Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar’s house

[Morphine Prince 110,183]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.

The search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home so close to next month’s midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Democrats in Congress and raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election.

The Justice Department confirmed in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant in the Washington, D.C., area in connection with an ongoing federal criminal investigation but provided no other details.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-home-searched-8e18c2aea948bd90f4d7a4eb32b9ec3a

[27monster27 16,271]

Nick Shirley needs to be dealt with. He is such a danger to marginalized communities in this country. Don't forget how he caused the deaths of people in Minnesota earlier this year because his "investigations" caused an increase in ICE presence.

[Hadrian 2,866]

But they'd be up in arms if we did this shxt to them for their pedo crimes.

[DopeEnigma 1,872]

This is the start of the forced intimidation ahead of the elections, sadly it’ll only get worse. 

[PartySick 175,465]

They did this 'cause she's pulling 80%

[bxr 3,447]

Whew, I wonder if Polansky can see the raids from his backyard …

Spoiler

[ https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/michael-polansky-is-training-an-ai-model-on-skin-thats-still-alive/ ]

Spoiler

Peter Thiel (Palantir, international surveillance database; Trump top campaign donor; Vance mentor), Sean Parker (Stability.AI (Stability Diffusion)—precedent platform for CSAM legislation), Luke Nosek (Founder, Gigafund; SpaceX‘s (Musk) first institutional investor, current company Board member), and Ken Howery (U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, 2019-2021; U.S. Amabassador to Denmark, 2025-Present)

 

… but/and/so, to be fair, his pals have no chill or apparent regard for civil ethics 

Neither here nor there, just riffing on forum relevant proximals … still new and novice to this whole political economy of network society, just learning and gleaning as we go along 

 

ETA: Source attribution

Edited Monday at 06:19 PM by bxr

[NewEnglandWitch 295]

The folly of authoritarianism is that actions like this usually seem motivated by a desperate need to regain control…. But they tend to backfire and lose even more support. 

[timdrake 3,046]

Welp, they better have some f**king receipts for this (which I doubt they have), because at this moment this looks completely politically-motivated and without just cause, and I can see the backlash being major. 

[timdrake 3,046]

1 hour ago, 27monster27 said:

Nick Shirley needs to be dealt with. He is such a danger to marginalized communities in this country. Don't forget how he caused the deaths of people in Minnesota earlier this year because his "investigations" caused an increase in ICE presence.

Yeah. I'm all for fraud being uncovered, but vigilante chud internet journalists doing it to go viral and make memes of it is soooo not the way to go about it

[bxr 3,447]

1 hour ago, timdrake said:

Yeah. I'm all for fraud being uncovered, but vigilante chud internet journalists doing it to go viral and make memes of it is soooo not the way to go about it

TiL: “Chud”’s etymological origin includes “Cannabalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller”   

[Morphine Prince 110,183]

Trump administration is seeking to revoke Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her. — WSJ

[bxr 3,447]

14 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Trump administration is seeking to revoke Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her. — WSJ

Absolutely critical update (and point of historical reference, to establish where we are in the scheme of apparently fascist authoritarianism) thanks for sharing; do you have a link to the full source article?

[27monster27 16,271]

29 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Trump administration is seeking to revoke Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her. — WSJ

We need a full scale revolution holy scheisse.

[Morphine Prince 110,183]

50 minutes ago, bxr said:

Absolutely critical update (and point of historical reference, to establish where we are in the scheme of apparently fascist authoritarianism) thanks for sharing; do you have a link to the full source article?

WSJ is behind a paywall but this is also being reported by other sources. 

[bxr 3,447]

7 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

WSJ is behind a paywall but this is also being reported by other sources. 

WSJ is a formidable paywall, but MSN features the article in full for free … just for reference, I‘ve included both links for any interested readers 

Spoiler

Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship ( John McCormick, Michelle Hackman and Sadie Gurman via WSJ / MSN )

Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork

 

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe.

The multipronged effort is focused at least in part on how Omar obtained her citizenship after she arrived in the U.S. from Somalia decades ago. Investigators are focused both on the congresswoman and actions of her deceased father, some of the people familiar with the probe said. Nur Omar Mohamed brought his daughter and other family members to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Kenya in 1995.

Omar’s Washington, D.C., home was searched by federal agents early Monday, three weeks before the midterm election, in which she is seeking-re-election. The Justice Department said Homeland Security agents executed a court-authorized search, but it declined to elaborate.

Items taken from Omar’s home included her cellphone, notebooks, personal computers and her passport, some of the people said. Only the congresswoman and her husband were home at the time of the search.

Authorities have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas, including to some of Omar’s relatives, seeking testimony before a Minnesota grand jury, a person familiar with those proceedings said. Among other things, the investigation is looking at her family’s immigration paperwork, the person said.

In a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this year, Omar said she never committed immigration fraud.

“President Trump would love to eliminate one of the most effective progressive voices in Congress. There is no basis for this,” her office said in a statement Wednesday.

The Trump administration has made an unprecedented effort to denaturalize U.S. citizens by proving they lied in the process of obtaining citizenship, filing dozens of lawsuits. Omar’s case, if it proceeds, could become the highest-profile—and most controversial—part of that effort. The president has long called for Omar’s deportation, using her as a rallying point for the GOP’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim wings.

[ … ]

At the center of the immigration investigation is whether Omar or her father changed her age on her citizenship application to show she was 17 years old rather than 18, according to people familiar with the probe. If Omar was 17 at the time her father applied for citizenship, she would have qualified automatically rather than needing to pursue her own immigration process. She became a citizen in 2000.

Officials at Homeland Security Investigations looked into a similar tip under the Biden administration, according to people familiar with those efforts, but they decided not to move forward because they lacked evidence of fraud.

[ … ]

Administration officials have touted what they say is the most wide-ranging effort in Justice Department history to strip people of their citizenship. In all, the administration has filed more than 200 lawsuits against convicted criminals and others it is seeking to denaturalize. Before Trump took office this term, denaturalization cases were rare, with the government filing roughly a dozen or fewer a year, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that tracks federal immigration data.

[ … ]

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1982 into an affluent family, Omar initially settled in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., before her family moved to Minnesota as she entered high school.

She lost her mother when she was in preschool, according to her book, “This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey From Refugee to Congresswoman.” As a self-described spoiled youngest child, she was raised by her father and a collection of family members.

Omar’s father died in June 2020 at age 67 from what she has said were complications from Covid-19. In the U.S., he worked as a cabdriver and postal worker.

[ … Continue Reading via Wall Street Journal : https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ilhan-omar-investigation-aims-to-build-case-for-stripping-her-citizenship-6adf1edc  ; MSN : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ilhan-omar-investigation-aims-to-build-case-for-stripping-her-citizenship/ar-AA2efOud … ]