by Sharon Rondeau
(Oct. 14, 2026) — Investigations opened into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) acknowledged by U.S. government agencies are examining her “birthdate,” 2024 congressional disclosures, and “immigration” issues, multiple news sources say.
On Monday morning, Omar’s Washington, DC home was searched by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on a “judicially authorized” warrant, major media reported.
“Two sources close to HSI’s investigation say the raid was part of a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child,” Fox News reported on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced her office opened an investigation into Omar’s congressional financial disclosures which initially claimed she and her husband held approximately $30 million in business and personal assets. The forms, however, were later revised to say her net worth as approximately $100,000, a change attributed to an “accounting error.”
In 2022 and on subsequent occasions, The Post & Email interviewed A.J. Kern, a former Minnesota resident of Omar’s congressional district who challenged Omar in the DFL primary that year after observing that Omar and another candidate, Don Samuels, were foreign-born but that neither had ever presented proof of U.S. naturalization.
As some pundits have recently noted, in order to serve in Congress, one must be a U.S. citizen as stated in Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
Kern filed a lawsuit to obtain Samuels’s and Omar’s naturalization records but was unsuccessful in obtaining them after Judge Bridget Sullivan wrote in her opinion that only Congress could evaluate whether a candidate met the constitutional requirements to serve within its body.
In March, the Government of Somaliland, a breakaway section of Somalia, where Omar was born, posted (shown in two parts):
Similar reports were issued years before by Scott Johnson of Powerline blog and David Steinberg, then writing for PJ Media.
In May, Rachel Campos-Duffy of Fox News credited Kern with discovering, through government FOIA requests, that no evidence exists of Omar’s father’s naturalization, through which Omar claims derivative citizenship at age 17 in 2000. Today, pundits are recognizing that if Omar’s actual birth year is 1981, as she originally stated, she could not have been 17 when her father purportedly naturalized.
Prior to serving in Congress, Omar served one term in the Minnesota House of Representatives, which also requires U.S. citizenship but the State of Minnesota does not enforce.
In 2022, Kern released a YouTube video reporting her finding that Omar’s congressional office asked the Minnesota House of Representatives Legislative Reference Library to change her stated birth year of “1981” to “1982” on Omar’s archived webpage. Other sources of Omar’s biographical information were also altered at her request, made within “two days” of the appearance of Kern’s video.
Kern released contemporaneous emails she received from the Minnesota House of Representatives legislative librarian demonstrating the request for the change.
“To me, that should raise a red flag,” Kern told The Post & Email in July 2023. “I’m a patriot; I believe that we should not have foreign nationals sitting in our Congress. It’s very clear that the qualifications to run – Article I, Section 2, clause 2 – you must be ‘seven years a citizen.’”
Many sources continue to say Omar obtained U.S. citizenship at age 17 despite an absence of proof.
In an interview with Todd Piro of “Fox & Friends First” Wednesday morning, Attorney Dan Schneider raised the issue of Omar’s birth year.
“This age thing could really hurt her…if she did not really get derivative citizenship,” Schneider said.
“Squad Member’s Age Under Scrutiny,” Fox News’s chyron read during during an updated report on the Omar investigations, which now dominate mainstream news.
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