Majority Whip Tom Emmer says Ilhan Omar should face prison and deportation if citizenship fraud is proven, after federal agents raided her home.

Breitbart reported that House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, the number-three Republican in the House and the highest-ranking lawmaker from Minnesota, told Fox News Digital that Rep. Ilhan Omar should serve time and then be removed from the country if it is determined she lied to gain citizenship.

Emmer did not hedge. He tied the demand to a reported federal probe into allegations that Omar and her late father misstated her birthdate on immigration paperwork, and to a judicially authorized search of her home earlier this week.

Federal agents seized her cellphone and other items. Emmer argued the warrant itself answers the charge that the case is pure politics.

Emmer: serve time, then leave if the lie is proven

In the exclusive interview, Emmer said rumors about Omar have circulated for years. He framed the stakes in plain terms if investigators prove citizenship fraud.

Emmer told Fox News Digital:

"If proven true, she should face consequences. I would say first she should probably serve time in the gray bar motel and then get the h*** out of here. She should go back to where she came from... if it’s determined that she lied to gain citizenship."

He went further on character. “I think she is a liar,” Emmer said. “I think she is a fraud.”

That language matches a wider push from House Republicans who want real penalties when immigration files are false, not another round of excuses. Emmer’s call for prison and removal puts the citizenship question at the center of the fight.

Agents hit Omar’s D.C. home under a DOJ warrant

The raid was not a rumor. Fox News reported that Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home early Monday as part of a DOJ-backed criminal fraud investigation into childhood immigration paperwork filled out by her late father.

A Department of Justice spokesperson described the action in direct language:

"Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation."

The Washington Examiner likewise reported a predawn search at Omar’s Washington home under that same judicially authorized warrant, executed by Homeland Security Investigations and secured by the Justice Department as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.

Readers tracking the probe already saw coverage of how agents seized Omar’s cellphone during the immigration-fraud raid. Emmer treated that warrant as the key fact Democrats prefer to skip.

He told Fox News Digital a judge had to find probable cause that a federal crime had been committed before agents could move. “And I’ll tell you what, as long as it was Ilhan Omar, it was going to be scrutinized to the very detail,” Emmer said. “So the fact that they issued the warrant in the first place and then executed it, I mean maybe after all these years, someone is finally going to hold Ilhan Omar accountable.”

Birthdate dispute sits at the core of the probe

The controversy turns on age and paperwork from the family’s path to citizenship. Omar was born in Somalia. Her family fled the country in the 1990s. Her father became an American citizen in 2000.

Supporters say she was 17 that year, which would have allowed her to naturalize automatically as a minor daughter. Others have recently alleged she was already 18, which would have required a different adult process. The investigation centers on whether her birthdate was misstated on immigration forms.

National Review reported that the early-morning warrant at Omar’s Washington-area home was part of a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork her late father completed when she came to the country as a child. Border czar Tom Homan has also said ICE and HSI have been looking at reported irregularities in her immigration status.

Homan’s earlier confirmation that agents were examining the file is one reason the home search did not come out of thin air. Separate reporting has also noted that Homan confirmed an ICE criminal investigation tied to marriage and immigration-fraud allegations.

A family text message helped open the door

The New York Post reported that text messages recovered from the phone of Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, helped agents obtain the warrant for the DHS raid on Omar’s D.C. home. During the search, agents took Omar’s phone, passport, notebooks, and personal computers. Investigators had also collected DNA from her trash before the raid, and the outlet reported plans to present evidence to a Minnesota grand jury over alleged lies tied to the family’s 1995 refugee entry.

That sequence, phone evidence, a judge’s signature, a predawn search, and seized devices, is how federal fraud cases actually move. It is not a press release war. It is a paper trail.

Coverage of the search has stressed that compelling evidence of crimes is what led agents to Omar’s door, not a cable-news segment.

Omar and House Democrats call it intimidation

Omar answered the raid on X. She said she was unharmed and cast the investigation as a political hit.

Omar wrote:

"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his top deputies called the raid “deeply disturbing” and framed it as immigration lawfare aimed at a political opponent. The timing, fewer than three weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm Election Day, became part of that Democratic argument.

Emmer rejected the persecution story. He pointed back to the judge, the probable-cause standard, and the years of unanswered questions about Omar’s file. In his account, process came first; the politics complaint came after the warrant was already signed.

Accountability is the line Emmer is drawing

Omar is a Somalia-born Democrat from Minnesota and a high-profile member of the House faction often called the Squad, alongside Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. She has been a frequent critic of President Donald Trump. None of that exempts immigration paperwork from federal review.

If a member of Congress obtained status through a false birthdate, the public is owed a straight answer and a lawful penalty. Emmer’s position is that proven fraud means prison time and removal, not another committee hearing that changes nothing.

DHS leadership has separately discussed the broader investigation and even raised deportation in public comments, including coverage in which a DHS secretary confirmed the federal probe and spoke about removal. The legal end state still depends on what prosecutors can prove.

No charges, indictment text, or denaturalization order appear in the current reporting. What is established is narrower and still serious: a DOJ-secured warrant, an HSI search of Omar’s D.C. home, seized devices and documents, a birthdate dispute tied to her father’s 2000 naturalization, and a senior House Republican saying jail and deportation are the right outcomes if the lie is proven.

Citizenship is not a branding exercise. If the file was false, the law, not the spin, should decide what comes next.