US probes Omar's immigration paperwork with deportation in sight as phone seizure case widens
Ilhan Omar and Sahra Noor. Federal investigators have subpoenaed Sahra Noor as part of a criminal fraud probe into Omar's immigration paperwork.
Federal investigators are examining whether Ilhan Omar's staff altered her recorded birth year to protect the validity of her citizenship; the probe is reportedly aimed explicitly at building a deportation case. More than a dozen subpoenas have been issued to Omar's family members since Homeland Security Investigations agents raided her Washington DC home on 12 October, seizing her phone, passport, notebooks and personal computers. Omar has called the investigation "the latest escalation" in Trump's "campaign of political intimidation", while Trump has denied personal involvement.
At the heart of the inquiry is whether Omar was actually 18, not 17, when she obtained citizenship through her father's naturalisation — an age that would have rendered her ineligible.
Omar has made no public appearances since the raid; husband Tim Mynett lost patience with reporters who asked whether she had left the country, telling them they were 'annoying the hell out of all the neighbors'.
