agents carrying boxes out of the residence to government vehicles, one of which was white and marked with a pink X. 16 Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. James Keivom 16 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, stands with third husband Tim Mynett as they listen to Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. Getty Images A defiant Omar took to social media following the raid to announce I will not be silenced and called the action an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. But Fahey said it's not easy for feds to get a DC judge to sign off on a search warrant, especially since DC judges tend to be hostile to the current administration's whims. 16 White House border czar Tom Homan arrives on Air Force One with President Donald Trump at Syracuse Hancock International Airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, in Syracuse, N.Y. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson 16 U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin (C) speaks during a press conference at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Getty Images For a DC judge to sign off on something that's 20 years old, you have to say you believe there is current evidence of the crime in her house, he said. A judge must have been very convinced. While feds have kept a tight lip on what they're expecting to find at the Omar residence, one source who requested anonymity given the politically charged nature of the investigation, suggested it might relate to longstanding, unverified claims that Omar misrepresented her age to get citizenship. Omar claims she received automatic US citizenship in 2000 at age 17, granted to minor-age children of naturalized parents - in this case her father, Nur Said Mohamed Elmi, who fled to the US in 1995 from war-torn Somalia. 16 Homeland Security officers carry boxes from the Washington residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, during a search. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite 16 Agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) work at the entrance of the residence of US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after US authorities conducted a raid as part of an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department, in Washington, DC, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. REUTERS In 2019 concerned citizen and Minnesota local AJ Kern was the first to publicly call attention to Omar actually being 18 or 19 in 2000, at least according to state documents at the time. If Omar was actually older than 17 at the time - as some believe - she would have been ineligible for citizenship via the parent route. Two days after Kern released a viral video about Omar's alleged real age, Omar's official birth year on the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library's website was revised from 1981 to 1982, according to Kern, who pointed to archived versions of the site which revealed the change. Congressional records today report Omar was born in October 1982, making her 17 at the time of naturalization. One source confirmed to The Post that naturalization fraud has a ten year statute of limitations. 16 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens during a Congressional spotlight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein 16 U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a get out the vote event with Democratic Senate candidate, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, at Cedar Field Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. Flanagan and Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) will be vying for the Democratic nomination in the state's August 11 primary election. Getty Images But if Omar had continued using the fake birthday on things like passport renewals or bank loan applications then the statute of limitations resets. Cops, the source said, could be looking for exactly that sort of documentation when they raided the Rep's home. Fahey agreed, noting that DHS's involvement means the case is specific to immigration issues. A federal judge saw something that said, we believe there's evidence of a crime that will be found in that house, and presumably it would be something that's not just a crime beyond the statute of limitations, he said. There could be new crimes committed that stemmed from that previous fraud. Omar has never publicly produced a birth certificate, claiming such paperwork was destroyed during the turmoil in her native country. She did not respond to The Post's request for comment. 16 Omar's second husband, Ahmed Elmi, surfaced in the UK where he's writing a thesis on queerphobia in Kenya. @ahmednelmi/Instagram. 16 Ahmed and Omar divorced in 2017. @joesangre/Instagram The raid, which began hours before dawn, came just weeks after Border Czar Tom Homan revealed that Omar was under an ongoing criminal investigation and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated on a podcast something's going to happen as investigators look into Omar's broader family migration story. Generally a search warrant is occurring towards the end of an investigation because you're building up evidence that led to this search warrant, said Fahey. To get to the point of searching a home, you've developed a case for a fairly decent period of time. Controversy has long surrounded Omar's marriage to her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, a flamboyant, self-described dirty dandy rumored to be her brother and currently writing a thesis about queerphobia in Kenya at Bristol University in the UK. Multiple sources agreed that DHS isn't looking into that marriage. For one, the statue of limitations for marriage fraud ran out five years after the couple divorced in 2017. 16 An undated image shows Nur Omar Mohamed, also known as Nur Said Mohamed Elmi, father of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. ilhanmn/Instagram 16 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., right, poses with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, and Nur Omar Mohamed for a ceremonial swearing-in picture on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 3, 2019. REUTERS Contrary to what many believe, the claim is actually that Omar married her brother so that he could get US citizenship while she was already a citizen - a federal crime, if true, but one that wouldn't jeopardize her own citizenship nor would it involve DHS entering the mix. Incest charges would only be brought with evidence of sexual contact, per Minnesota state law. Accusations that Elmi was, in fact, Omar's brother first emerged from Minnesota's Somali community itself. Local bloggers alleged the mysterious, effeminate Elmi blew into town in the late 2000s and that the future congresswoman introduced him as her brother from London saying he needed papers, referring to immigration documents. Omar was married to first husband Ahmed Hirsi but only by a non-legally binding Muslim ceremony in 2002, which was not recognized by the state. Omar gave birth to her third child with Hirsi while legally married to Elmi. Documents reviewed by The Post show the three adults also appeared to share a residence at one point. A Hennepin County, Minn., marriage certificate reviewed by The Post shows Omar and Elmi married on February 12, 2009, in Eden Prairie, Minn. That wedding - held by a Christian minister, despite Omar being Muslim - was legally recognized under US law. After the 2017 divorce, Omar then legally married first husband Hirsi before divorcing him in 2019 and marrying her third husband, campaign staffer named Tim Mynett.