The Democratic congresswoman accused the president of weaponizing federal law enforcement against his political opponents<\/p>\n
US federal agents have raided the home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, whom President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused of immigration fraud.
\nOmar, a Somali-born naturalized US citizen, is a vocal critic of Trump\u2019s policies and a supporter of Palestinian rights. Agents were filmed searching her home in Washington, DC, on Monday morning.
\nWithout naming Omar, the Justice Department (DOJ) confirmed that investigators from the Department of Homeland Security had executed a court-authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. A senior White House official told the Washington Post that Omar\u2019s residence was searched as part of a probe into possible immigration fraud.
\n\u201cI\u2019m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,\u201d Omar wrote on X after the raid. She accused Trump of using \u201cbaseless lies and smear campaigns\u201d as a means of \u201cpolitical intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udea8 UPDATE: After over 5 HOURS, DHS has JUST NOW completed their raid at Ilhan Omar’s DC house<\/p>\n
SEVERAL vans and SUVs were loaded up with boxes upon boxes from inside the home \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n
NO WORD on where Omar is. But it’s about team we see her in cuffs! https:\/\/t.co\/SuCoKnW7L6\u2014 Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 12, 2026<\/p>\n
Asked about the search later that day, Trump described Omar as \u201ctotally crooked\u201d but denied responsibility for the raid. \u201cI think she\u2019s a terrible person. But that\u2019s really up to the DOJ. I have nothing to do with it,\u201d he said. Trump also argued that Omar had arrived in the US from \u201ca non-country.\u201d
\nCritics have long accused Omar of immigration fraud, including an unsubstantiated allegation that she once married her brother, which she has denied. Last month, Trump\u2019s border czar Tom Homan told Fox News that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had opened an investigation into Omar but declined to provide details.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf someone committed an immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they\u2019re a congressman or not, no one\u2019s above the law,\u201d he said.
\nOmar\u2019s family fled civil war-torn Somalia in the 1990s when she was eight. She became a US citizen in 2000 at 17.
\nElected to the House of Representatives in 2018, she became one of the most high-profile Democrats during Trump\u2019s first term. In 2019, Israel barred Omar and fellow Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib from entering the country.
\nTrump has accused Omar of being unpatriotic, supporting Islamic extremism, and spreading anti-Semitism, and has called on her to leave the country. Omar, in turn, has accused Trump of racism, Islamophobia, and authoritarianism, describing his attacks on her as a \u201creally unhealthy and creepy obsession.\u201d
\nLast year, the DOJ directed its lawyers to step up efforts to revoke the citizenship of naturalized Americans in eligible cases. US federal authorities have also intensified their crackdown on fraud schemes in Omar\u2019s home state of Minnesota, including cases involving members of its large Somali American community.
\nThe investigations have targeted alleged misuse of taxpayer-funded food assistance, housing support, and autism treatment programs. One of the largest cases involved a nonprofit whose operators and associates were accused of stealing roughly $250 million from a federal child nutrition program during the Covid-19 pandemic.
\n\u201cThe once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. His remarks prompted Democrats to accuse him of stigmatizing the entire Somali community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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