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The Trump administration’s investigation into Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar is intended to build a case to revoke her US citizenship and ultimately deport her, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing US officials and others familiar with the probe.
Investigators are examining how Omar obtained citizenship after arriving in the United States from Somalia decades ago, as well as matters involving her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, the newspaper reported.
Mohamed brought Omar and other family members to the United States from a refugee camp in Kenya in 1995, according to the report. Authorities have pursued multiple lines of inquiry, including reviews of Omar’s immigration history and family records.
Federal agents searched Omar’s home in Washington, DC, early Monday, about three weeks before midterm elections in which she is seeking re-election. The Justice Department said the action was “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
Investigators seized several items, including Omar’s cellphone, notebooks, personal computers and passport, people familiar with the search told the newspaper. Omar and her husband were the only people at home at the time, it reported.
Authorities have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas, including to some of Omar’s relatives, seeking testimony before a federal grand jury in Minnesota, a person familiar with the proceedings told the Journal.
Omar criticised the search on Monday, describing it as an attempt by the Trump administration to intimidate political opponents. In a post on “X”, she confirmed she was safe and wrote: “Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. I will not be silenced.”
