Federal raid on Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home follows missing record on father’s citizenship

Homeland Security Investigations agents entered Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on a federal warrant following the discovery that USCIS has no record of her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, ever naturalizing. The finding.S. citizenship as a 17-year-old through her father’s naturalization. Omar has repeatedly affirmed her citizenship on official forms, while Kern argues that one outlet verification process for refugee arrivals is weak.

The raid, approved by a federal judge, is part of a years-long probe into alleged false statements on immigration paperwork. Omar’s office maintains she has done nothing illegal and frames the action as political intimidation. No comment was received from DHS or the DOJ.