Ilhan Omar plans move after raid-linked threats

Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C. home around 6 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2026. Omar said the search lasted four to five hours with about 15 to 25 agents and that 17 items were taken, including old phones, her daughter's first phone, a 1960s camera, a Somali phrase book and notebooks. Husband Tim Mynett and their 20-year-old son were home. She declined to sign a Speech or Debate Clause waiver and said she could not call her attorney for about an hour while sitting on the couch with the warrant. Omar said the early knock freaked the family out, that she thought something was on fire, and that agents even folded some of her clothes. She said she cannot continue to live there and must figure out where to move. She denied wrongdoing, said authorities already hold her family's immigration papers, and said President Donald Trump has everything to do with it, pointing to his 2019 calls that she be deported. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin called it a strong case headed to a grand jury and raised possible racketeering charges. D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed a separate financial-disclosures investigation. Possible charges include conspiracy and false statements on immigration paperwork, per a person familiar with the case. Omar has not been charged.