Search conducted at Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington in case involving possible forgery of immigration documents

Fox News, citing two sources, reported that the search at Omar’s Washington home is connected to a criminal investigation into fraud involving her immigration documents. According to the channel’s sources, the documents were filled out by her late father when she was a child.

A representative of the U.S. Department of Justice told Fox News that the Department of Homeland Security’s investigations division in Washington executed a court-authorized search warrant obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to him, this legal action is part of an ongoing federal investigation.

Fox News explains that HSI’s responsibilities include investigations into cross-border crimes and global threats, including human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, drug smuggling, and cybercrime.

In mid-September, Tom Homan, the coordinator of anti-migrant raids in the United States, said that the progressive Democratic congresswoman had become the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Reuters noted that Omar, a native of Somalia, often criticizes Donald Trump and is regularly subjected to insults from the Republican president. In February, Trump said that Omar and her colleague, Democratic congresswoman of Palestinian origin Rashida Tlaib, should be “put in a mental hospital” and sent back “to where they came from”.

Last month, a Minnesota resident was sentenced to one year and two months in prison after dousing Omar with vinegar. At trial, he admitted that he attacked the congresswoman because he disagreed with her progressive political views.

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