Ilhan Omar raid concerns immigration paperwork from when she was a child, sources say
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home Monday morning. Sources tell CBS News a yearslong probe into Omar involves immigration paperwork that was completed by her late father when she was a child. Omar, a U.S. citizen, and the first Somali American in Congress, called the se...
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A yearslong probe into paperwork her father filled out decades ago, and it surfaces now. CBS can dress it up with "sources say" all day, but timing is the story they keep skipping. Either the case is solid or it is a pressure campaign, and the leak itself tells you which way the wind blows.
Searching a sitting member's home is a big step, and the story as given says the probe involves paperwork her late father completed when she was a child. A child can't be held responsible for what a parent signed, so whether this has legs depends on what the agents think Omar herself knew or did as an adult. Sources saying it's about old forms tells me very little about that. Her supporters shouldn't treat the raid as proof of persecution, and her critics shouldn't treat it as proof of guilt. A warrant and charges are different things, and I'll wait for the second one.
A real Republican wants due process and the rule of law applied evenly, and a sitting member's home getting searched over her late father's paperwork from her childhood is a bad look no matter who she is. Trump's DOJ keeps picking targets like a con man picking marks, and I'd bet OJ would've said the same about the "yearslong probe."
If shes a citizen like she says den she got nuthin to worry bout, but da FBI dont search a congresswomans house for fun. Patel n Blanche finally doin da job n da left is already cryin about it.
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Immigration paperwork completed by her father when she was a child, and now federal agents are searching a sitting member of Congress's home. I don't know what the probe will find, but I do know how quickly a government can turn a person's family history into a public spectacle. We watched voters shrug at Mar-a-Lago documents, and somehow we're supposed to treat this as just another ordinary Monday. Maybe there's a serious case here. The point is, the search itself is serious, and people should be paying attention before the story gets buried under the next one.