{"id":62600,"date":"2026-10-12T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/immigration-officials-search-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-home\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:58:16","slug":"immigration-officials-search-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/immigration-officials-search-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration officials search Congresswoman Ilhan Omar home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>US immigration agents searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning as part of a &#8220;criminal investigation&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents &#8220;executed a judicially authorized search warrant&#8221; for the home in the Washington, DC, area, a US justice department spokesperson told CBS News, the BBC&#8217;s US partner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The search &#8220;is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,&#8221; the spokesperson said but no further details were given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Omar, was born in Somalia, and came to the US aged eight fleeing war. She was first elected to Congress in 2018, and is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. The US Congress is currently out of session and it is unclear if Omar was at the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted Omar for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvp8glg97393o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration agents searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning as part of a &#8220;criminal investigation&#8221;. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents &#8220;executed a judicially authorized search warrant&#8221; for the home in the Washington, DC, area, a US justice department spokesperson told CBS News, the BBC&#8217;s US partner. The search &#8220;is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62602,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600\/revisions\/62602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}