Rep. Ilhan Omar resurfaced in a campaign video seeking cash to fight President Trump, her first public pitch since federal agents searched her Washington home over immigration fraud claims.
In a selfie-style clip filmed from the back seat of a vehicle, the Minnesota Democrat thanked donors for $5, $10, and $20 gifts and urged more giving as she heads into a costly stretch before the midterms. She did not mention the search of her residence or the investigation behind it.
Fox News Digital reported that the video landed Tuesday night, a little more than a week after Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant at her Washington, D.C., home. The probe centers on whether Omar or her father lied on paperwork that helped her gain citizenship.
Omar framed the money as a tool against the White House. She cast the administration as the aggressor and herself as the target of intimidation timed to the election calendar.
Omar opened the video with a casual greeting and a thank-you roll call for small-dollar support.
In the campaign clip, she said:
"I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support, to everyone who sent a note of support, for everyone who sent $5, $10, $20."
She pressed for more cash and described a hard road ahead.
"Please continue to support us. It's going to be a very expensive and challenging time. So we appreciate whether you're able to send $5, $10, $20. Thank you."
The congresswoman then tied the donations to a political fight. Money, she said, “goes a long way as we fight Trump and his administration for trying to intimidate me and so many people right before the midterm elections." She added that “they're running scared,” vowed she would not be intimidated or silenced, and promised to campaign to win the House and Senate and “hold this administration accountable.”
The filming location was not clear. Outside the window, trees and buildings flashed by. She wore a blue campaign shirt and spoke straight to camera. What she left out was as pointed as what she said: no warrant, no seized passport, no fraud allegations.
Federal agents searched Omar’s Washington home last Monday in connection with a potential immigration-fraud case. Reports on the cellphone seizure put Homeland Security Investigations at the center of the operation. Items taken during the raid reportedly included her passport and phone.
Hours after the search, a statement posted to X called the action an abuse of power.
"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."
The same message claimed Trump had “relentlessly targeted” Omar for a decade, labeled the search “pointless,” insisted she had “done nothing wrong,” and argued no president should use federal power to intimidate political enemies.
National Review reported that agents carried out a judicially authorized early-morning search as part of a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork filled out by her late father. The probe is led by Homeland Security Investigations with Justice Department assistance and has examined allegations she entered the United States under a false identity. House Democratic leaders condemned the raid as election-season weaponization.
Border czar Tom Homan has said that if the allegations are proven, Omar could be denaturalized. No charges, arrest, or completed denaturalization action appear in the available record.
The warrant did not appear from thin air. The New York Post reported that investigators seized a phone belonging to Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and used family text messages to support the search of the congresswoman’s home. Agents took Omar’s phone, passport, notebooks, and computers. Before the raid, they collected DNA from her trash. Evidence is expected to go before a federal grand jury in Minnesota over alleged immigration lies tied to a 1995 refugee entry. Subpoenas went to several family members.
Three sources told Fox News Digital that Noor spoke with federal investigators last week after the search. She had been in the United States on a book tour and skipped a Rochester event for her book, citing a family emergency.
Omar’s spokeswoman, Jackie Rogers, called the case a personal vendetta and said Trump had spread “lie after lie” to justify what she termed an abuse of power lasting more than a decade.
Prosecutors have also moved on forensic work that could test blood ties inside the family story long attached to the case, including plans to use DNA evidence in the immigration-fraud file.
Separate reporting has described a related track: allegations of a sham marriage for immigration benefits. That line of inquiry sits alongside the paperwork probe and the physical search.
Those DNA and marriage questions now sit in the same public file as the brother-marriage claims prosecutors have prepared to test.
From the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump answered questions about the Minnesota Democrat in blunt terms. He rejected the idea that the only risk was removal from the country.
"Well, she could be. She could also go to jail. You know, they keep talking about deportation. No, she could go to jail."
Trump added, “This is just my opinion,” and called Omar “a very dishonest person” who “hates our country.”
His warning matches the stakes already flagged by his border team. Denaturalization, if ever proven in court, would be a legal process, not a rally line. Jail would require charges, evidence, and a conviction. None of those end states have been announced.
Earlier comments in the same controversy put jail or deportation on the table if the fraud case lands, keeping the legal risk in plain view while Omar raises money off the fight.
In the days after the warrant, Omar was not seen in public. Her husband, Tim Mynett, was spotted outside the residence walking their dog. A campaign aide brought food. Fox News Digital saw her daughters arrive at the home two days apart.
The Washington Examiner reported that Omar said she will be forced to leave her D.C. apartment because of death threats she linked to the federal investigations. She has faced government scrutiny for months over financial-record issues, and the Justice Department has also examined sham-marriage allegations involving a claim she married her biological brother for residency purposes.
She is scheduled to appear Monday in Minneapolis for a live show with streamer Hasan Piker. That booking would be her first listed public campaign-style event since the search.
Former President Barack Obama has already weighed in on the citizenship inquiry in language that cast the probe as appalling, a defense that landed while agents were still building the paper and DNA trail.
For readers tracking the wider political reaction, Obama’s defense of Omar shows how quickly party leaders moved to frame a warrant as persecution rather than process.
Omar’s video converts a federal search into a fundraising hook. She asks voters for $5, $10, and $20 to “fight Trump” and “beat back” pressure she calls intimidation. She does not walk viewers through the warrant, the seized passport, the family texts, the trash DNA, or the grand-jury track in Minnesota.
Investigators, meanwhile, have treated the matter as a criminal fraud file with a judge-signed warrant, digital evidence from a sister’s phone, and forensic samples pulled from household trash. Homan has flagged denaturalization if proof holds. Trump has flagged jail. Omar has flagged a midterm battle and a moving van under threat reports.
Lawful immigration depends on honest paperwork. When a sitting member of Congress becomes the subject of a search warrant over citizenship forms, family messages, and DNA, the public gets to see the evidence tested in court, not smothered by a donation link. Omar wants cash to wage that fight in politics. The proper venue for the fraud claims is still a courtroom, with facts on the record and the same rules that apply to everyone else.