Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. has not been seen in public since a pre-dawn raid of her Washington, D.C. residence last week — but her daughters were spotted descending on the home in recent days. Isra Hirsi pulled a black sedan into the driveway of the home under the cover of darkness Saturday night and stepped out of the vehicle carrying a bag with both hands. She walked directly into the front door of the same home that was swarmed by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents a week prior.
“What’s your problem?” Hirsi said after getting out of her car. Just two days later, a young teenage girl believed to be Omar’s second daughter also was seen entering the home with a woman that appeared to be her caretaker. The daughters arrived on the scene roughly a week after the house was raided by federal agents. Omar also has a son who is the only immediate family member of Omar’s that has not been seen arrive at their home in D.C., since the federal search where her phone and passport were reportedly seized.
The same night Omar’s eldest daughter was captured entering the home, U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) — whose jurisdiction is typically limited to U.S. Capitol building and grounds, but extends to protecting members of Congress and their families — showed up on the congresswoman’s street. Omar shares her three children with Ahmed Hirsi, who she ceremonially married in 2002 and legally married in 2018. During the time before her legal marriage to Hirsi, she was legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is allegedly her brother, from 2009 until 2017 — during which time Omar’s youngest daughter was born. She married political consultant Tim Mynett in 2020.
Family response and background
Throughout the week after the raid, Mynett has emerged from the home intermittently, mostly to walk the family’s Golden Labrador Retriever dog, Teddy. He has defended his wife, saying he has “no concerns” about the investigation. He also snapped when asked about unsubstantiated rumors that the congresswoman had fled the country.
“You guys are annoying the hell out of the neighbors around here, man,” said Mynett. Omar’s eldest daughter, Isra Hirsi, is controversial in her own right. The 23-year-old activist and graduate of Barnard College — a Columbia University affiliate — was arrested at Columbia and later suspended from the school in 2024 after participating in the school’s now-infamous anti-Israel tent encampment, which lasted for two weeks until it was dispersed by NYPD.
She also co-founded the U.S. Climate Strike in 2019, part of a global movement that organized student walkouts of class as they demanded the passage of the far-left Green New Deal and a switch to 100% renewable energy. Despite its name, the group didn’t stop at advocating for “green” energy policies. It also demanded universal healthcare, student debt relief, stronger union organization and advocated for giving land back to Native Americans. Hirsi has also railed against capitalism publicly on social media.
Federal investigation details
Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, did not show up for a scheduled stop on her book tour in Minnesota last week due to a “family emergency,” according to the book store hosting the event. Sources confirmed that Noor voluntarily spoke with federal investigators last week. Omar’s home was raided by HSI, the chief investigatory body of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), at around 6:00 a.m., last Monday. Sources confirmed that the agency executed a search warrant in relation to an immigration fraud probe. Specifically, investigators are probing whether the congresswoman and/or her father falsified information when filling out her citizenship paperwork.
Border Czar Tom Homan revealed over the weekend that if the allegations are proven, they could lead to Omar’s denaturalization. The New York Times reported that about a dozen people, including Omar’s relatives, have been subpoenaed in the case. Omar has not responded to repeated requests for comment, but she has reacted publicly to the raid on social media.
“This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” she said in a statement posted to X hours after the raid. For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.
In an exclusive interview last Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said the investigation is not politically motivated. “We don’t want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that — where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents,” he said. “We really want to let the law, the facts drive this,” he continued. “And if justice requires something else be done, then, of course, we’ll take a step when we have to.”
