Homeland Security Carries Out Raid of Trump Nemesis Rep. Ilhan Omar
Brandon Bell / Getty Images Federal officials carried out a dawn raid at the home of a Democratic congresswoman who’s long been a thorn in Donald Trump’s side.
The Homeland Security Investigations agency (HSI) searched 44-year-old Rep.
Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence on Monday morning, sources familiar with the operation told Fox News .
They said that the raid forms part of a criminal probe into her immigration paperwork, which her late father filled out after the family emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was a child.
Trump, 80, has long railed against the progressive Minnesota congresswoman.
“‘Scammer’ Ilhan Omar and her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now, or far worse, send them back to Somalia,” he wrote in a Truth Social post in January.
The president’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced last month that the Department of Homeland Security was conducting a criminal investigation into Omar, who has been a U.S. citizen since 2000.
This is a developing story.
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