US federal agents searched Ilhan Omar’s Washington home weeks before the midterm elections, prompting claims the move was politically timed and linked to an immigration fraud probe.
01Summary
- 01Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s home on Monday, 13 October 2026, under what the Justice Department called a judicially authorised warrant.
- 02A source familiar with the case said the investigation relates to alleged immigration fraud, including paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was a child.
- 03Omar, who fled Somalia at age eight and became a US citizen in 2000, said the raid was an attempt to weaponise federal law enforcement.
- 04The search came three weeks before the 3 November midterm elections, in which Omar is seeking a fifth term representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district.
- 05House Democratic leaders and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticised the timing, while Trump said he had nothing to do with the search and left it to the Justice Department.
02Why it matters
The case has become a test of whether federal law enforcement is being used in a way that could affect an election. It also feeds into wider political tension around immigration, Trump and Omar’s long-running feud.
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