The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said the people... More details about the investigation and its focus were not immediately clear, though Vice President JD Vance last May signaled that the Trump administration would investigate Omar for immigration fraud allegations, which she has denied... The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant....
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"Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say."
AP reports.
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Excellent! I would like to see a lot more of this. Do you suppose they rifled through her lingerie drawer?
Should I give this my "revenge" tag?
Ewwwwwwww Oso Negro.
In game theory, this is called reciprocal defection. One side's breach of a cooperative moral norm licenses the other side to abandon the nortm (i.e., defect) in response as a form of retaliation or self-protection. This will not be the last instance of reciprocal defection in red/blue conflict. The spiral goes in only one way.
Ann Althouse said...
"Should I give this my "revenge" tag?"
Don't you have a 'justice' tag?
Maybe you need a "justice or revenge?" tag.
“Ann Althouse said...
Should I give this my "revenge" tag?“
Not unless you believe that prominent Democrats should be above the jaw. Many Democrats fo appear to believe that, but I had thought better of you. The evidence that Ilhan Omar broke American laws to bring members of her family into this country seems overwhelming. The Biden administration’s failure to investigate is the true scandal.
Besides the closet full of hijabs, did they find anything suspicious? Indict her hijabs then, but do something already.
Above the law. Sheesh.
"Besides the closet full of hijabs, did they find anything suspicious?"
Shoeboxes full of money. Her daddy, a Somali warlord, told all his kids to put large amounts of money in silly places just like Fani's daddy.
You don't need to study the facts or the law. You just need to study what she does.
Revenge Tag? Probably not. There seems good probability of an actual crime of serious consequence - election and service of ineligible Congress Critter; as contrasted with blatant "lawfare" waged against many R's.
Consider a city police officer who stops an erratic driver who reeks of alcohol, tests well above the legal limit, and is the lawyer representing the officer's wife in a bitter divorce. Not "revenge," just happy coincidence.
…to give it the revenge tag implies you believe she isn’t guilty of any crimes and President Trump is using government resources to harass and intimidate and/or create a narrative of wrongdoing where none exists. Id like to believe you’re a better witness to history than that…
Trump has no reason to seek revenge against far left Democrats. They are a boon to the Republican Party.
It's the establishment Democrats who are more likely a target of revenge.
There’s a pervasive attitude amongst older Democrats that there’s this vague statue of limitations for crimes committed by prominent Democrats in public office. No matter the magnitude or severity the guilt is wiped away, with like, a cloth…
Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. apparently isn’t spending much money to support Republican candidates for Senate and governor in Minnesota, I suppose a high-profile federal investigation of Ilhan Omar is the next best thing. When the big money isn’t showing up, a political distraction may have to do.
She admitted the sham marriage was so that he could immigrate to MN. Is that “revenge” tag signifying she should be above the law, as if criticizing Trump caused her difficulty in following the rules?
"Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation"
Some people did something.
Federal agents searched Ilhan Omar's glass house.
>Ann Althouse said...
Should I give this my "revenge" tag?<
Only if you don't have "law enforcement" and "long overdue" tags.
How ‘bout a “Bro-Fo” tag?
I’ve been told that if you’re innocent, you have nothing to worry about.
After a little push back on the idea that revenge and Justice are all that different:
"Revenge can be calculated and proportionate. Someone can deliberately wait, gather evidence, and impose a response that matches the original harm without rage or pleasure in suffering.
Likewise, judicial or institutional justice is rarely emotion-free. Juries, judges, prosecutors, and the public respond to moral outrage, victim impact, sympathy, fear, or group anger. Sentencing and even findings of guilt can be shaped by these emotions; procedural rules and standards of evidence are attempts to constrain them, not proof that the process runs on pure reason." ~ Grok
Justice is an attempt to dress up revenge, but in the end, they serve the same necessary purposes, and they can both be abused in the same way.
Revenge, a dish best eaten cold.
Indefinitely Infinitely Ill-Informed Troll says:
***Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. apparently isn’t spending much money to support Republican candidates for Senate and governor in Minnesota, I suppose a high-profile federal investigation of Ilhan Omar is the next best thing. When the big money isn’t showing up, a political distraction may have to do.***
Well, somebody's spending plenty of money in Minnesota, because Lisa Demuth (running for governor against "Our Amy" Klobuchar) and Michele Tafoya (running against Peggy Flanagan) have matched the DFL, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota and the other flying monkeys dollar for dollar. Usually the Lefties have a 2-3:1 advantage in ad buys, but not this year.
Besides Omar being a Democrat, what is the exact “revenge” here? There is a lot of vengeance Trump could take for how he, his family, and his cabinet was treated during his first administration and leaving office, but Omar is way down the list. I get that Biden protected many people with the autopen pardons, but still, she’s down the list and this issue regarding Omar has been around since she entered the political scene.
If she’s innocent, then this investigation will put an end to the innuendo and likely make her more powerful. Unless she’s innocent of the immigration fraud but gets caught being involved with the various financial fraud in her district.
You still drae a minnseota grand jury that let don lemond harpies off thr hook
The difference between lawfare and justice is the more important question here. If you are violating long-held precedents, changing or creating laws just for one target, hiding evidence, violating rules, and shopping for judges and prosecutors, or charging single items as multiple charges, or charging what never gets charged because of who your target is, that's lawfare, not justice. Is there some of that here? I haven't seen it.
It appears Omar’s genocidal father might be at the heart of the immigration investigation and his failure to admit he was a colonel in the Somali Army is at issue. She of course only describes him as an “educator.” Both DC and Mogadishu (MN) homes searched simultaneously.
OG Mike writes: 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.
David Hearn — Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Outcome: Charges dropped; case permanently dismissed.
James Comey — Former FBI director
Outcome: Indictment dismissed.
Letitia James — New York attorney general
Outcome: Charges dismissed; subsequent grand jury declined to indict.
Christian Garcia — Immigration-enforcement protests
Outcome: Charges dropped.
Eric Adams — New York City mayor
Outcome: Charges dismissed with prejudice.
Individual examples are not the whole story.
A July 2026 Reuters investigation found that, between January 2025 and March 2026, the Trump Justice Department charged at least 851 people with assaulting or impeding federal officers. Among completed cases, 31% were dismissed, compared with approximately 8% of federal criminal cases overall.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-doj-charged-hundreds-with-assaulting-officers-many-cases-were-dropped-2026-07-30/
The location of the alleged immigration crimes may not be MN. It might be the port of entry or other jurisdiction.
Look at the extensive lawfare that was deployed against Trump, his advisors, and supporters. Republicans don't have the gall to do that level of flat-out undemocratic corruption of the system. Although that puts them at a severe political disadvantage, it's one reason this former Democrat now votes exclusively Republican.
Hey Cutandpaste. All you do is lie and throw up chaff. Regarding your list:
“April 28, 2026 (Second Indictment): A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina indicted Comey on two felony counts (violating 18 U.S.C. § 871 and § 875(c)) for allegedly threatening the life of President Donald Trump. The charges stem from an Instagram photo posted in May 2025 showing seashells arranged as "86 47". Prosecutors contend the numbers imply a threat ("86" meaning to get rid of, and "47" referring to the 47th president). Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.”
Only the 2025 indictment was dismissed.
The rest was chaff. Nobody cares about those other losers.
For those with no sense of scale, "𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨." refers to the murder of thousands of innocent Americans in one day.
I'll be watching for CNN's exclusive photos and videos.
So soon? Although doesn’t being an elected Democrat confer immunity unless they find millions in bullion in your house?
From her January 2024 speech, "I'm Somalian first, Muslim second."
"And never an American."
For as long as these allegations have been floating around why would she keep anything showing possible guilt in her home?
Do you have an "It's about time" tag? Millions of Americans have been calling for this for years.
There are threads connecting her to the MN welfare fraud.
Republicans don't have the gall to do that level of flat-out undemocratic corruption of the system.
What are you even talking about? You are remembering a republican party from decades ago. This republican party is just as big a group of grifters and fraudsters as the democrats. It's the end of Animal Farm and the farmers and the pigs are indistinguishable.
You can't lamely try to prosecute Comey for seashell---SEASHELLS!, Bagoh---and cry like little victim. MAGA is so gay.
Seashells!
That said, Omar might need to be deported. If the shit is true about her brother, she should be kicked out of our country.
Investigation to be shut down by far-left Judge in 3..2...1....
"There are threads connecting her to the MN welfare fraud."
Must be what they're looking for, right? Hard to imagine what evidence of immigration fraud would be in her house.
Oh look. IEE (9:29) has evidently decided that dismissed charges are more telling than Corruptocrats’ prosecutions. Rather than provide the list of hundreds of their spurious political prosecutions I’ll just say, “Trump” and point out that IEE appears to be cut from the same cloth as scofflaw Democrat jurors in NY and DC who are as corrupt as their politicians, prosecutors and judges.
My guess is the Feds are looking for financial fraud. Should be easy pickings owing to her massive increase in net worth. Follow Jack Smith’s lead and wiretap everyone.
In the left’s lexicon, justice and revenge are interchangeable.
"You can't lamely try to prosecute Comey for seashell-..."
I said "undemocratic corruption". Comey isn't running for anything. I don't agree with that charge against Comey, but it's nothing compared to what Democrats tried to do to prevent the leading Republican from being elected. Things that have never been tried before because they were that egregious. Democrats will try them again, but I doubt Republicans ever will.
"cry like little victim. MAGA is so gay."
Trump won anyway, he's your President, and you are homophobic.
‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account ~ WSJ
𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘈 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘦
And..
At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays ~ WSJ
𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱
Is there a prediction market for Guilfoyle's last day in the Trump administration? If there is, she could make a lot of money.
“Seashells!” (9:50) Cheesy, but not quite up to hundreds of “felonious” trespass prosecutions of January 6th at least one of which carried the death penalty.
Probable cause, or Litigious Themes?
'....You can't lamely try to prosecute Comey for seashell---SEASHELLS!, ...'
You sound just like Comey, with his wide-eyed, innocent shtick about not knowing what those numbers meant. The indictment was dropped because they didn't think they could win the case, probably true, but I notice that Comey hasn't been cute since. In fact, Comey's been very very quiet. I guess he doesn't have any more books to sell. Doesn't Lawfare suck, really?
"Vice President JD Vance last May signaled that the Trump administration would investigate Omar for immigration fraud allegations, which she has denied..."
This will be good for Omar, as she can demonstrate there was no fraud and put an end to all these allegations.
Right?
The Trump Administration has bungled every single attempt to go after enemies criminally. Until proved wrong my assumption is that this will be weak sauce that will blow up in the DOJ’s face.
@ Mr D -- Richard Uihlein, (founder of ULINE) has poured over $13 million into the Restore Sanity super PAC supporting Lisa Demuth, the Minnesota House Speaker and Republican nominee for governor. This includes substantial spending during her primary.
She and her family escaped to Kenya from Somalia just ahead of payback from the folks her father had tortured/killed for the previous regime. Then they lied out their backsides to seek 'refuge' in the US. Once here, they have engaged in various quasi-legal endeavors relating to graft and corruption. That nothing will most likely happen to her and family, that she is finally being investigated is a bit heart warming.
We cheer not cry, dumbass. Your inability to comprehend conservatism is what makes your lame takes so unintentionally hilarious. The lawfare against Trump was so ridiculous that YOU haters actually made him a sympathetic character that deserved a second chance.
Now you’re getting his second chance good and hard. LOL
Mike, Rich is more conservative than most people here.
He said so himself.
rehajm said...
"...the guilt is wiped away, with like, a cloth…"
They even have a non profit built on that premise. They get to say when it's time to moveon(.org)
"He said so himself."
Or he copied it from somewhere.
What apparently is the big lor the Somali (not Somali-American) in congress is- according to what I'm seeing on X today- she was 18, and adult, not 17, a minor, when she came in with her father. And he and her both lied about it. Different processes for minors and adults.
Isn’t time for immigrant caravans again?
Infinite Enema Extrusions™️ sez…
Garbage in, garbage out🗑️
They were associates of general morgan the hargeissa massacre
Locker her up
**Seashells!!**
That's like ridiculing someone who's supposedly getting prosecuted for **Ink!** when it's actually for issuing a threat *written* in ink. It's for the written threat, not the medium in which it's written.
Squirrel!!!!!
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
If you didn't want the DOJ to prosecute jihadist Congresswomen who illegally obtain citizenship and commit criminal immigration fraud, perhaps you should not have rifled through Melania's underwear drawer at 3 a.m."
right?
Wow, IEE compares 9-11 deaths to failed prosecutions. Dude needs perspective, or at least to learn his memes.
Meanwhile, In New York: "New York Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld may be Whistleblower of the Year: He just called out Attorney General Tish James’ horrific abuses of power in burning “significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies,” not least President Donald Trump, with no cause."
Yet it continues with the Cornell 7.
Also, there are the multiple cases brought by Fani Willis that were thrown out including the RICO allegation. The Russian Collusion Hoax that IEE still peddles that had three major investigations that concluded it was always a fraud. The General Flynn persecution. And the case everyone is mentioning in the thread where the FBI raided Trump's residence supposedly looking for stolen classified information. Indeed, it is all these cases, and more unmentioned for time (Jack Smith still hasn't explained to Congress what the hell he was doing), that cause our host to suggest "revenge".
However, as I stated previously, Omar isn't a case of vengeance. It is the law catching up to her story that deserves an investigation.
Raiding Ilhan Omar's home related to immigration charges on Indigenous People's Day seems appropriate.
Did they raid her husband’s panty drawer?
Or her brother's?
Ann Althouse said...
Should I give this my "revenge" tag?
No, you should give it your "justice" tag
because doing onto politicians as the cheered when tit was done to others is justice, not mere revenge.
Especially since in this case there are actual crimes being investigated, unlike with Trump
Lots of noise being made on the Left about this despicable enemy witch being a "sitting member of Congress", as if that meant she was some kind of French aristocrat immune from prosecution, instead of disreputable, lazy, dishonest hired help with no more rights than any of the rest of us.
No one is above the law. We heard that from her own lips many times.
"Especially since in this case there are actual crimes being investigated, unlike with Trump"
Especially since in this case there are actual reports of crimes predating Trump's first presidency.
"A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information last week suggesting Omar’s involvement in marriage and immigration fraud."
Posted on August 12, 2016 by Scott Johnson [Power Line blog]
"No one is above the law. We heard that from her own lips many times."
Not just her lips...
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2109664698618515766?s=20
"Vice President JD Vance last May signaled that the Trump administration would investigate Omar for immigration fraud allegations, which she has denied..."
What’s an immigration fraud allegation, and who was the alligator?
This investigation is code named "World War Eleven." A few years ago, Ms. Omar was reading a speech off a teleprompter and misread "World War II" as "world war eleven."
"The DOJ is calling the investigation into Ilhan Omar 'World War Eleven".
Heh.
*Seashells!*
86DDD
I am guessing this is about more than just her marrying her brother in order to get him a green card.
Thank you Israel for setting up an election where the Democrats are going to be in complete control. Well, Trump should have been able to say nom but he just didn't, and here we are.
Did you know that Trump got 180,000 Muslim votes in Michigan in 2024? You know why? Because like me, they believed his lies about no new wars. Trump in 2024 had increased Republican totals among both Muslim and Jewish voters, among blacks and Hispanics, among working class whites who were sick of sending their sons off to war, in fact there was a statistically significant trend that the more casualties an area took in previous wars, the higher the vote for Trump in 2024.
He kissed it all away, but I can't in good conscience vote for Republicans when I know full well that Trump will take it as signal to double down on his disastrous Israel-first policies.
Odds are those agents aren’t doing any panty sniffing.
Just sayin’
h/t Leonard Leonard
Howard said...
“Squirrel!!!!!”
I’d bet her drawers still retain a whiff of Somali Striped Mole-rat (Fukomys ilariae) even now, Howie.
Reposting a comment on this report I added at NeoNeoCon's place.
Bill Shipley just put up a long post on the Omar raid and her immigration situation on his Shipwreckedcrew’s Port-O-Call Substack. I think unfortunately it’s behind his paywall but I’ll try to give a TL;DR summary.
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/yes-minn-rep-ilhan-omar-can-be-denaturalized
As you can sorta tell from the URL it is Shipley’s opinion that Omar does face naturalization, though maybe not criminal, jeopardy regardless of her age at the time she immigrated. In fact, if she was a minor she might be in more trouble than if she had been an adult. If she was a minor her ability to apply for naturalization was based on the acceptance for immigration and naturalization of her “father” (I note there are some questions regarding that, as well) who was, at least according to some sources, a fairly high ranking officer in the Somali National Army during the Marxist dictatorship of Mohammed Said Barre, and is said to have participated in human rights violations and other atrocities during SNA suppression of unrest involving the Isaaq tribe located in the area of Somalia that calls itself “Somaliland.” (He notes that the recent diplomatic recognition of an independent nation of Somaliland by Israel might be the source of additional information about the Omar family.) US immigration law bars the acceptance for refugee status of anyone affiliated with a Marxist or totalitarian party, and the regime of Barre in Somalia was an self-proclaimed Marxist dictatorship. It appears that Omar’s father described himself as an ‘educator’ on his immigration and refugee applications, a characterization continued by Omar in her own writing, without disclosing his association with the Somali National Army and Barre’s government. That would make his application for naturalization invalid under US law therefore making her subsequent application invalid as well. There is a case directly on point for Omar’s father of a former Nazi concentration camp guard who passed himself off as a laborer, was admitted to the US under the Displaced Persons provisions after WWII, and was eventually deported after the USSC ruled there was no statute of limitations on revoking immigration or naturalization status if facts which would have caused a rejection of the application were discovered even long after the fact. It is not quite on point for Omar but it certainly raises the possibility her naturalization could be revoked because her entry into the US was the result of fraud, even if she wasn’t the one committing the fraud.
The only question Shipley has is the basis for the search warrant since denaturalization is a civil action, not a criminal one, and search warrants are part of a criminal investigation. He speculated there might be information regarding the family’s immigration process as detailed in Omar’s writings, and an investigation could have the purpose of determining if there was ongoing fraud to conceal her father’s history. I would also think there could be a criminal investigation into Omar’s connection with various Somali fraud rings in the Twin Cities so the search warrant might have nothing to do with the immigration case, or the search might have had multiple purposes.
No one is above the law.
Yancey Ward said...
I am guessing this is about more than just her marrying her brother in order to get him a green card.
Yes. See Christopher B post above.
Also, she may have lied about her age, claiming to be 17 so she would get US status under her dad. If she was 18, she would have to get it on her own.
This is another "if she did this, she was never a US citizen".
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