Ilhan Omar Says She Can No Longer Live in Her Washington Home After Federal Search
Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who has represented Minnesota in Congress since 2018, said she can no longer live in her Washington, D.C. home after federal agents searched it. She cited the exposure of her address and death threats. BBC News
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a federal investigative agency, carried out the search in a pre-dawn raid at around 6 a.m. Eastern time on 12 October. Omar said between 15 and 25 agents surrounded the house. She said they spent roughly five hours searching it room by room.
Omar said agents seized 17 items in total, including multiple cellphones and notebooks. She said they also took her husband's camera, which dates from the 1960s, and a Somali children's book. The Independent In an interview with MS NOW, Omar described what had been taken from her home. CNN She described the pre-dawn search itself as "bizarre." BBC News
The federal government has described the search as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Reuters reported on 15 October that the probe is examining Omar's decades-old immigration paperwork, with an eye toward deportation. Reuters Omar became a US citizen in 2000, after arriving from Kenya.
The investigation has also reached her family. More than a dozen subpoenas, which are legal orders requiring a person to hand over documents or appear to give testimony, have been issued to members of Omar's family. BBC News
