The demand came as the New York Times reported that the criminal investigation into the Minnesota Democrat's immigration process advanced before Monday's home raid after federal investigators seized her sister Sahra Noor's phone and reviewed family text messages. Noor, who was among the relatives hit with more than 15 federal grand jury subpoenas in Minnesota, skipped a scheduled book tour event at the University of Minnesota Rochester following the subpoena.
US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration's probe aims to build a case to revoke Omar's US citizenship and deport her to Somalia. The inquiry centers on whether Omar or her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, misstated her birth year as 1982 rather than 1981 on decades-old paperwork so she could automatically derive citizenship as a 17 year old minor when he naturalized in 2000, though a 2019 Trump administration review of the same records found no naturalization issues. Separately, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office in Washington is investigating Omar's congressional financial disclosures after the reported value of assets tied to her husband Tim Mynett's businesses dropped from as much as $30 million to under $100,000 in amended filings.