Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has not been seen in public since federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home on Monday, and her husband is tired of questions about where she is. On Wednesday, a reporter outside the couple’s home asked Tim Mynett whether rumors that the congresswoman had left the country were true. He shot back, “You guys are annoying the hell out of all the neighbors around here, man,” according to Fox News Digital. He did not say where Omar is.
The rumors began after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at the home starting around 6 a.m. Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that agents seized Omar’s passport, cellphone, notebooks and personal computers.
No reporting has confirmed that Omar left the United States. She now faces two separate federal inquiries. One is a criminal investigation into her family’s immigration paperwork, and the other is an investigation of her financial disclosures by the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
The immigration probe centers on how Omar became a U.S. citizen after arriving from Somalia as a child. According to the Journal, a Minnesota grand jury is examining her family’s immigration paperwork. Investigators are looking at whether her age was misstated so that she would qualify for automatic citizenship through her late father’s naturalization, which applies only to minors.
The Journal reported that authorities have issued more than a dozen subpoenas, including to members of Omar’s family, and two sources told Fox News Digital the case could lead to denaturalization. Reports have also highlighted that in 2019, Omar’s staff had her birth year changed from 1981 to 1982 in Minnesota Legislative Reference Library records.
Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, who was reportedly subpoenaed, did not show up Thursday night for a scheduled event at the University of Minnesota Rochester promoting her memoir. Garden Party Books told Fox News Digital the event was canceled because of a “family emergency.” The separate financial probe concerns Omar’s 2024 disclosure, which listed Mynett’s business interests at $6 million to $30 million. Her office later said the original filing showed total business equity rather than his share, and amended it to list both stakes at $0. Officials have said the disclosure probe is unrelated to the raid.