Rep. Ilhan Omar and her husband were at their Washington home Monday morning when federal agents executed a search warrant, taking the Minnesota Democrat’s cellphone, notebooks, personal computers and her passport, according to a new report. The “Squad” member is the target of separate federal investigations, The Post confirmed Wednesday, with prosecutors in Minnesota probing potential immigration fraud, while the office of DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is pursuing an inquiry into the finances of Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett. The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials and others familiar with the Omar case, reported that the ultimate goal of the immigration investigation is to strip the lawmaker of her citizenship and deport her.
Federal immigration law allows authorities to revoke American citizenship if the privilege is found to have been awarded through willful misrepresentation or concealment of material facts. The Trump administration recently moved to denaturalize 40 US citizens accused of crimes ranging from tax fraud to child pornography to spying for China. The immigration investigation into Omar reportedly focuses on whether she illegally obtained so-called derivative US citizenship through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, by wrongly claiming to have been a minor at the time the benefit was extended in 2000.
