll leave it at that. In the specifics of the investigation, I think I need to turn that over to Todd Blanche or Markwayne Mullin." Homan said last month that Omar was the subject of an "ongoing" criminal probe.

According to Fox News, agents spent hours on Monday morning searching Omar's home. Omar also has a home in Minnesota, but it wasn't immediately clear whether agents were searching that home as well. Border Czar Tom  For more on the story, watch the video below.