Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home early Monday under a Justice Department warrant in a criminal fraud investigation tied to her childhood immigration papers, sources say.
Homeland Security Investigations agents in HSI jackets were seen outside the congresswoman’s residence in the Washington, D.C., area around 6 a.m. as the operation got underway. The Department of Justice confirmed the action the same day.
A DOJ spokesperson said the search was part of an ongoing federal investigation and that agents executed a judicially authorized warrant secured by the department. Fox News Digital reported the details first, noting HSI and the Department of Homeland Security led the effort.
Two sources close to the investigation told the outlet the warrant stemmed from a criminal fraud probe into immigration paperwork filled out by Omar’s late father when she was a child. Omar, a Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota, has long faced public questions about those records. No charges, arrests, or seized items were described in the initial reporting.
Border czar Tom Homan said in mid-September that the progressive congresswoman was already subject to an ongoing “criminal” investigation. That earlier statement lined up with Monday’s enforcement step and matches prior coverage when Tom Homan confirms ongoing criminal investigation activity tied to her case.
Fox News Digital reached out to an Omar spokesperson for comment. No response was provided in the report. The congresswoman has previously said federal authorities had not contacted her even as the probe remained active, a claim that sat beside Homan’s public confirmation of the ICE-linked inquiry.
"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,"
the DOJ spokesperson stated.
Officials have not released the warrant text, a case number, or the specific statutes under review. Sources limited their description to fraud concerns around the immigration forms completed by Omar’s father during her childhood. HSI, the principal investigative arm of DHS, handles cross-border crime, trafficking, smuggling, and related fraud matters as part of its regular portfolio.
The early-morning timing and visible agent presence fit standard search-warrant practice. Still, the absence of charging documents leaves the precise allegations untested in court. Readers looking for context on Omar’s broader record will find her recent legislative push in the bill she advanced to strip ICE funding and redirect it toward communities that resist enforcement.
That same posture toward immigration agencies appears again in her separate measure seeking to move nearly $140 billion away from ICE operations, detailed when she moved to redirect large ICE budget amounts to immigrant-service priorities. Monday’s search puts the focus back on her own paperwork history rather than agency budgets.
No calendar date beyond “early Monday” and the DOJ’s “today” reference was attached to the operation. Reporting described both a Minnesota home and the Washington residence; the Justice Department and on-scene accounts fixed the warrant execution in the D.C. area. Whether Omar or anyone else was present was not stated.
Homan’s mid-September remark supplied the only on-record preview from the administration side. Further detail on the “criminal” label, beyond that single quoted word, has not been released. Additional background on the fraud allegations themselves sits in earlier accounts of how Homan confirmed the immigration-fraud investigation tied to the congresswoman.
For now the public record shows a judge-approved warrant, an HSI-led search, an ongoing federal case, and anonymous sources linking it to childhood immigration forms. Ordinary applicants face years of scrutiny and possible removal over far smaller paperwork errors. Equal application of those rules is the only standard that keeps the system honest.
