Federal agents searched the Washington, D.C.-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar early Monday. The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations agents "executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice." It called the search part of "an ongoing federal criminal investigation" and gave no other details. No charges have been announced.

Agents in HSI jackets were outside the home before dawn, Fox News reported. A BBC crew saw some agents carrying boxes to a van. A team of about 15 to 20 agents left late in the morning, NBC News reported.

Fox News, which first reported the search, and CBS News say the probe deals with immigration papers her late father filled out when she was a child. A source told NBC News the yearslong probe touches on immigration and fraud but goes beyond them. That person said it involves whistleblowers, documents and witness testimony. Border czar Tom Homan confirmed a judge signed the warrant, ABC News reported.

Omar posted Monday that she was "ok" and wrote, "I will not be silenced." She called the search "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement." Her office said she "has done nothing wrong." Rep. Tom Emmer, a Minnesota Republican, said "Nobody is above the law," the BBC reported. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and two other Democratic leaders called the raid "deeply disturbing," CBS News reported.

Omar was born in Somalia. She fled its civil war with her family at age 8 and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, NBC News reported. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 12 and is a U.S. citizen, ABC News said. In 2018 she became the first Somali American elected to Congress. She won her Minneapolis-area seat in 2024 with 74% of the vote, the BBC said.

In September, Homan told Fox News that Omar was under investigation. Omar said then that no one had contacted her. President Donald Trump has attacked her for years, and he singled her out at a Tennessee rally on Saturday, NBC News reported.

The timing will draw scrutiny. The midterm elections are 22 days away, and early voting in Minnesota starts later this week, ABC News reported. Justice Department policy says agents and prosecutors may not time investigative steps to sway an election, NBC News noted.

What we know: HSI agents searched Omar's D.C.-area home Monday under a court-approved warrant, and the Justice Department called it part of a criminal investigation.
What we don't: What crime, if any, investigators suspect, what agents took from the home, and whether charges will follow.