Former Kenyan Refugee and U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Faces Probe Over Immigration Papers

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar is under federal investigation over her family’s immigration documents. According to Reuters, agents searched her Washington home on October 12 and seized her phone, while prosecutors issued more than a dozen subpoenas. Investigators are examining whether Omar or her relatives gave false information when entering the United States or during her 2000 naturalisation; no wrongdoing has been established, and she denies the allegations, calling the search political intimidation. Omar arrived in the United States in 1995 after fleeing Somalia’s civil war and spending years in a refugee camp in Kenya; authorities could seek to revoke her citizenship if it was obtained unlawfully.