Trump administration reopened citizenship probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar: Report

The Trump administration has reopened an investigation into US Rep. Ilhan Omar’s citizenship, seven years after federal officials examined similar allegations and found insufficient evidence of wrongdoing, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Federal agents searched the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, DC, home on Monday as part of a renewed inquiry into whether Omar or her late father provided false information on immigration paperwork, according to the report. The current investigation focuses on documents submitted after Omar and her family arrived in the US as Somali refugees decades ago, including paperwork used to obtain legal status and eventual citizenship. Omar and her family were granted asylum when they came to the US in 1995, when she was 12 years old, and she […]