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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) had her D.C. home raided this week as part of an ongoing immigration fraud investigation. The rumors have circulated for years. The Justice Department has now decided to treat them as something other than background noise. Federal agents searched her home and seized her phone, computer, and passport. Omar’s personal life contains a series of dates and relationships that refuse to line up in the same order twice.
She has misfiled campaign finance reports and her taxes. Staff members may have adjusted her date of birth in 2018 so the naturalization timeline would remain internally consistent. The probe began under President Joe Biden, which removes the usual option of labeling the entire matter a coordinated political attack. A significant development arrived through text messages recovered from the phone of Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, which officials seized earlier this year.
The New York Times reported:
Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, suggested last month that the investigation could ultimately result in Ms. Omar’s deportation.
The Justice Department on Friday did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Ms. Noor’s phone. It was not clear when or where her phone was seized.
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Ms. Noor, who recently published a memoir about her upbringing and the family’s journey to the United States, did not respond this week to several requests for comment. In recent years she has split her time between the United States and Kenya, and she spoke at events in the Minneapolis area this month to promote her book.
A Democrat judge approved the warrant. Judges generally prefer not to attach their signatures to searches of sitting members of Congress unless the supporting material is difficult to ignore. Federal agents also sorted through Omar’s trash in search of DNA evidence, which indicates the inquiry has moved past paperwork discrepancies into questions of biological relatedness.
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Federal investigators have been reviewing family text messages as they aim to build a case implicating Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, of conspiring to commit immigration fraud, three [anonymous] people familiar with the matter said this week.
The messages were obtained from a phone that officials seized earlier this year from one of Ms. Omar’s sisters, Sahra Noor, a health care executive and author, according to the three people.
The messages contained information that investigators had used to get a federal judge to authorize homeland security agents to search Ms. Omar’s Washington-area residence on Monday, the three [anonymous] people said. Agents spent hours searching the home of the congresswoman and were seen walking away with several boxes of seized items.
The people familiar with the seizure of Ms. Noor’s phone spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open criminal investigation that is before a federal grand jury in Minnesota. Federal officials have issued subpoenas in recent days to Ms. Noor and several other people in Ms. Omar’s orbit.
The investigation seeks to determine whether Ms. Omar and her relatives lied or omitted crucial information in immigration paperwork they filed since moving to the United States in the 1990s. They were admitted as refugees after fleeing Somalia’s civil war.
Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, suggested last month that the investigation could ultimately result in Ms. Omar’s deportation.
The Justice Department on Friday did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Ms. Noor’s phone. It was not clear when or where her phone was seized.
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Ms. Noor, who recently published a memoir about her upbringing and the family’s journey to the United States, did not respond this week to several requests for comment. In recent years she has split her time between the United States and Kenya, and she spoke at events in the Minneapolis area this month to promote her book.
A Democrat judge approved the warrant. Judges generally prefer not to attach their signatures to searches of sitting members of Congress unless the supporting material is difficult to ignore. Federal agents also sorted through Omar’s trash in search of DNA evidence, which indicates the inquiry has moved past paperwork discrepancies into questions of biological relatedness.
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