Homeland Security secured Ilhan's DNA

Federal agents pulled DNA from Ilhan Omar’s trash before raiding her D.C. home

Federal investigators collected garbage from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home seeking her DNA before a raid tied to alleged immigration fraud that could put her citizenship at risk.

Agents with the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations unit executed a search warrant at the congresswoman’s D.C. residence last week, seizing her cellphone after a federal judge signed off on the entry.

Breitbart News reported that investigators had already gone through trash outside the home in an effort to secure DNA evidence for an immigration-related fraud case centered on whether Omar or her father lied about her age on her naturalization application.

The DNA step was not a side show. Multiple sources told NewsNation the genetic material was critical to the probe, which has widened beyond Omar herself and now reaches family members named in federal subpoenas.

Evidence from the search and the DNA collection is expected to go before a grand jury, according to those same accounts.

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