{"id":228341,"date":"2026-10-22T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ilhan-omar-says-us-agents-seized-17-items-in-raid-designed-to-freak-her-out-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:16:05","slug":"ilhan-omar-says-us-agents-seized-17-items-in-raid-designed-to-freak-her-out-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ilhan-omar-says-us-agents-seized-17-items-in-raid-designed-to-freak-her-out-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar says US agents seized 17 items in raid designed to \u2018freak\u2019 her out – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat, in first interview since pre-dawn raid, denies immigration fraud and says she has \u2018a legal right to be a member of Congress\u2019
The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar<\/a> denied allegations of immigration fraud in a Wednesday appearance on MS Now, her first interview since federal agents raided her residence<\/a> last week.
Those in Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s orbit \u2013 cabinet officials and rightwing influencers alike \u2013 have promoted baseless theories about the Democratic congresswoman, accusing Omar of being in a sham marriage with her brother and fudging details of her immigration paperwork.
The brother rumors circulated on a Somali blog, Omar told MS Now host Chris Hayes, before it gained traction with rightwing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis.
She believes the raid was designed to appease Trump loyalists.
\u201cThey kept alluding to the fact that something was going to happen to me,\u201d Omar told Hayes. \u201cThey had to do something, I believe, to say, \u2018Hey, look we raided her house.\u201d
The 12 October raid marked an escalation of a years-long feud between Omar and Trump.
The president has repeatedly denigrated Omar\u2019s character, faith and Somali heritage, most recently on Tuesday, when he called her a \u201csick, very dishonest person who hates our country\u201d while answering reporters\u2019 questions at the White House.
Trump had been asked if Omar could face deportation over alleged misstatements in her immigration paperwork, to which he replied: \u201cWell, she could be. She could also go to jail.\u201d
In the MS Now interview, Omar also shared further details about how the raid was conducted.
About 15 to 25 Homeland Security Investigations agents pounded on her door at 6am, then executed a search warrant, she said. According to Omar, after scouring her residence room by room for nearly five hours, the agents took 17 items, including several phones.
\u201cYou don\u2019t show up to somebody\u2019s house that early in the morning unless you\u2019re trying to freak them out,\u201d Omar said.
\u201cObviously, they\u2019d like to see me locked up, deported and all of those things. But I think the bigger satisfaction for them would be for me to be like, \u2018I\u2019m tired of all of you and I\u2019m going to leave,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI have a legal right to be a member of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Democrat, in first interview since pre-dawn raid, denies immigration fraud and says she has \u2018a legal right to be a member of Congress\u2019The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar denied allegations of immigration fraud in a Wednesday appearance on MS Now, her first interview since federal agents raided her residence last week.Those in Donald Trump\u2019s orbit \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}