Federal agents seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone in a Homeland Security raid on her Washington home, part of an immigration fraud probe that may lead to denaturalization.
Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., residence this week and took her cellphone as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork.
Breitbart News reported the Monday raid and phone seizure, citing Fox News Digital, and placed the action inside a broader Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security effort focused on how Omar entered the country and later became a citizen.
The case is not a paperwork spat. Investigators are examining whether false statements on immigration forms and family records could support denaturalization, stripping citizenship, and potential deportation.
That focus lands at a moment when the Trump administration has already accelerated visa cancellations and tightened enforcement across the system.
According to follow-on reporting, the search went beyond a single device. Agents seized Omar’s cellphone, notebooks, personal computers, and passport during an early-morning operation at the home while she and her husband were present.
The New York Post reported those details and tied the raid to a probe led in part through the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, with a separate financial track running in Washington.
A federal judge had approved the search warrant before HSI agents moved in. No arrests or charges have been announced. The seizure itself shows investigators believed the home held evidence relevant to the fraud inquiry.
Readers first saw the home search described in earlier coverage of the federal search of Omar’s D.C. residence over immigration paperwork.
Omar immigrated to the United States in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000. The current investigation centers on alleged false statements about her birth date and on family immigration records from that period.
The Washington Examiner reported that the Trump administration’s criminal probe seeks to build a case that could strip her citizenship and open a path to deportation if fraud in the naturalization process is proven.
More than a dozen federal grand jury subpoenas have gone out, including to relatives. One relative identified in coverage is her sister, Sahra Noor. Prosecutors are reviewing family paperwork alongside Omar’s own filings.
Rumors have circulated that the age entry on her 1995 immigration file is a core issue. Investigators have not publicly confirmed that theory as a formal charging theory, and no indictment has been filed.
Denaturalization is rare and requires proof that citizenship was obtained by fraud or willful misrepresentation. If successful, it can restore an individual to prior immigration status and, in some cases, expose them to removal proceedings.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said this week her office has opened a financial investigation into the congresswoman, separate from the immigration-fraud track.
Pirro told Fox News the work is active and fact-driven.
"There are several investigations going on, and I don’t think there’s any question, but if there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted."
In related comments she added that prosecutors will follow the evidence.
"We’re looking at the facts... we’ll follow them wherever they take us."
Reporting has linked the financial interest to questions around Omar’s reported multimillion-dollar net worth. Breitbart noted that the Biden-era Justice Department had previously looked at that issue; Pirro’s office is now described as moving on a financial inquiry of its own. Continuity between the two efforts has not been formally established.
Two tracks, immigration fraud and finances, now sit under federal review at the same time. That combination raises the stakes for any document, device, or family record pulled from the D.C. search.
Omar has rejected the investigation as a partisan attack. She framed the warrant and seizures as enforcement turned against a political opponent.
"Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement."
Her office went further in a statement that blamed years of criticism from President Trump and called the search pointless.
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong."
Those statements answer a search warrant approved by a federal judge, a phone and passport taken from a congressional residence, and a stack of grand jury subpoenas. They do not cancel the underlying records review.
Some voices on the center-left have rushed to her defense, including calls that rallied support for Omar after the immigration raid rather than waiting for the evidence file to land.
The Omar inquiry arrives while federal immigration agencies are using wider tools against illegal presence and weak naturalization controls. Recent moves include ICE arrest operations aimed at illegal immigrants encountered in the field and legal fights over removing noncitizens from voter rolls.
A sitting member of Congress is not above the same statutes that apply to any naturalized citizen. If age data, family petitions, or naturalization forms contain willful falsehoods, the Justice Department’s job is to prove it in court, not to accept press statements as a substitute for records.
So far the public file shows a warrant, a raid, seized devices and identity documents, more than a dozen subpoenas, an immigration-fraud theory tied to the 2000 citizenship grant, and a live financial investigation. It does not yet show charges.
Equal enforcement means the paperwork gets tested even when the name on the file holds a House seat. Citizenship is a legal status, not a campaign slogan, and fraud allegations belong in front of a judge, not buried under claims of persecution.