US probes Ilhan Omar's decades-old immigration paperwork with deportation in its sights, sources say
Federal investigators are pursuing the possible deportation of Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congresswoman, as a Minnesota grand jury gathers evidence over alleged fraud in her immigration documents. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations raided her Washington DC home on 12 October, seizing her phone, passport, computers and notebooks, and more than a dozen subpoenas have since been served on family members. A one-page memo has reportedly surfaced that could jeopardise the entire probe. Omar has made no public appearances since the raid; rumours that she has left the country are circulating, and her husband Tim Mynett has stopped short of denying them.
Investigators are examining whether Omar's staff altered her birth year in a Minnesota library record from 1981 to 1982 — a change that could determine whether her citizenship was ever legally valid.
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed her office is also probing Omar's financial disclosures, saying 'if there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted'.
Omar calls the raid 'the latest escalation' in Trump's 'campaign of political intimidation' and says she 'will not be silenced'; criminal charges have yet to be filed.