Federal agents seized U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s electronic devices, including her cellphone and personal computers, along with her passport and notebooks during a court-authorized search of her Washington, D.C., home on Monday, October 12. The operation, which was carried out by agents with Homeland Security Investigations, was part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation focused on potential immigration fraud.
According to a report from MS NOW, Omar and her husband were the only people present when the agents arrived at the residence. She was there for at least part of the search and did not provide passwords to the devices.
The search warrant authorized the seizure of electronic devices, passports, and immigration records related to Omar and her relatives. It listed potential violations involving immigration fraud, false statements in immigration proceedings, and conspiracy.
Agents remained at the property for an extended period and were seen carrying out several boxes of documents and other materials. U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh limited prosecutors’ access to Omar’s records before approving the warrant, citing constitutional protections for members of Congress.
The investigation centers on Omar’s family’s immigration paperwork and how she obtained U.S. citizenship. Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee from Somalia around 1995 and became a citizen in 2000. Specifically, authorities are examining whether she or her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, listed her age as 17 rather than 18 on relevant documents when he applied for citizenship.
The distinction matters because minors could obtain derivative citizenship automatically through a parent’s naturalization under the rules then in effect.
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More than a dozen subpoenas have been issued, including to family members such as Omar’s sister, in connection with a Minnesota grand jury reviewing the family’s immigration records.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the multipronged inquiry aims to build a case that could strip Omar of her U.S. citizenship and lead to deportation proceedings. Officials and people familiar with the probe said the effort focuses in part on the circumstances of her naturalization decades ago and forms part of a broader administration priority on denaturalization cases involving alleged concealment of material facts or willful misrepresentation during the citizenship process.
The Journal noted that the administration has expanded the use of civil denaturalization actions, which are not subject to the same statute-of-limitations constraints as criminal charges.
A separate report from the New York Post, which cited emails from the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, found that Omar’s congressional staff requested in May 2019 that the library change her listed birth year from 1981 to 1982.
The library director wrote in an email that staff informed the office on May 17, 2019, that the birth year was incorrect and asked for the update to 1982. The director also noted that Omar’s staff were working to correct the year on Wikipedia and in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Public records and biographies had previously listed October 4, 1981, while current congressional biographical entries list October 4, 1982. Omar has stated that she obtained citizenship before turning 18 through her father’s naturalization.
Omar has described the search as an attempt to target political opponents and has denied any wrongdoing. No charges have been filed against her as of this reporting.
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