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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 12 Oct 202612 Oct 2026<\/p>\n
United States federal agents have searched the Washington, DC-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations carried out the search early Monday morning, according to The Associated Press news agency, citing two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
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The Justice Department confirmed that agents had executed a court-authorised search warrant but did not identify Omar or provide details about the investigation.<\/p>\n
Fox News reported, citing unidentified sources, that the search was linked to allegations of immigration fraud involving paperwork submitted by Omar\u2019s late father when she was a child. No charges have been announced.<\/p>\n
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Agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) outside the residence of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar [Annabelle Gordon\/Reuters]<\/p>\n
Omar condemned the search in a post on social media on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of using federal law enforcement to target its political opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not be silenced,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The Somali-born congresswoman, who came to the US a child refugee and later became a naturalised citizen, represents a district in the state of Minnesota that includes Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
She has long been a target of Trump\u2019s political attacks, particularly over immigration.<\/p>\n
In September, Trump\u2019s border security chief Tom Holman said Omar was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, although he didn\u2019t provide any other details. Omar said at the time that she hadn\u2019t been contacted by Homeland Security and dismissed the allegations as politically motivated.<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance has also accused Omar in the past of immigration fraud without providing evidence. In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Vance said he and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller had talked about how to investigate her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually do the thing?\u201d Vance asked as he mused about building a case.<\/p>\n
Omar\u2019s office dismissed Vance\u2019s allegations as \u201cfabricated and defamatory\u201d in March. There was no immediate public response from Omar to Monday\u2019s search.<\/p>\n
The search comes just over three weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, when Republicans will be fighting to retain control of Congress.<\/p>\n
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US authorities conducted the raid as part of an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department [Annabelle Gordon\/Reuters]<\/p>\n
Omar has said she and her family have faced death threats as a result of Trump\u2019s rhetoric and has called his fixation on her \u201ccreepy\u201d.<\/p>\n
In December, the president called the congresswoman and other Somali immigrants \u201cgarbage\u201d.<\/p>\n
In February, he said Omar and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims and members of the progressive group of lawmakers known as \u201cThe Squad\u201d, should be \u201cinstitutionalised\u201d and sent back to \u201cwhere they came from\u201d after they criticized his State of the Union address.<\/p>\n
Last month, a Minnesota man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for spraying Omar with vinegar during a January town hall meeting, at the height of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, during which she had called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US authorities searched the Democratic congresswoman\u2019s home as part of a criminal investigation, according to reports. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,234,42,21558,12472,4432,43,238,40,38,41,39,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-644355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-islamophobia","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}