Minneapolis Somali leaders blasted President Trump after Homeland Security agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home in a citizenship fraud probe, calling the action an attack on their community.
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant early Monday at the Washington, D.C., residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), part of a probe into alleged false statements on immigration paperwork completed decades ago.
Fox News Digital reported the reaction from Minnesota’s Somali community, including Minneapolis City Council Vice President Jamal Osman, who said Somalis feel targeted and accused the president of breaking the law. The dispute is not over whether a warrant was used. It is over what that warrant means.
Sources told Fox News Digital the investigation centers on whether Omar or her late father, Nur Mohamed, fraudulently filled out her citizenship paperwork years earlier. Those sources said the case could lead to denaturalization if material fraud is proved. No arrests or charges were announced in the immediate reporting.
The New York Post reported the warrant was judicially authorized and secured by the Department of Justice, with agents removing boxes from the home. Officials were examining family immigration history and possible false statements, including details tied to paperwork and personal history. No formal criminal charges had been filed.
Osman, a Somali-born vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, did not frame the search as routine enforcement. He cast it as a broad assault.
He told Fox News Digital:
"Somalis, we all feel attacked by President Trump,"
He went further, tying the raid to immigration enforcement he said is frightening residents in his city.
Osman said:
"Our president has broken the law many times. ICE [is] terrorizing our community... and we're not surprised such action has taken place,"
He also insisted due process must govern any talk of removal, and he rejected threats aimed at Omar or at “thousands of Somalis.” His message was blunt: “Stop it.” He added that Somali residents are American citizens “like everyone else.”
Those comments treat a judge-backed search of a member of Congress as proof the system itself is broken. The reporting describes a different sequence: agents, a warrant, and an immigration-fraud file that predates this week’s headlines. Related coverage has also tracked how federal agents searched Omar’s D.C. home as the probe moved from rumor to on-the-ground action.
Abdi, a 37-year-old Minneapolis social worker who said he was born in Somalia and declined to give his last name, told Fox News Digital the search felt like an effort to dehumanize a sitting lawmaker.
He said:
"I feel like raiding a congresswoman, it feels like Donald Trump and his regime wanted to use their power to dehumanize and also humiliate someone that is part of the Congress,"
Abdi claimed Trump “hates Somali people because of Ilhan Omar,” called the conflict “personal,” and said the president does not treat Omar as a peer in Congress. He warned that stripping her citizenship would make people ask whether America had become a dictatorship.
A 22-year-old Somali American woman, who also declined to be named, said she was not surprised. She told Fox News Digital the government had long questioned Omar’s immigration status and naturalization, so an investigation “was bound to happen soon enough.”
Their language is absolute. The public record in the reporting is narrower: a warrant, seized devices, and an open fraud question, not a finished case or a mass deportation order against Minnesota Somalis.
Just The News reported that an HSI spokesperson confirmed agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Reporting tied the paperwork at issue to forms filled out by Omar’s late father when she was a child.
The Wall Street Journal, cited in the Fox News Digital account, reported Wednesday that agents seized Omar’s phone, passport, and computers. It was unclear what else left the house. Omar had not been seen in public since the raid, according to that same reporting.
Phone and device seizures have been a central thread in follow-on coverage of the same search, including reports that agents seized her phone in the immigration fraud probe while the paperwork questions remained unresolved.
A search warrant is not a conviction. It is also not a press conference. It is a court process that requires a judge’s sign-off before agents enter a home, including the home of a member of Congress.
Omar answered on social media Monday afternoon. She called the action an abuse of power and said federal law enforcement was being used against political enemies.
She wrote:
"This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies. For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back,"
She added that the raid was “pointless,” that she had “done nothing wrong,” and that no president should intimidate political opponents with the federal government.
The White House, asked about the Minneapolis criticism, pointed reporters to the president’s public comments rather than issuing a separate line-by-line reply.
Trump did not claim credit for the warrant. He separated personal opinion from the legal track.
He said:
"I’ve always found her to be totally crooked, personally, but that has nothing to do with me,"
And he put the next steps with prosecutors:
"I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ. I have nothing to do with it."
That split matters. Community speakers and Omar’s statement put Trump at the center of a political hit. Trump’s own words put the Department of Justice at the center of a case file. The supporting accounts describe a DOJ-secured warrant and an HSI enforcement action, the ordinary machinery of a fraud investigation, not a campaign rally.
Family fallout and online rumors followed the same news cycle, including episodes in which Omar’s husband rejected claims she fled the country after the immigration raid.
Denaturalization is rare, slow, and courtroom-driven. It is also part of federal law when citizenship was obtained by concealment or false statements. Sources described that possibility here. They did not describe a finished judgment.
Osman demanded due process and warned against talk of deporting “thousands of Somalis.” Due process is exactly what a warrant, a criminal investigation, and potential court review are built to supply. Skipping the fact-finding because the subject is a progressive star would be the political shortcut.
Minnesota taxpayers and lawful immigrants live under the same rules. If paperwork was false, the question is evidence, not identity politics. If the paperwork was clean, the investigation should show it. Either way, shouting “dictatorship” at the first sight of agents with a signed warrant lowers the bar for serious fraud cases.
Further reporting on the same search has detailed how Homeland agents seized Omar’s phone while the immigration-paperwork file stayed open, keeping the focus on records rather than rallies.
Omar remains a sitting member of Congress. She has denied wrongdoing. Trump has denied steering the case. HSI and DOJ, per the public statements in the supporting reports, executed a judicially authorized search in an ongoing criminal investigation. Those are not the same claims, and only one of them is a completed legal finding, none yet.
Accountability for citizenship fraud is not an attack on a community. It is the price of an honest immigration system, and elected officials do not get a pass because their allies call every warrant a weapon.
