Former Fox star admits Democrats are 'probably right' that Ilhan Omar immigration raid is 'politically motivated'

A former Fox News personality has conceded that Democrats are 'probably right' to call the federal raid on Ilhan Omar's Washington DC home politically motivated, delivering a significant blow to the Trump administration's framing of the investigation. Omar has not made a public appearance since Homeland Security Investigations agents raided her home on Monday, seizing her cellphone and passport as part of a criminal fraud probe into alleged lies on immigration paperwork. Her husband Tim Mynett snapped at reporters asking whether she had fled the country, telling them they were 'annoying the hell out of all the neighbors'. A 2019 internal memo reportedly found no evidence of fraud in the same records investigators are now revisiting.

Omar's sister Sahra Noor, who was reportedly subpoenaed in the immigration probe, cancelled a scheduled book tour appearance citing a 'family emergency'.

Investigators are probing whether Omar's birthdate was fraudulently altered from 1981 to 1982 — the difference between valid and invalid citizenship at the time of her father's naturalisation.

An ex-officer who served with Omar's father in the Somali military told reporters that 'people were scared of him', fuelling claims he concealed his military past on immigration forms.