Federal investigators executed a search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, seizing phones, computers, notebooks and her passport as part of a probe that officials are pursuing to build a case to denaturalize and deport her. Investigators are focusing on how she obtained U.S. citizenship in 2000, scrutinizing whether her age was altered on immigration paperwork so she would have derived citizenship through her father at 17 rather than applied independently at 18. Authorities have issued more than a dozen subpoenas targeting family immigration records, including requests to her sister and other relatives, and are reviewing documents that a 2022 primary opponent obtained showing no USCIS record of her father’s naturalization.
The investigation sits within a broader set of probes announced earlier by the administration - including alleged financial irregularities and claims of a sham marriage to a biological brother - and has prompted partisan and legal pushback. Omar says the actions are politically motivated and weaponized enforcement; a progressive watchdog filed a Hatch Act complaint arguing the timing of the raid, days before early voting in her reelection race, appears aimed at influencing the election. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security have not commented publicly on the matter.
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