MINNEAPOLIS — Despite an ongoing federal criminal probe that includes questions about her immigration status and another examining her financial disclosures, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., cruised to reelection Tuesday night. Omar has represented Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, one of America's bluest, since winning in the 2018 midterms and becoming one of the first two Muslim women elected to the House of Representatives.
The embattled, Somali-born congresswoman is projected to defeat Republican 30-year state trooper John Nagel. But after her election night victory, a potential fight looms on another front. ILHAN OMAR'S TURBULENT WEEK EXPLAINED: THE DUELING PROBES THAT THREW THE SOMALI-BORN PROGRESSIVE INTO CHAOS Omar's Washington, D.C., home was raided on Oct. 12, 2026, by agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the chief investigative body of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Fox News Digital first reported in the wake of the search that Omar is facing an investigation into whether she or her father lied on her immigration paperwork when applying for U.S. citizenship. HSI confiscated Omar's phone, passport and computer in the raid — investigators also obtained her DNA. Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, voluntarily spoke to federal investigators in the days after the raid, as reported by Fox News Digital.
Court filings from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia referred to Omar as "Ilhan Omar Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Omar," suggesting that she shares a surname with the man she married in 2009. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is a British citizen.
Sources later told Fox News Digital that Ilhan Omar is not the Somali-born congresswoman's "real name." OBAMA ADMIN FIRST LAUNCHED THE INVESTIGATION INTO ILHAN OMAR'S ALLEGED BROTHER MARRIAGE That news renewed old claims that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is the lawmaker's brother and that she married him in a potential immigration fraud scheme. A federal investigation into the matter was opened in 2016, and conducted by the FBI and DHS while former President Barack Obama was finishing out his second term. The investigation was eventually closed during former President Joe Biden's administration in 2021, a source told Fox News Digital.
ILHAN OMAR FINALLY EMERGES AFTER DC RAID WITH VIDEO PLEADING FOR CASH TO FIGHT TRUMP Omar has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and she has not been charged with a crime. In several responses to inquiries about the investigation, she claimed President Donald Trump is orchestrating an attack against her for political purposes. "Trump has an unhealthy and creepy obsession with me," Omar told The Nation this week.
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