Rep. Ilhan Omar says she and her family will leave their Washington home after a federal immigration raid, citing a public address and death threats that make staying untenable.
The Minnesota Democrat told an interviewer she can no longer keep her children coming and going from the house after federal agents searched the residence earlier this month. The search was part of a probe into her path to U.S. citizenship and the paperwork behind it.
Just the News reported that Omar, the mother of one teenager and two adults, linked the move to safety after the raid drew fresh attention to an address already known to the public.
She put the decision in plain terms.
"Obviously, I can’t continue to live there,"
Omar said on MS NOW. She added:
"Our address has been public. And with the death threats that I deal with, it’s no longer going to be feasible to be in that house and have my kids visiting off and on, having people track them."
Homeland Security Investigations agents raided Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12. Omar said the search ran four to five hours and involved as many as 25 agents.
She said the agents mostly behaved in a "decent way" and that the search followed a warrant. They left with 17 items, including roughly 10 notebooks and old phones.
That inventory matters because the case is built on records, dates, and family history, not a street crime scene. Notebooks and old phones are the kind of material investigators use when they are testing statements made years earlier on immigration forms.
The federal investigation focuses on Omar’s immigration to the United States. It is examining allegations that Omar or her father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork to obtain her citizenship after the family fled Somalia in the late 1990s.
The New York Post reported that Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice in an ongoing criminal fraud probe into her immigration paperwork and family history. A DOJ spokesperson said the warrant was executed in the Washington, D.C., area. No charges have been filed.
Omar framed the raid as politics. She said she was fine and called the action an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. Officials, by contrast, pointed to a judge-approved warrant and the possibility that material concealment or misrepresentation could put citizenship under review.
Those are not the same stories. One is a member of Congress casting the search as payback. The other is a DOJ-backed warrant aimed at whether the paperwork that unlocked American citizenship told the truth about a birth date.
Omar’s complaint about a public address and death threats is a security problem many high-profile officials face. It does not erase the separate question agents were sent to answer inside her home.
She holds a seat in the U.S. House. She has spent years as a loud voice on immigration enforcement, borders, and how the government treats newcomers. A raid tied to alleged false statements on immigration papers lands on that record whether she likes the optics or not.
Voters are entitled to a simple standard. If ordinary applicants face consequences for lying on immigration forms, a member of Congress does not get a courtesy pass because the search was embarrassing or politically timed in her view.
The warrant process is the check on abuse. A judge had to authorize the search. Agents carted out a defined list of items. That is how a documents case is supposed to look when the government believes there is probable cause, not a press conference and not a campaign ad.
As of the latest reporting, prosecutors have not filed charges. The public has not seen the full warrant affidavit, a complete inventory beyond Omar’s description, or an official charging theory beyond the birth-year and citizenship-paperwork allegations.
Omar has not withdrawn her account of the raid’s length, the agent count, or the 17 items taken. She has not claimed agents broke the rules of the warrant. Her fight is over motive: she says politics; the paperwork trail says immigration fraud investigators had enough to get a judge’s signature.
For now, the concrete results are limited and ugly for any household. A sitting member of Congress is packing up a D.C. home. Federal agents have her notebooks and old phones. A citizenship story that began when her family left Somalia in the late 1990s is back under federal scrutiny in 2026.
Lawmakers who lecture the country on immigration enforcement should expect their own files to withstand the same light they demand for everyone else.
