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Immigration Officials Conduct Pre-Dawn Search at Ilhan Omar's Home
Justice Department officials said the court-authorized search was part of an ongoing criminal investigation and provided no further details.
- Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a pre-dawn, judicially authorized search warrant at the Washington, D.C.-area residence of Democratic U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
- Reporting from Fox News indicates the search stems from a federal fraud probe examining historical immigration paperwork completed by her late father when she arrived in the United States as a child.
- The Department of Justice confirmed the HSI action in a statement, noting: "Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation".
- The raid follows earlier comments by border czar Tom Homan confirming that the Minnesota congresswoman was subject to an active federal investigation.
- Neither Rep. Omar nor her legal counsel has formally responded regarding the specifics of the search, and the Department of Justice has not released supporting affidavits or announced formal charges.
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ILHAN OMAR'S DC HOME RAIDED BY DHS IN IMMIGRATION FRAUD PROBE
Federal agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at the Washington, D.C. residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar early Monday, as part of an ongoing criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork.
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The RecordFederal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of criminal investigation, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday morning as part of a criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter. The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said the people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. More details about the investigation were not immediately clear. An ema…
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