Feds Search Ilhan Omar's Home Before Midterms
Early on Monday, October 12, 2026, agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C.-area home. The Justice Department said the "judicially authorized search warrant" it had secured was "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," without naming Omar; people familiar with the probe told Fox News and others it concerns immigration paperwork her late father filled out when she was a child. Omar has not been charged. The search came 22 days before the November 3 midterms, with early voting already under way in Minnesota, and despite longstanding Justice Department practice against overt investigative steps near an election. Border czar Tom Homan, who said in September that Omar was under criminal investigation, confirmed the warrant on Fox. Two days earlier, at a Tennessee rally, President Trump had said of Omar, "let's see what happens. JD Vance and our people are looking at it very strongly." Omar called the search "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement." House Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar called it "deeply disturbing," Gov. Tim Walz said Trump was "abusing his power to go after political opponents weeks before an election," and Sen. Tina Smith called it "a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections." Republican Reps. Tom Emmer and Nancy Mace answered that no one is above the law.
“[On X, after the search of Omar's home:] Nobody is above the law. … ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING!”