Federal agents seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone in a raid on her Washington home tied to a criminal immigration fraud probe, then issued more than a dozen subpoenas to her family.
Homeland Security Investigations agents entered the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., residence early Monday morning and took her phone as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork, a source familiar with the operation told Fox News Digital.
Investigators followed the raid by issuing more than a dozen subpoenas to Omar’s family members. The probe centers on whether her family misstated her age when she immigrated and whether statements on her late father’s entry filings were untruthful.
Omar’s office denied wrongdoing and cast the search as political retaliation. Her husband said he had no concerns. Officials also noted a separate review of her federal financial disclosures that they described as unrelated to the home raid.
The search of the congresswoman’s D.C. home fits a broader look at how she entered the country, gained citizenship, and later handled questions about her personal records.
Federal agents searched Omar’s residence while examining the same core immigration file questions now driving the subpoenas.
Omar immigrated to the United States in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000. Reporting on the probe states she was listed as 17 years old when she acquired citizenship, a status that made her eligible to receive citizenship automatically through her father’s naturalization.
Investigators are examining whether the age listed on her application differed from her actual birth date and whether the family lied about her age at the time of immigration. They are also reviewing paperwork submitted by her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, on his application to enter the United States, including whether statements on those filings were untruthful.
Months after Omar took office, congressional staff contacted a Minnesota public library and asked that her birth year in historical records be changed from 1981 to 1982. The library’s response is not detailed in the available reporting.
That sequence, immigration in 1995, naturalization in 2000 under a reported age of 17, and a later bid to alter a public birth-year record, now sits beside a home raid and a wave of family subpoenas.
Coverage of the same incident cluster has also detailed how HSI agents searched the D.C. home while focusing on immigration paperwork.
Omar’s congressional office rejected the investigation’s premise and blamed former President Donald Trump for a long campaign of attacks that, in their telling, has now reached federal law enforcement.
Omar’s office said:
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back,"
The office continued:
"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."
No charges, arrests, or additional seizures beyond the cellphone are described in the reporting. Case numbers, warrant text, and specific statutes under review are not identified.
Tim Mynett, Omar’s husband, addressed the scrutiny this week and tied her arrival to childhood refugee status.
Mynett said:
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
Asked about the investigation, he added:
"No concerns."
Mynett has been described as entering the same Washington home that agents searched. Family members beyond the general subpoena count and the references to Mynett and Nur Omar Mohamed are not named in the report.
Officials said a separate inquiry is underway into Omar’s federal financial disclosures and stressed that review is not connected to the raid on her home. The scope and status of that disclosure inquiry remain limited in the public account.
Follow-up reporting has already noted that Pirro examined Omar’s financial disclosures a day after agents searched the residence, keeping the money-and-paperwork questions in public view even while officials separate that track from the Monday raid.
Related public statements have also put Omar’s posture toward federal contact under a sharper light. Prior accounts captured her saying the feds had not contacted her even as border officials described a criminal investigation moving forward.
Readers tracking that thread will find earlier reporting on how Omar said feds had not contacted her while a criminal probe was confirmed at the border level, and on parallel coverage of the same clash between her denial and official confirmation.
Another account in that same lane recorded Omar denying contact even as the criminal investigation was confirmed, underscoring the gap between political messaging and investigative activity.
The verified public record shows an HSI raid on a sitting member of Congress’s D.C. home, a seized cellphone, more than a dozen family subpoenas, and an investigative focus on age and entry paperwork tied to 1995 immigration and 2000 naturalization. It also shows a staff request to change a birth year in library records and a parallel, officially unrelated look at federal financial disclosures.
It does not show filed charges, named statutes, a full list of subpoenaed relatives, the library’s reply, or a completed finding that any statement was false. Omar’s office calls the raid pointless intimidation. Investigators are treating the immigration file as a criminal fraud matter serious enough to seize a phone and compel family testimony.
Lawful immigration depends on honest applications. When federal agents raid a lawmaker’s home over those forms, seize a phone, and subpoena her family, the public is entitled to a clear accounting, not slogans about enemies, and not silence about whether the paperwork matched reality.
Citizenship rules are not optional paperwork for everyone else and a political shield for the well-connected. If the filings were clean, the facts will show it. If they were not, voters deserve to know, without excuses and without special treatment.
