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Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, at the Capitol earlier this year.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York Times Federal Homeland Security agents executed a search warrant at the home of Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota on Monday, according to three people briefed on the matter, the kind of investigative step the Justice Department has long shied away from so close to an election. The court-approved search of her Washington-area home comes after Department of Homeland Security officials said in recent months that they were investigating Ms. Omar, a Democrat, over her family’s immigration paperwork.
More recently, some federal investigators have sought to investigate other issues, such as Ms. Omar’s finances, campaign funds and interactions with a foreign citizen, as The New York Times previously reported. The three people who described the execution of the search warrant spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said that Homeland Security Investigations agents — a part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — executed a judicially authorized search of a home in the Washington area, as part of an “ongoing federal criminal investigation.” The spokeswoman declined to comment further. Omar’s spokeswoman, did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent by email and text message Monday morning. Omar has long said that suggestions that she and her family committed immigration fraud were false and politically motivated.
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