Federal agents seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone in a raid on her Washington home tied to an immigration fraud probe, a step her office brands political intimidation.
Homeland Security Investigations agents entered the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home early Monday morning and took her cellphone as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork. Fox News Digital reported the operation after a source familiar with it described the seizure.
Investigators have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas to family members. The probe examines whether age and other details on her entry and citizenship papers matched reality, questions that strike at how she became a U.S. citizen and a member of Congress.
A federal judge approved the search warrant before agents moved in. The Department of Justice secured that warrant for the Homeland Security Investigations team executing the raid.
The search reached beyond a single device. Agents recovered notebooks, personal computers, and Omar’s passport from the D.C. bungalow while she was home with her husband, Tim Mynett, the New York Post reported.
That haul fits a case built around paperwork, identity, and eligibility, not a quick look at one gadget. The same reporting describes Minnesota prosecutors leading the immigration track, with a parallel finance review in Washington running on a separate track.
Readers tracking earlier coverage will recognize the pattern from an HSI search focused on immigration fraud and related federal steps already in public view.
Omar immigrated to the United States in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000. She was reported as 17 when she gained citizenship through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, after his naturalization.
Records conflict on her birth year. Some list October 4, 1981. Others list 1982. If 1981 is correct, she would have been too old to claim derivative citizenship as a minor when her father naturalized. That gap is exactly what investigators are testing.
Authorities are also reviewing whether statements on her late father’s filings to enter the United States were untruthful. The question is straightforward: did the family give the government the true age and identity facts required by law?
National Review noted additional allegations that she entered in 1995 under a false name or secondary family identity to get around refugee processing backlogs. Those claims remain part of the wider examination, not a finished court finding.
Months after Omar took office, her congressional staff contacted a Minnesota public library and asked that historical records show a birth year of 1982 instead of 1981. That request now sits alongside the older immigration file as another data point agents can weigh.
After the search, investigators sent more than a dozen subpoenas to relatives. Grand jury process is the routine next step when agents need sworn records and testimony about who filled out which forms and what they knew at the time.
No charges or indictments have been announced. No case number or specific criminal statute has been released publicly in the reporting so far. The government has described an ongoing federal investigation backed by a judicially authorized warrant, nothing more and nothing less at this stage.
A Department of Justice spokesperson put the action in plain terms.
"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."
Vice President JD Vance struck a similar note on equal application of the law.
"It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the laws. So we’re going to investigate it."
That posture matches earlier public signals about an immigration fraud probe at Omar’s D.C. home and the serious exposure that can follow if the paperwork collapses.
Omar’s office rejected the premise and blamed former President Donald Trump for a long campaign of political pressure. The office said she has done nothing wrong and framed the raid as an abuse of federal power.
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. 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."
In a separate statement carried in later reporting, the office added that Trump would love to remove one of the most effective progressive voices in Congress and that there is no basis for the case. Those are her advocates’ claims. They do not erase the warrant, the seized passport, or the age discrepancy on the citizenship path.
Husband Tim Mynett sounded unworried when he spoke after the search.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee."
He added a short verdict on the investigation itself.
"No concerns."
Confidence from the household is not the same thing as clean records. Federal agents do not need a family’s permission to test whether naturalization rested on accurate facts.
If citizenship was obtained by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation, by Omar or by her father, the government can seek denaturalization and deportation. There is no statute of limitations on that civil track. Sources familiar with the matter have confirmed that path is under active consideration.
That possibility explains why a passport left the house with the agents. It also explains why family subpoenas matter. Derivative citizenship through a parent’s naturalization depends on the minor’s true age and the honesty of the filings. A wrong birth year is not a paperwork quibble if it decided eligibility.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, addressing related investigative work, kept the standard simple in an interview noted by Breitbart.
"There are several investigations going on, and I don’t think there’s any question, but if there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted."
A separate inquiry into Omar’s federal financial disclosures is also underway. Officials have said that review is not tied to the Monday raid. Two tracks can run at once without either one canceling the other.
Public interest in Omar’s broader legal exposure has already covered alleged marriage-fraud records and statements from DHS leadership about family relationships and deportation risk, including reporting on how DHS confirmed investigation details and a deportation threat.
Omar entered Congress as a refugee-turned-citizen with a high national profile and a long record of clashing with immigration enforcement. The same enforcement machinery is now testing the foundation of her own status. A judge signed off. Agents seized the phone, the computers, the notebooks, and the passport. Family members face subpoenas. Conflicting birth years are in the file.
Her office wants the story cast as revenge. The government’s public description is narrower: a judicially authorized search inside an ongoing federal investigation of immigration fraud. Those two frames are not equal. One is a political press statement. The other is how criminal process actually starts.
Prior chapters of this scrutiny, including moments when Omar said DHS never contacted her even as border officials described a criminal investigation, already showed the gap between her account and the government’s. That tension continues.
For a deeper look at that earlier exchange, see coverage of when Omar answered Homan’s ICE investigation disclosure.
Citizenship is not a vibe and not a campaign slogan. It is a legal status earned on true facts. When federal agents leave a member of Congress’s home with her passport and a stack of devices, the question notes itself: did the paperwork tell the truth the first time?