{"id":2687139,"date":"2026-10-18T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-now-know-what-led-the-feds-to-raid-ilhan-omars-home-her-sisters-phone\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:01:59","slug":"we-now-know-what-led-the-feds-to-raid-ilhan-omars-home-her-sisters-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-now-know-what-led-the-feds-to-raid-ilhan-omars-home-her-sisters-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"We Now Know What Led the Feds to Raid Ilhan Omar&#8217;s Home: Her Sister&#8217;s Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-now-know-what-led-the-feds-to-raid-ilhan-omars-home-her-sisters-phone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2687139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Information that led to the search of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s home came from her sister\u2019s cell phone, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, the far-left Minnesota lawmaker\u2019s home was raided by federal officials, who have been tight-lipped about what triggered the raid.<\/p>\n<p>News reports have suggested that the Somalia-born Democrat is being investigated on immigration-related issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/16\/us\/politics\/ilhan-omar-investigation-phone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> said Saturday that text messages from one of Omar\u2019s sisters became important as federal investigators shaped a case against her of \u201cconspiring to commit immigration fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The raid on Ilhan Omar\u2019s home was triggered by information discovered on a seized phone belonging to Omar\u2019s sister, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as new reporting by NewsNation reveals that feds were dumpster-diving at Omar\u2019s home, presumably to obtain DNA evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators are reportedly reviewing family text messages that implicate Rep. Omar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe messages were obtained from a phone that officials seized earlier this year from one of Ms. Omar\u2019s sisters, Sahra Noor,\u201d the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever they discovered on the phone was used to get a federal judge to authorize a search of Omar\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation will find out if Omar and her family members lied on immigration paperwork to get into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>NewsNation also reports that federal agents collected Omar\u2019s garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu says the move is confusing but could be to determine Omar\u2019s own relationship to her family, including claims she married her brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re looking at DNA, it\u2019s like a whodunnit: \u2018Were they there?\u2019 And it\u2019s kind of hard to figure out how the fraud investigation would figure into that type of evidence,\u201d said Wu.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/2111498268622631271?\">October 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The text messages came from the phone of Sahra Noor, one of Omar\u2019s sisters, The New York Times reported, citing sources it did not name.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the texts contained, the information in them was put before a judge, who then authorized the raid, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that the raid comes in the context of \u201can open criminal investigation that is before a federal grand jury in Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 UPDATE: Federal agents SEIZED Ilhan Omar\u2019s sister\u2019s phone and used family text messages to help get a judge to sign off on the raid of her home, and the case is being built to prove she CONSPIRED to commit immigration fraud \u2014 NYT<\/p>\n<p>BOOM.<\/p>\n<p>The phone belonged to her sister Sahra Noor, a health care executive and author, and was seized earlier this year\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The case is now before a federal GRAND JURY in Minnesota, and subpoenas have gone to Noor and several others in Omar\u2019s orbit<\/p>\n<p>NewsNation also reported that agents went through the family\u2019s trash for DNA before Monday\u2019s raid \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>A key question is whether Omar or her late father misstated her birth date so she could derive citizenship through him as a minor<\/p>\n<p>I THINK SHE\u2019S DONE FOR.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder her sister skipped her own book event! \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2111490549928563104?\">October 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Subpoenas have been issued to Noor and others connected to Omar.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the probe, The New York Times wrote, is whether Omar and her family either lied or did not provide key information during the immigration process.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Friday that officials were building a \u201cstrong case\u201d against Omar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe perceive a law was broken, and our laws were broken, and we\u2019re enforcing once again our nation\u2019s laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In comments cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/10\/12\/turley_omars_age_immigration_history_and_citizenship_status_raise_questions_that_remain_unanswered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>, legal expert Jonathan Turley noted that Omar\u2019s father \u201cfilled out much of the paperwork that may be the subject of this search.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a record as a colonel in a really brutal regime, and there may be questions as to those original papers,\u201d Turley said.<\/p>\n<p>He then explained why Omar\u2019s age when she obtained citizenship matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy saying that she was 17, she did not have to file for her own citizenship,\u201d Turley said.<\/p>\n<p>A report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/13\/us-news\/rep-ilhan-omars-staff-got-her-birthdate-changed-officially-after-being-elected-to-congress-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> said that her congressional staff previously pushed to have Omar\u2019s official birth date changed from 1981 to 1982 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks ago, Mullin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dhs-secretary-markwayne-mullin-says-ilhan-omar-married-brother-somethings-going-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreshadowed<\/a> that actions against Omar were coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be more to this \u2014 the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with. But all of this, we\u2019re investigating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you decided to break the law or lie on the information you gave the United States\u2026 but you didn\u2019t tell us who you actually were \u2026 there\u2019s no expiration to that. 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