{"id":79873,"date":"2026-10-12T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-agents-raid-ilhan-omars-dc-home-amid-immigration-fraud-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:54:54","slug":"federal-agents-raid-ilhan-omars-dc-home-amid-immigration-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-agents-raid-ilhan-omars-dc-home-amid-immigration-fraud-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home amid immigration fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>The home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, was raided early Monday morning by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple federal agents with HSI jackets were seen outside Omar&#8217;s Washington, D.C. home in the early hours of Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two sources close to the investigation say the search stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman&#8217;s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>The raid started around 6 a.m. with HSI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leading the operation. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is also involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 investigation,&#8221; a DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Border czar Tom Homan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/could-trump-revoke-ilhan-omars-citizenship-alleged-brother-marriage-ex-federal-prosecutor-breaks-down\"><u>said in mid-September<\/u><\/a> that the progressive congresswoman was subject to an ongoing &#8220;criminal&#8221; investigation.<\/p>\n<p>HSI is the principal investigative arm of DHS. Its scope includes investigating cross-border crime and global threats, including human trafficking and child sexual exploitation, drug smuggling and cybercrime. HSI plays a major front-line role in America\u2019s counterterrorism operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>This story is developing.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: The home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, was raided early Monday morning by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital. Multiple federal agents with HSI jackets were seen outside Omar&#8217;s Washington, D.C. home in the early hours of Monday.\u00a0 Two sources close to the investigation say the &#8230; <a title=\"Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home amid immigration fraud investigation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/federal-agents-raid-ilhan-omars-dc-home-amid-immigration-fraud-investigation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar\u2019s DC home amid immigration fraud investigation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}