rsday that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officials were tipped off about the potential date fudging during the Biden administration, but opted not to move forward due to a lack of evidence.

The Post reported Tuesday that in the spring of 2019, following Omar's initial election to the House of Representatives, her staff pressed the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, and Wikipedia to record her birth as happening in 1982 rather than 1981.

Months earlier, in the fall of 2018, Omar's campaign had told the Associated Press that she didn't have a birth certificate due to her family's displacement by the long-running Somalia civil war.

6 Homeland Security officers carry boxes from Rep. Ilhan Omar's residence on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

6 Homeland Security Investigations search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. Getty Images

If Omar is found to have lied about her birthdate on any official form - such as a passport renewal or bank loan application - she could be prosecuted, given naturalization fraud has a 10-year statute of limitations. There is no statute of limitations on civil denaturalization cases.

Omar has repeatedly denied any wrondoing, with her office insisting in a statement to the Journal Wednesday:  President Trump would love to eliminate one of the most effective progressive voices in Congress. There is no basis for this. 

The Omar family emigrated first to Kenya during Somalia's bloody civil war in the early 1990s, eventually arriving in the US in 1995. Omar's father died of complications from COVID-19 in 2020.

More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have also been issued to family members of the Minnesota congresswoman, including her sister, Sahra Noor.

Trump said Monday that he had  nothing to do  with the probe of Omar but called her a  totally crooked  politician and  a terrible person. 

 Just a complainer,  he told reporters.  She comes from a country that is a non-country. And then she comes over here, and she complains about our Constitution.