Federal investigators reportedly went so far as to sift through the household trash of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in Washington, DC, in an effort to obtain her DNA as part of an immigration-fraud probe that triggered a raid on her residence last week.
According to Breitbart, agents with the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit executed a search warrant on Omars D.C. home after receiving authorization from a federal judge. During the operation, investigators seized the congresswomans cellphone and issued subpoenas to members of her family in a case reportedly focused on whether the Somalia-born lawmaker or her father misrepresented her age on naturalization documents.
A report from NewsNation indicates that, prior to the raid, investigators quietly collected garbage from Omars residence in an attempt to secure her DNA for comparison. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history and marital status. [Emphasis added]
NewsNation further reported that relatives of the lawmaker have been specifically named in some of the subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors. Relatives of the lawmaker have been named in some of the subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors, NewsNation has reported. [Emphasis added]
Another NewsNation report details how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had been scrutinizing Omar for months before last weeks raid, quietly building a case that appears to reach beyond routine paperwork questions. In January, ICE agents reportedly met with Scott Johnson of Powerline Blog, a conservative outlet that has long raised red flags about Omars immigration history.
Powerline Blog was among the first online platforms to publish detailed allegations of immigration fraud by Omar, including the explosive claim that she entered into a sham marriage with her brother to speed his path to American citizenship. They asked me questions that related to issues of [Omars] immigration and naturalization and also questions related to her father, which would bear on the same issue, Johnson told NewsNation.
So I inferred at the end of that hour, and from other help that they asked me for, that they were looking at a possible civil proceeding that might lead to her denaturalization. Alongside the immigration probe, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro disclosed this week that her office has launched a financial investigation into Omar, potentially reviving a Biden-era inquiry into her reported multimillion-dollar net worth and raising fresh questions about whether a prominent progressive critic of President Donald Trump has herself benefited from the very system she often condemns.
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