DHS Raids Ilhan Omar’s Home. Weissmann Smells a Rat.

On October 12, 2026, federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations raided the Washington D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born Democratic congresswoman representing Minnesota, in the early morning hours as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork completed by her late father when she was a child. The raid was conducted with a judicially authorized warrant secured by the Department of Justice and is part of a broader probe initiated months earlier by Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). By October 15, additional details emerged that Omar's phone had been seized and multiple relatives were subpoenaed for grand jury testimony related to potential immigration fraud. The scope and extent of the investigation remain unclear, with some suggesting it could reach beyond her disputed 2009 marriage.