On Monday morning, federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant at the Washington, D.C. home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The raid began around 6 a.m., according to Fox News reporting. Agents were acting under a warrant tied to an ongoing criminal investigation.
The investigation centers on claims of fraud involving immigration documents that were submitted on Omar’s behalf when she was a child. Those documents were reportedly prepared by her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed. The nature of the alleged fraud is not detailed in the available sources, but the connection to her father’s paperwork is the stated basis for the warrant.
The Office of Congresswoman Omar released the following statement: “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. 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.”
Tom Homan, who served as President Donald Trump’s border enforcement chief, told Fox News that the investigation had been underway for some time. He confirmed that authorities had executed the search warrant that morning but declined to provide further specifics about the case.
The family’s resettlement in the United States occurred in 1995, when they were placed in Virginia.
Ilhan Omar is 44 years old. She was born in 1982 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She arrived in the United States as a child after her family fled the country’s civil war.
Omar’s family left Somalia in 1991. They spent four years living in a Kenyan refugee camp before being resettled in the United States.
The family’s resettlement in the United States occurred in 1995, when they were placed in Virginia. After that initial placement, they later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Omar would grow up and begin her political career.
The fact that the immigration fraud probe into Ilhan Omar is code named World War Eleven is the funniest thing I've read in a minute. If you recall, Omar once read World War II as World War 11. Someone’s got a sense of humor. https://t.co/cISWE2LU96
Omar’s father worked as a teacher trainer and had previously served as a Somali army colonel under the regime of Siad Barre. Her mother passed away when Omar was only two years old.
Omar is described as a prominent progressive Democrat and a vocal critic of former President Trump’s immigration policies. Her political stance has placed her in the national spotlight on issues related to immigration and refugee policy.
The brief’s chronology notes that on October 12, 2026, two events occurred: federal agents searched Omar’s Washington home, and Omar married Tim Mynett. Both events are recorded on the same calendar date.
The sources provide a snapshot of the early‑morning raid, the alleged immigration‑document fraud, and the personal and political background of the congresswoman. They do not disclose any charges, the current status of the investigation, or any statements from Omar herself regarding the search. The picture remains limited to the facts outlined in the reporting.