Monday may have been a government holiday but breaking news revealed that investigator with the Department of Homeland Security were on the clock as they raided the D.C.-area residence of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D). The late-hour reaction on CNN News Central was to clutch their pearls over the raid happening so close to the midterms, and to scoff at accusations that Omar might have committed marriage or immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother to get him in the country.
“Kate [Bolduan], we’re learning bits and pieces of what’s happening here,” announced crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz. “But there is a search that was going on this morning or is going on still at the home of Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative from Minnesota, who is also running again for Congress in the middle of this election season.”
While they didn’t know much given how fresh the developments where, Polantz put the pieces together to suggest it was an immigration raid:
This would be her D.C. area home. And the confirmation we’ve gotten of this is from the Justice Department itself. Them saying that the Justice Department secured a court-authorized search warrant and that Homeland Security investigators would be the agency that is conducting this search this morning. We don’t have much more indication on exactly what this is, but it appears to be some level of an immigration investigation, given that it’s Homeland Security doing this.
Following a clip of Border Czar Tom Homan on Fox News earlier in the day saying he wasn’t going to comment on an on-going investigation, Polantz went out of her way to dismiss accusations that Omar had committed “some level of immigration fraud” but completely skirted the details:
Now, there have been allegations from Republicans and including from Homar [sic] – from Tom Homan, the White House border czar, that there could be some level of immigration fraud. We don’t have any of that substantiated at this time. And there haven’t been any criminal charges or other immigration enforcement actions against Representative Omar.
Despite the on-going raid at the DC-area residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by DHS, CNN scoffs at the accusation that she might have committed immigration fraud by married her brother to get him in the country, claiming: “We don’t have any of that substantiated at this time.… pic.twitter.com/JWcJtnpRwB— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 12, 2026
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