Feds building case to deport 'squad' member Rep. Ilhan Omar as new details emerge about DHS raid

Sources have revealed that the Trump administration is building a case that can lead to the deportation of leftist representative Ilhan Omar, not long after Homeland Security investigators raided the squad member's home in Washington, D.C. According to a new report and people familiar with the investigation, federal agents barged into the Minnesota Democrat's home on Monday to seize her cell phone, notebooks, personal computers, and her passport. As investigators hone in on at least two federal investigations related to possible immigration fraud and inflation of her net worth by tens of millions of dollars in House disclosure forms. D.C. Attorney General Jeanine Pirro confirmed on Fox News' America Reports that the Minnesota Democrat was the subject of, quote, several investigations. It is upon the execution of the warrant that we will see. Are we dealing with civil immigration issues? Because they've made it clear this is about immigration for the warrant itself. Are we dealing with criminal immigration issues? You know, there are several investigations going on. And I don't think there's any question, but if there's a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted. Omar has long maintained that she became a U.S. citizen at the age of 17 when her father was naturalized in 2000. But sources with direct knowledge of the federal raid on her D.C. bungalow said the Department of Justice is looking for evidence that the claim is a lie. Our sources tell us that this investigation must be well underway in order for a raid of this scale to have taken place. DHS must have presented really compelling proof that they would find evidence of ongoing criminal activity inside of Representative Omar's home. This sort of a search warrant isn't something that a judge, especially a D.C. judge, especially a D.C. judge under the Trump administration, would hand out very lightly. So as you can imagine, these investigators, the federal government, must have shown the judge something that made the judge believe that, yes, they would find evidence of ongoing criminal activity if they searched Omar's home. According to federal defense attorney Todd Spodek, criminal charges could only be brought if the alleged immigration fraud occurred within the past 10 years. While if it concerned false statements, there would be a five-year statute of limitations. Spodek said that securing a criminal conviction for, quote, knowingly procuring naturalization unlawfully requires revocation of citizenship. But there is no similar statute of limitations if civil denaturalization is pursued. This is unprecedented. There has never been a sitting member of Congress who has ever been denaturalized or deported. There has been, curiously, recently, in February of this year, there was an elected official, a former elected official, the mayor of North Miami. Federal agents have now entered a process to denaturalize him. That happened in February. It's now October. The denaturalization process is still underway for that former mayor. So that might give you a sense of how long this could take for Omar if they do find evidence of wrongdoing. President Trump's DOJ has already pursued a record-breaking number of civil denaturalizations, with almost 200 cases filed since the beginning of the president's second term in January 2025. According to Omar's official house biography, the now 44-year-old's family escaped war-torn Somalia when she was only eight years old. The family of eight then spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before landing in the U.S. in the 90s. Omar claims she received automatic U.S. citizenship in 2000, granted to minor-aged children of naturalized parents, in this case her father, Nur Omar Mohammed. But Omar's citizenship has now come under scrutiny based on two rumored allegations, one being that Omar was actually older than 17 when she was granted citizenship. So Ilhan Omar has never publicly produced a birth certificate. She in fact has said that her birth certificate and any papers like that were destroyed or gone missing back in her native country, Somalia, because of the political turmoil there. Now, we spoke to exclusively a woman from Minnesota who has been following Ilhan Omar for quite some time, and she discovered that when Omar first ran for office in Minnesota, she listed her birth year as 1981. Now, this is significant because that would put her being 18 or 19 years old at the time that her father received naturalization in the year 2000. So if she was not a minor in the year 2000, then she would not be a U.S. citizen. The other allegation is related to Omar's father, whom some have claimed misrepresented himself as a refugee to U.S. officials when he applied for citizenship. The Minnesota congresswoman has long described her father as an educator who fled his country's devastating civil war alongside millions of others. But an expert scholar exclusively told the Post that Nur Omar Mohammed was actually a prominent military commander in the Somalia dictatorship that killed as many as 200,000 people. Nur, born in the Somali coastal town of Bandar Bela in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, joined Somalia's military in the late 60s, with conflicting reports suggesting he trained in the Soviet Union or Egypt. He allegedly played a key role in Siad Barre's army after the bloodthirsty dictator seized power in a Soviet-backed coup in 1969. Nur's military career came to an end when Barre was ousted in 1991 after two decades of oppression. Now, this is problematic for her immigration because U.S. immigration law specifically says that people who were participating in oppression or persecution of any other group back in their home country are not eligible to be refugees when they come to the United States. That would mean that if he was, in fact, deemed as someone who was participating in activities that targeted another group in his home country, He should not have been eligible to become a refugee, therefore not eligible to become naturalized, therefore his family and his daughter would not have eligibility to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Noor died from COVID-19 complications in June 2020 at the age of 67. Omar has long claimed her mother, Fadhuma Aboukar Haj Hussain, died when she was two years old, and her dad raised seven kids solo. But the identities of five of Omar's six siblings have remained entirely unknown. Omar's one known sister, Sahar Noor, has been pictured with the congresswoman and recently published a memoir about immigrating from Somalia. Noor also runs a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that touts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups as clients. The New York Times reported that Noor was subpoenaed as part of the federal probe into Omar's immigration paperwork. Omar has bizarrely never spoken of her other siblings. Rumor has it that some of the children went to the U.K. while the others came here to the U.S. And it's a mystery as to who her other siblings are. Omar's second husband is a man named Ahmed Elmi, who lives in the UK and people have long suspected might be her brother. Of course, Omar has denied this. Omar has called the accusations that she married her brother to be bigoted and baseless and racist. This accusation first came up in the Somali community itself in Minnesota. out. There were some Somali bloggers who said that when Ahmed Elmi blew into town, he was introduced as her brother by her. This is what these people say. He then needed papers to stay in the country and that Omar married him so he could get those papers. This is what the accusation is. Contrary to what many people sort of think when they hear the accusations that Omar had married her brother, they think that so that she could get her papers. The accusation is actually that she did it so she could get papers to the alleged brother, uh this would mean that Omar was already a citizen when she married him this is not what DHS is looking at according to our sources and for multiple reasons there's a statute of limitations on marriage fraud marriage fraud is a very serious crime it comes with up to five years in prison, big 250,000 fine but uh there's a five-year statute of limitations from the last time the couple presented themselves as a legitimately married in any official capacity. That would have presumably ended in 2017 when Omar and Ahmed Elmi, her alleged brother-husband, divorced. So that's not what feds are most likely looking at, our reporting seems to indicate. Omar's current marriage, her fourth, to former campaign staffer and U.S.-born citizen Tim Minnette, would not shield her from deportation. Omar was married to first husband Ahmed Hirsi but only by a non-legally binding Muslim ceremony in 2002 which is not recognized by the state. The pair split up in 2008. In 2009, she married Elmi, long rumored to be her brother, and a green card marriage so he could stay in the country but which ended in divorce in 2017. Omar reconciled with Hirsi in 2012 and they legally married in 2018. They divorced a year later. In March 2020, Omar announced that she had married Minette, a political consultant who had done work for her campaign. So if DHS does find there's discrepancy in her naturalization process or if she committed outright immigration fraud or naturalization fraud, what could then happen is first a criminal proceeding. So she would face charges of whatever fraud she committed and then following that could come a civil proceeding, which is the denaturalization process so she could be stripped of her citizenship if she ever had any and kicked out of the country